What a fun game! Very cool concept!

Fun little game with a nice gameplay loop, I enjoyed it :> Although after minute 3 its almost only fending off enemies and not searching for new ingredients. I was going to say that the throw just doesn't work sometimes but halfway through my last attempt I realized that it always aims in the direction of the cursor lmao. The attack however felt slightly off for me for 2 reasons. 

Firstly because there is no diagonal attack even though you can move in 2 directions at once which meant that i often approached an enemy from a diagonal then missed because the character only hits in front of them. Secondly, sometimes, especially when attacking in quick succession, the character doesn't turn around if you change directions. For example if i attack down then try quickly attacking up the character does move upwards but they still attack in the same direction as before. 

Other than that a short description of what the poition you just got does would be cool imo. Anyways cool game!

Cute artstyle! Simple, yet very addictive gameplay loop once you get the potion combos rolling. Lovely game!

Had 2 runs.
1st (12 minutes) - No idea that I was aiming with the mouse, so I had to come to the cauldron from the left side (always), got few early potions like the cat (1st one)
Game felt fine

2nd (6 minutes) - Just placed the mouse on the cauldron (so I always threw towards it), but this time getting upgrades was so hard, it was not dropping at all, only timber and timber - that run was short

Few issues I had:
- Randomness - it just killed my 2nd run, could not get any ingredients, if you could add some kind of treshold for killed enemies that will 100% drop an ingredient after killing 10 enemies for example, or a special enemy that spawns every 15 seconds and always drops ingredient (there are few ways to balance it and I am sure you can figure it out)

- Mouse - Had to read the comment to learn that you aim with it and also if you aim your throw with it why not the attack?

- Attack - 8 directional attack is a must (at least that is what I feel like) if enemies can move diagonaly why can't I attack diagonaly?

- Upgrade description - If I see the potion I run to it and insta grab it, no time to read before (missed it most of the time). So maybe instead of adding description on collision you could add a description floating above the cauldron after picking the potion up?

Overall very easy to understand gameloop, but also fun in its simplicity.
Solid game that fits the theme perfectly!

the pixel art is nice, and I enjoyed the audio design. there was a surprising amount potions + points for including cats. I felt like the monsters were a bit easy to kill and would require you to basically be overrun to lose however the variation between the monsters provided some diversity which was good. good job!

Nice little endless survival game, and a bullet hell game in disguise! The visuals are nice, controls are responsive, the game is surprisingly fun and addictive too! 

My only bit of issues is that I never knew exactly what potion does what, and what ingredient results in what potion, leading me to throwing what was available at that time, and hope the potion is good. But to be fair, when the game progresses you don't really get time to think that much amongst the bullet hell chaos, so I guess that's a non-issue after all.

Also, maybe adding arrow keys for movement as well? Given that all controls are on the left hand side, my hand are getting a bit tired after each play though.

Anyway, this is an extremely enjoyable game! Well done!

I quite like the visuals and audio, and the gameplay loop feels fun too.

It’s not really obvious at the beginning that you can throw items instead of bringing them to the cauldron. Some sort of an indicator on character, like an arrow pointing towards mouse, could help with that.

I’ll also add a bit on controls comments. A good idea is to make a sort of spatial separation for controls. For example, you use mouse to aim where you throw items, so it’s a good idea to also use mouse for controls. That will also make it near impossible to mix up throw and attack inputs because they use different hands.

I noticed that you have HP only on the very end on my first run. I kinda think it’s not needed because cauldron timer already serves that function. So any “damage” can be dealt to that timer.

Overall, it’s a fun little game.

this game is super fun. Many games of this style are overly easy or overly hard, but you managed to strike a good balance. I made it to about 6:15. Once the stronger enemies started showing up it was over for me.

I felt like I did not know what the potions were doing, or how exactly to make them other than just throwing lots of ingredients into the pot. But I assume they were good and I liked making them :D

A cool mix between a survivor-like and a base defender. The combo works surprisingly well, giving you a purpose along with the addictive nature of survivor-likes. You are definitely onto something. I made it up to 12 minutes, but then a speed potion ended up being my doom, as I couldn't get through the mob horde without colliding with them anymore, haha. I would have liked to use a different key than "E" for attacks. You don't really need to use the mouse, as you just throw everything towards the pot anyway, so your second hand can be put to better use coordinating the attacks. Cheers!