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As Trubiz’s apothecary, decode a strange medicine manual, brew remedies, and treat patients by testing your deductions.
Released 06 Nov 2025
Decode a Potion Manual
Mix and Modify Potions
Test Remedies on Patients
A short puzzle game where you decipher a fictional language, mix potions, and treat patients. Enjoy the thrill of understanding and the small stories that unfold from each cure.
Developed by kinjo, Image Labo · Published by kinjo
You play as an apothecary who must help patients arriving with different ailments. The instructions for making and prescribing medicines are written in an unfamiliar language.
Enter word-by-word translations in the manual, using its text and illustrations to form and test guesses. Then mix or modify potions and prescribe them to patients; their reactions help reveal what the remedies do.
Treatment outcomes shape the run’s ending. You can retry a day or start another run, where discovered translations and medicines carry over, and pursue different endings.
Players who enjoy the game often praise the satisfaction of working out words and recipes through guesses and experiments, along with its approachable puzzles, relaxed pixel-art atmosphere, and humorous text. Some also appreciate carrying discoveries into later runs. Recurring criticisms are that the game is brief, the language puzzles can feel too simple or shallow, and unclear mechanics or repeated ending runs can be frustrating.
You are an apothecary.
Prescribe the right medicine according to the conditions of the patients who visit you.
In your workshop, you only have a manual written in a fictional language.
You must decipher the fictional language to concoct and prescribe the medicine.
Test the effects directly on patients to confirm them. Even if you fail, you can retry on another run.
Aim for the perfect treatment—or perhaps the perfect mistake in prescribing?
Casual fictional language deciphering
Compact volume for easy play
Multiple endings
Decipher the fictional language in the manual
Form hypotheses in various ways, test them, and confirm the correct translations
Enter translations yourself word by word. The same words will be auto-filled
Mix and prescribe medicines
Each day, patients will visit. Mix and prescribe medicines according to their conditions.
Hints for mixing and prescribing methods are in the manual. Translate carefully.
Sometimes you’ll need to make predictions to mix and prescribe. Then verify the correctness of your translation.
There is also a dark side: testing medicines on patients to check their effects.
Multiple playthroughs
Translation progress and discovered medicines carry over between runs
Even if you fail in your first run, carry over your knowledge and challenge the next one
Please check the Community Hub article titled “Streaming Guidelines for The Apothecary of Trubiz” for more details.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 13 |
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| Controller required | No |
| AI disclosure | The store page text in languages other than Japanese is automatically translated by AI. |
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