Pond Brew wiki
Getting started
Your first night in the shop, and the controls.
You start small: one shop room with a single tank, a back-room lab with two cultures, and ten credits. A new shop begins with a guided first night. You can skip it any time from the pause menu.
Your first creature
- In the back room, hold the left mouse button on a grower to collect its culture into your siphon.
- Dose the incubator with cultures and start it. Every mix makes a creature, so there’s no wrong answer.
- When it hatches, carry your new creature through to the shop and put it in the tank.
- Make a few more. Some will be new, some will be repeats, and the tank fills up with little swimmers.
Your first day
Open the shop and the visitors come in, many with a wish bubble over their head. Hold the left mouse button on the counter to bag a sale. At closing time, the receipt shows how the day went and what’s coming tomorrow.
Then it’s night again: try a new mix, buy your first upgrade, and plan the next day.
Controls
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| WASD and mouse | Move and look |
| Hold left mouse on a grower | Collect a culture into the siphon |
| Hold left mouse on the counter | Bag a sale |
| Hold left mouse on the crank or a hand pump | Power it |
| E | Open the station you’re looking at. When peeking into a tank, take the creature you’re looking at |
| Look closely at a tank’s glass | Peek at each creature (you can switch this off in the pause menu) |
| Tab | The journal |
| Esc | Close a card, or pause |
The game saves by itself. The pause menu has the comfort settings: Peek, Reduced motion, mouse sensitivity, and the volume of sounds and machine hum.