The Night Apothecary

Diagnose by description. You inherit a midnight apothecary in a plague-quiet town. Customers describe their symptoms, their dreams and their omens in plain words. Some of what they say matters. Some of it is the magpie on the gate.

Read the pages. Forty ingredients, each with its appearance, habitat, properties and preparation, and the lookalike it is mistaken for. The encyclopedia grows as the story does: the locked cupboard, the physician's shelf, the midwife's pages, the pages your aunt sewed shut.

Compound, or refuse. Mix one to three ingredients in the mortar, set a price, and serve. Or refuse: sometimes that is the right answer. A wrong remedy can be worse than none, and the town will tell you tomorrow night.

Live with it. Thirty authored nights, one branching story, three endings decided by what you did and who trusted you for it. Then the long winter: endless procedural customers, every one of them solvable from the pages alone.

• Every diagnosis is provable from the encyclopedia with the pages you have at the time. Fairness is checked by a validator before anything ships.
• No ads, no timers, no accounts, no consumables. Fully offline.
• Portrait, one-handed, large-text and high-contrast options, no twitch input.
• All thirty nights, three endings and the long winter, included.