Games Like Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

Become the mystical alchemist, choose your contracts wisely as they will shape the world around you, discover the long forgotten magical recipes, upgrade your lab and become the most powerful alchemist of all times.

Why similar: Crafting 30.3%, Trading 27.3%, Life Sim 17.2%, Relaxing 12.3%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It also centers on brewing potions for customers while running an alchemy shop, making it one of the most direct mechanical and thematic matches.

You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.

Why similar: Crafting 25.4%, Capitalism 21.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 11.1%, Life Sim 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This blends fantasy potion brewing with running a small shop and optimizing sales, capturing the merchant side of Potion Craft especially well.

Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.

Why similar: Crafting 33.6%, Life Sim 22%, Relaxing 14.9%, Simulation 9.3%, RPG 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its loop of gathering ingredients, diagnosing needs, and crafting remedies for townsfolk echoes Potion Craft's satisfying customer-request structure.

Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!

Why similar: Management 18.4%, Capitalism 14.9%, Medieval 13.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Trading 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It takes the potion-business fantasy in a more management-heavy direction, focusing on recipes, production chains, and running a successful magical enterprise.

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

Why similar: Relaxing 27%, Point & Click 24.9%, Simulation 17.8%, Choices Matter 17.1%, 2D 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Potion Craft, it's a moody, cozy shop sim about identifying magical ingredients and serving customers through experimentation and deduction.

Craft magic potions and sell them in your own alchemy shop! Explore the world and harvest plants to discover new recipes! Take care of your own garden of alchemy and decorate the shop as you like!

Why similar: Management 20.3%, Farming Sim 15.1%, Crafting 15.1%, Trading 14.2%, Capitalism 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Growing ingredients, crafting potions, and selling them in your own little magic shop gives it a very similar relaxed alchemist fantasy.

Gather exotic ingredients, brew complex mixtures, and expand your magically automated production lines -- keeping your shelves stocked, your customers happy, and your pockets full.

Why similar: Crafting 24.9%, Management 22.5%, Life Sim 16.3%, Relaxing 12.5%, Sandbox 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is another colorful fantasy management game built around producing magical mixtures and fulfilling market demand.

First-person Alchemist Simulator with RPG elements. Explore the world, gather ingredients, and sell or use potions you craft to help others and fend off enemies. Adopt pets to help you with your alchemy knowledge (and to pet them). Decorate your home however you like and brew your destiny!

Why similar: Crafting 20.9%, Farming Sim 18.4%, Life Sim 12.9%, Management 11.8%, Relaxing 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person potion crafting and whimsical fantasy setting make it a natural fit if you want more hands-on alchemy.

Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.5%, Life Sim 17.6%, Crafting 16.7%, Management 14.9%, Medieval 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a cozy medieval business, producing goods, and steadily improving your establishment gives it a similar relaxing management feel.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Crafting 37.9%, Management 15.2%, Medieval 13.6%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same darkly charming medieval atmosphere and satisfying loop of crafting, resource management, and running an unusual profession.

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: Management 26.9%, Medieval 19.7%, Resource Management 14.2%, Crafting 12%, Simulation 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part was building up a medieval business, this is a polished management-focused alternative with a similarly cozy setting.

Winkeltje: The Little Shop is all about building, decorating, and running your own old-world fantasy shop. Buy low, sell high - from nails and apples to swords and alchemic love potions. Impress your customers, craft items, and be the master of your very own shop.

Why similar: Crafting 17.5%, Trading 16.8%, Farming Sim 15.9%, Capitalism 13.1%, Management 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses on crafting goods, stocking shelves, and growing a small medieval store, which strongly matches Potion Craft's business-management appeal.

Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!

Why similar: Capitalism 55.4%, Management 15.1%, RPG 12.1%, Simulation 8.9%, Singleplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: While broader than alchemy, its charming fantasy shopkeeping and customer-driven merchant loop hit a lot of the same pleasures.

Brew your perfect beer in this relaxing home brewing sim. Use a realistic chemistry simulation to brew hoppy IPAs to creamy stouts. Customise your brewing space, create recipes and label your beer, unlock new equipment and enter competitions. Learn to brew, refine your craft and become a Brewmaster!

Why similar: Crafting 33.9%, Management 16.4%, Sandbox 15.9%, Relaxing 14.5%, Simulation 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Though about beer instead of potions, it delivers a similarly tactile, process-focused crafting sandbox built around experimentation.

