Alchemist's Alcove (Public Playtest)

I have to say, even though I haven't completed it yet, it is a fantastic game. The idea of the game isn't original, but it doesn't need to be. The Binding of Isaac, Legend of Zelda, and Ancient Dungeons all have a similar "go into room, fit monsters, get upgrades," But something about the way this game does it, is just so different and cool that I find myself playing over and over again, regardless of how many times I die to stupid enemies or my own stupidity. This is a fantastic game, and with some lore sprinkled in there, a bit of restructuring the health and healing system, I think this could genuinely go mainstream. Also, while I'm here, I might as well say this. Not only is the game astonishingly high quality even for Itch.io, but the creator of this game is an amazing person as well. I don't know them personally, but if you take 5 seconds to scroll through the comments, you'll see he's responded to most, if not almost all of them. He is incredibly nice (from what I've seen through his responses) and is extremely patient with the people who enjoy his games and like to ask questions. Sorry for the rambling, it 10:17 at night right now, and I'm going to bed. Thanks again for the amazing game, and I hope to see more projects from you.

(for lore, you could totally make it like some kids dad had this game, and he was a collector, so he bought this arcade machine or smthn. Idk, just an idea) 

is there any thing you can use dead air for yet? or did i just waste a diamond 

Fantastic game! Finally beat it on my 5th run. I think an interesting use of resources would be to use spells outside of battle to affect items dropped on the ground, such as a flamethrower on the meat.

I loved the game! The only feedback I would have is that inventory space quickly became a problem, and I didn't happen to discover anything that could increase inventory space.  I really wanted to keep a lot of my materials for later to see if they could create something new, but I was forced to abandon a lot of items. Looking at some of these other comments, there seems to be a lot of items I never discovered. I'm gonna do another run to see if I can discover some more.

Remember seeing this game on the lil guys stream, pretty awesome game ngl

ok thanks

what do you do with armor paint?

haven't played yet, nice name

I love this! Great work! It took me a second to figure it out, but now I have the hang of it and enjoying it a lot. My only harp is that there doesn't seem to be a sufficient way to gather heals. You have the meat but the drop rate is low as well as the items to make a flame. Maybe increase the meat drop rate and maybe have the goblins or kobolds around a flame in some of the room that we can use as cooking points.

Amazing work man, great work.

the game has a great immersive potential, i think you should focus on lore and storytelling, cause there is already an ambiance. now, it needs more on the ambiance and feeback side, especially sound effect for collecting items, a background, and maybe a bit of details in the pixel art, aat least more than just black screen with tiles

"healing damage"

ahh this is so neat! in Godot too! It's a bit hard for me even on the easiest difficulty but I love the idea and I love the art! I'd like to not attack on empty tiles though since some misclicks cost me my runs :P <3

the inventory is kinda small but this is a very good game

Damn that's fun... wish I had more patience to figure out how to use all the copper coin byproducts 😭