Ova Magica - An adorable farming and monster taming game!
Created by ClaudiaTheDev
Inspired by Stardew Valley, Slime Rancher and beloved classics like Harvest Moon and Pokémon! For PC, Switch, XB1/SX and PS4/5.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Early Access Coming July 23rd
9 months ago
– Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 12:41:38 PM
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!
We will share more info about the development roadmap leading to the full game (1.0) soon! We aim is to release the full game on all platforms in 2025.
INFOS FOR OUR KICKSTARTER BACKERS At the last section of the update we go a bit more into detail why we do an Early Access. But we want to provide you these infos first:
All backers who selected as platform "Steam" will be able to download their digital key via backerkit on EA launch day.
To all backers who got the game for console and do not want to wait until 1.0 release in 2025 to play: You can request a change of the platform of your digital key to Steam. Just reach out to us here via DM or via Discord. The option to change the platform from console to Steam is available until full game release 1.0 in 2025.
Memo: The physical edition came with an additional digital key. You can have a Switch physical and still select Steam as platform for your digital key.
Additional info: Ova Magica is 100% playable on the Steam Deck.
Physical rewards will be shipped 2025 for full game release.
EARLY ACCESS CONTENT Though it is launching in Early Access, Ova Magica already comes jam-packed with tons of content! Here’s a brief overview of what you can expect from the Early Access, as well as some hints for what’s coming in the future!
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 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 that’s 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 Town’s 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 more!
WHY EARLY ACCESS? We want to be as transparent as possible with you about why we are doing an Early Access release, even though we have stated multiple times that there will only be a full game launch and not EA, especially in terms of fairness to console backers.
The truth is that this was not planned from the beginning. We are a first time developer and a small team, and development has taken longer for personal reasons, dragging out the process and making the original timelines and budgets unrealistic.
One important piece of content that EA is missing is localization. The Early Access version will only be playable in English. The full game is around 200k words and translation is a large and expensive task. Delays in development have severely impacted localization as it is usually the last thing to be done (after all content is fully tested and polished).
We are using the Early Access to give us more time to finish the game without time and financial pressure and hope to get a lot of feedback from players to make Ova Magica even better for the full 1.0 release!
Thanks again to everyone and see you soon!
Claudia and Top Hat Studios
Demo release - Out now! + Additional News
9 months ago
– Thu, May 30, 2024 at 07:35:03 AM
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 a Kickstarter update, just in case you miss or can't watch the show.)
Q1 2024 Update - Super Exciting News!
11 months ago
– Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 05:19:20 AM
Ova Magica will be available in the Steam Next Fest June 17th with a public demo for all to play🎉.
Around this time i will also post the Q2 update 2024 with news about the release date🥳.
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.
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♥
As last thing, i want to share with you a game currently on Kickstarter by rokaplay. They are also devs from Germany and supported me already many times. If you can check out their campaign and give some love back it would be awesome💚
Restore harmony to this enchanting world! In this cozy farming game, you have to run your own farm shop. Take care of your animals and your farm, sell your goods to the cute Forest Folk, upgrade the island and fulfill small orders from the Harmony Tree to fill the island with life again.
🌽 Farming: Take care of your plants, make fertilizer and sell your farm produce. 🛒 Your farm shop: Sell items in your shop and negotiate with the Forest Folk for prices. ⚒️ Resource Gathering: Collect wood, stones, and weeds for farm improvements. 🐑 Animals: Feed, interact & build bonds with animals for eggs and milk. 🐈 Pet Companions: Give names to pets, interact with them, and let them follow you around the island. ☯️ Harmony Tree Quests: Fulfill orders to heal the Harmony Tree and upgrade the small island. 💰 Trader Brownie: Purchase seeds, animals, and more from the friendly trader. 👷🏽♂️ Upgrade System: Improve your house, barn, and tools to enhance efficiency.
Last Update of 2023!
about 1 year ago
– Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 11:37:30 AM
Claudia here♥
Here is the last update of 2023. Top Hat Studios(publisher) and I are thanking you for being part of the development of Ova Magica for so long, for making the game possible in the first place as backers and especially for your patience and understanding that development takes longer.
We are approaching 2024, which will be 100% the release year of Ova Magica!
