New key art to celebrate the Steam Creature Collecting Fest!
We created a new key art to celebrate the Steam Creature Collecting Fest 💚
The artwork is drawn by the talented Brdt-E and she spend a lot of time and love on it!
And of course we also have a discount for you during the event!
We continue working hard towards the full 1.0 release💪.
You can always drop us feedback in the Steam forums or connect in our Discord💚!
Hotfix 0.906
fixed skill help during battle not being hidden correctly when pressing the cancel key instead of the displayed “hide help” button
fixed curly parts sticking out of phoenix blob during Lapis event 05 in front of the clinic
fixed several typos
NEW MAJOR CONTENT UPDATE✨
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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 player’s 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 didn’t 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 didn’t 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 ♥
Hotfix 0.806
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
NEW CONTENT UPDATE!
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
First we want to share the updated roadmap with you! The current update is the 0.8 version.
⚠️Attention: Below the roadmap pic are descriptions with SPOILERS of the new content! Stop reading after the roadmap if you do not want to be spoilered.
Important note for transparency: The 7th blob world which was initially not planned but added as Kickstarter stretchgoal was for now sadly removed from the roadmap to not delay the 1.0 release further. One of the main reasons is that we just need more time to polish the 6 main blob worlds and add still missing features to them. We plan adding the 7th blob world in an update after full release also based on your ideas and feedback for possible new blobs + quests. We want to apologize for the change and hope for your understanding.
NEW BLOB WORLD: BAMBOO TEMPLE 🐼⛩️
In the new blob world you can find several new blobs like the Tiger, Red Panda, Peacock and more. It also comes with new resources, like the Mithril ore vein, and the greenhouse blueprint.
GREENHOUSE 🌱
In the greenhouse you can grow different crops all year round. Comes with a sprinkler and a thermostat to set the season.
CAVE BEHIND THE WATERFALL
Inside are signs of volcanic activity. This could also explain the hot spring that Garnet discovered and that powers the Spa. In the cave you can find new blobs, coal resources and the very rare Emberpetal which can revive a fainted blob in battle.
Progress Flint's friendship to unlock the new building "Blob Paradise".
You can leave a blob in the Blob Paradise to train it. The maximum possible level is determined by your tournament rank.
The Blob Paradise you can also purchase blueprints for devices which can train your blob stats. These are the blob wheel (Speed), trampoline (Defense) and training target (Attack).
NEW ITEMS: HEALTH + ENERGY BOOSTER Boosters permanently increase a blob's health or energy which helps to level up your blobs. This items are rare and can be found mainly in blob world chests.
MITHRIL CUP TOURNAMENT 🏆
Test your blob trainer skills in the Mithril Cup tournament! (unlocked with all NPCs friendship being level 4)
IMPROVEMENTS
Improved Farming Tool Controls Can now hold the key/button for most farming actions instead having to press the key again. Affected actions: watering crops, planting seeds, hoeing ground, harvesting crops
Dropped items+crops do not disappear when leaving area Crops and other items(for example dropped in the shooting start event or by wild blobs) do now not disappear when leaving an area. You can go inside your blob barn and return to the farm without worrying about the items being gone like before. Not collected items are still removed on the next day.
UI for Blob Placing can now also access blobs from the barn Mainly the auto-petter and new blob training devices are affected. When in a blob barn you can now access blobs of your barn and team. This avoids having to put a blob in your team when you want to place it on an Auto-Petter or training device in the barn.
BUG FIXES 🐞
fixed that photographing MJ at the Sleigh Swap didn’t 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
Cozy Quest 2024
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
MAJOR CONTENT UPDATE!
The wait is over! The first major content update is available 🎉
It does ot only come with the planned roadmap progress, but also with several improvements and smaller new features based on our communities feedback💪
Note: Make sure to update to the 0.703 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.
WORDS FROM THE DEVS
We continue to work on improving the game like adding more descriptions for the future updates and also implementing feedback. However, it is important to mention that we are a very small team and unplanned/additional things can take time.
Our main focus is on the roadmap leading to the 1.0 release and bug fixes. So even if we can't/don't reply to feedback threads: We read them! And maybe some of you will notice that your ideas have already made it into the game.
We also use this occasion to thank all who got Ova Magica and played it already during Early Access🙏. As small indie dev with a debut title your trust means a lot to us and supports immensly the development and translation costs for the full release.
Please also consider leaving a Steam review if you enjoyed playing - it helps a lot 💚 !
NEW ROADMAP CONTENT
First we want to share the updated roadmap with you!
Side note: we moved the 6th blob world from the 0.9 to the 1.0 version because we want the time between 0.8 and 0.9 shorter an it feels more balanced with each update leading to 1.0 having one new blob world.
⚠️Attention: Below the roadmap pic are descriptions with SPOILERS of the new content! Stop reading here if you do not want to be spoilered.
NEW BLOB WORLD: CANDY KINGDOM🍬
The adventurers Cenx and Redigit need your help to get their blobs back who stayed behind in the Candy Kingdom blob world. The new blob world comes with several unique rewards like cute furniture, cherry tree seeds and an auto-petter blueprint.
SEWERS
The sewers come with new blobs and also an upgrade for your return wand.
With the new Homeward Wand you can now teleport to your house from any location, and not only use the wand to leave the blob worlds.
NEW BLOBS + ABILITIES
You can collect 7 new "base blobs" coming with 4 new abilities in the 0.7 version. Here are the new 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
You can comission Charoi to build the building. In it you can recolor your blobs in exchange for color powder to your liking.
Buildings: Beachside Eatery (Saphir), Library (Opal) Note: The Library is similar to the Theater (Citrine) still WIP and will get more features for the 1.0 version or in one of the next updates.
BEACHSIDE EATERY
Progress Saphir's friendship to unlock the new building "Beachside Eatery". It comes with several new dishes (seasonal variety) and learnable recipes.
HOUSE UPGRADE
Comes with more place and most important a new fast travel point on your farm!
GOLD CUP TOURNAMENT
Test your blob trainer skills in the Gold Cup tournament! (unlocked with all NPCs friendship being level 3)
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
Instead of giving blobs up for adoption you can now store up to 256 blobs at Flint and get them back anytime. The usual "give blob for adoption" is now a 2nd step.
Note: All blobs given up for adoption before the 0.7 version are in the "Flint Storage". When a player has given up more then 256 blobs for adoption the oldest are permanently removed from the game.
STORAGE CONTAINER/CHEST BLUEPRINT
Can be placed on your farm, home or blob barn and store 16 items. Recolorable.
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
Turn-Based RPG Fest + "Blob Dye Center" preview
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)
Patch 0.634
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
New Blueprint: Thermostat Flint sells now also a Thermostat blueprint. Placed in a blob barn it keeps the temperature constant on a specific season which results the barn not changing temperature when the season changes. (Note: Heaters and Air Condition still needs to be placed to make the barn general cooler or warmer - the Thermostat just prevents the change for seasons).
Arrange Blob Skills for Battle In you Team overview you can now re-arrange the skills of your blobs for battle.
Vendors: Buy Many/Buy Stack There is now for most items an option in the vendor Ui to buy many.
BUG FIXES
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
Thank you for reading so far! If you enjoy Ova Magica and didn't leave a review yet: Please do ♥ As indie dev it is hard to get visibility with all the other amazing games on Steam and reviews help a lot!
See you for the next update ♥ ~Claudia
Hotfix 0.633
Fixed that battle sometimes froze when bomb blob used countdown ability
