Strange Potions
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Over 40 days in the making, STRANGE POTIONS is an card-based interactive fiction (loosely) set in medieval times. Make allies, battle monsters, kiss girls, and chug Witches' Brew Discount Potions--bargain bin elixirs with unpredictable side effects!
❧ Experience dozens of randomized encounters, including Mysterious Characters, Twists of Fate, Locations to Explore, and Enemy Battles!
❧ 22 different Potion Ingredients, making for over 480 unique combinations and transformations!
❧ 2 unique gamemodes: "Survival" and "Potion Blitz"!
❧ Automatically screenshots your Final Results screen for easy sharing with friends! (PC and Linux only)
❧ Absolutely FREE TO DOWNLOAD AND PLAY! (I couldn't possibly sell it!! There's so much unlicensed clipart!)
Happy Adventuring!!
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Install instructions
NOTE: As with many Unity games, you may need to extract all files from the .zip to a separate folder in order to launch the game.
FOR BEST EXPERIENCE, set resolution to 1920x1080 or 1366x768 in the Launcher options
- Linux users running GNOME and experiencing cursor flickering issues, try using this line in your terminal: gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false
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Might be interesting to add an endless mode.
YO I FOUND THE SECRET ENDING
you all gonna be jealous now huh
i am not gonna show how to get it ;)
Cute and enjoyable little experience. The only thing I feel it is missing is different events or dialogue based on your current form.
Thank you for your comment! It definitely would have good to get more of those type of events in there, you’re right.
when will you add them?
I think it’s pretty safe to say I won’t, at this point. The game is several years old, it never developed any kind of community as far as I can tell, and I’ve moved on to different things. Apologies! Glad you liked it enough to comment.
I love this! It's a cute little game that has a lot of heart!!! <3
Would love to see more by you, be it comics or games or whatever! <3
Thank you so much!! That means a lot to hear. I’ve been tryin to start up big projects for months now, but it seems as though I have to wait until the right season of my life comes around again.
This is a really cute game and I enjoyed it a lot. I honestly love the simplicity and idea of it.
Thank you for your comment!! I’m glad you liked the game!
Hiii this was really cute and nice ok? Thanks for making it :D
you are too sweet. your comment made my morning! I’m glad you enjoyed it
There are some intriguing mysteries hidden in here, but I either haven't figured out how to access them or I haven't gotten lucky enough with potion generation.
I'm pretty sure that the highest mercury level I've hit is the one after "looming," which seems to be connected to the confetti related disappearances, but I don't think I've met a wizard, and I'm not sure how the rat factors in.Unfortunately, whenever I get to that level of mercury, the game closes on the next card. (Maybe Unity died of mercury poisoning?)see edit.Oh! Also, adding the "transformation" tag to this will make it a lot easier for people browsing Itch to find.
Edit: OH. I see. Well, I don't think it even displays for a frame before closing, but, uh, yeah, I see what's going on now, haha. Well, that was definitely fun to find.
Same goes for the "visited every card by cheating" message, though I still haven't been able to trigger the secret ending, (it's plush + bunny + has plush + encounter girl, right?) and I have zero clue what the secret button on the main menu does beyond turn purple, haha.
I’ll go ahead and add the “transformation” tag! I don’t think I was aware of it when I published this game.
It’s a rare occurrence as a game dev that anyone likes your game enough that they’re willing to dig through the project file (I assume that’s how you found out about the easter egg with the secret button, which I left in there for my friend Goaty. It lets you start off the game as a “Goat Goddess” if you leave it active.)
I regret that that secret ending is so reliant on good potion luck. I’m very glad you got so much out of the mysteries though. Truth be told, there’s just as many half-mysteries that don’t have a resolution, as there are ones that get tied up in a bow. That’s how you generate intrigue, on a budget!
Thank you so much for playing, diving so deep, and having a good time. And moreover, thank you for leaving a comment, and letting me know!!
Yep, thanks for making this intriguing enough to inspire me into learning how to decompile Unity apps!
I was certain there were things I was missing, but I didn't want to deal with the RNG needed to find 'em all, and, as I found out, it wouldn't have done me much good in the case of the mercury ending since it doesn't actually display onscreen before Application.Quit() is called, haha.
without having the plushbecause you are the plush.edit 3:i think you need the plush to reencounter the girl
edit 2:i think the encounter with the girl is completely random. its rng based ;)
edit 1:
i dont know ifyou need the plush to encounter the girl again (get it just in case)Nice!
Here's the other secret ending (max out mercury level):
Then you would be presented with 4 options: HOWLING, SCREAMING, NEVER, and ENDING. Presumably, this means that your character has met the same fate as the others who used the mercury potions, and exploded into a burst of confetti. It doesn't display because application.quit() is called before the text can actually be rendered.
And hey, even though you've already seen it, here's the encounter that enables the secret good ending as well since it's pretty rare:
Healed for 10HP!