Games like Potionomics
If Potionomics is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dance of Theseus, HIPS N NOSES and Patchwork Home — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its inclusive polyamorous dating options, cozy and emotional. 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 →Potionomics is a deck-building shop simulator developed by Voracious Games and published by XSEED Games. Players manage a potion shop they've inherited along with a substantial debt, using deck-building mechanics to brew potions and handle business negotiations. The game combines shop management, ingredient gathering, and resource management with a romance system featuring inclusive dating options. Players can hire heroes to gather ingredients and befriend vendors to learn new haggling strategies. The game offers multiple difficulty settings including a humorous capitalism mode. Reviewers highlight its cozy atmosphere and relaxing gameplay, noting that romance routes feel secure even with mistakes. Released in 2022 at $14.99, it runs verified on Steam Deck and holds a 90% positive rating from over 5000 Steam reviews.
About Potionomics: You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.
Players who liked Potionomics also play
Steam players who put hours into Potionomics 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.
Dance of Theseus
WHY THIS
Top pick for Potionomics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Potionomics.
Dance of Theseus is a dress-up life sim set in the glamorous world of monster ballrooms. Craft new body parts, assemble yourself, and use dance moves to outshine everyone. Fit in. Stand out. Make friends. Fall in love. How many parts will you replace before finding your way back home?
HIPS N NOSES
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Potionomics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Potionomics.
HIPS N' NOSES is a café management simulation! In a sleepless world, Mela is the only one who dreams. She runs a café that restores lost memories. Serve guests by day, battle in nightmares by night to collect the memory flower, customize your café, and become the most renowned owner!
Patchwork Home
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Potionomics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Potionomics.
Patchwork Home is a dating action game where you help a colorful cast of characters build a home in a world that has broken more times than they can count. But, for some reason, these goofballs think this time it'll be different. Make sure that it is. Currently in Alpha.
BOOK OF HOURS
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, time management and a cozy mood with Potionomics.
Ranked #4 for Potionomics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Potionomics.
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
Take That Mainstage!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Potionomics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Potionomics.
It's 1992 in Emerald City. The world screams for change. You made the leap, now fulfill your destiny and change the world. Build your band, write real music you perform, manage relationships, and reach the top of the charts. In this hybrid life sim, be the one to Take That Mainstage!
Dig Inc.
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Potionomics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Potionomics.
Dig Inc. is a game about managing your mining company. Mine for resources in a procedurally generated map, fill your increasing daily quotas, and sell ores raw, or set up production between runs to refine them for higher profits. Invest your earnings into a growing talent tree.
WitchHand
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a cozy mood with Potionomics.
Ranked #7 for Potionomics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Potionomics.
You're a witch, leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands. Use the cards you find to build and expand your civilization. Befriend the local covens or use their bones to fuel your spells. Gather your familiars, the witching hour is nigh.
News Tower
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a cozy mood with Potionomics.
Ranked #8 for Potionomics fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Potionomics.
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
WHY THIS
Shares shop management and a cozy mood with Potionomics.
Reviewers of Potionomics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Potionomics.
Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!
Amber Isle
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Shares shop management and a cozy mood with Potionomics.
Reviewers of Potionomics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Potionomics.
Welcome to Amber Isle - a quaint, friendly village of prehistoric residents who are in need of a new shopkeep... That’s you! Craft and sell items, upgrade your shop, befriend your Paleofolk neighbours and customise the island to bring the village back to life and welcome even more prehistoric pals!
Strange Horticulture
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Potionomics.
Reviewers of Potionomics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Potionomics.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Coffee Talk
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Potionomics.
Reviewers of Potionomics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Potionomics.
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Moonlighter
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Shares shop management and a whimsical mood with Potionomics.
Reviewers of Potionomics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Potionomics.
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.
Potion Permit
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Reviewers of Potionomics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Potionomics.
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.
The Ratline
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Reviewers of Potionomics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Potionomics.
A murdered priest. A secret list. Hunt Nazi fugitives across the globe in this gritty 1971 detective thriller. Analyze evidence, follow leads, and make sharp deductions before the trail goes cold. From the creators of Family, Rivals, Conspiracy, Echo Beach and Riley & Rochelle.
Return of the Obra Dinn
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Reviewers of Potionomics cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Potionomics.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Potionomics at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Potionomics on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Potionomics.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Potionomics on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Potionomics.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Potionomics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Potionomics.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Potionomics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Potionomics.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Potionomics.
Priced ~58% under Potionomics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Potionomics.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Potionomics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Potionomics.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Potionomics on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Potionomics.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Potionomics on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Potionomics.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Potionomics.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Potionomics.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Indie and Simulation with Potionomics.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Potionomics.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Potionomics.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Potionomics.
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!
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Frequently asked about Potionomics
- Is Potionomics verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Potionomics 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 Potionomics cost?
- Potionomics is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Potionomics?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Potionomics are Dance of Theseus, HIPS N NOSES, Patchwork Home.
- Who developed Potionomics?
- Potionomics was developed by Voracious Games and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA, Inc..
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