To my great surprise, this may have become my favorite single player video game. As a lover of deck builders, item shop sims, and games that let you make potions... this had it all in a charming package, complete with a great OST as well as now voice overs. I game casually, but this is the first game that I'm looking forward to playing the hard mode for another playthrough. Even turned around and bought the physical masterwork edition on the switch to be able to enjoy this when I'm on the go.

I've also noticed a couple points of replay-ability. Since there's no guarantee what order you'll unlock which ingredients (IF you'll even unlock all the same ones), you could have to drastically change the recepeis you use to approach making a given potion. Add to it, as a D&D player, I had the idea of possible replays by role-playing as various characters from my D&D games and setting up the deck to mirror how they'd try to sell goods. Nothing mandatory, just a fun idea I thought I'd put out there.

overall interesting storytelling and characters, can be a bit of a grind once you get to the middle though with trying to maximize your potions. the benefits from working on relationships show in various parts of the game, which is a nice touch. it's also nice how you can change the game difficulty whenever and the fact that there's an "endless mode" after the main story finishes (I used it to finish maxing out all my relationships).

this game will be perfect with a better potions management systems during brewing and shelf arranging time. it is painful to look at 10 tabs of different types of potions scattering across tabs which you have to keep track of.