Ova Magica Steam Charts & Stats

i love it

I have absolutely loved playing this game so far and i know i will put so many more hours into it

So much fun and i am very excited for future updates. i do hope they make it easier to get the moves you want and add a way to customize your blobs more easily. or at least more predictably. love what this game has going!

This is a gem among games that unites two genres that henceforth (as far as I know) have not been united. You'll like this game if: - you played the classic Pokémon Games and always wished you could do more with the Pokémon than just fight - you like all the Farming Simulation Games - you specificially enjoy the graphics of the Story of Seasons Games - you always wanted to cruise around on a Steamboard You'll not enjoy the game if: - Let's not kid around, you'll enjoy it. The balance between pet battling game and farming simulation is a bit heavy on the pet battling side. So far, you can only farm to earn some money and feed food to the pets. But it's still early access. It looks like there will be a villager request board later on in development and I'd be hoping for certain buffs with certain foods that the pets can only get when eating homegrown and -cooked food. Despite being early access, the game looks pretty developed already and I can't wait to see what they're going to make out of it. So far, the only drawback is the time - there never seems to be enough time to really explore the blob world, if I have to water the plants before, even with my watering blob. And exchanging blobs is a pain, but I saw somewhere that there could be a blob management terminal or something like that, hopefully, it'll be faster then. Also, there are tutorial classes you can go to to learn to take care of your blobs, but there is nothing about breeding and it still confuses me a lot.

I've played Ova Magica for around 40 hours now. At first, I was hooked, the game is charming, cozy, and addictive. I wanted to love it, and it started out really strong. But the deeper I got, the more it felt like the devs didn’t know how to make the game last longer, so they padded everything out with grindy mechanics and frustrating limitations. Everything in the game is insanely expensive, but the stuff you sell barely gives you anything back. The economy just feels unbalanced. The only thing that sells for a decent price is eggs, which sounds good until you realize they have a 2% drop rate. So if you want a specific blob? Get ready for an endless grind and a lot of luck. Don’t even get me started on breeding. Breeding is another frustrating part. You’re given 30 blobs, but barely enough space for 12 unless you grind forever to build more barns. So even opening an egg feels like a gamble, is it worth it when you don’t even have the room for a bad roll? They did add an item to let you see what’s inside an egg, which sounds great... except after 40 hours, I’m not even halfway to unlocking it. On top of that, you need to have bred blobs just to beat the blob world, but how are you supposed to do that when breeding is gated behind so much slow progress? Relationships are tied to dumping massive amounts of resources into building random building, many of which don’t seem all that useful. Gathering takes forever, and even with the longest day setting, I barely get anything done. The tiny energy bar forces you to spend more time crafting or buying food (which costs more time and resources), just to cut down a few trees or mine a few rocks. Some item descriptions are super vague. Like, what do the boss fragments even do? I tried looking it up and still couldn’t find a straight answer. Same with flowers, are they worth selling or should I be holding onto them? Sure, sometimes your blob wants to eat one to boost max health, but is it really worth it when the only real way to get strong blobs is by breeding them? Like I mentioned earlier… that’s a whole huge mess on its own. Also, the camera can be really annoying at times. You have full control when you’re outside in the world, but the second you go inside a house or building, that control disappears. Trying to leave turns into you bumping into furniture, walls, basically everything, just to find the door again. It’s extra frustrating because days go by so fast in-game that wasting time like that actually hurts your progress. In the end, it just feels like I’m being punished for playing. The charm wears off fast, and what’s left is a grind-heavy game with too many roadblocks. I truly hope the devs take the feedback seriously, because there’s potential here, but right now, it feels like wasted time.