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Solve puzzles and brew potions in The Bestest Alchemist, a strategic puzzle roguelike! Freely arrange ingredients to create magical combinations, discover 100+ new recipes, and upgrade your collection to build powerful synergies. Your journey to becoming a master alchemist starts now!

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Release delayed to early 2026 and some updates

25 Dec, 2025

Hey everyone - Merry Christmas! We hope you're enjoying the holiday season.

We have some bad and good news to share.

Release Delayed to Q1 2026

Unfortunately, we made the difficult decision to push the release date to early next year. We really tried to make it for this year, but the game would just not be at the quality bar we really want it to be at.

We'll have more details soon with a final release date.

Sneak peek - lots of game updates

We've covered a lot of ground since the last update.

> New & updated Art

Updated Ingredient related UIs
Player book UIs for ingredients, achievements, and etc.
Updated + new animations for Charlotte to include Remi, the crow \[[url="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QreuuUWTK1LdUEh6II5iF0pZp14ZBfW4/view?t=2"]Example[/url]]

> Story Mode

The script for story mode is complete!
The illustration planning is in progress

> Gameplay Updates

A lot of changes and tweaks! We'll share more in a future update.

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Huh, this reminds me of Puzzle and Dragons from the store page.

Was there some inspiration?

Umbaupause

28 May @ 2:44am

General Discussions

Release is delayed to December, but lots of things in the kitchen!

25 Oct, 2025

Hey everyone!

Thanks for the great Next Fest, and for all the wonderful feedback and discussions. We gathered a lot of thoughts, and are working hard on a number of items to make the game even better!

Unfortunately, this increased scope means that we had to push back the release date a bit. However, we still plan to release before the holidays, and we'll announce the specific date in the upcoming weeks.

Thanks for all of your support!

Sneak peek: Story mode & Tutorial & UI updates

These are all WIP and subject to change, but we're working hard to crafting something great!

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[Demo Mini-Patch] Oct 16 - Japanese + click to drag gameplay option

15 Oct, 2025

Updates:

Language Options
- We now support Japanese!
- All planned languages are now supported in Demo
Features
- Added click to move toggle in Gameplay options. With this option, you can click on an ingredient and start moving, then click again to process.

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Some thoughts after the demo

A friend mentioned they tried this game to me and didn't recommend it since it was very poorly explained/tooltipped, and I usually dislike Balatro-like games of "just make big dumb numbers", but I've like a lot of match-3 type stuff and was willing to try it. Turned the demo off after 10-15 mins but my feedback might be useful. 1. This isn't a match 3. This is a sliding puzzle. I could grab one gem and keep moving it for like 90 secs straight until almost every single tile was lined up https://i.imgur.com...