Potion Permit

Potion Permit is an open-ended sim RPG about a chemist sent to Moonbury to treat the mayor’s ill daughter. The town has long been wary of outside knowledge and relied on traditional healing, but the Medical Association sends you to use modern alchemy and earn the residents’ trust. Around 30 unique inhabitants may fall ill and call for your help; while they recover in bed, their usual schedules are interrupted.

Diagnose and treat

You examine patients’ symptoms to identify their illnesses and decide which remedies to make. In one case, a low heart rate and a bloated liver point to burning lungs caused by eating too much gelatin, which can be treated with Minty Goblet. You brew medicine, vitamins and other remedies by mixing ingredients in your cauldron. As you gain experience, you unlock higher-level recipes that use more ingredients for stronger effects, and you can enhance the cauldron to fit more ingredients into a recipe.

Gather and fight

You collect ingredients from the surrounding environment with your tools, upgrading your hammer, axe and sickle to gain new swings and attacks for everyday tasks. Changing weather can catch you in rain, a freezing blizzard or desert heat. When materials are guarded by monsters in the nearby wilderness, you can use your tools as weapons in real-time combat. As a chemist, you can also brew concoctions to strengthen yourself or inflict status ailments on enemies, and use various tools to help in a fight.

Life in Moonbury

As you care for residents, your reputation with them grows and they open up to you. You may become particularly close to certain bachelors or bachelorettes. Building relationships also raises your approval rating, allowing you to improve public buildings and expand the areas you can explore around town. You can craft or buy furniture to personalize your home.

Between treatments, you can explore Moonbury and its surroundings, get to know the inhabitants, rest at the tavern or fish for dinner. The lighting changes through the day, from morning sunlight across the meadows to street lamps in the early evening. There are no time limits for objectives, so you can play at your own pace. Your loyal dog companion can help locate hidden items and point you toward residents as they go about their day.