Pestle Panic

The sun is going down. The sign flips to OPEN.
For the next ninety seconds you are the only alchemist in town, and everybody wants a potion.

Grind moonstone. Chop mandrake. Fill a flask with exactly the right portions and drag it into your customer's hands before their patience runs out. Every click makes a mess, and a grimy counter scares the tips away, so you mop as you go.

• Prep: drag an ingredient onto the mortar or cutting board, then click like mad.
• Brew: fill the flask. Wrong recipe? They drink it anyway. Ribbit.
• Serve: up to three customers at once, each with their own order bubble.
• Mop: every grind and chop can spill.

And in the last fifteen seconds, the sky turns purple. Witching hour.

Every correct serve pays Gold × Mult. Fast, correct serves stack your Mult higher and higher; one wrong potion or one angry customer shatters it. Half of your best Mult carries over into the next night, so a great shift keeps paying. By the end of a run the numbers stop making sense, and that is the point.

Twelve recipes, four ingredients. New potions join the menu as the days go by: dragon pepper arrives on day 4, and on day 7 a sack of stardust lands on the counter, ready to be chopped.

Every night the fortune teller deals three cards. Click one to flip it for free, peek under a card first, or pay to flip another if you don't like your luck. The card you keep sits on your counter tomorrow and bends the rules of the whole day.

Blessings help. Curses hurt, but pay triple. Twists do... something.

After every shift the shop puts upgrades on the counter: a welcome mat that keeps customers patient, an apprentice who mops for you, a candy bowl, a cuckoo clock, a witch's hat... There are 35 of them now, with more opening up as the run goes on. You can buy three a night, so choose well.

Wizards, goblins, knights, a cursed prince, and royal couriers who pay triple Mult if you're quick.

Pay the rent every three days (it grows fast) and pick a free perk each time you do. Survive fifteen days to win. Evicted? You still earn stars for permanent upgrades, so the next run goes further. Win, and endless mode opens.

• One screen of pure clicky chaos: skill is speed and priorities, never precise timing
• 12 potions, 4 ingredients, up to 3 customers at once
• 35 shop upgrades, 14 rent-day perks, 12 chaos mascots and permanent star unlocks
• Cozy dusk pixel art and an original soundtrack
• Mouse only; your run is saved if you quit mid-run

Free download for Windows and macOS below. The game isn't code-signed yet, so your computer may warn you the first time,  the download notes show how to open it.