Running your own witch shop
Witchy Business is a job simulator where you own a Witchcraft Shop. Your day is spent brewing potions, collecting oddities, growing flowers in your garden, and upgrading your alchemy station. Customers arrive with specific potion requests, fortune-telling questions, or shady intentions, and you need to pick up their orders before their patience runs out. Thieves also show up, and you deal with them by converting them into frogs with quick-click hexes. Between the shop and your Sanctuary you move back and forth: the shop is where the business happens, the Sanctuary is where you harvest flowers and herbs, explore nature for Oddities and Minerals, meditate at the shrine for bonuses, and unlock power through Rituals.
Brewing and selling
Potions come from recipes you learn, or from experimenting freely by combining Plants, Minerals, and Oddities in the correct order. Brewing involves various mini-games, and a wrong turn can produce a Dangerous Experiment. You can also craft Wands and artifacts to sell. Fulfilling strange requests unlocks new recipes, and the Bazaar sells more ingredients, though its stock rotates, so rare ingredients take some hunting. Your Reputation shapes the world around you: the weeks play out differently depending on where your reputation stands, and new recipes unlock based on what you discover. Keeping a happy Familiar and a clean counter raises your Reputation, and you can upgrade the Shop as much as you like.
Playing together and choosing your pace
Remote Play Together is supported, so friends can join you in the shop. Expect to split attention between taking orders fast, serving customers, and clicking hexes at thieves while the business is open. Before starting, pick between the relaxed mode and the mayhem mode: one suits a chill witch, the other is for chasing real coins. You also choose between different characters and customization options to make the witch that fits you. Your cats guide you through it all, and they need feeding too, since some of them have even less patience than the customers. Lucipurr, for one.