About This Demo

About this demo

Open your shop and keep playing with no in-game day limit. This demo includes hands-on brewing, shopkeeping, consultations and curiosities, with a maximum of one worker. Annex expansions, additional workers, trade licences and additional rank, family and trial recipes are reserved for the full game.

A kettle to watch. A counter to mind. A town to get to know.

Inherit a remedy shop on Cinder Lane in Rookbridge, a town of marsh fog, market fairs and peculiar complaints. In Plague Doctor: Apothecary, the daily work is yours: order supplies, make remedies, stock your shelves and look after the customers who step through your door.

Grind herbs in the mortar, carry your mix to the kettle and stir when the brew calls. Bottle, cork and seal your finished work, then carry it out to the shop. Good timing and clean equipment improve quality, turning careful preparation into Fine and Masterwork batches.

Get to know the demo's starting recipes and turn ingredients into remedies by hand. The full game expands your recipe collection through further progression and trade licences.

Unpack deliveries, fill your displays and set your own prices. Serve customers at the till and count their change, or switch on automatic counting. Balance supply costs, wages and daily upkeep, then settle the ledger each evening and decide where tomorrow's earnings should go.

Meet Rookbridge's regulars and take consultations across your desk. Read the clues, ask a question and consult your journal before choosing a remedy from your stock. Follow-up letters add to what you know, while commissions give you larger orders with deadlines and quality requirements.

Arrange your shop and put your earnings back into your working day. Hire one porter to help with unpacking and restocking.

The demo is limited to one worker and does not include annex expansions. Additional workers, licences and expanded progression belong to the full game.

Discover unusual specimens as you trade. Display them in your curiosity cabinet, research them for journal pages or sell them for copper.

Market fairs, inspections, delayed carts and changes in weather alter the day's trade. Outside your windows, the lane shifts from morning light to dusk and lantern-lit evening.

Choose Standard or Relaxed rules, with options for assisted grinding, automatic change counting, larger text, camera motion and captions for gameplay sound cues.

New gameplay clips were captured in the full-game build. Demo limits are described above.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Contains fictional illness and grief, mild humor about bodily symptoms and death, references to graves and funerals, and characters carrying sheathed swords.