• fixed Blob Paradies UI was sometimes not being shown correct when interacting with Wilder
• fixed no dialog was shown for Garnet heart level 3 when talking to Sherry in the spa instead to Garnet
• fixed several typos

The second major content update is available Note: Make sure to update to the 0.805 version. If Steam doesn't update automatic, restart Steam. On Steam Deck games sometimes do not launch after updates, in this case restart your Steam Deck. The team uses this occasion to thank all who got Ova Magica in 2024 (and early 2025). Your support during Early Access helps a lot paying for the localization and remaining development. We are looking forward to the full release and improving the game during the remaining Early Access period. If you have feedback and ideas do not hesitate to reach out via the Steam Forum or our Discord. Please also consider leaving a Steam review if you enjoy playing Ova Magica - it helps a lot ! Important Note: Control/Button remapping settings: With progressing Early-Access development, we had to rework some of the code to make it future-proof. As a result, the old button remappings no longer work after this update. If you have previously changed the default controls, you will sadly have to redo them once. We apologize to all players affected by this. (The save data or any other settings are not affected. Only the key/button remapping in the pause menu settings.)

NEW ROADMAP CONTENT

NEW BLOB WORLD: BAMBOO TEMPLE

GREENHOUSE

CAVE BEHIND THE WATERFALL

11 NEW FRIENDSHIP EVENTS

BLOB PARADISE

MITHRIL CUP TOURNAMENT

IMPROVEMENTS

BUG FIXES

• fixed that photographing MJ at the Sleigh Swap didnt count as resident
• fixed reward egg of Game of Love festival was not identified/tagged
• fixed panda blob ears not being black (blob league cafeteria)
• fixed not being able to buy from Doctor after Opal event 04 and library not being built yet
• fixed some resident descriptions
• fixed some typos + dialog texts

BALANCING

• removed buying orange trees from Emerald -> available in fourth blob world
• slightly increased strength of Candy Kingdom duo bosses
• balanced some blob world chest rewards
• balanced several wild blob drop items and their drop rates

We are proud to be part of this year's Cozy Quest and present our brand new content update! Get Ova Magica during the event for a discount and play our free demo! Make sure to check out the Cozy Quest 2024 event to see all the other great games! https://store.steampowered.com/sale/CozyQuest2024

The wait is over! The first major content update is available

WORDS FROM THE DEVS

NEW ROADMAP CONTENT

NEW BLOB WORLD: CANDY KINGDOM

SEWERS

NEW BLOBS + ABILITIES

• Candy Blob: Produce Candy (Passive)
• Poop Blob: Fertilizer: Progresses the growth of crops by 1 day (only once per day per crop
  
• Dog Blob - Plant Seeds: Plant several seeds from the player's bag at once (Multi-Planting)
  
• Queen Blob: Petting Chain (Passive) - When petted it affects all blobs in the same barn and team. A blob with this ablity can be placed on the new Auto-Petter (blueprint), which will pet all blobs in the barn overnight.
  

BLOB DYE CENTER

14 NEW FRIENDSHIP EVENTS

BEACHSIDE EATERY

HOUSE UPGRADE

GOLD CUP TOURNAMENT

IMPROVEMENTS + SMALLER NEW FEATURES + BALANCING

FAST TRAVEL REVAMP

• The fast travel target location is now selected via the map and not like before via dialog
• Fast travel is now also possible on festival day
• Added new fast travel location "Train Station" near the museum/train station area
• 1st house upgrade comes with the "Farm" fast travel location (see above)

FLINT BLOB STORAGE

STORAGE CONTAINER/CHEST BLUEPRINT

VARIOUS

• Added "Stack Transfer" to the magical storage and shipment box. Holding the "Transfer (Single)" button for a short time will open a dialog box in which you can enter the exact number of items you wish to transfer.
• A "Breeding/Searching for partner" icon is now shown in the blob barn UI on blobs (to avoid moving blobs which are currently breeding)
• Added a magical storage to the ruin
• Wild blobs in the mine now stop chasing you after some distance
• Confirming escape in battle is only asked when not other blob is already trying to escape (avoid having to confirm 3 times)
• Added a "Cancel" choice for the thermostat in the blob barn (when accidently interacting with it)
• Reduced all blob rune prices (vendor: Harold - Adventurers' Club)
• Reduced the material costs of several buildings (Charoi)
• Changed type of the Sheep blob from Storm to Forest
• Changed type of Kookies Dessert blob from Magma to Storm

BUG FIXES

• Fixed missing fish in the Ceres season for the lake near the mine/train station area.
• Fixed hills in the Clover Valley area having wrong seasonal grass texture in Ceres and Frigus
• Fixed using fertilizer on flowers which were at stage 2/4 instantly progressed them to 4/4
• Fixed missing movement collider for the table blueprint available at the Sleigh Swap festival
• Fixed right+left stick deadzone being not active on Steam Deck which caused camera rotation being too sensitive (rotated vertical too when wanting only horizontal)
• Fixed reordering blob skills didn't work correct for skills at the right and bottom position

