Unity - Potion Shop Schwesterherz [v0.36] [random Crow]

Tested v.036

First, the good parts:
The game's concept ain't bad. You play as "Sonja". Her sister "Linda" runs the potion shop, while Sonja is out in the wilds gathering materials for the potions.
Materials get dropped into a storage box at the shop automatically, you don't need to sort anything.
The game runs without issues on the technical side. You can play with either mouse or keyboard.
There is a day/night mechanic. Levels vary depending on the time of day.
The porn is okay. The art is amateurish, but the developers did well for what they had available. There are over 60 different scenes in the gallery room, most enemies have more than one scene.
You get to keep materials that you collected if you lose.
That's all the good I can say.

Now the bad parts.
The biggest issue is exploration and material gathering, even though that is pretty much all you do.
Running costs Stamina and Stamina only refills if you sleep in the shop or use a Stamina potion. Sex scenes also cost ~30% of your stamina bar each and it is the only way to collect "essences" for potions. Your starting inventory only has space for 12 items, materials and potions all take up inventory space. You can only explore for around 10 minutes until either your inventory is full or you're out of Stamina.
There is no fast travel aside from the going back and forth between the shop and the start of a region. You can craft a "Home Potion" that takes you back to the shop right away, but it is an expensive one-time-use consumable.
You can only use materials for crafting when at home in the shop and crafting anything costs a lot of materials.
It is difficult to farm a specific material in an efficient manner.
Some enemies chase you for a long time and the only way to get rid of them without losing Stamina is to run far away or come prepared with lots of "Sleeping Powder", which takes up inventory space again.
Unlocking new regions requires crafting specifics potions multiple times, which means farming a bunch of stuff.
You can upgrade the house to get more inventory space, HP, Stamina, or other bonuses, but the cost doubles with each upgrade and you make very little money.
There is a blackmailing/extortion side-plot. Someone finds out that the sisters use monster jizz to craft the potions they sell. Just annoying.
There is only 1 save file and you have to save manually in the options menu.

I normally despise most collectathon-busywork type games, but this one actually remembered that you can do that in a way that's actually fun to play. There's a wide variety of animations and an actual feeling of progression, so the repetition is easily forgiven. It doesn't hurt that the art style is decent; it's no 10/10 masterpiece but it looks fine. This is definitely a work I'd actually pay for once it's finished.

Sensational game with (mostly) bestial/monster content. One plus is that everything is consensual, even down to the pretending to be non-con just to get someone off, haha. The art style is good, if a little dated, and I've been following the game for several years. A must-play; the gameplay loop is wonderful.

I played the game Zum Damenhaus and now playing Potion Shop Schwesterherz, I see a great evolution, the game is getting incredible, the graphics are still very simple, but the gameplay is good and fluid, I rarely see any bugs.

The game has route choices with the protagonist's sister, and I loved the Feral/Beast content, the animations are very nice.

The only thing I felt could be improved is the ranged weapon, it is very difficult to hit the enemy with it, and some monsters could be reworked to be sexys

The creatures I liked the most in the game were the wolf, the unicorn, the wendigo and the bats. (and i love scenes in shop)

I like the mechanics a lot. Art style isn't exactly my cup of tea, but it's nostalgic. This almost just scratches my itch for games like Labrats2. The mouse controls are a welcome feature. Thought out gameplay loop. Good little fantasy management game with a gathering and crafting system.

General: Potion Shop Schwesterherz is a 2D game with a refreshingly non-standard gameplay. It contains elements of exploration and item collection together with some shop management.

Kinks:
The protagonist as well as the side characters are female. Sex is non-vanilla with partners ranging from said women through a wide variety of different animals to monsters and other fantasy creatures.
Sex is mainly vaginal and oral with some anal, and a little feet/breast involvement. There is some insemination (including eggs).

Gameplay:
You run a potion shop, gathering ingredients from the outside world in the vicinity of different entities you can have sex with.
The game doesn't contain any combat, you interact with the (outside) world through collection as well as having fun with the local flora and fauna.
The management part takes a rather little section of the gameplay but also has a variety of hot scenes.

Other:
The start is a bit difficult (or maybe the tutorial has been overworked in the meantime?) because at the start there's quite a lot of UI and things to do. But the game itself isn't complex and so you soon get to the gist of it.

I really want to give it 4.5, but the charm loses out to the lack of polish.

When I say lack of polish I'm only talking about the gameplay. The artstyle looks rough in screenshots, but it's very effective in motion. The animations are conceptually very interesting and well executed, and the simplicity of the style benefits its more extreme scenes in a similar way pixel art benefits. More abstract can mean more evocative and expressionist.

You'll love this if you want to recapture the feeling of flash era games but with the game design and animation skills of way more recent work.

The problem is that it's very repetive, inventory management is tedious, the price of everything feels arbitrary, and it feels like most trips out spend more time getting enough herbs to get potions for you to use in the next trip, not just to sell.

If I could make a suggestion? Having each environ have an ingredient in the stage that can only be used in a potion that can only be sold for money. Either a few that are placed randomly, or a lot that are a constant across the entire map.

It would mean that each trip has an item that can only be monetized and has no opportunity cost for exploration or gathering, and the simplicity means that it's a lot easier to keep in your head relative to the wider grocery list all the other combinations require.

