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Platforming journey Magical Delicacy can have you performing some witchy cooking and exploration in a sprawling city of hungry folks this week, as the lovable little pixel-art platformer releases on July 16. Notable for its mixture of metroidvania-style platformer exploration with the comfy characters and crafting of a life-sim-esque cooking sport, Magical Delicacy has a sufficient occurring that one thing about it’ll enchantment to lots of people.
As younger witch protagonist Flora arrives and units up store in a brand new city she’ll meet new folks locally, from regular townfolk to the native magical practicioners. She’ll additionally have interaction within the native economic system by shopping for components and ugprading her kitchen and backyard. You should utilize all that stuff to make new recipes you’ve got discovered, or to riff on them for brand new ends—all to promote to the locals who want some new potion, pastry, meal, or tea.
As Flora grows in her magical energy she will be able to additionally get new methods to platform and transfer across the city, letting you have interaction with the further-flung bits of city, discover supply shortcuts, and usually rise up to secret-finding and weird-people-meeting throughout each evening and day.
We first received our eye on Magical Delicacy again in 2023, when Chris mentioned “why not!” to the surprising premise. Our curiosity was very a lot confirmed in February of this yr, when Lauren loved the demo sufficient to only go forward and play by it once more.
“I received so engrossed in exploring and experimenting that I did not understand I used to be strolling right into a story beat. Late one evening Flora individually stumbles upon two members of opposing witch covens keen to tug her into their very own schemes and after that, I get a message that I’ve accomplished the demo. I used to be capable of maintain taking part in, and completely did, however after only a snack of a pair cooking quests I am very hungry for extra,” she mentioned.
Magical Delicacy shall be obtainable on Steam, and on Xbox Recreation Move, beginning July 16.