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Alchemist's Garden

Alchemist's Garden

by Lumis Entertainment

★ 94%
Price $3.59
Avg Players 8
Reviews 190
Released Apr 21, 2026
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Prestige loop
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Alchemist's Garden is a cozy incremental where you forage for ingredients across mystical lands, then experiment at your crucible to discover new potions and craft items. Stock your growing potion shop and watch your inventory expand at a relaxing pace. Ideal for players seeking low-stress crafting loops they can enjoy passively while doing other things.

About this game

Players, last 71 days

Peak 13 · Low 1

Daily peak concurrent players, sampled once a night from Steam.

What players are saying

▼ Not recommended 4 hrs
This one is a very poorly designed incremental. And Hoo boy, I've played a lot of them.

Let's start with explaining the gameplay. You gather ingredients by running an auto-clicker over a field of stuff. If you have no auto-licker, do not buy this game. You will give yourself RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) I am only half joking here. This game is not worth the damage to your fingers / wrists. You cannot hold the cursor down, you have to click, a lot.

You then guess which ingredients combined with each other make potions (Don't worry, it remembers what didn't work, and you unlock recipes that give you the answers)

You don't have to make multiples of each potion, this just gives you more money per minute, which does come in handy for unlocking upgrades.

You unlock enough, you get these squiggly blue/pink things and you use them to unlock upgrades when you prestige (Start over) eventually you get to keep things when you start over. To the point that eventually you're just clicking a button to spend the squiggly things.
You can click on the customers for a tiny pittance of money, but given that the screen is moved by clicking and dragging, this is hellish to do, even with an auto-clicker. Not worth the bother really.

Now to another of my problems with the game. There are decorations and with them you can decorate your shop. Sounds great so far... When you upgrade the size of your shop, their position is scattered.... Okay, so that's annoying.
When you prestige, their position is scattered.
It should be noted, they do give bonuses. But I'd far prefer it just unlocked the bonus in a menu, and what ones you'd placed don't matter, that's just cosmetic. Then you could decorate it to your preference, and ideally, the game should also remember where you've put the bloody things. Because as it is, it's just a random assortment of stuff. You can even click to place them randomly.

To save you the trouble of collecting every decoration, because there is no achievement for doing that and it will take you an extra ton of clicks / auto clicks and a ton of RNG. All that happens is you get a screen congratulating you for collecting them all. No extra dialogue or anything. But I figured I would do this arduous task, just to make my review even more helpful and save future gamers the trouble.

To save you even more trouble... and this did take a very long time. Getting every single upgrade, does nothing. No dialogue, no screen. Nothing. But I wanted to be thorough in my masochism here. (Okay, I was waiting for someone, they're still not here.)

You can easily get every achievement in roughly 2-3 hours. Maybe faster, should be noted, I did skim read through all the dialogue, so it's not like that took up much time either.

The game is riddled with references to other games, mostly minecraft. A lot of them aren't references and are just flat up pictures / models from minecraft. It really only proves to be eyeroll worthy.

Note, this game is cheap, but even if it were free, I'd recommend against it, as it costs time and it doesn't feel fun during that time. It's just a bit of a slog.

Thanks for reading, or skipping to the end.
Whether or not you agree with me, I hope you have a lovely day.
12 found helpful Steam ↗
▲ Recommended 4 hrs
Great game, digseum vibes, 5 hours for £3 so also great value.

Edit: Dev fixed my issue so big W's 10/10

For Dev:
Only downside is ALOT of unnecessary (unfun) clicks. Upgrades requires you to press upgrade AND accept after. Easy QOL win to just ditch the accept part. There is basically zero risk to a misclick anyway in an idle, only the prestige button needs an 'are you sure?' moment.
Also I basically ignored the furniture after i prestiged because it was too much effort to put it all out again each time. Besides those points, well done on making a great idle, hope you make more in the future!
10 found helpful Steam ↗
▼ Not recommended 10 hrs
This game is not worth wasting time on it. It's absolutely mindless time wasting clicker. Not a single aspect of the game requires even a little bit of thinking.
Main mini-game is ugly, non-informative, badly designed, not fun, doesn't contain any challenge at all. You just click through and that's it. And you have to click through it hundreds of times. There is no progression. It's absolutely cosmetical. Other aspects are absolutely secondary and not even worth mentioning.
9 found helpful Steam ↗

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Latest updates

Alchemist's Garden 1.17

26 days ago
Hello Alchemists!Happy October! Just some small updates and improvements to the game. Added 2 new music tracks!Music continues playing when changing between forging and the shop instead of restarting with a new song each timeSkip upgrade pop up is now enabled by default after prestigeAdded a button to join our discord. Come chat with us if you're interested in our upcoming games!And if you're wondering what I've been working on, check out my next game Sprout's Meadow. It's a cozy farming adventure mixed with automation and other fun things. If you want a sneak peek and early access, play testing is currently ongoing!Thanks for playing and supporting my game!

Reveal of Sprout's Meadow!

74 days ago
Hello Alchemists! I'm revealing a new game that I've been working on, Sprout's Meadow! Sprout’s Meadow is a cozy farming simulator where you manage a team of cute Sproutlings! Grow crops, raise animals, and craft recipes to expand your land. When you're ready for adventure, board your hot air balloon to trade or venture into the mystical clouds to uncover magical secrets. If you liked Alchemist's Garden I hope you'll like this game as well. It'll have tons of cute and cozy mechanics as well as the satisfying gameplay and crafting found in Alchemist's Garden. Wishlist and follow along, it really helps out with the algorithm! Thanks for all the support!

20% Off and 1.16 Update!

91 days ago
Hello Alchemists!Looking for a discount? Alchemist's Garden is 20% off from now until August 17th! It's been a hot summer and I have some more updates and improvements! QoL: Highly requested feature, you can now hold down mouse to forage even faster and save your fingers from unnecessary clicks!QoL: You can now advance dialog text with spacebarUI: Mouse over each decoration to quickly see what the bonus doesUI: Increased size of objective textAdded a few new Sprout dialogs towards the end of the gameBug: Fixed a few decorations that were missing bonuses

Posts come from Steam's official announcements feed.

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