Potion Shop Panic!

The customers are strange. Their requests are stranger. Keeping the shop standing is your problem.

Potion Shop Panic is a whimsical potion-brewing strategy game where impossible customers arrive with very specific magical problems. A nervous storm cloud wants quieter thunder. An aristocratic frog needs enough courage to admit he hates capes. A runaway eclipse wants to shine without becoming the center of attention.

Listen carefully and create a potion that solves the problem without causing a much worse one.

Brew your own solutions

Every order can be approached in different ways. Investigate the request, choose the promise you want to make, and construct your formula from a cabinet of unusual ingredients.

Each ingredient affects six magical properties:

• Courage
• Calm
• Clarity
• Charm
• Heat
• Lift

Prepare ingredients by crushing, scorching, frosting, or whispering to them. Choose how to brew the mixture, control its volatility, and discover secret reactions between unlikely combinations.

A powerful potion is not always a good potion. Adding too much magic can be just as dangerous as adding too little.

Perform the ritual

Brewing the mixture is only the beginning.

Choose a flame, bind the potion with a rune, capture its magical pulse, and stabilize the final enchantment. Every ritual decision can strengthen the potion, change its properties, or push it beyond the customer’s safety limits.

You can carefully trace the rune yourself, stabilize it instantly, or unlock magical assistance later in the campaign.

Meet an unforgettable people

The shop is visited by twenty absurd customers, including anxious weather systems, haunted writers, argumentative furniture, airborne aristocrats, time pirates, living celestial events, and several creatures with extremely questionable plans.

Customers remember what you served them. Successful potions can build relationships and unlock later chapters, while disastrous mixtures may return with consequences.

Shape your campaign

Each campaign lasts five increasingly eventful nights and follows one of three connected stories:

• Guide a runaway eclipse through the politics of the Moon Court.
• Help a young storm cloud survive the Storm Guild Trials.
• Investigate a forbidden book that has started rewriting its readers.

Magical omens alter the rules each night. Between shifts, explore dangerous locations for rare ingredients, improve your shop, and decide whether greater rewards are worth bringing a magical accident home.

Choose an optional Grand Ambition, pursue different potion-making styles, or simply try to keep your license until morning.

Discover, experiment, and return

Your Crooked Grimoire records discovered reactions, customer histories, ingredients, and successful potion formulas across campaigns.

Try new story routes, meet customers you missed, find hidden ingredient combinations, master alternative solutions, or continue beyond the campaign in Endless Shift.

Play at your own pace

Choose the experience that suits you:

• Story mode removes the real-time countdown.
• Standard mode introduces pressure after the first night.
• Panic mode offers shorter patience limits and greater rewards.
• Accessibility options include larger text, high contrast, reduced motion, assisted timing, pausing, and instant rune stabilization.

The first night is always protected, giving new players time to learn the shop without being punished for reading.

Can you satisfy the customer, control the magic, keep your promises, and close the shop without turning the furniture against you?