Little Witch in the Woods tells the story of Ellie, an apprentice witch. Explore the mystical forest, help the charming residents, and experience the daily life of the witch.

Why similar: Crafting 24.1%, Farming Sim 22.7%, Life Sim 19.7%, Relaxing 12.3%, Simulation 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This leans heavily into gathering ingredients and brewing potions in a warm witchy setting, making it a strong thematic match.

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Why similar: Management 47.7%, Simulation 18.3%, RPG 17.8%, 2D 8.8%, Singleplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of gathering materials and then running a fantasy shop mirrors the gather-craft-sell rhythm that makes Potion Craft so compelling.

Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.

Why similar: Crafting 19%, Medieval 15.4%, Management 14.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Historical 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Running a specialized medieval workshop and balancing customers, production, and growth feels like a grounded cousin to Potion Craft's shop loop.

Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the old witch of the woods, explore a strange countryside, collect magic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells, and pass judgement upon a capricious cast of characters.

Why similar: Crafting 64.9%, RPG 13.4%, 2D 8.4%, Singleplayer 6.8%, Casual 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its fairy-tale world and ingredient-driven crafting focus capture the experimental, magical side of Potion Craft even without the shop management.

Craft weapons, armor and tools, manage resources and expand your workshop. Experience realistic physics-based forging, unlock new recipes and special orders, and interact with a medieval town's inhabitants as you work to become the greatest blacksmith in the land.

Why similar: Crafting 34.6%, Medieval 20.3%, Relaxing 13.6%, Simulation 9.4%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers another first-person medieval artisan fantasy centered on physically making goods and selling them from your own shop.

Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?

Why similar: Crafting 28.7%, Management 15.7%, Life Sim 15.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Choices Matter 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a slower, more narrative take on occult experimentation and crafting, appealing to the discovery-driven side of Potion Craft.

APICO is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees! Set in a series of lush environments, APICO uniquely combines resource gathering, biology, and beekeeping minigames, taking ideas from a mix of real-life and fantasy apiculture & floriculture.

Why similar: Management 28.1%, Sandbox 22.5%, Relaxing 19.8%, Simulation 12.1%, 2D 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its relaxing production chains, careful resource use, and experimental breeding systems scratch a similar cozy-sandbox management itch.

Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.

Why similar: Crafting 21.3%, Farming Sim 19.6%, Life Sim 13%, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Owning and operating village shops inside a whimsical fantasy life sim makes it a good fit for players who enjoyed Potion Craft's business side.

Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?

Why similar: Crafting 22.6%, Life Sim 21.1%, Management 17.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Relaxing 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its ingredient gathering, crafting, and community-facing shopkeeping make it a good fit if you want Potion Craft's loop in a culinary form.

Hey human, we've got problems! This town is crawling with troublesome spirits, and you're the only one who can see them. You'd better get that old bathhouse up and running, maybe that'll help them chill out!

Why similar: Life Sim 28.9%, Relaxing 18.9%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 13.8%, RPG 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a supernatural bathhouse and keeping eccentric spirit customers happy delivers a similarly cozy magical-management experience.

A brand new pixel art restaurant simulator based on the Touhou Project! Play as Mystia, the owner of a small izakaya. Collect ingredients by day, cater to the customers by night, learn recipes from familiar characters, and become the best izakaya owner in all of Gensokyo!

Why similar: Capitalism 36.7%, Simulation 26.3%, RPG 18.2%, Casual 10.4%, 2D 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its fantasy hospitality loop of preparing custom orders for quirky customers captures a similar handcrafted small-business charm.

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop and expand its business across an incredible potato world.Use your potato smiths to forge weapons and sell them to questing heroes.

Why similar: Management 35.7%, Crafting 33.2%, Simulation 15.6%, Indie 4.8%, RPG 4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lighter, more comedic take on running a fantasy crafting business and matching products to customer needs.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 36.1%, Medieval 18.8%, Management 11.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Historical 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This offers a more open-ended medieval crafting and resource-management sandbox for players who mainly liked the slower sim elements.

Run your own magic business! In Alchemist Shop Simulator you can trade magical wares, brew potions and take on special orders, meet many quirky clients, grow your ingredients in your garden, restock your shelves and manage prices. Keep expanding your business as you gain experience and wealth!

Why similar: Trading 19.5%, Crafting 19.4%, Management 12.7%, Medieval 11%, Resource Management 9.1%

Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Cook delicious food and keep an eye on the mood of the visitors. Create a unique atmosphere for unforgettable adventures!

