Ren'Py - Abandoned - Alchimia [v0.5.0] [Voluptasoft]

So, this is a game I've first played ages ago. Probably in 2020 when it was launched. I had this general impression that it was a decently good game for some reason, but I guess that was just due to my unexperience.

The game has too few scenes, it takes too long to get to those scenes, and the art quality and style vary so much it gets you thinking if they used one artist per scene. Some of the art is in fact quite good - the background art for the bathroom and Myrynda's character portrait, for example. But not the scenes themselves.

Another weakness of Alchimia is the focus on the least interesting character, Elys, instead of having more scenes with Myrynda or Roxanne. There was not a single good scene with Elys, they all had quite bad art.

The game has both a panic button and a gallery, which is quite interesting, because that's something you can't take for granted these days, much less in such an early version.

Nice little game with lovely art.
Some good ideas put into the world building, even if we're just on surface here. It's a shame it has been abandoned because once you get past the long intro, the sandbox mechanics coulb be working pretty well.
Still remains on the vanilla side and too chatty for my tastes at times though. Give it a go.

Easily one of the best games on the site. Fantastic writing coupled with a fun setting and beautiful artwork makes this something worth at least watching.

The writing is top notch. Its coherent, entertaining, and honestly just plain enjoyable. Its rare to find a game that balances good story telling and humor with eroticism so well but this game pulls it off so well. This is handled very well early on and continues to shine throughout the game. In t his same vein, the gameplay is very solid too. The addition of a "story mode" option which disables mini-games is a nice touch as well.

The setting is something I rarely ever talk about when I rate anything on here. Usually its all rather contemporary and "realistic" but this game is one of the few that creates its own fantasy setting and actually makes it feel unique. There are some I guess anachronistic elements but they don't stick out like a sore thumb (the TV and phone, the latter of which has a nice little sight gag with an elf). Music is another thing that rarely gets brought up and while this game uses a few tracks that you've bound to have heard in other games, they've actually included some nice relaxing ones as well.

The art is just perfect. Well done 2D will always shine out over mostly generic 3D work when it comes to these games. Character designs are very anime-inspired (the MC and elves especially) and the backgrounds are even more beautiful. Some sections have sketched out backgrounds and even in this state, they're down right gorgeous. Its rare to find such dedication and effort put in backgrounds AND characters.

Its worth a download. Don't expect to speed through it like you would most other games. Just go at your own pace and enjoy everything about it.

Review on version 0.4.1 of Alchima:
I must say it was very rarely to have a portion brewing porn game that was good as this one with a nice balance between focus on alchemy, lewd content and story development
_ Art: 5/5
Art style was undeniably very high quality and very detail, from the background to character's design to H images showing the skill of the artist and how much Dev care for his project
_ Gameplay: 4/5
This one can be consider depend on if the players want to having fun with the minigame and fetch ingredients to making magic portion and earn money or not: The minigame wasn't hard but not entirely easy either, it was enough to challenge and make you work a little bit to solve it (if you just want to move quickly for H event then you can turn on the Story Mode and skip all the minigames). Fetching ingredients might be a little bit grinding and repeatable but in the long term it would be very beneficial when you need to making portion for a quest
_ Story: 5/5
It was a very cute and quite wholesome story of a boy that want to become a great alchemist and have a very lovely relationship with a red haired big sister named Elys and with...cough....cough...his "landlady"...cough....cough.... And that's all you need to know, very wholesome INDEED
_ Lewd content: A solid 5/5
Every single sex scenes was hot and with that awesome art style from skilled artist you can say how great every single image are, just look at those samples in the OP thread alone wasn't enough but you need to check out the game yourself. I'm guaranty it was worth every second you decide to spend for this game
_ Conclusion: A 9.5/10 game with lot of potential to grow in the future, the only bad part is that because the game was so addicted it make you crave for more updates with more content to play with. Compare to the previous version, this update has improve a lot and I can't wait to see more from Developer

Excellent Art, Gameplay, and Story. That it has so far.

I first tried this game here on release half-a-year ago and saw potential in it so I left it on watch. Came back to it to find some juciy content, as I actually enjoyed the story and characters in the porn game. (at places it's pretty cliche and generic, but in good way) The few times I got stuck trying to get an event to trigger, nothing too serious.

A developer really worth the support.