Potion Tales a shop sim or retail
management game, because the economics of running a figuratively and literally underground magic potion shop seems a secondary concern next to making the potions and deciding whether you want to screw people over or not. If the answer to that last part is yes, you need to move on to the question of
how.
In practice, Potion Tales is a 3D puzzle game. People come to you – I use the term people broadly because the tutorial level involves helping a fire spirit and soon after you’re approached by what appears to be an aggressive daisy who is the local gravekeeper – and present you with a problem. They ask for a potion to solve the problem. That’s all the steer you get. It takes some getting used to, but the Steam demo shows an impressively flexible game with a good sense of humour.
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report from The New York Times, Microsoft is expecting the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to oppose the deal, after EU regulators issued their own antitrust warnings last week. Microsoft reportedly believes it can convince EU and UK regulators to accept their concessions and eventually approve the acquisition.
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Magic Week here at RPS, where we aim to highlight all manner of fabulous games about magic, witches, wizards, general sorcery and other spell-adjacent tomfoolery. We’re also putting special emphasis on magic games made by trans developers, too. Join us for a glimpse of what’s coming up.
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Duke Nukem 3D burst onto the FPS scene in the Nineties, young CJ was a bit confused. This Duke wasn’t the purple-shirted acrobat I’d known from Apogee Software’s pair of platformers earlier that decade. He was brash, crude, and and didn’t side-scroll anymore. It wasn’t for me, so I moved on to other games. I still occasionally loaded up those earlier platformers though, wistfully remembering a time when Duke presumably used actual toilets when he needed to answer a call of nature.