Ova Magica participates with a discount in Steam Turn-Based RPG Fest ! The team is also working hard on the next huge roadmap content update (0.7) and we will share news about it soon. Here is already a small glimpse of the Blob Dye Center you can build in the 0.7 update which let you recolor your blobs to your liking. This helps in addition to breeding to create a blob of your desired look. (video is a dev progress WIP and not the finished result yet) [previewyoutube=e1Bfmk177Hg;full][/previewyoutube]

Hello - Claudia here This update took a bit longer than for my usual pace. After the launch i really needed a break and decided to take some time off from game dev. But now i'm back - refreshed and motivated to continue working on Ova Magica! I also take this occasion to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all players who leave in the Steam Forum or in our Discord feedback and report bugs It helps immensly improving the game. Even when the team can't reply to all feedback: We read it 100% and also have several things planned for the next updates. So please continue posting when you notice things.
This update brings mainly bug fixes and some smaller improvements. The main dev focus is now to work further on feedback but also mainly to focus heavily on the next big roadmap content update (0.7). Make sure to update the game to 0.634 version. (If Steam doesn't do the update automatic close and restart Steam. On Steam Deck sometimes the Deck doesn't start games after updates, in this case restart the Steam Deck.) QUALITY OF LIFE + IMPROVEMENTS Various

• increased sprinkler feeder size from 1 to 4
• increased compost bin size from 4 to 16

• fixed that plant fields being in a sprinklers range which had no food were not considered as watered even when raining or being watered with the watering can
• fixed blob energy was set to 99 when a blob with a higher energy used a blob ability
• fixed bgm and disabled weather sounds not behaving correct when being in blob games
• fixed duration of the light bait ability area (angler blob) was also reduced when being in battle
• fixed galaxy ring of some blobs in the overview of the photographed residents were not visible
• fixed Charoi had no dialog when comissioning the museum
• fixed bridge on farm being not symmetrical regarding workbench mode grid
• fixed several typos

Fixed that battle sometimes froze when bomb blob used countdown ability

We have a very special treat for you for this year's Wholesome Games Steam Celebration. To celebrate the participation of Ova Magica we made the DEMO available today until the end of August!
Please also check out the Wholesome Games Steam Celebration event for all the amazing wholesome+cozy games. The Wholesome Games Steam Celebration officially begins at 1pm ET on August 15: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/wholesomegames

[Edit: please update to 0.633 hotfix] This patch comes mainly with bugfixes and smaller improvements. The team continues working on Ova Magica - with the main focus now on the 0.7 content update + adding more descriptions to the game. There will be still regular smaller patches with QoL features + bug fixes as usual based on your feedback and bug reports
Make sure to update the game to 0.632 version. (If Steam doesn't do the update automatic close and restart Steam. On Steam Deck sometimes the Deck doesn't start games after updates, in this case restart the Steam Deck.) New / Balancing / Improvements

• added "Harvest Wind" ability to crow blob which can harvest full grown crops
  
• crop seeds item description text now has info in which season the crop grows and how many days it takes to full growth
• increased duration of the angler blobs "Light Bait" ability from 30 sec to 1.30 min
• added confirm messages before escaping battle
• fixed sleep status effect being possibly endless when blob was not attacked during battle. Blobs now wake up after some time on their own.
• added additional warning text before starting a tournament that trainter+blob level will increase after winning the tournament
• "Botanist" skill shows now one day less on tress which cannot grow to full stage - so it is more clear you have to wait til next day for the tree to continue to grow when having space again
• dish "Saphir's Special" now also cures blind status effect (like base indigridient oyster)

• fixed money in shipment box were gone the next day when not collecting it
• fixed that you could walk trough the museum building
• removed that "Explosion" ability of the bomb blob affected crops/could be used for harvesting and destroyed not grown crops
• fixed that AoE(multiple target) skills did not affect revived blobs when they were casted before the blobs were revived
• fixed that silent status effect round was reduced when blobs were already casting a skill before the silent status effect was applied
• fixed hot dog vendor had no dialog on rainy days
• placed shop icon above Flint and Carnelian higher on Weather Day festival to prevent their umbrella hiding it
• fixed several typos

Ova Magica is part of this years Tiny Teams event! Run by the amazing Yogcast Games the event celebrates games made by small and passionate dev teams Make sure to check it out to support indie devs https://store.steampowered.com/sale/TinyTeams2024 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/sale/TinyTeams2024]

Amazing news! Ova Magica is now officially Steam Deck Verified! Did you play Ova Magica on the Steam Deck or Desktop PC?

