Alchemist's Garden

This one is a very poorly designed incremental. And Hoo boy, I've played a lot of them. Let's start with explaining the gameplay. You gather ingredients by running an auto-clicker over a field of stuff. If you have no auto-licker, do not buy this game. You will give yourself RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) I am only half joking here. This game is not worth the damage to your fingers / wrists. You cannot hold the cursor down, you have to click, a lot. You then guess which ingredients combined with each other make potions (Don't worry, it remembers what didn't work, and you unlock recipes that give you the answers) You don't have to make multiples of each potion, this just gives you more money per minute, which does come in handy for unlocking upgrades. You unlock enough, you get these squiggly blue/pink things and you use them to unlock upgrades when you prestige (Start over) eventually you get to keep things when you start over. To the point that eventually you're just clicking a button to spend the squiggly things. You can click on the customers for a tiny pittance of money, but given that the screen is moved by clicking and dragging, this is hellish to do, even with an auto-clicker. Not worth the bother really. Now to another of my problems with the game. There are decorations and with them you can decorate your shop. Sounds great so far... When you upgrade the size of your shop, their position is scattered.... Okay, so that's annoying. When you prestige, their position is scattered. It should be noted, they do give bonuses. But I'd far prefer it just unlocked the bonus in a menu, and what ones you'd placed don't matter, that's just cosmetic. Then you could decorate it to your preference, and ideally, the game should also remember where you've put the bloody things. Because as it is, it's just a random assortment of stuff. You can even click to place them randomly. To save you the trouble of collecting every decoration, because there is no achievement for doing that and it will take you an extra ton of clicks / auto clicks and a ton of RNG. All that happens is you get a screen congratulating you for collecting them all. No extra dialogue or anything. But I figured I would do this arduous task, just to make my review even more helpful and save future gamers the trouble. To save you even more trouble... and this did take a very long time. Getting every single upgrade, does nothing. No dialogue, no screen. Nothing. But I wanted to be thorough in my masochism here. (Okay, I was waiting for someone, they're still not here.) You can easily get every achievement in roughly 2-3 hours. Maybe faster, should be noted, I did skim read through all the dialogue, so it's not like that took up much time either. The game is riddled with references to other games, mostly minecraft. A lot of them aren't references and are just flat up pictures / models from minecraft. It really only proves to be eyeroll worthy. Note, this game is cheap, but even if it were free, I'd recommend against it, as it costs time and it doesn't feel fun during that time. It's just a bit of a slog. Thanks for reading, or skipping to the end. Whether or not you agree with me, I hope you have a lovely day.