All involved developers are working very hard on finishing the game. Especially the writers are doing a fantastic job working on the final events and dialogs. Also our composer "Tekkera" (pseudonym) has been super productive and has finished almost the complete soundtrack by now.
Together with the publisher, we are currently working on the best timeline for the release. This is indeed a huge challenge, because:
Ova Magica will be released on PC and all major consoles and needs to be certified and marketed for them.
The game has about 200k (!!!) words that will be translated into several languages. That's an insane amount and far more than most games have. It's due to the life/farm sim genre, 13 characters + numerous events, festivals and side characters. A lot of content is waiting for you! The writers and Claudia are working hard to finalize the last things for the translators. You can probably imagine that the translation is a big challenge and also expensive.
Since the game is so extensive, we also need enough time for QA, polishing and bug-fixing. Unlike many other games, we decided against and Early Access release, so the quality of the game is very important at release.
We can't commit to an exact release date yet, as everything depends on so many factors at the moment and we'll have to see how it develops. We prefer to take enough time to avoid stress+crunch for the developers and publisher. But also to avoid having to delay initially announced dates and disappoint you.
Even when we can't say more about the release timeline now, out of fairness we still say that it won't be probably before mid-2024 (because of the points mentioned above). We will reveal more details in one of the upcoming updates and hopefully give an exact date soon!
But one thing we know for sure, 2024 will be a great year, because then you can finally play Ova Magica!!!
We are so looking forward to the release, and even though I (Claudia) was often uncertain, I believe that your expectations will be met with Ova Magica. We put so much effort, time, and love into it, and I hope the finished product will reflect that.
We also want to be transparent with you and explain why we don't showcase many dev content WIPs anymore in updates (like Claudia usually did). Main reason is that a lot is end-game content. But also a huge reason is that both Top Hat Studios and Claudia are Indies with limited resources. It's very hard to get into bigger game marketing events or showcases. Many actually demand exclusive and never shown content or announcements. That's why I (Claudia) sadly cannot share with you as much as I usually did because we need to make sure to be able to get Ova Magica at least into some of the opportunities for marketing (Thank you for your understanding).
Actually you, the community of Ova Magica, was by now our strongest force helping to spread the news about the game! We are super thankful for it and to all who share Ova Magica with their friends/family or content creators who showcase the game♥
As last words of 2023, we wish you happy holidays and a nice time with your family and loved ones! Thank you for being on this (long ;-)) journey with us!
Q4 2023 Dev Update
over 1 year ago
– Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 10:02:39 AM
Happy Spooky Season!!!
Tokyo Game Show
September was truely an amazing month! Our publisher Top hat Studios visited the Tokyo Game Show with an exclusive playable demo. Maybe some of you visited too and found us?
Dev Update
We hope this update finds you well and excited for the future of Ova Magica. As a game developer, we understand how eager you are to see tangible progress and exciting visuals from the game's development. We appreciate your patience and dedication to our project, and we want to give you an update on what we've been working on, even if it's not something we can easily show through screenshots at this point to avoid spoling too much of the final game.
Over the past few months, the team has been hard at work. We can assure you that significant progress has been made on several fronts:
Romanceablecharacter event progress: With 13 characters there are a log of "heart events" that need to be written and added into the game. We progressed a lot in Q3 with these and the writing team is very hard at work to finish all events for the final game.
General content progress: We worked on the Beauty Salon, Spa, Theater, Boutique and other places in-game.
Music: Our composer is working hard to create the music for the game. We progressed with the seasonal tracks as well as many blob world and festioval themes.
Bug Fixing and Optimization: We've been diligently identifying and addressing bugs and issues to make sure the game runs as smoothly as possible. These efforts are essential to ensure a stable and bug-free experience for you when we eventually release the game.
While we understand the excitement of seeing new screenshots and teasers, we believe it's important to maintain a focus on the critical behind-the-scenes work that goes into making a game truly great. Rest assured, we are committed to delivering a polished, enjoyable, and memorable gaming experience, and we appreciate your support in this journey.
We'll continue to keep you updated as our progress evolves. In the meantime, we're always open to hearing your thoughts and suggestions, so please feel free to share your feedback with us. Your input is invaluable to us as we work to create the best game possible.
Thank you for your patience and understanding. We can't wait to share more about Ova Magica with you as soon as we can.
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