• fixed that trees couldnt be planted and forageable items under trees didnt grow at the beginning of week (related to the stricter collision of shooting star items + apples not falling through ground in 0.63 - sorry now its fixed)
• fixed some typos

[EDIT: Please update to 0.631 so trees can be planted again and foregable items respawn - i apologize for the inconvenience !] Before the weekend we have another patch for you with some new things based on your feedback. We hope this update improves your gameplay experience further
Make sure to update the game to 0.63 version. (If Steam doesn't do the update automatic close and restart Steam. On Steam Deck sometimes the Deck doesn't start games after updates, in this case restart the Steam Deck.)

New Skills

New Battle Difficulty Setting

Bug Fixes + Balancing

• There is now a small possibility that in addition to copper ores other ores drop depending on blob world progress. Beating 1st world boss ->unlocks iron ore, 2nd world->unlocks gold ore.
• Improved items falling in not reachable areas a lot (it can still happen very seldom - but should be now an exception). This makes also makes collecitng items easier and more convenient.
• Fixed that item drop rate was scaled based on real-time and not game-time which resulted longer/shorter day duration settings to not have the intended spawn rate and dropping way more items. Intended is t get 5-11 star shards in one event (1-2 wishing stars) when really searching/trying to collect the items

• fixed fruits falling sometimes trough ground when shaking trees
• fixed bug that one blob of the arrogant girls trio wasn't shown as unlocked in the resident overview when photographing it
• fixed bug that when eating in Restaurant with 2 instead of 3 blobs in your team one blob was placed on the gound with no food.
• balanced health increase for feeding blob cravings: - simple/not-cooked food: +2 (before +1) - cooked food(2 ingredients): + 3( same as before) - cooked food(3 ingredients): + 4 (before + 5)

Final Words

• report bugs and feedback in the Steam forums or Discord
• help other players with questions in case you know the reply
• share Ova Magica with your friends, on social media or create a video/lets play
• one of the most important: If you enjoy the game please leave a review. We are a small slowly growing indie team without a huge budget and reviews help us immensly to get some more visibility

- Added "Confine cursor to window" to settings menu with default option checked (mainly relevant for "Windowed" mode) - Improved invisible mouse cursor still clicking things - Fixed blob food cravings not being determined correctly

[EDIT: Please update to 0.629 - it has a mouse cursor fix/improvement when playing in "Windowed" mode] Hello!
Another patch with several bug fixes and improvements is available! Please make sure to update to 0.628 version. (If Steam doesn't do the update automatic close and restart Steam. On Steam Deck sometimes the Deck doesn't start games after updates, in this case restart the Steam Deck.)

New item: Wishing Star

New: Choose your difficulty for the Night of Roses festival game

Improvements + Balancing

• mouse cursor is now only confined to the game window when playing with the settings Fullscreen and not for windowed modes.
• items dropped during shooting stars have now an additional visual effect for better visibility + slightly bigger collect radius
• basketball mini game is now slower
• Replaced Sleeping Powder skill from Mystic Forest blob world boss to make it slightly easier
• reduced Pirate Island blob world wild blob level by 3.
• reduced growth level of unripe palm tree fruits in Pirate Island blob world
• nerfed Treejuvenation blob ability + progress tree fruit growth from 2 to 1 day
• added additional hint how to progress Saphir heart event 1 when talking to Oliver

Bug Fixes

• fixed sliding puzzle not stopping time when standing on an empty field
• fixed that blob product, eggs and poops sometimes were moved out of the visible blob barn area and barnd couldn#t be cleaned/cleared
• fixed that stew pot could be used after Blob Banquet festival event
• fixed a bug with apple trees on Jades farm causing the game being stuck on loading screen when trying to enter Clover Valley
• fixed bug that rose bushes were not recolored correctly in the different seasons
• removed one duplicate/overlapping bush in Clover Valley (is gone when next season starts)
• fixed cleaners Npcs sometimes overlapping with trainer family in blob league plaza
• fixed crow and crab blob eggs having too long name text
• fixed Emerald and Flint friendship when talking to them after the Sleigh Swap festival event
• fixed some Npcs not being able to be photographed when in bed or in a selling booth
• fixed several typos

Fixed game freezing when interacting with traders in the Ceres season.

Forgot to update the countdown calendar also to 20 days in update 0.625. This hotfix fixes it

[EDIT: Please update to 0.627 - we fixed some bugs related to this big update ] Hi, Claudia here! Monday starts productive with an update and it's a big one! This update has several changes to gameplay, all based on the most requested feedback As devs the team is a bit anxious with changing things because it's always a risk some players enjoyed it the way it was and prefer no change. But we decided to take the risk based on the feedback players provided. Ova Magica is still in Early Access so this changes do not need to be final and the team continues to improve the game. (Notes: You can get all changes in your current save file, no need to restart if you do not want to. Make sure to update to 0.625 version: If Steam doesn't do the update automatic close and restart Steam. On Steam Deck sometimes the Deck doesn't start games after updates, in this case restart the Steam Deck.) FEEDBACK: First blob world is too hard Changes:

