In Witchcraft, you fight monsters to get colored potions, which are then mixed together to create new potions.
Use those potions to buff your fighter, fulfill the villager's orders, or just store them for later use!
Tips for playing: (thanks everyone for your comment) - Start the game by hitting the pause button. - Spam clicks in the window to make the hero attack faster. Click attacks and auto attacks are two different stats! - When you mix two potions, click on the lower part of the paper to either keep the potion, buff your hero, or fulfil an order. - Reading the order (especially its name) will give you hints for which colored potion you need! - Try mixing different potions to get tier 2 and tier 3 colors! - When you over the mouse on a tier 2/3 potion, the ingredients to make it will be slightly highlighted.
I found it a very hard time to understand how interface works: - First I haven't realized that "start" is not a button but a tip to click unpause. - Also I had no clue that keep potion/feed hero/fulfill order are clickable. Found this randomly. - Finally no idea how orders and potion correlate. I wish I understood what do people want from me, and which order do I fulfull when giving away the portion.
Otherwise, idea is solid, just frustrating to play. I always like you graphics as well. If you fix this issues in future, I'll gladly give it another try.
Same here, the interface is hard to understand, It took me a while to get how to make potion too. Apart from that mixing time management & fight mechanics is a good idea. And the game is beautiful !
First, I love the pixel art ! But the interface is really hard to understand ! Same for me, I didn't understand the start button. Also, when I craft a potion a paper appears and I have no idea how to close it. Plus, I have no idea how to use/sell a potion. So, it seems to be a really great idea, but too hard to take in hand
I got the same problems with understanding interface as Phoenix. Orders system needs rebuild in my opinion. But the rest.... Beautiful graphics and great music. Gameplay idea is worth enhancing, because I like these coordination between fighting and making potions which you must learn by the time and decide if it's better to use them or sell.
Interface is really hard to follow. Font really hard to read. Never had any idea what potions I was creating or what they did. Took me a while to figure out that clicking START isnt how you start the game?
Ellian quality graphics as per usual. 5 star graphics amigo. <3
Very frustrating gameplay. I tried mixing different potions, but i got nothing useful (or it seemed like that). Super neat art though. And the music is ok.
Cool idea, lovely art, and nicely done, but agreed that the interface was initially a bit tough to get to grips with, and it would be nice if there was a reminder of what ingredients to combine for specific potions after you make them (or failing that, maybe don't lose both ingredients in the potions that don't work).
That was really great! I love the art and music and the theme fit really well. The multitasking kept things interesting and choosing to fulfill orders or keep fighting slimes was a challenging balance. I really enjoyed this, good job!
Very original idea, I love it! I also like a lot your pixel art, very effective to set "fantasy mood". The game itself is nice to play, although it gets a bit repetitive to click on the monster to get potion at the beginning, but I like the concept a lot!
NB: Thanks for the updated description, it helped me decipher how the game is played :)
It took me quite awhile to figure out exactly what I was doing. What really got me is it took me like 2 game overs before I realized I could mix the same color! Haha then I had a ton of fun! I ended up making 49 orders before losing!
I wish there was some kind of progression and levels. That would add a lot!
Great graphics, one of the best looking entries I've seen so far, but had the same issue as already mentioned that it did get a bit confusing how the interface works. Did have fun seeing what random potions I could make by mixing stuff together and was able to fulfill some orders. Would be nice to see this further polished because the graphics are great.
Very good. The only issue I see is that there's a lack of pressing objective. Even if I didn't fill out the orders it took a long time to game over, and the hero never seemed to be in trouble either.
This was reaaaally cool, I like the concept of the hero and the witch a lot. It seems like a deep game that would require a bit more instructions in the beginning as well as a cook book of all the recipes you have already figured out later on or some type of guide for the player. Not that we need hand holding but for a game that has a timer and asks us to figure things out quickly, some direction as to where to start would be ideal.
Nice idea, but its implementation could be better. I think it lacks some sort of highlighting when it comes to reading orders. A lot of text but most of it is vague. It also doesn't help when time passes while you are reading said orders... and there is no indication of what potion you should make for them. Also, I found a bug when restarting, the music is played twice!
That was really fun once I got going! (Spent forever trying to find the pause button on my keyboard. >.<)
My one complaint: too much clicking! This is the second game I've played today that had "keep clicking forever" as a primary mechanic and I can feel the repetitive stress injury forming in my old-person arm.
Had a great time experimenting with the potions, though, and the little flavor bits explaining why each person needed their potion made were pretty cute. Also, fantastic job on the graphics.
- First I haven't realized that "start" is not a button but a tip to click unpause.
- Also I had no clue that keep potion/feed hero/fulfill order are clickable. Found this randomly.
- Finally no idea how orders and potion correlate. I wish I understood what do people want from me, and which order do I fulfull when giving away the portion.
Otherwise, idea is solid, just frustrating to play. I always like you graphics as well. If you fix this issues in future, I'll gladly give it another try.