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As a novice medieval alchemist, combine cards to grow ingredients, experiment with potions, send adventurers out, and evade scrutiny.
Released 22 Aug 2025
Experiment with Potions
Grow Alchemy Ingredients
Send Adventurers Exploring
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.
Developed by RocketBrush Games · Published by RocketBrush Games, Gamersky Games
You play a novice alchemist who inherits a humble shack in a medieval world where alchemy draws the attention of local authorities. The game presents people, ingredients, tools, and other objects as cards that you combine to carry out tasks.
Cultivate ingredients, gather supplies, and brew potions by following known recipes or experimenting with combinations tied to five pillars of reality. Sell your creations and expand your estate while managing time, food, and the energy of your workers.
Hire and equip adventurers to explore regions and return with resources, recipes, and other rewards. Choices about your alchemical path shape your progression, available subclasses, and eventual ending, while the Inquisition can react to your activities.
Players who enjoy the game often highlight the card-based alchemy, experimenting with recipes, and the satisfaction of gradually discovering its systems. Some also appreciate its unhurried pace and tools such as the grimoire and automatic pausing. Other reviews say that the manual workload and repetition grow tiring later on, and report bugs that can disrupt progress.
Ways of Alchemy is a medieval card game and alchemist simulator. Turn a handful of weeds into deadly poison, build an alchemical empire, and outwit the Inquisition. The path from humble novice to powerful master alchemist is filled with dangers and opportunities.
You start with nothing but a humble shack and basic knowledge of alchemy. But every potion can change everything — bring wealth or draw the wrath of authorities. In a world where alchemy balances between science and Inquisition persecution, every choice determines your fate.
🧪 Brew over 35 different potions
🌿 Discover and utilize more than 100 unique ingredients
🔮 Master the 5 pillars of reality — Void, Mirror, Veil, Pain and Song
🧙♂️ Choose from 15 different subclasses
🗺️ Send adventurers to 5 different regions with 24 quests
💎 Find over 70 unique rewards and artifacts
🔚 Experience 13 different endings based on your choices
⚔️ Face the consequences of your ambition with the Inquisition
Experiment freely or follow traditions with a flexible potion-crafting system. Follow proven recipes from your grimoire for reliable results, or take risks with creative experimentation for potentially more powerful effects. With over 100 ingredients connected to the 5 pillars of reality, your cauldron holds the potential for dozens of unique and powerful potions.
Work your way from an inherited shack to a thriving alchemical settlement as your reputation grows among potion buyers. Manage your estate, hire hands and balance your growing influence against the watchful eyes of local authorities. Navigate the threats of Tax Inspector and the dreaded Inquisition as your power increases.
Send adventurers on perilous quests across 5 distinct regions. Equip them with your potions and artifacts before dispatching them on 24 dangerous adventures. Discover over 70 unique treasures including powerful artifacts, ancient recipes and long-lost books to fuel your ascension.
Unlock 15 unique subclasses that shape your alchemical journey. Stay true to pure alchemy or venture into forbidden arts like necromancy and flesh-smiting. Every decision leads toward one of 13 possible endings as you work to complete the Great Making – the ultimate goal of any true alchemist.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 38 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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