• Lowered Mystical Forest wild blobs level slightly (stage 1: level 12-15 instead before 15-18)
• After visiting Mystical Forest blob world there will be a gift in the mailbox to help with it (when you return to your farm)
• In the blob world the UI now also displays the wild blob level of the current stage (see upper left corner) - so you can better estimate if your blobs are strong enough

• Doubled(!) experience when using a skill in battle. BUT:
• A skill can now level up only once per battle to avoid endless leveling in a single battle (stat values are now leveled at the end of battle for each skill being at 100% exp)

• Reduced most building prices (Charoi)
• Reduced blob world rune costs (Harold)
• Reduced prices vendors: Blob Eggs: 3000 (Before 3500) Blueprint Makers + co: 3000 (Before 5000) Blueprint Useful: 2500 (Before 4000) Blueprint Decorative: 1250 (Before 2500) Blob Toys: 1500 (Before 3000) Recipes: 1500 (Before 2500) Outfits: 1500 (Before 3500) Accessoires: 1250 (before: 2500) Big Blob Barn: 10000 (Before: 15000)

BIGGEST CHANGE - FEEDBACK: 4 day weeks are too short

• added a 3rd skill to Jades blob Clara
• swapped "Sleep" and "Save Game" choice when interacting with bed/tent to avoid sleeping by accident.
• fixed missing pumpkin seeds in Jades store
• fixed rain sound being also played in blob world when visiting on a rainy day
• fixed timer not running in stacking ring game
• fixed that empty steamboard and watering can were refilled when moving to magical storage
• fixed strength bar not hiding after canceling hammer mini game with blobs
• fixed sound settings not affecting egg logo animation sound in title screen

FINAL WORDS

• report bugs and feedback in the Steam forums or Discord
• help other players with questions in case you know the reply
• share Ova Magica with your friends, on social media or create a video/lets play
• one of the most important: If you enjoy the game please leave a review. We are a small slowly growing indie team without a huge budget and reviews help us immensly to get some more visibility.

Release week is very busy so i can't dev as much as i want - but still wanted to deliver the second patch fixing some of the more major bugs like crashing or hindering to progress quests. i work further on feedback and bug fixes and try to catch slowly up during next week . At the bottom is also an outlook for the next patch. Bug Fixes

• Fixed blob world sometimes having invisible walls + being teleported out of map
• Fixed not being able to enter tournament after collecting 5 qualifier points and talking to the blob league receptionist, who gave wrongfully the qualifier quest again
• Fixed quest "Repair Garnet's ship" was not set finished after playing Charois heart event 2.
• Fixed quest "Build a museum" was not set finished after playing Emerald hart event 1.
• Fixed some wrong "Game of Love" festival replies which resulted in wrong guesses because of incorrect replies/data.
• Fixed items in blob barn temporally gone after using dresser + game freezing when using workbench afterwards
• Fixed several typos

First Patch is available! We work further on feedback and bugs. With the launch week being very busy we decided for now to update the game with the things already fixed + implemented and do another update in a few days. New + Changes

• Added a setting for day duration/length in pause menu settings
• Stops time when interacting with blob word slide puzzle
• Stops time when playing with your blobs
• Changed penalty for missing to sleep: Instead of double usage to not healed
• Festival Painted Eggs: Added after egg hunt additional message

• Jade Heart Event 02: Fixed event did not continue after choice
• Fixed being stuck on festival day when entering town from train station area
• Fixed game stuck on loading screen after using bombs ability on mushrooms or flowers and leaving area
• Set Jade event 1 prio higher than adventurers club (so Jade isnt gone when not wanting to join the club yet)
• Fixed that course/Tutorial selection UI in Blob League could not been confirmed via mouse click
• Fixed Painted Eggs festival text prompts could not been confirmed via mouse click
• Fixed that you could buy items from Doctor Willams at Night of Roses festival
• Fixed some spelling and typos

Hello everyone! Can you believe it? We've been counting down, and it's finally time - Ova Magica is out now in Early Access! We have a lot to share coinciding with this huge milestone for the game. Firstly, if you've played the demo, then you should know on top of all the new content added for this release, there's been tons of changes to the game based on player feedback. If you missed it, you can read the developer's update log detailing these changes in yesterday's dev update. With our Early Access launch, we begin the journey toward our 1.0 Full Release. You can view our planned roadmap below:
That's all for now - we're extremely excited about the launch, and grateful to everyone who has helped us and followed along. We hope you enjoy Ova Magica!!

Can you believe it? Tomorrow you will be able to play Ova Magica!!! We also decided to offer a limited launch discount! We are counting down the hours and are super excited! Hope you all join us tomorrow at 10am EST / 2pm UTC / 7am PDT / 4pm MESZ! We use this occasion to highlight below some of the gameplay improvements the dev team already made since the demo for the EA launch tomorrow.

