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Magical Delicacy

$24.99
Release Date:
Metacritic:
82
Developer:
Skaule
Publisher:
Whitethorn Games
Platforms:
Windows
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About This Game

Magical Delicacy is a combat-free Metroidvania-lite with a complex cooking system. Set foot in Grat and get lost while platforming through this twisted town - find and explore open pathways or fulfill the complex orders of the townsfolk to progress and unlock new kitchen tools.

Platforming and exploration lie at the heart of Magical Delicacy and are required to collect ingredients and progress within the game. Toggle the Easy Platforming mode in the settings if you want a more comfortable platforming experience or have trouble with challenging passages.

Play the young witch Flora and discover a bustling town in this Metroidvania-inspired wholesome cooking game. Cook meals and potions in your customized kitchen by carefully selecting the right ingredients. Navigate the town in casual platforming to meet the townsfolk, take up their orders, and learn about this world of magic.

Flora travels to a distant town to fulfill her dream of becoming a proper witch. She opens up shop in Grat, a harbor town built upon cliffs, where adventurers settled to chart an unexplored island full of mystery. As she engages in the town’s thriving economy, she stumbles upon two members of opposing covens. The witch Cassia and the magus Tauno have a lot to teach Flora, but they also know how to use her in their dispute about magical beings.

EXPLORATION

Visit a beautiful harbor town, a densely packed space with people to meet, history to discover, and many opportunities to improve your business. Shop at merchants to buy various keepsakes and upgrades. Accept dozens of orders from the townsfolk asking for your magical food. Meet mysterious travelers, shop owners, forgotten legends, and masters of their crafts, some of which might only appear during day or night. Unravel long-forgotten secrets of the island and its mystical creatures.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Cooking delicious meals for your customers requires the correct ingredients. Gather ingredients directly within the nooks and crannies of the town, while some other ingredients can only be bought from merchants. Run out of an ingredient while cooking? Don’t worry - merchants will restock their shops, and forgeable ingredients eventually grow back with a little patience. Upgrade your kitchen to stash a collection of ingredients ready for cooking and experimentation or sell them to merchants for Beads, your precious currency for trading.

COOKING

Use your acquired ingredients to create magical dishes. Different attributes require you to think about your ingredient selection. Figure out and learn how flavors mix and how to meet customers‘ odd and complex requests for food. Closely follow recipes or experiment with your own creations, then sell or deliver your potions, meals, teas, and pastries to friends and customers. Be it local cuisine or Flora’s hometown recipes, everything to satisfy the tastebuds of different folks, from the croaking Gaball to the feline Tilin.

KITCHEN

Start with basic equipment and acquire new kitchen tools. Unlock more rooms to arrange and customize your tools to your liking and maximize efficiency when cooking. Put your unused creations up for sale, sort your ingredients into storage, and grow some plants in the backyard. It would be the perfect place to call your own if it wasn’t for this unwanted roommate and a lingering capitalist dread.

PLATFORMING

Navigate the town during your deliveries, climb bell towers and old ramparts, or delve through challenging old catacombs. Grow as a witch and acquire upgrades to your movement abilities to discover new routes and hard-to-reach places or open shortcuts that lead back to your store. Uncover and learn the twisted pathways on the map and remember the whereabouts of the townsfolk. Inspired by the Metroidvania genre and condensed into a cozy cooking game.

Features

  • Enchanting pixel art style depicting a fantastical world of witches and magic.

  • Befriend a cast of diverse characters that love to order food from you.

  • Traverse a 2D platformer inspired by Metroidvanias. Gain new abilities, reach new areas, and unlock shortcuts.

  • Learn an extensive cooking system, allowing for creative choices to fulfill even oddly specific orders.

  • Collect ingredients and new recipes through trade, questing, and exploration.

  • Intertwined progression requiring map exploration and delivering orders.

  • Linear story with optional encounters and opportunities for open-ended play.

  • Plenty of accessibility features to help you experience the game on your own terms, including an Easy Platforming mode that disables various challenges.

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive
6 user reviews
100%
Positive
15 hrs at review
Recommended

Magical Delicacy is a game with many features, but does them all in an amazing way. The game's difficulty increase is natural and feels good, even in it's frustrating parts (at least, for my stupid self). If you like platforming, puzzle solving through cooking, and an interesting story in a world of witches and sentient frogs, this'll be the game for you.

1 helpful
18 hrs at review
Recommended

This game is amazing and it's so easy to lose yourself in it! Overall its a really great game, and the plot of it is so good!! I do wish the ending gave us little bit more tbh and that we could end up visiting Heji after we finish the story. I will admit however the game can very easily get confusing, and very jumbled up. However there are tutorials and guides to help with that!! There's just so many aspects that does cause it to get confusing. There are some orders you receive that you won't be able to do right away, which is okay, there isn't a time limit on orders!! Overall the game is very well made, and such and amazing game overall!! Also it is an added bonus that even after you finish the actual story, you can still play and earn any achievements you might have missed!! And also you can cook to your hearts content!! I absolutely love the cooking aspect of the game to be honest, there are so many fun things that you can cook!! [h1] I'll just write a guide to help here, for par...

24 hrs at review
Recommended

As a metroidvania fan and cooking enthusiast this game hits all the right spots. Some of the unique game mechanics that really made the game stand out: - You don't need a recipe to make a dish, you can figure out many legit recipes through trial and error. - The game uses an interesting system to determine the final flavour and rarity of a dish; it's fun to figure out how to customize a dish with certain flavour and rarity for customers. - There is no combat. The platforming is challenging enough to be interesting but you are not punished harshly for failing. The in-game guide was really helpful, especially the ingredient list and flavour priority chart. I thought the difficulty was well balanced since I was able to figure out how to accomplish almost all my golas without external guides. Overall it's a comfy game with some challenge that doesn't overstay its welcome.

19 hrs at review
Recommended

so i made it to end of main game. this was delightful! very cute and i enjoyed meeting all the characters and exploring in a cozy metroidvania. the puzzles for the orders offer a nice strategic challenge. overall i recommend this game

36 hrs at review
Recommended

I really loved this game! I found that the 2D dungeon platforming, ingredient hunting, and the recipe puzzle-solving questlines blended well together (no pun intended)! My only complaint is the design of the in-game map; it made navigating pretty rough.

19 hrs at review
Recommended

Loved this game from start to finish - great game mechanics, fun puzzles, interesting story and cute graphics. Definitely 20 hours well spent!

System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Dual Core 3.0 GHz Processor
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 11-compatible graphics card with at least 1GB of video memory
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 3 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

FAQ

How much does Magical Delicacy cost?

Magical Delicacy costs $24.99.

What are the system requirements for Magical Delicacy?

Minimum: Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Dual Core 3.0 GHz Processor Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11-compatible graphics card with at least 1GB of video memory DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 3 GB available space Recommended: Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

What platforms is Magical Delicacy available on?

Magical Delicacy is available on Windows PC.

Is Magical Delicacy worth buying?

Magical Delicacy has 100% positive reviews from 6 players. Metacritic score: 82/100.

When was Magical Delicacy released?

Magical Delicacy was released on Jul 16, 2024.

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