Why similar: Management 16.9%, Medieval 15.9%, Life Sim 14.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Sandbox 12.4%

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

Why similar: Life Sim 30.1%, Point & Click 22.2%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Simulation 15.8%, 2D 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Mixing custom drinks for customers and learning their needs through conversation makes it a strong thematic cousin despite the sci-fi setting.

Master the art of alchemy in Potion Shop Simulator, a unique blend of simulation and strategy. Brew potions, manage your shop, and cater to a magical clientele in a single-player or co-op experience of the medieval fantasy world.

Why similar: Crafting 18%, Farming Sim 16%, Medieval 13.7%, Capitalism 12.8%, Management 11.7%

Alchemist's Garden is a cozy and relaxing incremental crafting game. Forage to uncover hidden ingredients across mystical lands. Experiment with them at your crucible to discover potions and items, stock your shop's shelves, and watch your potion shop grow!

Why similar: Crafting 26.4%, Capitalism 18.4%, Management 14.7%, Relaxing 10%, Point & Click 9.7%

Magical Greenhouse is a cozy simulation game where you manage your own potion shop. Your clients, creatures and adventurers of all kinds have strange requests. You will have to be inventive to create the perfect potion for every situation!

Why similar: Crafting 26.5%, Trading 16.4%, Farming Sim 15.9%, Relaxing 11.1%, Management 9.4%

Dungeon Bodega Simulator is a retro styled fantasy shop game where you can grow crops, brew potions, sell items and raise slimes as pets! Can you build up your bodega into a one stop adventuring shop while solving the mysteries of the dungeon beneath you?

Why similar: Farming Sim 17.7%, Medieval 15.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Management 13.7%, Resource Management 10.5%

Manage your very own Witchcraft Shop! Witchy Business is a job simulator game where you brew potions for your customers, collect oddities, grow flowers in your garden, upgrade your alchemy station, and thrive. Make sure you are quick to take care of customers and hex thieves!

Why similar: Crafting 42.4%, Relaxing 16.3%, Simulation 15.5%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, RPG 9.8%

Become a medieval alchemist in this card game. Brew deadly potions, discover ancient recipes, hire adventurers, and outwit the Inquisition. Transform your humble shack into an alchemical empire. No wands are required — just knowledge and wit.

Why similar: Historical 20.1%, Medieval 18.2%, Relaxing 15.4%, Hand-drawn 10%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea in this cozy narrative management game. Stock your tiny bookshop with different books and items, set up shop in scenic locations, and run your cozy second-hand bookshop while getting to know the locals.

Why similar: Trading 20.8%, Life Sim 14.4%, Management 14.3%, Relaxing 10.8%, Resource Management 10.3%

Medieval StartUp is a unique mix of tavern management, crafting, and exploration set in a rich medieval world. Manage your tavern, craft unique items, recruit staff, and explore a mysterious marsh full of hidden secrets and rare resources.

Why similar: Crafting 20.5%, Trading 17.7%, Medieval 12.8%, Management 11.7%, Life Sim 10.3%

Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

Why similar: Management 51.5%, Hand-drawn 15.9%, Simulation 12.3%, 2D 7.2%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Your father's life depends on your success. Run a medieval shop, craft goods, set prices, and build your reputation - because the King's debt collectors are coming. Farm, hunt, explore, and trade your way to freedom in this cozy but consequential shop simulation.

Why similar: Crafting 19.1%, Farming Sim 15.9%, Trading 14.6%, Medieval 13.5%, Capitalism 12.6%

Master of Pottery is a pottery-themed creation + simulation game. Make pottery, open exhibitions, complete orders, train apprentices, run your own showroom and start a relaxing pottery journey.

Why similar: Crafting 45%, Simulation 21.5%, Relaxing 17%, Casual 7.4%, Indie 5.8%

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Singleplayer 50.9%, 2D 49.1%

The Witch's Cauldron is a narrative roguelike game about being a medieval witch. Grab your cauldron and get brewing. Love, curses, laughter, wisdom for sale! Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. At least before the inquisitors come around.

Why similar: Crafting 29.9%, Medieval 19.5%, Relaxing 13%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Simulation 8.8%

Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Why similar: Crafting 31.1%, Medieval 25.8%, Sandbox 16.9%, Resource Management 10.8%, Simulation 7.8%

Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!