Game Improvements

Hi everyone! We can't believe it - there's just 48 HOURS LEFT!! In fact, as of the time of posting this, there's even less than 48 hours, isn't that exciting?
We're continuing our countdown as usual today - just 2 days remaining until Ova Magica launches into Early Access. As a reminder, we'll be launching on July 23rd at 10am EST / 2pm UTC - there will be a 10% discount for the first two weeks as well. Also, just a reminder about our launch contest, which was revealed yesterday!!
As mentioned there, if we can reach 150 reviews in 48 hours, we'll be running a giveaway (through a lottery which we'll link here + across all social media) where we'll be giving out five sets of blob enamel pins (featuring the 3x starter blobs each per set). These enamel pins are test printed from our Kickstarter. We hope the community will be up to challenge, these blobs can't wait to find new homes (: Note: you do not have to leave a review to be eligible for the raffle once it is live. See you on Tuesday!!

Hi everyone! Can you believe it? Just 72 HOURS LEFT!!
We're continuing our countdown as usual today - just 3 days remaining until Ova Magica launches into Early Access. As a reminder, we'll be launching on July 23rd at 10am EST / 2pm UTC - there will be a 10% discount for the first two weeks as well. That said, we're also happy to reveal a special contest we're running from launch!
If we can reach 150 reviews in 48 hours, we'll be running a giveaway (through a lottery which we'll link here + across all social media) where we'll be giving out five sets of blob enamel pins (featuring the 3x starter blobs each per set). These enamel pins are test printed from the title's Kickstarter. We hope the community will be up to challenge, these blobs can't wait to find new homes (: Note: you do not have to leave a review to be eligible for the raffle once it is live. See you on Tuesday!!

Hi everyone!
We're continuing our countdown today - just 4 days remaining until Ova Magica launches into Early Access. As a reminder, we'll be launching on July 23rd at 10am EST / 2pm UTC - there will be a 10% discount for the first two weeks as well. Be sure to come back tomorrow for a big announcement as well! We hope to see you there!!

Hi everyone!
We're continuing our countdown today - just 5 days remaining until Ova Magica launches into Early Access. As a reminder, we'll be launching on July 23rd at 10am EST / 2pm UTC - there will be a 10% discount for the first two weeks as well. We have some surprises in some future countdowns as well to reveal in coming days - be sure to check back especially around the 72 hour mark (: We hope to see you there!!

Hi everyone!
We're continuing our countdown today - just 6 days remaining until Ova Magica launches into Early Access. As a reminder, we'll be launching on July 23rd at 10am EST / 2pm UTC - there will be a 10% discount for the first two weeks as well. We have some surprises in some future countdowns as well to reveal! We hope to see you there!!

Hi everyone!
Today starts our countdown to launch - can you believe it? There's only 7 days remaining until Ova Magica launches into Early Access. We'll be launching on July 23rd at 10am EST / 2pm UTC - there will be a 10% discount for the first two weeks as well. We hope to see you there!!

Hi everyone! This is just a quick announcement that the extended time period for the demo's availability will end on July 12th. As such, we want to let everyone know they should try the demo now if you intend on playing it, as it will removed after that date. The reason for this is that going into Early Access (and even now in a pre-launch state), we have made and continue to make significant improvements to the game (especially from a QoL standpoint), and do not want to leave up a demo which is not reflective of the full game. As a reminder, we are still launching on July 23rd!! Mark your calendars! Leading up to the launch we will have a countdown to remind everyone, and we'll have some other surprises to reveal. See you then and thank you all again! Your feedback for the demo has been instrumental in delivering numerous improvements and fixes for our upcoming launch.

Hello everyone! We're happy to be participating in the "Games Baked in Germany" event, which runs from June 20th to June 27th. As the development team is based out of Germany, we felt very proud to be able to be apart of this event.
We're also simultaneously very happy to announce that due to overwhelmingly positive feedback on the demo and demand from players, we've decided to leave the demo up instead of taking it down after the Steam Next Fest. We're extremely happy to have collected so much feedback from the demo during the Next Fest, and appreciate everyone who played. We plan to keep the demo up in respect of demand from players, and also hope that more people will be able to play it and leave feedback thanks to our participation in this event. Thank you again to everyone, and we hope to see you all for the Early Access release on July 23rd!!

Hello everyone, For those who missed the first stream earlier in the week, we'll have gameplay from Ova Magica streamed today starting at 2PM today (June 14th)! We hope to see you there, and hope everyone has been enjoying the game's NextFest demo.

Hello everyone, We'll have gameplay from Ova Magica streamed today starting at noon! Hope to see you there.

Hello everyone, We wanted to let everyone know that we are extremely thrilled to be in this June's Next Fest! Coming off of the back of Guerilla Collective and the WLG Showcase, we're happy to be participating ahead of next month's Early Access launch (July 23rd). Our demo represents years of hard work and we hope you will all enjoy it! Please be sure to leave feedback on the forums, and also feel free to join the Discord to interact with the developer and leave more direct feedback and ask questions: https://discord.gg/jqfRH2ems3 The demo will remain live until June 17th! We also have 2 livestreams scheduled over the course of the next week, so keep an eye out for those!

