{"id":23689,"date":"2023-10-04T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T00:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23689"},"modified":"2023-09-20T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T13:40:39","slug":"alchemic-cutie-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/04\/alchemic-cutie-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Alchemic Cutie (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/alchemic_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-23685 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ALCHEMIC_BOX-118x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ALCHEMIC_BOX-118x150.jpg 118w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ALCHEMIC_BOX.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><\/a>Alchemic Cutie is a farming sim that combines aspects from two other popular agriculture games: Stardew Valley and Slime Rancher.\u00a0 You play as Yvette, a young lady who has just graduated from Alchemy School.\u00a0 She lives with her family on their slime farm, and now she\u2019ll use her newfound skills to raise and breed slimes and help out the townsfolk.\u00a0 Alchemic Cutie is available on all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve played a game like Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, or Story of Seasons, you\u2019ll catch onto this one pretty easily.\u00a0 But the game still starts you out with a tutorial.\u00a0 You\u2019ll walk around your slime farm and surrounding town and areas in a top down fashion, with graphics very similar to those other titles.\u00a0 The game runs on an in-game clock, so you can go home and eat lunch and dinner with your family to regain some energy, for instance.\u00a0 Most things you do require a bit of energy to pull off, from catching slimes to breeding them.<\/p>\n<p>As you walk around, you can gather all sorts of items and talk to people to do favors and quests for them.\u00a0 If you run across a slime, you can play your flute by it and it\u2019ll be yours to keep.\u00a0 You can attach a balloon to it to send it back to your ranch, or put it in your backpack for a ride.\u00a0 There are many different slimes and you can breed them for all sorts of combinations and traits.\u00a0 Slimes make good companions, can eat garbage, and even their poop has uses, so they\u2019re the \u201cThneed\u201d of this world.<\/p>\n<p>I had two problems with this game that kept me from staying interested.\u00a0 One is that the tutorial doesn\u2019t explain everything very well, like what you\u2019re supposed to do at shrines.\u00a0 Also the menus and interfaces are quite fiddly.\u00a0 But if you enjoy games like Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, and\/or Slime Rancher, you may want to check this one out anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/alchemic_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23686\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ALCHEMIC_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ALCHEMIC_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ALCHEMIC_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ALCHEMIC_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alchemic Cutie is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Crude Humor.\u00a0 And that comes from the slime poop.\u00a0 They can even poop in your backpack (lovely).\u00a0 Because of the high level of reading skill required and complicated gameplay, I\u2019d say this one\u2019s best for older kids only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alchemic Cutie is a farming sim that combines aspects from two other popular agriculture games: Stardew Valley and Slime Rancher.\u00a0 You play as Yvette, a young lady who has just graduated from Alchemy School.\u00a0 She lives with her family on their slime farm, and now she\u2019ll use her newfound skills to raise and breed slimes 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