Magical Delicacy
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.
COOKING
Use dozens of ingredients to create magical dishes. Different attributes require you to think about your ingredient selection to meet customers‘ requests. Process ingredients into new variants. Closely follow recipes or invent your own creations and manage multiple tasks while your meals take some time to cook. 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.
SHOP
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. A place to call your own if there wouldn’t be this unwanted roommate and a lingering capitalist dread.
EXPLORATION
Visit a beautiful harbor town, a densely packed space with people to meet, history to discover, and many opportunities to improve your business. Meet merchants to buy your ingredients from or gather them directly within the nooks and crannies of the town. Meet mysterious travelers, shop owners, forgotten legends, and masters of their crafts, some of which might only appear at day or night. Unravel long forgotten secrets of the island and its mystical creatures.
PLATFORMING
Navigate the town during your deliveries, climb bell towers and old ramparts, or delve through lost caves. 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. Inspired by the Metroidvania genre and condensed into a cozy cooking game.
Unique pixel art style depicting a fantastical town with witches and magic.
Game Discussion
Steam User 21
From reading the reviews, it seems like major improvements and bug fixes have happened in the most recent update. If you're put off by some of the negative reviews that mention bugs, I want to say that I didn't experience any bugs while playing. The storage system also wasn't an issue for me. It seems like the devs have really worked hard to address people's feedback and improve the user experience.
I rarely review games, but I've absolutely loved this game - it might be my new favourite!
I'm not really a "gamer", so I appreciate the option to enable things on "easy mode", such as an expanded inventory, instant cooking, and even adjusting the amount of prize money you get for completing quests. I want to relax when I play games, and these options made the gameplay much more accessible to me. I also love the option to "pin" recipes and to show how many of each ingredient are in your inventory AND in your storage.
The visuals, character design, and music are all absolutely lovely. I also loved the way the map kept expanding and expanding, and the beautiful backgrounds - the scope of the map completely exceeded my expectations for a small indie game!
Steam User 9
Very cozy and relaxing game with the fun aspects like collecting and completing tasks like stardew however it doesnt have the time based deadlines, which I really liked since it has given me plenty of time to explore and get into the lore and character interactions without feeling like I have to rush back. The game is adorable and just lovely to look at. Im so obsessed
Steam User 5
Big Ghibli vibes, low-stakes puzzling and platforming, just a beautiful flowing experience. If you want something cozy, I highly recommend!
Steam User 4
It's a fun cozy game that has it's flaws but is entertaining once you understand its system.
Pros. Exploration is rewarding and the game keeps revealing new stuff little by little and changes everything. Fun side characters.
Contras: Recipes system it's a little complicated early game. Inventory system. A little too grindy. Ending... not really relevant...
Overall, I enjoyed my time here and can recommend it.
Steam User 4
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.
Steam User 3
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.
Steam User 3
finished the game while offline, got 80% achievements.
the game is good, but my constant question was why women's chests move like water balloons. in fact, why do they move at all, is it a separate entity. it made my question if the game is fetish content at first. actually, it made me question it every time i run and jumped. i still question it.
the cooking was good.
game design 8/10
storyline? only present to unlock new locations and tools
relationships between characters and lore? non-existent