本草归元录
Last updated: 2025-03-15
- Unique TCM management simulation with clinic expansion.
- Cultivate herbs and concoct traditional medicines.
- Anticipation for future improvements and updates.
- Repetitive, shallow gameplay, and weak story.
- Buggy, lacking content, and feels incomplete.
- Unbalanced economy and resource scarcity issues.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 123
- Helpful reviews
- 93%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 6%
- Protest reviews
- 1%
- 79%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 21%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 231
- Negative points
- 252
- Gameplay points
- 163
- Perf. points
- 3
- Rec. points
- 86
- Misc points
- 21
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Unique TCM management simulation | The game uniquely blends traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with simulation management, featuring detailed herbal compendiums, identification mini-games, and medicine concoction gameplay. It incorporates TCM theory, history, and the five elements, enhanced by a strong ancient Chinese art style, including shadow play and ink wash painting, creating an immersive and educational experience. | 95% |
| Cultivate herbs, concoct medicines | Players manage a TCM clinic, cultivating herbs, developing formulas, and concocting medicine. AI assistants automate tasks like planting and preparation, allowing players to focus on events and strategic decisions. The herb formulas correspond to real-world formulas, requiring multiple herbs and processing methods. | 74% |
| Easy to pick up and play | The game is easy to pick up with understandable gameplay and tutorials. The development team has listened to feedback and made improvements since the demo version, resulting in a decent overall experience. | 28% |
| Novel theme with promise | The game's subject matter is novel and allows players to learn while playing. The game's plot uses a semi-classical style of dialogue common in film and television dramas and online novels. The game shows promise. | 15% |
| Appealing art style and music | The game features appealing and distinctive art style with delicate graphics and ink-style character art. The soundtrack complements the relaxed pace of the gameplay. | 13% |
| Intriguing plot and PK mode | The game includes underhanded tactics like stealing recipes and poaching staff. The plot is engaging, featuring revenge and clinic management, with a medical clinic PK mode in the form of a match-3 game. | 5% |
| Resource scarcity (stones, wood) | Earning money in the game is not difficult, especially in the early stages, but materials such as stones and wood are relatively scarce. | 4% |