Games like Potion Permit
If Potion Permit is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sun Haven, Neko House and Dewlight Horizon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its diagnosis minigames, gathering and romance simulation. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Potion Permit is a 2022 pixel-art RPG developed by MassHive Media in which players take on the role of a chemist sent to help the residents of Moonbury. The core gameplay loop combines diagnosis minigames, ingredient gathering, and potion crafting to treat various ailments, while the town setting provides opportunities for romance and friendship-building. Players describe the experience as cozy and relaxing, with a chill difficulty level that supports short play sessions. The game features colorful pixel graphics, life sim elements, and crafting mechanics typical of the JRPG genre. It supports solo play only and runs verified on Steam Deck. With a review score of 79% positive based on over 2,400 Steam reviews, Potion Permit is available for $19.99 USD.
About Potion Permit: Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.
Players who liked Potion Permit also play
Steam players who put hours into Potion Permit also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Sun Haven
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Top pick for Potion Permit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Potion Permit.
Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!
Neko House
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Second-strongest match for Potion Permit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Potion Permit.
Run a small cat shelter as Mikan. Care for stray cats, build trust, and help them find homes. Every adoption is a gamble, and your choices shape the shelter's reputation. Capsule art by: Ivan Caravalho https://ivanillustrator.com/
Dewlight Horizon
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Third-strongest match for Potion Permit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Potion Permit.
Start your new life in a vibrant world where magic and tech entwine in mystery. Build your dream farm, master professions, restore balance through crafting and building, and befriend colorful characters as you create a place to call home in this cozy open world farming / life sim RPG.
My Time at Sandrock
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Ranked #4 for Potion Permit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Potion Permit.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Coral Island
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Ranked #5 for Potion Permit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Potion Permit.
Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.
Locomoto
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Ranked #6 for Potion Permit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Potion Permit.
Customise and manage your train, tend to quirky passengers, gather resources, craft decorations, and upgrade your conductors style all accompanied by soft lo-fi tunes. Become a conductor and save your hometown Barrenpyre from environmental disaster!
Spirit Rancher
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Ranked #7 for Potion Permit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Potion Permit.
Spirit Rancher is a farming sim with a twist, all your crops are alive! Every aspect of nature has a spirit that you can capture. Use them to fight, craft intricate ecosystems, and build a self-sustaining ranch. Explore the land of Spirit Rancher and paint life back into the world!
Hokko Life
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Ranked #8 for Potion Permit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Potion Permit.
Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?
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Moonlighter
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Reviewers of Potion Permit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Potion Permit.
Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.
Roots of Pacha
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Reviewers of Potion Permit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Potion Permit.
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Stardew Valley
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Reviewers of Potion Permit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Potion Permit.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
ELDEN RING
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Reviewers of Potion Permit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Potion Permit.
THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.
Rune Factory 5
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Reviewers of Potion Permit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Potion Permit.
As the newest ranger of a peacekeeping organization known as SEED, protect your community by rounding up rowdy monsters and going on special missions. Cultivate your farm and friendships alike while unravelling rune-related mysteries!
Moonstone Island
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Reviewers of Potion Permit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Potion Permit.
Moonstone Island is a creature-collecting life-sim set in an open world with 100 islands to explore. Make friends, brew potions, collect Spirits, and test your strength in card-based encounters to complete your Alchemy training!
Fields of Mistria
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Reviewers of Potion Permit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Potion Permit.
Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!
BLACKTAIL
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Reviewers of Potion Permit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Potion Permit.
Forge the legend of Baba Yaga, a girl accused of witchcraft and expelled from her home. Live out the origins of the Slavic myth in this one-of-a-kind blend of intense archery combat and dark storytelling set in a vibrant fairy tale world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Potion Permit at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Potion Permit on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Potion Permit.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Potion Permit on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Potion Permit.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Potion Permit on Steam right now. Shares Action with Potion Permit.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Potion Permit on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Potion Permit.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Potion Permit on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Potion Permit.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Potion Permit.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Potion Permit.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Potion Permit.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Potion Permit.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Potion Permit.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Potion Permit.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
My Time at Sandrock
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Potion Permit.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Coral Island
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Potion Permit.
Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.
Locomoto
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Potion Permit.
Customise and manage your train, tend to quirky passengers, gather resources, craft decorations, and upgrade your conductors style all accompanied by soft lo-fi tunes. Become a conductor and save your hometown Barrenpyre from environmental disaster!
Hokko Life
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Potion Permit.
Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?
Frequently asked about Potion Permit
- Is Potion Permit verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Potion Permit is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Potion Permit cost?
- Potion Permit is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Potion Permit?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Potion Permit are Sun Haven, Neko House, Dewlight Horizon.
- Who developed Potion Permit?
- Potion Permit was developed by MassHive Media and published by PQube.
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