Something unique. Going in that craftin/combining direction is not something I've seen in here, so you definitelly stand out.
The game was very confusing, sadly. I found the ingredient combining a good bit strange - two things coming together would be the ingredients mixing? But then when I have more ingredients that's different things mixing together? Not sure if I should do anything on that screen or just watch the circles go. I can drag them, but I don't know what that changes?
Just a bit weird. And then it takes a good 10 seconds for the teacup to appear in my hand - which makes me think I've done messed something up. I did however like the ingredient recipes and the special properties - good job on the writing front :D
I'm not an artist myself, but having some visuals, some very simple graphics for the different ingredients would also help give the game a nice level of worlbuilding - adding on top of those great descriptions you wrote.
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Sorry if the game was that much confusing to you!! I should had invested some time in making a tutorial and explaining the game!! :C
Those dots you see on the oven screen aren't some ingredients mixing together. They are a minigame (and right now is the only one) where you should avoid that the dots (They have no meaning. They're just dots) touch each other for X seconds (10 is for recipes with 1 ingredient, it increases by 5 seconds for any more ingredients. Yeah the values is way to big XD), otherwise (unless you have activated a cheat) you lose the minigame and you have to restart to make the tea from scratch.
About the visuals for the ingredients, like many things, i was planning to do that but i didn't managed to do it sadly :/
I'm very happy to hear that you find my game unique and that you like those descriptions!! Thanks for playing my game!!