Patch: Demo - Version 0.55 Content: - added a marker for players position to the map - added red eye color in character creation - added camera invert x and y axis in pause menu setting - added animation to the button "Switch to Magical Storage" in the shipment box UI until clicking the button first time. Bug fixes; - fixed invisible wall near influencer couple NPC when near mine - slightly reduced saturation of the turquoise hair color - fixed some minor spelling an grammar issues

After a long wait, Ova Magica is finally releasing on July 23 into Early Access! We are so excited to finally share the game with everyone. Thank you ALL for your continued support and interest, especially in light of prior delays and development difficulties. The team is incredibly proud of what we've created, and cannot wait for you to all play Ova Magica! Watch our brand new EA announcement trailer here: [previewyoutube=17GMK2SUftM;full][/previewyoutube] And don't forget: Our limited DEMO is only available until the end of the Steam Next Fest (17th June)! We are grateful for all feedback; it helps us to improve Ova Magica as much as possible for the EA launch. We will share more info about the development roadmap leading to the full game (1.0) soon!

EARLY ACCESS CONTENT

GENERAL INFO

• Playable with mouse+keyboard or controller. Fully playable on the Steam Deck.
• Language: English (Full 1.0 release will also include: German, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Japanese)

FARMING + LIFE SIM FEATURES

• Customize your own character with tons of options and unique hair styles!
• Grow a wide variety of crops and fruit trees on your farm, and decorate it to your liking!
• Play through all 3 seasons (Solis, Ceres, Frigus) with unique weather, crops, events and blobs!
• Visit all 12 festivals in Clover Town with unique items, blobs, decorations and mini-games!
• Meet 13 befriendable characters and learn their stories and personalities! (Marriage available for full 1.0 release).
• Raise the Heart Level of each character and unlock Heart Events to obtain unique quests and buildings! Each character has 3-4 (out of 7) available Heart Events in Early Access.
• Gather resources with upgradable tools to craft new furniture, decorations and buildings!
• Upgrade and decorate your house and farm, and unlock loads of craftable blueprints!
• Catch a variety of fish and bugs that change along with the time and seasons!
• Donate items to the Clover Town Museum to get unique rewards!
• Construct buildings to unlock new features like the Boutique, Beauty Salon, Spa, Theater, Ferris Wheel and more!
• Unlock tons of food recipes to cook for you and your blobs!
• Photograph every resident and their blobs for the Clover Town census!
• ...And much more!

BLOB + ADVENTURE FEATURES

• Choose your starter blob! Pick one of three unique blobs to join you on your adventure!
• Use your blobs to help you with everyday tasks like fishing, watering crops, removing barriers and more!
• Raise blobs in your own Blob Barn to produce items like milk, wool, and more!
• Collect up to 40 (out of 66) unique first-generation blobs, each with unique skills and appearances!
• Breed your blobs to create even stronger blobs! Choose from thousands of combinations and create the blob thats perfect for you!
• Pet, feed, and play with your blobs to deepen your bond, and watch them grow even stronger!
• Join the Adventurers' Club, and uncover the mysteries behind the ancient ruins!
• Journey into the untamed Blob Worlds, teeming with wild blobs. Visit 3 (out of 7) worlds in Early Access, each with a unique theme, new blobs, and hidden treasure!
• Travel with up to 3 blobs in your team and engage in strategic, turn-based battles with real-time action elements!
• Challenge anybody in Clover Town to a blob battle, or try your luck against wild blobs!
• Participate in the Clover Cup Tournament to compete against Clover Towns greatest blob trainers, and win the grand prize! (Up to IRON League in Early Access)
• Visit the Blob League Academy and take classes to learn more about blobs!
• ...And much more!

Patch: Demo - Version 0.54

Hotfix: Demo - Version 0.532 Bugfixes: -Fixed the game freezing when placing the "colored egg" decoration via workbench and leaving farm or house. Content: - An additional message is now shown when out of energy and trying to use tools - Reduced bug net energy costs from 10 to 5

Hotfix: Demo - Version 0.531 Bugfixes: - fixed game freezing when moving a blob which is breeding from barn into the team - fixed calendar week days spelling error in menu

Patch: Demo - Version 0.53 Content Changes: - coin bubble is now displayed over the shipment box when new money can be collected - short fishing info is shown before first fishing - wild blob count in fishing battles is now matched towards own team size (to avoid being overwhelmed in early gameplay) - wild blobs in mine do not respawn on same day after leaving and re-entering mine. They respawn on next day.

