Puzzle board game
Ratings
Age
4+
Category
Board
Languages
English
Fri Jul 26 2024
- Updated game engine
- Added notification icon
Potion Explosion is a thoughtfully designed mobile game that blends accessible mechanics with steadily increasing challenge. Players place and manipulate objects to influence in-game elements, solve levels, and progress through curated stages. The experience favors experimentation and polish, with simple controls and satisfying feedback.
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Ratings & Reviews
5 stars for fun, minus one for bugginess
Wed Dec 20 2023 ListenWithYourEarsThis is my go-to game on my phone. Really fun! Bought the expansion pack about a year ago and have really enjoyed it. Hoping for more potion expansion options in future! (“Paint” an ingredient a different color while on the board, swap 2 ingredients while still on the board, swap 2 ingredients from anywhere on the board, etc.) Only issue is that multiple updates have been VERY “buggy.” To the point that I can’t plan the online version because it just spins. Sometimes this lasts for weeks or even months until the next update. Sometimes deleting and reinstalling the app helps, but often you just have to wait for the next update to play again. If this gets fixed, I’d rate it 5 starts for sure!
New expansion is buggy
Wed May 16 2018 pbeasiI enjoyed the original game but it became kind of same-y after a while. This expansion solves that problem, but introduced some bugs. The expansion tutorial froze on me the first time I tried it so I had to force quit and start over. It worked fine the second time, but my first game was a disaster. Every once in a while when I used an ingredient from my pool, it didn’t disappear. I couldn’t use it again, but it blocked a slot. On my next turn, the problem fixed itself; at least until it happened again. Once it did it to two ingredients from the pool which totally stunk because now two slots were blocked. So whereas I could have filled the pool with colors I didn’t need and used a potion to make them wild, I couldn’t do that and lost the game. Please do more extensive testing before releasing updates. iPad Pro 12.9 (first release) with latest released iOS.
Near Perfect Fun! Just One Thing...
Sun Oct 18 2020 ElviteExtremely fun game. It made me run out the next day to buy the physical games. The one thing this game sorely needs is an Undo button. I would limit any Undo button to only going back one move maximum and only if someone hits the Undo button within a time limit of say 5 seconds or so. If they put that in, it would vastly improve the game with the easy to make missteps that are immediately apparent after tapping. It would be like allowing someone about to drink a potion to “get it to their lips” but change their mind before drinking it when they immediately realize it won’t have the effect they thought it would. It would also allow someone to put a marble they accidentally pulled back in the rack (if done within the time limit).
Desperately needs a notification system
Sun Aug 03 2025 noraarThis is a great digital version of there fantastic board game. Offline gameplay is super fun with other friends, and the. AI opponents are fairly decent (though are typically not challenging enough for me). Online gameplay, however, is extremely frustrating without notifications when it’s your turn. So many games timeout because either myself or the opponents don’t realize it’s our turns until it’s too late. You can obviously check the game periodically to see if it’s your turn, but it is very easy to forget to check!
Fun but sometimes unclear.
Thu May 17 2018 EBJ7There were some moments when I thought the game was stuck. Either I couldn’t select a Potion or move on. Turned out when using the Potion of Prismatic Joy you need to hit the tag below the Potion, not the Potion itself. Also had moments where I thought I needed to select a new Potion but the game was waiting for me to make a move. If your new and not paying attention it can be frustrating. As you play more it won’t be an issue. I do wish they had a beginner option that gently reminded you, where you were in terms of your turn or where you need to hit or tap something.
Interface needs work
Thu Jun 25 2020 applemazWhile everything looks beautiful, it isn’t a good layout of the game. You can’t see what your opponent has unless you click on them. Too much of the screen is taken up making the players layout look good an not enough is devoted to showing the other players. Game needs to play in landscape mode really with the sides of the screen showing all 4 players and what they have (at all times) without requiring you to click on them. The dragging of marbles to your potions is buggy and refuses to work sometimes. This needs to be fixed also.
One of the best board games ever
Tue Jun 26 2018 Amin ZahediI don’t quite get it: why is there an average of 3.4 for this lovely game? It’s a really aesthetic and artistic game; the animations, the music, hell even the queer names are so great! It doesn’t have any bugs (at least in the offline mode), doesn’t consume too much battery (even has an option for saving it) and is a lightweight app. If you have eyes for pure sense of humor, artistry and sorcery, definitely get this; you won’t regret it.
Loved this game til…til I didn’t.
Mon Apr 10 2023 xohellokelsieI love Potion Explosion, however after the most recent update on my phone it’s stopped working all together. 8/10 times it won’t even fully load the app now. You can’t log into your Asmodee account for playing online even though I can’t access my account just fine. You can rarely even get it open long enough to play offline and when you do, it’s SUPER slow. Seems to just be the developer and their servers with the issue and they don’t publicly share their server status or anything to know if they’re just having an outage. Gotten no response from emailing either. Shame.
