i like this game a lot... it's cute, cozy and chill (depending on how you play it)... but it's far from perfect... still i can (and have) spend hours in here... it is a lot of fun

garden:
- the garden is quite big from the start... only getting bigger... but since you always have to run back to the table at the door to get the seeds... most of it is wasted space
- you can only take out the seeds of one plant... be it 1 or 50... in the beginning that's a lot of running back and forth
- the plants have extremely huge signs above them... so you can't put the pots too close together... or it's almost impossible to plant at all
- but while these signs are enormous when you are in the garden... when you get the all seeing eye (kinda cctv) upgrade you hardly can make out if the plant needs water or is ripe for harvest... so it's faster and easier to just walk to the door and look outside
- if you don't water the plants multiple times (the bigger the more often), the plants wither and die... to remove a dead plant you right click on it... and have to confirm your choice... while it is nice to have the confirmation for a misclick... if the plant is dead... why can't i just left click on it to remove it?
- there is an upgrade that is supposed to make the plants wither less... not that that is noticeable
- watering plants always gets the plants to 100% watered... so if you have too many plants and let the hydration go too low... you won't manage to water all the plants before some of them die
- and the last upgrade is "automatic" watering "only once the plant is withering"... once as in one time during the life of this plant... not every time the plant is withering... which means that the big plants still die if you don't pay attention when/if it got watered already... so honestly it is easier to just do it manually
+ you can choose different designs for the pots at the merchant
+ the plants are pretty to look at
+ when the water goes down the plants lose colour and turn wrinkled... and become nice and pretty again when you water them... that's a really nice effect
+ seed chest has a search bar to find specific plant seeds

shop:
- you can't choose different designs for the shelves
- you can't sell or get rid of old shelves when upgrades give you bigger shelves
- on the medium and big shelves you don't really see the items on the top row unless you fill it with big/high items (which makes sense... just something to keep in mind when you fill your shelves)
- when you take more than one amount of an item out of the storage chest you automatically get a carry crate... but not if you take an item out of the shelf... and you can't use the carry crate you already have... so rearranging items once they are in the shelves isn't really a thing... unless you are very patient... because you have to move them one by one
- while the prices are remembered... the item that has been in the shelf isn't... so if you want to have a fixed order you have to pay extra attention
- the all seeing eye for the shop doesn't really make sense... the game tells you when the counter is filled with customers... and before that you don't have any incentive to be in the shop because you only check out ppl... unless they plan to add thieves... which i hope not
- the abacus for giving out change is nice... but when the mouse is on the last row (100) it still moves the row above (50) which is slightly annoying
0 the upgrades make the shop bigger (to a certain degree) and unlock more merch... some complain about the long way from the merchant to the shelves... but i just throw everything in the storage chest... and restock from there... so i don't have a problem with this
+ the storage crate has unlimited space
+ search bar to find specific items

merchant:
- you don't know how many of each plant you have... it only shows the seeds you have... which makes it difficult to stock up after brewing your potions
+ i actually like that the merchant doesn't have all the items all the time... i like to build up my stock
+ the merchant shows how many you already have of the shop items and components
+ search bar to find specific items

potions:
- the recipe book is in a weird order... not alphabetical... not really in the unlocking order... and when you click through the book they aren't in the order of the index... so it's a lot of back and forth if you want to brew specific potions
- we have the recipe... it's not that hard... why do the things light up to make it even less difficult? if i have to add water... let me either choose the right or wrong thing... if i have to stir... don't tell me after the right amount to stop stirring
- you have to remember or check how many potions you want/need/already have... it isn't shown in the book
+ otherwise i like the brewing... i don't necessarily need a million minigames and stuff... it's nice enough... not too time consuming in the beginning (yes, brewing every potion once manually gives you an achievement)
+ the automation is a real automation... one click on a button and the potion is made and in the storage... that's nice
+ the ingredients chest has a search bar

over all
- there's not really much to explore
0 if you want there are a couple of plants spawning in the wild... they are easy enough to spot... but you never really know what there will be on any given day... so i personally just buy the seeds
0 you get orders for potions you don't have the ingredients for... because you go through the knowledge tree faster than you can upgrade the garden (abandoning/rejecting an order doesn't punish you, though)
+ if you do orders... stick around to see the effect of the potions... they are not all winners... but fun to see
+ the orders are a nice way to make money

i know my negative list is longer than my positives... but i don't see any of them as game breaking... you can go through all achievements in a relative short amount of time... or you take your time... i like the game... i hope they will add more potions... maybe shelf designs... but even if they don't... i will keep playing

How I discovered the game: I saw someone streaming this live on TikTok while scrolling and was interested.




Likes

• Unique simulator setting
  
• Growing plants for your potions
  
• Mixing your own potions
  
• Ordering your own inventory and stocking the shelves
  
• Abacus for counting change
  
• Make extra money by doing optional "requests" on your board

Meh

• Nothing special about the graphics
  
• You can find coin bags around the area but they don't respawn
  
• The physics in the game when you are carrying things could use work
  
• The mechanics of making potions could be made more convenient
  
• If you aren't careful it is easy to let plants wither
  
• I've gotten an upgrade that seems useless for the most part.

Cons

• Customers seem to refuse to buy potions despite me marking them as the right price - they get bought eventually but it takes days to sell them out
  
• You can't make more than one potion at a time, even if you have the ingredients for it
  
• Making coin can be a pain
  
• No way to pick up furniture after placing them, so be sure about those shelves
  
• You can only carry one box at a time, so if you order a bunch of goods it will take a while to carry them all back to your shop

Overall it isn't a bad game but I doubt unless I see an update to it that I'll go back after my 9.0hrs.