![]() Potionomics releases on October 17, so we don't have long to wait before 'shipping for our protagonist and the the Public Relations Moth from the cover of this article. One caveat here is that the demo is quite short (less than an hour) and has a lot of tutorialization, so it's hard to know how well the final product will come together. ![]() There's far too much going on to call Potionomics a dating sim, but from the demo my guess is that building relationships will be the primary focus of the game rather than the shop simulation. ![]() Selling a potion to Quinn, the village witch/hustler The character design is, frankly, spectacular, and there's a fun mechanic whereby improving your relationship with characters via conversations/dates earns you new cards to use in the haggling minigame. The game looks and performs fantastic via Proton, and there's a fun card game for the haggling process. Think the relationship-building Stardew Valley meets the sales part of Moonlighter. In Potionomics you create and sell potions from a potion shop you inherit from your deceased uncle. Dredge ran flawlessly for me via Proton and there's a good couple hours of content in the demo. The deceptively cute graphics and simple gameplay paired with a darkening story and some grotesque 2D art made for an enjoyable state of discombobulation, and I'm curious how heavily the full game will lean into its horror elements. Give this one bonus points if you enjoy 'inventory Tetris', as you can fiddle with your cargo to maximize the size of your haul. It's also not clear what happened to the bay's previous fisherman. It's not long, however, before the game reveals its horror aspirations - fishing in the dark raises your stress (think Sunless Sea), fish rot in your hold with unidentified disease, and pretty soon you start catching full-on Eldrich abominations in your fishing nets. The core loop is innocent enough: you undock from the village you start in and spend the day fishing and exploring the bay before selling your catch to upgrade your boat. I went in blind thinking it would be a cute time waster, so imagine my surprise in discovering Dredge appears instead to be a Lovecraftian horror game with fishing mechanics. ![]() Cosmoteer releases into Early Access at the end of October.įor you fishing minigame aficionados, Dredge is an exploration fishing game with a distinct style. The demo does have a vicious performance bug on Proton but thankfully it's solved by changing your launch command to %command% -cores 1. YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view. ![]()
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