Hi, glad you enjoyed :3 You can change the difficulty at the start of Alchemy Quest to play a harder version. But this can only be done on a new save. Also you're probably better at RPGs than the average person as a lot of people found the base game quite tricky :p
Not sure what to say about drop rates for items as it depends on a lot of factors. But a lot of high-level items only drop after beating most of the game.
The stores are more to offset bad luck if the dungeons doesn't drop anything at all for a specific slot, rather than competing with dungeon loot.
Not atm. I'm always afraid of adding new tags to games unless I feel I can add enough of that content to justify the tag. Since on a lot of websites I'm not in control of the tagging I can't remove it.
This tends to lead to a lot of people complaining about the games lacking content relating to the tag, and give low ratings.
The shop only has a limited pool of items that it offers. I'm considering perhaps adding more stuff later on, but i don't really have a final idea.
I realized that while charm works as intended- charisma gives a lot less charm than fortitude-> power and mind-> magic. I'll change it so that part lines up in the future :)
The game is only balanced between level 1-10, so i cant answer any of that stuff :p also Charm/Power/Magic scales in the same way for the most part. Not sure why you had a different experience :p
Oh, and level is not a very impactful factor compared to what elixirs you're using and what gear you've equipped :3
A lot of anti-virus softwares have started rolling in AI-detection, this approach false-flags more often than the old systems. Only thing I could think of :p
I'm really glad you liked it, but I'm not planning on working on it anytime soon. Most of my other games have had an overwhelmingly positive response, so focusing on the game that received the most criticism seems like a bad call.
