Convalescent Codex: An Alchemist's Story
Take control of an exiled alchemist seeking the Philosopher's Stone. Build your lab, plant and farm alchemical ingredients to use in various alchemical recipes. Mine ore underground. Smoke potent pipeweed to unlock secrets of the mind. Journey through the Steps of the Great Work and ascend!
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Your master is dead, the Empire has exiled you
Finding yourself on a deserted volcanic island, but one thing rings in your head, the Stone! Build your lab and garden, conduct alchemical research and journey through the Steps of the Great Work. The legendary Red Tincture is within your grasp.
Explore a procedural world
Explore a procedurally generated volcanic island featuring nostalgic hand drawn art. Search for the perfect location for your alchemy lab and garden and begin the search for the Philosopher's Stone. Smoke potent pipeweed to pass the time and unlock secrets hiding within. Collect alchemical ingredients and combine them to further refine or consume in search of the Stone. At the end of the Great Work, awaits the Stone, and those worthy will have it.
Convalescent Codex: An Alchemist's Story is a fusion between a farming simulator and a traditional roguelike combining them into a novel experience.
Harvest and forage plants and fungus
Plant seeds and spores to grow in your garden
Mine underground to collect alchemical materials
Craft alchemical reagents and combine them further
Smoke potent pipeweed in order to unlock new recipes
Consume alchemical substances to temper your body for the Stone
Attain the legendary tincture, the Philosopher's Stone