It would reduce fatigue to have more design choices like that. Right now the game suffers from not thinking enough about how its systems interact. As a result of all the different potion ingredients, combinations, limited bag size, biomes, sales system, and the low sell value of potions, it makes decisions that should be very simple unnecessarily significant and complicated because of the grinding involved.

Some combination of making ingredient stacks bigger, potion recipes cheaper and sales prices higher is probably needed, but this really needs more focus on game design going forward to prevent it from becoming something people just ask for the gallery rip for. Which would be tragic, because it's so close. All the pieces are here, they just need some sanding down to properly click together.

A fun little game that I feel is pretty unique. Its a very simple gameplay that can lock you in for a couple hours if you are horny / bored enough. But it still has enough detail to be a fun game & the scenes are not bad at all! Definitely gives off a "solo dev just tryna have fun" vibe and I am all for it.

This has a simple, but absorbing core loop that would work just as well in a non-porn game: go out, gather herbs, dodge/fight monsters, come back home, make potions from the herbs, sell them for money, use the money to improve the shop, keep some potions to use on your next expedition, go out, repeat. It's simply that the "fights" are sexual encounters.

It's more like a 4.5, though. It could use a few QOL bonuses like better sorting on your reagent inventory, the ability to discard items, some reshuffled reagent costs (you're constantly having to go back to the forest for stems/shrooms, long after anything there is interesting), letting items in your bag stack to 100 or higher, and being able to skip the longer rock-paper-scissors sex minigame.

This is still an actual game, with some genuine humor, and it's worth a look if you're a weird little monsterfucker. All it needs is more of everything.

This game is ok. It doesn't waste much of your time, there is always something pornographic to appreciate. The exploration I feel takes up too much time for what you get, could probable be shortened down to a play by play of events that happen instead of walking, which is boring. Managing the shop is a highlight for me as the mechanics themselves are spicy, the shop keep keeps the store from being a place that nothing horny happens.
Game needs some refinement, cut some stuff out to make the gold shinier.

Great game! Very interesting characters and elaborate locations, variety of plot! Keep developing the game! I also like that anything, she wants to be fucked! A calm and exciting game that you enjoy. Want additional development of this game, keep it up

Overall, Potion Shop Schwesterherz is a triumph of game design, offering a rich and rewarding experience that will captivate players from start to finish. With its breathtaking visuals, gripping storytelling, and engaging gameplay,

Been watching this game from the beginning, despite its visual simplicity it offers some entertaining hours of gameplay which doesn't even seem repetitive though there are only a few available locations. Overall a great game that includes some management aspect, which is always appreciated, and updates are meaningful and constant.

Perfect game. Im supporting the dev on patreon, and came here to say, this game is the perfect blend of two genres. You have where you venture into the forest, and two other locations, and loot for resources. This is also where the lewd part is, you fuck enemies for resources as well! Finally, a game where sex isnt just a game over screen.

The second part is a management style type of gameplay, craft potions, cook food, upgrade rooms of your shop, and much more. You have a slutty sister, and you can basically prostitute her as a side gig. There's different clothing options, and there's art for them too.

A+ for effort.

WOWOWOW! Love it!

Corruption, bestiality, sexy dialogue, voyeur... and so much more!

Sure, it's grindy and is missing a few QOL UI improvements but its still in development.

Remember ghost house? Resident evil: Progeny? Anthrophobia? Fan of pixel art and freaky sex?? You have to try this game!

I only wish there was dialogue options for the sex with the non humanoid characters. It would be hot to see what she is thinking. "Omg I cant believe I came on a dogs dick." "Ew This insect dick is so weird, but hot!" etc...

That and some cum dripping and stuff post coitus. An extra few frames of Sonja trying to recover herself after sex, covered/filled with cum would go a long way.

Also personal preference: more dogs!!!

v 0.26

The grind is absurd, the resolution settings are fundamentally broken, meaning that the outer edges are not visible, forcing you to fiddle with the resolutions until you find the correct one, there is no map leaving you to wonder aimlessly and try to memorise the level layout, sure the H-scenes are nicely animated, but that's not enough.

Fantastic game. The art is probably its weakest point for me, but even then, I think its grown on me alot since I started. Gameplay is something a bit different from most games I find on here which was refreshing. Good variety of enemies, however some seem to only have one animation, while others got multiple.

Edit 2/29/24: Since first writing, I now support the dev on patreon and am really enjoying the changes hes working towards. 2nd animations for all enemies, and a brand new zone are in the works, truly fantastic.

Amazing game. Good gameplay loop. Using sex as a gameplay element rather than a fail screen or a reward screen. Good animations. Quest system needs an update, lot of new content can be added as quests.

artwork is amazing, no story or anything you just wander around and collect items for pots. you can sell or use the pots tho. there is around 10 monsters i guess. more would be awesome. i love the game and highly recommend it.

Addictive little game and an excellent start. The animation is smooth, and the art style is different but not off-putting. All of the mechanics work well, and no bugs are noticable that I have found. It's fun to watch both of the girls succumb to corruption, and I always enjoy having different outfit options. It's a little thing, but the way it was implemented is especially well done here. Can't wait to see more content!