History VideoGame / PotionPunch

** In general, to make items easier to distinguish, each item has a different color. Most notable are the potions, as they look exactly the same except for the colors. Fortunately the games also have Color Blind mode, which adds various shapes and patterns in the potions.

** The achievement for playing the game 28 days in a row is called [[Film/MontyPython "Monthy Python".]]

* SnakeTalk: Spade, leader of the Shapeshifters, talks like this in Shroudland. By Noam's attempt to imitate this, it's a racial trait.

* StandardFantasySetting: There are magic in the world. You use magical beasts like dragons and gargoyles to craft items you sell. Your guests include people from all the standard races, from humans, dwarves, elves, orcs, goblins, beastkins, and even gods. Their jobs include the standard fantasy classes like knights, rangers, mages, acolytes, and so on.

The second game, ''Potion Punch II'' was released in 2019. It takes place [[RealTimeTimeskip three years after the first game]], continuing the story of Noam and the hooded stranger (now revealed to be a woman named Lyra) traveling the world looking for a way to turn Noam back to human, all while opening magical shops in the locations they visit. Compared to the first game, the second game has considerably more plot, with Noam, Lyra and other characters having dialogues in-between the stages.

Gameplay-wise, the game throws out the increasingly-complex potion making, limiting it to the first shop. Instead, it opts for making other magical trinkets in each new location. For example, the second location have you carving runes and drawing scrolls, while in the third location you sell mushrooms and lanterns. This lets each location have their own gimmicks and mechanics, making them feel new and fresh.

* {{Shopkeeper}}: Well, you're playing as one. You run potion shops in the first game, while the second game expand your inventories.

*** In Eversand Enhchantments in the second game, you can make scrolls using colorful inks from [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife colorful squids]]. Similar to the potions, there are three basic colors, red, yellow, and blue. They can be combined to make purple, green, orange, and brown inks.

* RunicMagic: In Eversand Enchantments. Originally, the three birds carved Raging (cross,) Lasting (diamond,) and Echoing (four dots) Runes that could be combined. These were later switched out for individual [[MagicalStarSymbols teardrop, cloud, and star symbols.]]

* Foreshadowing: Lyra mentions something odd in Eversand level 31, something different from the Illusions you'll be familiar with by that point. Three levels later, you'll encounter a Shapeshifter Nobu.

* SnakeTalk: Spade, leader of the Shapeshifters, talks like this in Shroudland.
-->'''Spade:''' Sssspade issss pleassssed. You are true Sssshroudland denizenssss.

* TransformationTrinket: The fruit of the Shapeshifters' sacred tree in the Shroudlands is the key to their power. Bad news, only Shapeshifters can use its fruit, and they can't just teach that. Good news, Spade heard of a magic stone more powerful than the tree. This kicks off the trip east into Fortshire.

* {{ShapeshiftingTrickster}}: In Eversand, you meet the shapeshifters, a race of magical creatures that can change shapes to play tricks on others. However, you can distinguish them from [[GlamourFailure the lack of eyebrows and their tail]]. Gameplay-wise, they'll try to order items like other customers, but if you serve them they'll just run off with the item without paying while sneering at you. Story-wise, you're trying to track them down in case they know how to revert Noam back into a human. Convincing them to tell you that is the main plot point of Shroudland Shrooms section of the game.

** When you reach Crimsonpass, Noam comments that it reminds him of Wildwoods Forest.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: In one scene in Crimsonpass, Farah and Willard help you ward off Vultures. You can't summon either of them in Crimsonpass, as Farah is limited to Tropicvale and Willard is limited to Fortshire. The actual Worker who handles fighting Vultures, Bobbi, is nowhere to be seen in the scene.

** Crimsonpass in the second game, a magical forest filled with Nature Wisps. Wicked Hags and Evil Spirits also live here, and they will come to disrupt your shop.

* MonsterTown: The aptly named Monstro City in the first game. The level's gimmicks are the goblins, who speak in gibberish language so you need to use the Goblin Scroll first to understand their orders. In addition, there are also Red Goblins who will try to steal unattended coins and Evil Eyes that bother your customers.

* CaptainErsatz: Some of the special guests in the first game are blatant references to other medias, such as [[Series/TheMandalorian Mondolorian]], [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Kent Ketchum]], [[Film/{{Frozen}} Letty Go]], and other bootleg characters.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Patrons in the second game are divided into four tiers, each with a different colored borders in the menu. Common patrons have white borders, Rare patrons have blue, Epic patrons have pink, and Legendary patrons have gold.

* StandardFantasySetting: There are magic in the world. You use magical beasts like dragons and gargoyles to craft items you sell. Your guests include people from all the standard races, from humans, dwarves, elves, orcs, goblins, beastkins, and even gods. Their jobs include the standard fantasy classes like knights, rangers, mages, acolytes, and so on.

The first game was released on 2019. The game begins with Noam, an old potion maker, having a magical accident that turned him into a gnome. Then a hooded stranger (that is, the player character) came in and decided to help Noam run his potion shops. [[ExcusePlot That's about it for the plot]].