Grow • Brew • Sell • Explore

Witch's Brew is a stylized 3D, first-person potion-making game where you grow magical ingredients, brew potions, and run your own little potion shop deep within the forest.

Grow and harvest ingredients from your garden, turn them into potions, and sell your creations to customers. When you're not tending to the shop, summon your broom and take to the skies or explore different areas of the magical world.

But running a potion shop isn't cheap — and a mysterious demon has taken an interest in your little business...

🚧 EARLY DEVELOPMENT DEMO
Witch's Brew is currently in an early stage of development. This demo provides an early look at the game's current mechanics, world, and overall direction.
There is currently no set end goal, and several systems are still being developed. Features, environments, visuals, and gameplay may change throughout development.

Take to the skies on your magical broom and explore the world from above

Looking for adventure beyond the place she called home, a young witch left her village behind to explore the wider world.

Unfortunately, adventure isn't cheap.

After running into money problems, she used the last of her savings to purchase an old cabin hidden away in the woods. With little money left but plenty of experience brewing potions, she decided to turn the cabin into a small potion shop.

That's when she caught the attention of a mysterious demon.

A Mysterious Offer...

Impressed by the young witch and her ambition, the demon approached her with an offer:

Give him a cut of the shop's profits, and in return, he would help her grow her new business — while offering his protection from some of the dangers lurking beyond her doorstep

With a shop to run, ingredients to grow, potions to brew, and a rather unusual business partner watching over her, the Witch's new adventure is only just beginning...

The current design of the Witch.

🌱 From Garden to Potion

Every potion has to start somewhere.

Step outside your shop and grow magical plants in your garden. Once they're ready, harvest your ingredients and add them to your inventory.

Grow the magical ingredients you'll need for your potion business.

Harvest your plants and collect their magical ingredients.

🧪 Brew Your Potions

Bring your harvested ingredients back to your Potion Pot, choose the potion you want to create, and use the required ingredients to craft it.

Turn the ingredients you've grown into potions ready for your customers.

🧙 Everyone Needs a Little Magic

Your potions aren't just for decoration!

Customers will visit your shop looking for specific potions. Talk to them, find out what they need, and sell them the correct potion to earn money for your growing magical business.

Help your customers find a magical solution to their problems.

🧹 Summon Your Broom

Why walk when you're a witch?

Summon your magical broom whenever you need it and take to the skies. Fly around the environment, travel across the map, and experience the forest from a completely different perspective.

Take to the skies and explore your surroundings from above.

🌀 Travel Through Magical Portals

The current demo takes place within a forest surrounding the Witch's home and potion shop.

Use mysterious portals to travel between different areas.

The current forest is only the beginning. The world is still being developed, with plans to expand it into a larger and more immersive magical setting.

🌱 Grow & Harvest Ingredients

Grow magical plants in the garden outside your shop and harvest them for potion making.

🎒 Ingredient Inventory

Collect harvested ingredients and keep them in your inventory until you're ready to use them.

🧪 Potion Brewing

Choose the potion you want to make and use the required ingredients to craft it at your Potion Pot.

🧙 Customers & Potion Selling

Serve customers looking for specific potions and earn money from your magical business.

🧹 Broom Summoning & Flight

Summon your magical broom and take to the skies.

🌀 Magical Portals

Travel between different sections of the map using magical portals.

📖 In-Game Tutorial Book

Use your magical book to learn the controls and mechanics while discovering more about the Witch and her story.

🌲 Stylized 3D World

Explore the game's magical forest environment from a first-person perspective.

Witch's Brew is still relatively early in development, and there is plenty more I'd like to explore and expand as development continues.

👹 The Demon Patron

The mysterious demon who offered the Witch his assistance will eventually play a larger role in both the story and progression of her potion business.

🏡 Shop Upgrades

Money earned from selling potions will be used to work with your demon patron and purchase upgrades for your shop.

🌎 A Larger Magical World

The current forest environment is only the beginning. I plan to expand the world into a larger and more immersive magical setting with more places to discover.

✨ More to Come

Additional content, gameplay systems, improvements, polish, and surprises are planned as Witch's Brew continues to develop.

Perspective: First-Person
Players: Single-player
Platform: PC
Input: Keyboard & Mouse
Visual Style: Stylized 3D
Engine: Unreal Engine 5
Genre: To Be Decided
Status: Early Development / Demo

Witch's Brew is a solo-developed project created using Unreal Engine 5.

This is my first project developed using Unreal Engine 5 and has given me the opportunity to learn and experiment with the engine while creating my own 3D game.

Throughout development, I've worked on implementing gameplay systems including:

• Potion crafting
• Ingredient growing and harvesting
• Inventory management
• Customer interactions
• Potion selling
• Broom summoning
• Broom flight
• Magical portals
• UI systems
• Level design
• In-game tutorial
• Gameplay interactions

As my first Unreal Engine 5 project, Witch's Brew is also an ongoing learning experience.

The game will continue to evolve as I learn more about Unreal Engine and expand upon the systems I've already created.

👤 Christiaan-Johan Duvenhage

Witch's Brew was designed and developed as a solo project.

Roles:

Game Design • Programming • Blueprint Development • Gameplay Systems • Level Design • UI • Writing • Implementation

🎨 3D Assets

The 3D assets used throughout Witch's Brew were sourced from Fab and used according to their respective licenses.

🎵 Music

Music used in Witch's Brew was sourced from a free-to-use music website and used according to its licensing terms.

🤖 AI Assistance

AI tools were used to assist with the creation and presentation of this itch.io page, including helping with written descriptions and the creation of promotional banner artwork.

The game itself was developed as a solo project.

🛠️ Engine

Developed using Unreal Engine 5.

Witch's Brew is still growing, and this demo represents an early look at the game and what I'm working toward.

If you give the demo a try, feedback is always welcome!

Whether it's something you enjoyed, something that didn't work as expected, or an idea you think could improve the experience, I'd love to hear what you think.

Thank you for checking out Witch's Brew!

Happy brewing! 🧙‍♀️🧪💜