Today marks exactly 1 year since Ova Magica was released into Early Access! 🎉

We’re incredibly happy and grateful for the amazing journey it’s been so far. Seeing players enjoy the game, share their experiences, and build a supportive community has meant the world to us.

Your feedback, passion, and love have helped to shape Ova Magica into what it is today. Thank you for being part of this adventure 💚!

Whether you're playing the demo or the full version, take your best (or funniest, or cutest!) screenshot and share it with us on Steam.

Rules:

• 🖼️ How to participate: Upload your screenshot or artwork (when edited) to the Ova Magica Steam Community Hub and post the link to it as comment below this post!

• ✅ Editing is allowed but no must – feel free to add funny captions, dramatic filters, or anything creative!

• 💚 Optional: Show your love for the game by sharing your screenshot on social media with the tags #OvaMagica and #OvaMagica1stAnniversary.

• 📅 DEADLINE: The contest runs for one month. All entries submitted by August 23rd at 11:59 PM PDT will be considered.

Prize:

This is meant to be a fun, social event for you—the Ova Magica community—but for a little extra motivation, we’ve got a prize:

• 🎁 Winners can choose between one Ova Magica Steam key OR a $25 Steam gift card*!

• 🍀 We’re also raffling one additional Ova Magica key / $25 Steam gift card among ALL participants — so everyone has a shot at winning!

We can’t wait to see what you come up with — good luck and have fun! 🥳

Additional Rules:

• By participating you allow us to share your screenshots on social media and other channels.

• You may submit multiple screenshots, but each person will only be entered once into the raffle.

• *The Ova Magica key will be sent via DM or email and you can re-gift it to a friend if you already own the full game. If you choose the Steam gift card instead, it will be sent directly to your Steam account. To receive it, you'll need to temporarily accept a friend request from the developers.

We know many of you are looking forward to the 1.0 release of Ova Magica, and we really appreciate your patience and excitement💚. We're working hard on it — this will be the biggest update the game has seen so far, and also the final major milestone - the full release💪!

That also means there’s a lot involved. In addition to finishing the game content itself, we’re dealing with achievements, localization (over 200,000), console porting and certification, QA, Kickstarter rewards, marketing, and quite a bit more. For a small team like ours, it’s a big challenge, and some of these areas — especially localization — are more time-consuming than expected.

Also not everyone knows this, but most of the game is being developed by a single person — ClaudiaTheDev — with the publisher’s porting team working closely alongside her on the console versions. (So that means "We" here).

It's important for us to be transparent with our community and the Ova Magic players:

It will still take a few more months before we can realistically assess the full release timeline. Around autumn, we hope to have a clearer picture of whether a 2025 release — as originally planned — is still achievable. We'll keep you in the loop as things progress.

The good thing is that the 1.0 content itself is almost finished. But everything around the game — all the necessary parts to launch it properly across multiple platforms with multi-language support — just takes time.

That said, we’re using the game’s first anniversary as a moment to look ahead, and we’re sharing a few sneak peeks below of what’s coming in version 1.0✨!

Thanks again for your ongoing support and understanding — it really means a lot to us 💚!

– ClaudiaTheDev and Top Hat Studios

⚠️WARNING: Below the following 1 year anniversary pic are SPOILERS⚠️. Stop reading here if you do not wish to see them.

Chameleon Blob

Ever seen an NPC with a cool-looking blob or special skills? Well, it's MIMIC time!

More TutorialsThe Blob League Academy has now several new interactive courses. It handles all knowledge required for raising your blobs succesfully.

Research Center

Pearl asks you to build the Blob Research Center. The research team is trying to reassemble an ancient rune that was shattered into several shards — it might reveal a portal to a location holding the key to blob fusion technology… but the shards are lost. Can you help the team to succeed?

Radiant Blobs

Legends say that on very, very rare occasions, a 'radiant' shimmer can occur when breeding blobs... And it seems these blob have especially strong mutations.

Gallery

Interact with the new NPC "Xell" in the theater to view the gallery. Progressing the game unlocks more images.

Marriage
Sneak peek: Wedding Planner building + interior:

Sneak peek: Civil Wedding Ceremony

We hope you enjoyed the few sneak peeks💚 We'll make sure to post another update when we have more news and share even more 1.0 content! In the meantime, don’t hesitate to reach out via the Steam forum or our Discord in case of questions.

Thank you for reading this far and again for your continuous support!

• Fixed an issue where you could permanently run out of department heads to hire.

• Dead characters no longer receive services because enough is enough.

• Fixed a few issues that caused characters to leave the studio prematurely.

• Fixed a bug that could break Alliance voting after sending a security agent to spy on a rival studio.

That’s it for small updates for a while, because next week we’ll be back with a date for the big update’s beta! Thanks to everyone for your patience!