Edge of Elsewhere
Concord, Caledonia. The Landmark City, cleft by the Veil that separates Man from Faery, Here from Elsewhere.
Join Saskia Hawthorn as she enrols at the Royal Academy of Automagic, learns to gather and craft over 300 unique magical items, woos and befriends a large cast of colourful characters and accidentally summons a cute genie prince(??) in this alchemical otome dating simulation game.
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Saskia Hawthorn
Our young ingenue, Saskia is excited and more than a little terrified to be starting her magical education at last. |
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Rudraksh
A good-natured genie who was literally born yesterday, Rudraksh is an innocent soul with a lot to learn about the perils of Elsewhere. The literal prince of Saskia’s dreams. |
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Lorcan Faulkner
A talented mage with a smart mouth and a slight disregard for the rules. His lilting voice and lopsided smile may drive other girls to distraction, but Saskia’s above such things… for the most part. |
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Jonny Liang
A genius alchemist and sometime student teacher, Jonny Liang is older than he looks. Salesman, alchemist, librarian - Jonny seems to have fingers in more pies than should be possible for a single student… |
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Roman Neuer
A taciturn trainee knight who lets his skills do the talking. A marble statue come to life. Pleasingly muscular. Employed by a cat. |
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Ravenscourt
The elusive King of Crows, Ravenscourt doesn’t even go here. |
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Over 200k words
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5 dateable boys and a large cast of side-characters
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Crafting system with over 300 items to gather and synthesise
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Keep up with happenings in Concord through text messages, forums and social media pages
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Fulfil over 100 requests, each with their own quirky messages
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Amber’s Magic Shop
Amber’s Magic Shop is an interesting story about dark elf girl becoming master alchemist and finding her love. Game has visual novel mode with crafting being fully cut out and plot feels to remain relatively solid in it (game will politely ask if player wants heroine to succeed or fail at creating story related potions).
Timewise the game is divided into two parts:
1. Teenager stage when Amber is learning the craft - this part is more concentrated on visual novel component of the game since there are a lot of characters to meet and get to know;
– Real player with 41.5 hrs in game
Read More: Best Crafting Female Protagonist Games.
I’ve had this game for a while and I keep coming back to it, so I finally decided to leave a review! I want to preface this by saying that I do play this game on ‘Visual Novel mode’ as crafting isn’t really my thing, so my experience of it is really only the story rather than the other gameplay elements. However, I find the story really engaging, I enjoy learning more about the world of Aravorn through the eyes of so many diverse and different characters and I LOVE how your decisions shape the story.
– Real player with 35.5 hrs in game