Herbal Gate (Linux for now)

PRE-ALPHA: this is an early work-in-progress build. Expect rough edges,

placeholder balance, missing features, and bugs. It is playable start-to-finish

but not representative of the final game. Feedback very welcome.

Herbal Gate

You're an apothecary working a patch of enchanted forest. Wander the woods,

forage herbs from the places they grow, brew them into potions over a live fire,

and sell your wares at your market stall, haggling with healers, mages, knights

and shadier customers who each value different brews.

What's in this build:

• A hand-scattered forest with day/night, weather, and wildlife

• Foraging with rarity tiers: common weeds to location-locked rare & mythic finds

• A two-phase brewing minigame: tend the fire, then stir the pot; brew quality

  depends on your skill at both

• Recipe discovery: combine herbs to find new potions, logged in your journal

• A stall economy with per-customer taste, haggling, reputation, and daily demand

• Tools & upgrades (bucket, stake, pick, spade) that unlock new resources

• Three gated biomes — Frost Hollow, Mirror Marsh, Ashen Flats  with their own flora

How to play

Gather herbs (look at one, press E). Bring them to your cauldron, stage a few,

and Brew. Sell the results at your stall and reinvest in tools and rarer

ingredients. A short in-game tutorial walks you through the first loop.

Controls

Move            WASD

Look            Mouse

Run / Crouch    Left Shift / Left Ctrl

Interact/Gather E

Brew            B        (at the cauldron)

Tend fire       Hold F   (heat phase)

Stir            Space    (stir phase, hit inside the gold band)

Stage/select    1–9

Cycle potion    R        

Clear cauldron   C

Place / take back at stall    R / X

Adjust price    ↑ ↓ 

Journal         Tab     

 Menu/Pause   Esc

Known limitations (pre-alpha) 

• Linux only for now — a Windows build is coming

• Economy & progression are still being tuned

• No settings menu yet; runs windowed at 1600×900 by default