Why similar: Resource Management 21%, Relaxing 20.8%, Sandbox 19.1%, Hand-drawn 16%, Simulation 11.5%

You need this game to forget about your life cares and become the best alchemist of this fantasy world with your friends! An alchemy shop keeper game offers you to brew potions for your customers, loot the ingredients in the forest, trade with sellers and compete with rivals.

Why similar: Crafting 26.8%, Farming Sim 25%, Life Sim 18%, Sandbox 15.1%, Simulation 6.2%

Alnico Smithery is a hand-drawn, physics-based forging simulator. Mine for ore, smelt ingots, discover alloys, forge tools, and rebuild the smithery your grandfather left behind.

Why similar: Life Sim 15.8%, Crafting 13%, Sandbox 12.2%, Medieval 12.1%, Historical 9.8%

Become a Medieval blacksmith in this interactive blacksmithing simulator. Upgrade your forging equipment, unlock new exotic crafting materials, grow your business, and manage your customers - in addition to engaging forging mechanics. Strike while the iron is hot and hop in front of the forge now!

Why similar: Crafting 24.1%, Medieval 13.6%, Management 12.8%, Life Sim 11.6%, Resource Management 9.3%

Master the wonders of alchemy! Solve alchemical puzzles by transforming and combining Essences. Craft items, tools and machines. Explore the enchanting world, gather peculiar resources, and befriend the Agari, adorable mushroom folk who will help you find the cure for your mysterious disease.

Why similar: Crafting 24.6%, Farming Sim 19.6%, Management 12.9%, Life Sim 12.5%, Resource Management 11.7%

Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!

Why similar: Crafting 21.3%, Capitalism 15.8%, Medieval 15.6%, Management 14.9%, Resource Management 9.4%

Ready to settle in with a soothing shift behind the counter? Feel the dough, hear the quiet crackle of the oven, and serve warm slices to grateful guests. Good Pizza, Great Pizza is the cozy, asmr-friendly escape you didn’t know you kneaded.

Why similar: Management 20.8%, Life Sim 14.7%, Resource Management 13.8%, Relaxing 13.6%, Hand-drawn 10.9%

Winemaking could be your best adventure. Make the best wine interacting with soil and nature and take your winery to the top. Your beautiful journey into the winemaking tradition starts now.

Why similar: Trading 20.9%, Farming Sim 18.2%, Capitalism 16.2%, Management 13.4%, Resource Management 11.3%

Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!

Why similar: Crafting 23.5%, Farming Sim 14.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Life Sim 11.5%, Sandbox 10.8%

You are a journeyman alchemist: experiment to learn the secrets of the alchemical sciences, and leverage them to produce a diverse menu of potions for a procession of weird and spooky customers in this compact narrative puzzle experience.

Why similar: Crafting 58.7%, Simulation 19%, Medieval 15.8%, Singleplayer 3.8%, Indie 2.7%

Brew your own beer from scratch! Take on the role of a brewmaster, learn brewing techniques, create unique recipes, and grow your craft brewery into a full-scale factory. Expand your brewery from mashing and fermenting to bottling and selling - every decision shapes your beer empire

Why similar: Life Sim 26.7%, Simulation 19.5%, Management 16.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 7.4%

Travel to the sleepy village of Caterwaul Way and rebuild your grandmother's cat cafe. Renovate your restaurant, befriend the local cats and townsfolk, forge lasting friendships, unravel catty mysteries, and build a home for dozens of unique felines!

Why similar: Trading 26.2%, Management 21.2%, Life Sim 20%, Relaxing 14.4%, Simulation 10.8%

Blend fragrances in your cozy perfume atelier! 🌸 Craft unique scents by mixing essences, design beautiful bottles, and try to sell your creations to curious customers. Decorate your workshop, unlock new recipes, and grow your reputation in the art of fragrance.

Why similar: Crafting 37%, Management 17.4%, Relaxing 12.7%, Simulation 11.8%, Point & Click 8.9%

Potion Party is a funny couch co-op alchemy game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your friends must manage your own alchemy shop. Earn money, upgrade your tools, decorate the shop and become a master alchemist!

Why similar: Crafting 31.3%, Capitalism 17.7%, Management 17.3%, Medieval 17.1%, Resource Management 8.5%

Under The Yoke is a 2D medieval peasant life-sim. Make your mark in the Domesday book as you control a family of serfs through 250 years of English history. Cultivate your lands, craft goods and hone your reputation as you navigate the tumultuous Middle Ages. Your family’s future is yours to shape!

Why similar: Farming Sim 14.7%, Medieval 13.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Management 11%, Historical 10.2%