Play These Games and Suddenly You’re a Potion-Making Hermit
If the idea of being a potion-making hermit sounds like your ideal life, these games will take you there. With the freedom to gather materials, experiment with ingredients, and brew your own concoctions, you’ll find yourself immersed in a soothing world of magic and mystery. Happy gaming!
Secret of Mana

This classic action RPG features potion-making as part of your journey. You can brew potions to help heal wounds or enhance your character’s abilities, and the game lets you experiment with magic and potions throughout the adventure.
Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
Run your own potion shop, where you create all sorts of magical potions for customers. Experiment with ingredients, craft unique concoctions, and watch as your alchemy skills grow in this charming simulation.
Wytchwood
As a witch living alone in the woods, you gather ingredients and brew potions to help you complete various tasks. The game focuses on crafting spells and potions to explore and solve puzzles in a beautiful, mysterious world.
Graveyard Keeper
While running a graveyard, you can also brew potions to aid in various tasks. Mix ingredients to create powerful brews, and use your alchemy skills to improve your graveyard and solve mysteries.
Kynseed
This charming life-simulation game lets you brew potions and explore a magical world. You can create potions to help with farming, relationships, and even solve local mysteries in a world full of whimsical characters.
Slime Rancher
While it’s mostly about farming slimes, you can also brew potions using the resources you gather. Experiment with ingredients and see how your concoctions can improve your farm and the creatures you raise.
My Time at Portia
In this crafting RPG, you can gather materials and experiment with potions to improve your equipment and abilities. Explore the world, create new recipes, and live out your dream as a potion-making hermit in a peaceful town.
Littlewood
After saving the world, you retire to a peaceful life where you can farm, craft, and create potions. Experiment with different ingredients to create helpful brews that improve your town and relationships with others.
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
While you explore a beautiful, open world, you can gather resources and craft potions to help with your adventures. Combine ingredients to create helpful brews as you work toward restoring the land’s beauty.
Potion Permit
In this game, you’re tasked with becoming the best potion maker in town, crafting brews to cure the sick and help others. Gather ingredients from the land and mix potions as you restore the village to health.