Running a small business seems like hard work. If you’re not dealing with unhappy customers and haggling with suppliers, you’re competing against hot demons and hoping a witch doesn’t drop by to collect on the loan you’re magically bound to. At least, that’s how it works in Potionomics: Masterwork Edition, which brings one of the best indie PC games of 2022 to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch for the first time.
In Potionomics, you play as Sylvia, a young witch who inherits her uncle’s potion shop, along with the mountain of debt he took on to keep it running. By brewing and selling potions, both with their own unique mechanics, you help Sylvia raise enough money to keep the shop afloat, and maybe fall in love along the way. Potionomics: Masterwork Edition adds a handful of new features that were widely requested by players: Endless Mode lets you keep playing beyond the campaign’s bounds, Cozy and Capitalism modes add an easy and hard difficulty, and voiceover has been added for all of the game’s charming dialogue. The new edition is a standalone release for consoles and a free update on PC.
