Note: Make sure to update to the 0.905 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. This update features new content and also lots of improvements based on your feedback. The team uses this occasion to thank all players who left us kind words, suggestions and ideas . Your support during Early Access helps a lot! We are looking forward to the full release and improving the game further during the remaining Early Access period. If you have more feedback and ideas do not hesitate to reach out via the Steam Forum or our Discord. Please also leave a Steam review if you enjoy playing Ova Magica - it helps a lot to get some visibility ! Below are SPOILERS, so stop reading here if you prefer to play the new content blind and figure out how to unlock the new features for yourself.

ROADMAP CONTENT

NEW BLOB WORLD: PREHISTORIC BADLANDS

Venture with Lapis into the blob world and discover the secret of the legendary blob fossil egg! The blob world comes as always with new blobs to collect. [previewyoutube=z5-027Gbqxs;full][/previewyoutube] How to unlock: Fill the level 4 heart fully for Lapis and Lazuli to unlock their new friendship event. The event is a special duo event. Follow the quests of the event to gain access to the Prehistoric Badlands.

DREAM AREA - SKIP SEASONS FEATURE

If you are still missing some seasonal or festival items you can now skip quickly to the required season: Re-visit the Keeper of Time. The blob gifts you a legendary egg and offers you to progress time to the next season. How to unlock: Available the day after completing Jade's level 4 heart event (in which you meet the Keeper of Time first time). Interact with your bed or tent and you will see an additional choice "Dream until next day". [previewyoutube=siFOzW9UXMQ;full][/previewyoutube]

NEW FRIENDSHIP EVENTS

All 13 befriendable Npcs are now playable until level 5.

NEW TOURNAMENT: MALACHITE CUP

How to unlock: Progress the friendship of all Npcs to level 5.

OVOSCOPE

An x-ray device which can store blob eggs and show you their content before hatching them. How to unlock: complete the Prehistoric Badlands blob world.

QUALITY OF LIFE + BALANCING + OTHER NEW CONTENT

MOTION SICKNESS SETTINGS

Based on feedback that some players experienced motion sickness when playing Ova Magica. There are now 2 new settings in the pause menu which hopefully will prevent or reduce it:

• Disable Camera Smoothing: Removes all camera after smoothing /motion which can greatly help when the motion sickness occurs mainly when moving the player character and rotating the camera.
• Battle Camera Setting: You can choose between the options Dynamic (Default), Less Rotation and Static to help reduce motion sickness during battles.

TEAM TERMINAL

Based on players' feedback that switching blobs for farming, battling and other tasks was tedious. Flint now sells the Team Terminal blueprint. Use it to register blob teams and swap between them quickly without having to go into blob barns and navigate the UI each time. [previewyoutube=uBUJQ7PLKOE;full][/previewyoutube]

BLOB SKILL AND ABILITY INFOS

Based on players' feedback to see more information what the skills and abilities of blobs do. Descriptions for blob skills and abilities can now be displayed in several UI locations with the "Skill Info" button. [previewyoutube=jl_RBrFg4gc;full][/previewyoutube]

MUSEUM INVENTORY OVERVIEW

You can now select the new choice View museum inventory when interacting with the donation box. The museum inventory lists already donated items and shows how many items are still missing in the botanic garden, dining hall and aquarium area of the museum. [previewyoutube=_t7S4nyie1c;full][/previewyoutube]

MAGICAL STORAGE: NEW QUICK TRANSFER

Based on feedback that players want instantly transfer items from the inventory to the magical storage without having to navigate through all the individual items. With the new Quick Transfer button you can now move all items from your inventory to the magical storage which are already stored in the magical storage too. Note: the quick transfer does not occupy new free slots in the magical storage, if the max allowed amount of 999 for an item slot is reached

SAVING AT FAST TRAVEL SIGNS

Based on players' feedback that it's tedious to walk back to your tent/house to save the game. All fast travel points can now also be used to save the game (except in the Clover Town area during festivals).

