Alchemist Shop Simulator Review

This is a good shopkeeper game in which you sell potions and potion-related items. You’ll also brew your own potions and grow the herbs yourself. There are no missable achievements, and completion takes around 15 hours.

Approximate amount of time to 100%: Around 15 hours
Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: You don’t need a guide, but I wrote this one
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: Yes, it can feel quite grindy. What I can tell you is that when you unlock the option to make potions automatically, use that and start selling potions. You’ll make so much more money that way! And get that last garden upgrade to have an easy way to earn a lot of experience through harvesting plants.
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty setting
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No

Alchemist Shop Simulator is a good shopkeeper game in which you run a shop and help customers while also making custom orders and growing herbs to brew potions with. A funny thing is that when you deliver custom orders with potions, you’ll see the effect of the potion play out, which is always a weird and crazy effect.

While playing this game, I sometimes felt it was a bit boring, but on the other hand, I kept playing and playing. The next level or shop upgrade was always just very close by, and I wanted to keep playing that session till reaching that point, but then the next one was close by, so I kept playing till that one and the next one, and the one after that. So, while I wish it had a little bit more Quality of Life upgrades, like, for example, the option to hire a staff member to stack the shelves for you… I clearly also couldn’t stop playing and kept going and going.

While playing Alchemist Shop Simulator, I think I was a bit too ambitious and not playing it the smart way. With store upgrades, the shop gets bigger and bigger, so you can stock more items in your store. But stocking them back up also costs a lot of time, especially if your store is bigger. At one point I realized that maybe I should stock up my shop full with items from the merchant outside your store but more with potions, the game is called “Alchemist Shop Simulator for a reason, right? And that was indeed right; potions sell for so much more profit, and if you have all the garden upgrades and the skill in the skill tree that is at the right side of the screen, it is just so much easier to have some potions in your shop. Also, my prices were too low. I was scared of customers not buying items, but I should have just tried to go for the highest rounded-down price for which it might sell and just wait a little or kept busy with other things.

One of the things I’m a massive fan of is that the game remembers the price you put on items. So even when you deplete the stock and buy/brew new ones days later.. the game still remembers the price you put on it before and instantly puts it up for sale for the same price when you put that item on the shelves. Also, the auto-brew option later on in the game is such a blessing!

Alchemist Shop Simulator has no missable achievements, so you can just play the game without a guide or worrying about any of the achievements, and a lot of them you’ll unlock without focusing on them. Unlocking all the achievements takes around 15 hours. While you don’t need a guide while playing through the game, I highly recommend writing down which potions you manually made, as there is an achievement to make all 30 of them manually at least once.

I give Alchemist Shop Simulator 4 out of 5 stars.

This review for #AlchemistShopSim was written on 26 February 2025, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 20 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.