Hotfix: Demo - Version 0.52 (previous: 0.51) -Fixed Kiwi blob item exploit

Hotfix: Demo - Version 0.51 (previous: 0.5) Bug Fixes -Major: removed second house update which was unintentional available for the demo in Charoi's build store. Getting it broke the game on next in-game day. -Minor: Fixed some typos in quest texts -Minor: Fixed that Kay couldn't be targeted in photo mode -Minor: Fixed invisible wall near mine near Troublemaker Kids NPCs Content Changes: -Changed battle rewards for NPC Johnny

Our demo is OUT NOW! You can find it on the Steam homepage. We're extremely excited to be able to share this with you, after so much hard work and years of effort. The below is a message from Claudia, the developer of the game: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the Cozy & Family Friendly Games Celebration 2024 on Steam, we've launched our very first public demo! The demo will be available until the end of the Steam Next Fest (10th-17th June) for everyone to play. To all content creators: You can help us immensely with getting some extra boosted visibility in the Steam Next Fest if you share Ova Magica during or shortly before it launches (10th-17th June). There are a lot of games this year from other big publishers and studios. As small indie dev, it can be hard to get attention, so regardless how small or big your audience is: Please share Ova Magica. If you are interested in more news about other cozy games, sign up for the Cozy Games newsletter from Rokaplay, who also put in all the hard work needed to run the Steam event. Next, we have also some more exciting news below!
GUERILLA COLLECTIVE We're happy to announce that we will make a HUGE announcement on Guerrilla Collective showcase! This will be part of our publisher, Top Hat Studios, included showcase. Make sure to tune in on June 6th @ 10AM PST!
(Don't worry! After the showcase we will also post the news in an update here, just in case you miss or can't watch the show.)

Hi everyone! Mirroring some major news from the developer here. First, we'll share the biggest news: Ova Magica will be available in the Steam Next Fest June 17th with a public demo for all to play. Around this time we will also post the Q2 update 2024 with news about the release date. Now, onto some updates from the developer on the game: Dev update: As already communicated in the last update of 2023, i currently can't share much new things with you because we need the "new stuff" for marketing. It's sometimes hard to hold back because i have actually A LOT new amazing things but needed to restrict myself here a lot. As always you can reach out in Discord if you have questions! Improved breeding symbols Instead of an egg you can now see the progress (in days) towards the new egg. And maybe some of you already noticed: the new egg is purple. Now "base blob" eggs are green and all brood eggs are purple.
Character creator Polished the character creator more and added more options. I separated the "glasses" from the "accessoires" (flower icon) category so you can have even more freedom and options. Also added various new outfits + stuff.
Here are some characters i created
Census Preview Photograph every resident +their blobs of Clover Town to unlock their entries and gets ome infos about them. [previewyoutube=O0ME4FdeEvc;full][/previewyoutube] Time of Day display Finally implemented in the upper right corner a bar to display what day time it is (day, evening, night). This was on my Todo list for years but now i did it haha. All these small details really pile up at the end [previewyoutube=0mRfIrC8LB4;full][/previewyoutube]

The Ova Magica Preview Demo is playable at PAX East!
At the Top Hat Studios booth you can try out a bunch of fun games. Other than Ova Magica, you can play Tiny Life, Elementallis and Athenian Rhapsody. Here's a little snippet of the map, so you know where to find the booth! As you can see, the booth number is 15093. Have a great time!

The past few months, the currently most asked question to us has been:

"Can I play Ova Magica on the Steam Deck?"

"YES!"

Hi there, everybody! Claudia here! It's been a whole month already. First of all, I would like to invite you to join our Discord (if you are not already a member). There I regularly post updates and answer questions:
I also want to share with you our little store where you can pre-order merch like an artbook, trading cards, keychains, pins, a plush and much more to support us. The money from each pre-order is fully invested in the development. Click here to go to the store So now to the actual update! We actually worked on a lot of things in May. Here is a selection for you:

New Locations

New Feature: Fast Travel

All potraits done

New Battle Skills

Other stuff

Hello together!

New Feature: Mailbox

New Feature: All side NPCs can level up after battle

New Festival: The Night of Roses

New Blobs

Blob Barn Overhaul

Blob Mood and Products

• Barn decoration: When a barn is decorated with things a blob likes, its mood is higher
• Temperature: If the temperature is too different from the one a blob wants, it will be unhappy (see more below)
• Barn Cleanness: Each poop in the blob barn reduced the blob mood. Poops in the litter box, do not affect mood
• Affection: Petting a bob raises the mood and a blob is sad when it gets neglected for too long

Barn Temperature

New fish: Shrimp

"Shiny" Blob Experimentation

New Potraits

Final Words

First of all, the whole team wishes you happy and relaxing holidays with your loved ones!

Character Icons

Battle Status Effects

New Blobs

Blob ability "Love Spell"

Closet

Battle Skills

New Hair Styles

Last but not least: Wishing you a fresh start with renewed energy and confidence throughout the New Year.