BLOB SKILL OVERHAUL

The display of the old Grade (A-F) on blob skills was removed. Instead the status effects and stat value changes (attack, defense, speed) are now displayed for more infos. Reason: The Skill Grade was an early concept that was not yet properly implemented. During several tests in Early Access, it ended up not working well with the battle balancing. A more complex system isn't always good and can cause confusion, so we decided to remove it and not force something into the game that doesn't really work well.

VARIOUS + QUALiTY OF LIFE

• added new learnable recipes: Blob Island Cocktail (buy from Harold), Apple Pie (get in intro/farm tutorial), Homemade Lemonade (obtained in Flint's first heart event). All missed recipes from events are added automatic to existing Early Access save files.
• added several new unlockable skills to the players skill menu. Already spent skill points have been reset.
• time is stopped now at the boss stage in blob worlds (to avoid falling asleep before collecting the rewards)
• shooting stars appear now one hour earlier (8-11PM) to give a bit more time to collect the dropped items before falling asleep at midnight
• blobs which reach the highest happiness in blob barns now produce 2 items overnight
• added music for rainy days (before no music played)
• an icon is now displayed in the restaurant and beergarden dish selection on not yet learned recipes
• replaced the slide puzzle of the first Mystic Forest blob world with the easier lantern puzzle
• you can now choose between Exit to Title and Quit Game in the pause menu instead of always having to go to the title before closing the game
• feeders and most storage containers (chests) now show similar to the magical storage infos about items (based on feedback to see season of seeds and hela value of items)
• UI shown at the portal before entering a blob world and choosing your companion now shows the power level of the wild blobs in the world
• blob types: changed type of Sheep blob to Magma, changed type of Slot blob to Forest
• increased collect range of all fruits falling from trees (affected: apple, orange, cherry, coconut and heart fruit)
• the loading screen is now shown when saving the game at the bed until the save menu appears to avoid thinking the game has frozen. Reason: Loading save files can take a few seconds for very slow hard drives/devices and having a lot of existing manual save files.
• chests can now be renamed (+ changed blueprint name from Storage Container to Chest)
• can now hold the increase/decrease keys for inventory stack transfer + buying stacks
• can now hold the direction keys in several UIs
• Blobpedia now lists only already obtainable blobs during Early Access
• Reordered Blobs in the Blobpedia
• Blobpedia now also displays the energy costs of blob skills and abilities
• improved enemy KI to use less often skills, which only apply status effects but do no damage, when the status effect is already applied (effects among others the skills Diamond Shield, Spikey, Poisonous Mushroom and more)
• when having all manual save slots filled instead of the disabled Create New Save button now a new Override Oldest Save button is displayed
• added more names to the random blob name suggestions
• improved all loading times when changing areas and entering buildings. But the loading time when starting the game (before the title screen) is slightly longer now
• reduced required RAM in all areas. Mainly noticeable in the bigger outdoor scenes (Clover Valley and Clover Town).

BUG FIXES

• added missing Blob Action (Default: Shift / Left Bumper ) to the control remap settings
• fixed that feeding rice to a blob with the Seed Scoop ability didnt give rice seeds
• fixed that favorite temperature was not determined correct for bred blobs
• fixed that blobs on training devices or the auto petter where not healed overnight
• fixed that you could place some objects with the workbench inside some hills on your farm
• fixed that resetting settings didnt reset the screen resolution correctly
• fixed that Inspect instead of Talk was shown when interacting with Helene
• fixed that the skater crew Npcs appeared sometimes in two locations parallel at the same day
• removed unreachable mud pile inside hill models near mine area
• reduced too high energy costs of toxic swamp
• changed MCs dialog slightly during Sleigh Swap festival to make more clear her blob is called Morrison
• fixed that blobs were not following the player correct in the Adventurers Club Intro event
• fixed several typos

Thank you for reading! We hope you enjoy the new features

[ 2025-04-18 11:30:32 CET ] [ Original post ]