Alchemist’s Apprentice
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A pixel-art alchemy RPG

Alchemist’s Apprentice

Throw flasks at slimes and ghosts, bring a ruined alchemist’s tower back to life with machines and golems, and find out where its master vanished.

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  • Free to play
  • Never pay-to-win
  • No download
  • Phone first
What awaits you

The story

A ruined tower, a village below it and a master who is gone

  1. 1The master of the tower vanished in the spring. His letter reached me only in autumn: «Come. Finish what I began.»

  2. 2Three days on the road. Mud, rain — and a dark tower over the village, as if the hill itself frowned.

  3. 3Green mist crept from the swamp at night. Under the tower lay Pidvezhzhia, and someone there was waiting for me.

You arrive in Pidvezhzhia, a small village under a crooked tower on the hill. The tower is cold, the machines are silent, and the swamps around are full of slimes and wandering lights.

Light the cauldron again, help the villagers, follow the master’s notes from the Graveyard to the Amber Diggings and up to the Highland — and learn what he was looking for, and what he locked away behind the door of his Vault.

Features

One hand on the flask, one eye on the cauldron

  • Steer, stop, throw

    Tap where to go — the apprentice runs there. Stand still, and flasks fly at the nearest enemy one by one. Short sorties of a few minutes that fit any pause.

  • A flask that fights for you

    The familiar flask circles you and strikes while you run: a spark, a ward, a bomb or a mending flask. Feed it from the bandolier and it becomes a real fighter.

  • Six builds, one apprentice

    Grenadier, Sniper, Flask lord, Juggler, Elementalist, Brewer. Pick a principle at every rank, set a cauldron turret or flask mines, and let fire meet frost: Steam, Fume, Shatter and Sparks.

  • Gear worth finding

    Four rarities, rolled properties and aspects. Legendary finds glow orange on the ground. Sharpen your favourite to +10 in the Workshop — the very best is made in the tower.

  • Sigils and the Bestiary

    Every monster you put down may leave its sigil. Set sigils into your gear and fill the book of the dead, kind by kind.

  • Familiars

    The Firebird, the Purrcat, the Wisp, the Raven and five more. One flies with you on every sortie, each with its own nature and gift — and at level 10 it blooms.

  • From Apprentice to Archmage

    Grow to level 40, pass the rank trials — Adept, Master, Magister, Archmage — and open new skills, nodes and sharpening with each.

  • Light, fog and sound

    Fireflies over the swamp, mist on the lake, a dark mine lit by your own flasks. The village sky follows your local time of day, and every flask breaks with its own sound.

  1. Apprentice
  2. Adept
  3. Master
  4. Magister
  5. Archmage

The tower

A tower that works while you sleep

Cauldrons, furnaces, mills, a loom and an anvil brew and forge for hours even when the game is closed. Restore floor after floor, keep the furnaces warm, place machines side by side — then come back, collect and load them up again.

Golems carry the work

Mould golems at the moulding table and send them on a route: from one machine to the next, or into the storage. Each tier is moulded from the one below and carries more, walks faster and learns something new.

  1. Clay golemone floor, four at a time
  2. Stone golemcarries one kind only
  3. Bronze golemclimbs to other floors
  4. Quicksilver golema round of four stops

Production lines

Chain three or four machines into a line that makes the master materials. They make masterworks, catalysts for legendary gear and sharpening to +10 — and at the very end the Philosopher’s engine turns them into the philosopher’s stone.

  1. Star steel
  2. Moon cloth
  3. Quintessence
  4. Prism
  5. Philosopher’s engine
  6. Philosopher’s stone

  • Purity and heat

    Every good has a purity from 1 to 5, and the weakest link of a chain sets the gear it makes.

  • Blueprints and guests

    Keep a floor’s layout as a blueprint, share it by a link, and visit your friends’ towers.

The world

Big maps, not small arenas

Each region is a persistent map with its own monsters, camps, wardens and patrols. Farm freely, leave any time, come back stronger. Rifts and the village siege bring the waves; bosses telegraph their blows — watch the floor.

  • The Swamps
  • The Graveyard
  • The Forest
  • The Quiet Lake
  • The Amber Diggings
  • The Burnt Place
  • The Highland

Bosses waiting there

  • Necromancer
  • Fog Maiden
  • Amber Heart
  • Stone Giant

Some of the locals

  • Moss Slime
  • Hooded Wraith
  • Fire Fox
  • Living Flask
  • Mushroom King

The master’s Vault

Behind the Stone Giant stands a door of the master’s own: seven rooms, a key, traps and treasure, your bag and wounds carried from room to room — and something unfinished waiting at the end. Make your choice: the story has two endings.

After an ending the world goes a step deeper: every region eight levels higher, the hero grows to 48.

The village

Pidvezhzhia lives below the tower

Thirteen villagers with their own troubles: a cursed amulet, the miller’s grandfather, a page torn from a rival apprentice’s book, the hunter’s cub. Help them, earn their trust, trade at Lira’s cart — and their letters will keep coming.

  • AnnaThe headwoman
  • LiraThe wandering merchant
  • MarcoThe Western Tower’s apprentice
  • Madame AgathaThe master’s colleague
  • OscarThe smith
  • HelenaThe beekeeper

  • The notice board

    Three villagers’ notices a day, from an easy errand to a goal of your own, and a chest for every day you come.

  • The Book of deeds

    Fifty-five deeds in eight sections, a few of them secret riddles. Glory brings titles and looks no shop can sell.

  • Seasons

    Five weeks, thirty levels, points from the notices you take. A free track for everyone.

Where to play

One save, wherever you are

  • In the browser

    Open the game on your phone or computer — nothing to install. Add it to the home screen to play like an app.

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  • In Telegram

    Start the Mini App right in the chat. The bot will tell you when a machine is done or a villager writes.

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  • On your phone

    The App Store and Google Play versions are on their way.

    App Store · soonGoogle Play · soon

Link the browser and Telegram in your profile — the tower, the bag and the hero go with you.

Questions

Frequently asked

Is Alchemist’s Apprentice free?

Yes, it is free to play from start to finish. An optional shop sells time, convenience and looks, and you watch an ad only when you choose to for a bonus. Combat power, ranks and legendary gear are never for sale.

Do I need to download anything?

No. It runs in any modern browser on a phone or a computer, and inside Telegram as a Mini App.

What kind of game is it?

An action RPG in pixel art with an idle tower: short sorties where you steer the apprentice and throw flasks at monsters, a tower of alchemy machines and golems that keeps working while you are away, a village with quests and a story with two endings.

Is it like Vampire Survivors?

In part: monsters come in crowds and your attacks fly on their own. But here you choose when to stop and throw, the maps are big persistent regions rather than one arena, and between sorties you run a whole alchemist’s tower.

Does the tower work when the game is closed?

Yes. Machines keep brewing and golems keep carrying for up to 8 hours away — longer once you restore the bedroom. Telegram players get a message when a machine is done.

Does the story end?

Yes. Behind the master’s Vault you make a choice, and there are two endings. After that the world goes a step deeper and you can keep playing.

Is my progress saved?

Yes, on our server. Link Telegram or add a login in your profile, and your save follows you to every device.

Can I play with friends?

Add friends by code, visit their towers, share blueprints of your floors and compare records on the leaderboard. The sorties themselves are single-player.

Which languages does it support?

English and Ukrainian. The game picks the language of your device, and you can change it in your profile.

Who can play?

Everyone 16 or older, and younger players with a parent’s or guardian’s agreement. The game asks at the first launch.

The cauldron is cold. Light it.

A sortie takes a few minutes. The tower waits as long as you need.

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