Miriam's Potion Journal

Miriam's Potion Journal is a logical alchemy puzzle game in which you play as an apprentice alchemist. You gather ingredients, fulfill daily quests and experiment at your cauldron to discover potion recipes. Your ultimate goal is to brew the legendary concoction called “Idea.”

Deduce the recipes

Each ingredient contains hidden runes, or tags, that determine which potions it can make. For example, a Potion of Healing related to Life requires ingredients with a Life core, a Regeneration branch and a Drop catalyst. You can experiment with ingredients whose effects are unknown to reveal their properties, then use your successes, failures and notes to work out the runes and deduce other recipes.

The hidden combinations of runes change each time you play, so you must infer the ingredients’ properties anew in each world. The recipe structure—the combination of runes—for an Idea remains the same even when the ingredients’ underlying rules change.

Potions and Ideas

Recipes range from basic healing salves to high-tier potions that manipulate gravity, as well as legendary Ideas such as the Philosopher's Stone. As you learn the rules of each world, you can use that knowledge and logical deduction to find the combinations needed to brew these concoctions.

An alchemist's daily life

You can venture outside town to gather materials or buy missing ingredients at the shop, then brew potions to meet requests from the townsfolk. Delivering a requested potion earns new ingredients and other rewards. The merchant also buys failed creations, and experimenting—even when it produces failures—is part of learning the rules and discovering more recipes.