Peacock Blob

Lotus Blob

Fossil Blob

Fox Blob

Deer Blob

Fire Blob

Squirrel Blob

Music Blob

Scorpion Blob

Dog Blob

Hen blob

Cupid Blob

Cheetah Blob

Clover Blob

Beach Blob

Baby Blob

Day 1 - Acorn Blob

Day 2 - Cactus Blob

I hope you had a nice November! The year is now slowly coming to an end.... I don't know about you, but right now as I write this it's snowing! I use this occasion to give you a little impression of the winter season "Frigus" in Ova Magica: On some quiet Frigus days, the aurora shows itself in its full glory! [previewyoutube=Gkpou7pmcPg;full][/previewyoutube]

Wedding Outfits WIP

Swimwear Outfits WIP

Egg Hatching

Side NPCs

Character Customization

In-Game Events

Bugs of the month

Blob Advent Calendar

New Blobs, Characters and Interiors

Character Creation

Game Intro

The end of Halloween

Hi everyone! This is a big update and includes quite a bit of stuff, so sorry for the delay! Formatting to Steam with the amount of images was also a hassle. Firstly, Ova Magica now has a professional writer - Meet Renkka! Renkka is a writer who specializes in visual novels and character-driven narratives. She's worked on games such as BTS Universe Story, Bistro Days, and Mizari Loves Company. Renkka enjoys writing about anything from coffee shop romances to thrilling paranormal adventures, and, now, about the wonderful, colorful world of Ova Magica! Her creative inspirations (and all-time favorite titles) include Pokemon, Ace Attorney, Danganronpa, and The House in Fata Morgana.

The last weeks we have already worked diligently on the events of the romanceable characters. Here are some teasers for you!

New Blobs

Wedding Outfits

Fishing

Usability Improvement

Hi everyone! Here is Ova Magica's periodic development update for July-August. There have been quite a few things that have been worked on!

New Blob!

New Outfit and hair styles

Romanceable Character Events

Hello everyone! This is our periodic development update for Ova Magica where you'll learn about some of the recent features and progress being added to the game! Do you remember one of the stretch goal features was the special photo mode? Recently I've been working on how this will work in-game! There will also be some funny moments and special objects like photo booths or cut-outs around Clover Town where you will be able to make special poses with your blobs and to capture these memories. There will also be several items in-game related to photography, so be sure to explore the world and market to make best use of this feature! The other thing being worked on are the building interiors and NPC houses. Everybody needs somewhere to call a home, no matter if it's yourself or one of Ova Magica's lovable NPCs! Each house communicates the character and personality of the person who owns it. For example, Garnet and Saphir's beachside eatery is sea themed, whereas Lazuli's room is cute and full of soft things. The soundtrack for the game is also being worked on and new music is arriving! Describing everything is one thing, but how about showing all of these things together? So that's why for this update we've compiled everything into a neat little video for you to watch. Check it out below! [previewyoutube=ipPwQHwBMvc;full][/previewyoutube]

Hello everybody! We are really happy to bring you a periodic development update for the game. Thanks to the success of fundraising efforts, development on Ova Magica is in full swing, with additional content being added that wasn't possible before! One of these is the Clover Town Museum.

Clover Museum Aquarium

Fishing mechanics

• In which games did you enjoy fishing (or not) and why? Any idea or inspiration for a fishing mini-game mechanic?
• What would you like to be able to fish in Ova Magica? And how about wild blobs that bite from time to time?
• What kinds of aquatic life would you like to see?

Our Kickstarter campaign launched on January 26 and has exceeded all our expectations. Ova Magica was funded under 3 hours! [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/claudiathedev/ova-magica]
You still have a little time to support us and get some great items!
We are close to unlock our last stretch goal "Blob Fusion"! Help us to make it possible!
You can also check out our new trailer here: [previewyoutube=CDY-Rd1jUww;full][/previewyoutube]

Kickstarter will launch February 9!

I've prepared something special for you - Each day we open a door together ! Day 2 - Penguin blob This friendly, but also a little clumsy blob, feels most comfortable in the winter season Frigus.
Day 1 - Cow blob It's not very strong in battle, but it can produce fresh milk.

Many festivals are celebrated in Clover Town. One of them is the Spooky Moon Festival! [previewyoutube=NKp53zZNtdo;full][/previewyoutube] You can collect candy and trade it in for great prizes!
But be careful! The town is also overrun by wild blobs!
Can you make the town safe again?

The first festival will be revealed by the end of this month! Little hint: The moon looks unusual... what could be happening in Clover Town!?

Have a nice autumn! There are small but nice news! So many in the community have expressed the wish to play a female character. So I worked hard last weekend and you can see the result in the autumnal screenshot:
Your feedback and input is very important to me as a dev to improve Ova Magica! So don't hesitate to write here in the community! Greetings from Claudia

Work in progress

Main features

• OS: Ubuntu 14.04.2 64-bit / SteamOS
• Processor: Quad-core Intel. 2 GHzMemory: 4 GB RAM
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Graphics: OpenGL 4.1 compatible graphics card
• Storage: 1 GB available space