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Jun 02, 2025

Magical Delicacy receives QoL improvements with Major Update 1.2 for the “Cooking-Meets-Metroidvania-lite” today

From Press Release:

We have a scrumptious announcement today, as Skaule, the developer behind the beloved cooking-sim-meets-Metroidvania-lite, Magical Delicacy, has released a major free update for the game on Steam, filled with a smorgasbord of new quality-of-life features! The new features aim to bring even more comfort to the game’s already cozy experience, helping players find and keep track of many of the exciting items to collect and explore on their journey to help Flora become a full-fleged witch!

You can read the full details about the latest update for Magical Delicacy on Steam, but here is a brief overview of what’s included:

Difficulty Settings: You can now choose from three new difficulty settings: Relaxing, Normal, and Challenging. The settings will adjust your starting gear, enable or disable a few customizable difficulty settings, or adjust the price and balancing of several items in the game.

New Setting Options: In addition to overall adjustments and tweaks, new toggleable options have been added, including:

• Successful Wares Hint: A new hint system that shows you which of your created dishes and potions can be delivered to an active order.
• Delivery Directions: While on the same level as a customer with an active order, you’ll be able to see the direction of that customer.
• Other Quality-of-Life Options, including Faster Plant Growth, Disable Equipment Limit, Increase Inventory Capacity, Instant Cooking, and adjustable Rewards

Adjustable Tutorial: You can now adjust the number of tutorial hints that are displayed at the start of a new game.

Teleport Home: You can now obtain the Whistle of Crows keepsake, which will allow you to return home via the map.

Additional Quality of Life and Balancing Improvements: Additional improvements are now present in the overall gameplay, including:

• The ability to purchase the Ancient Cap
• Invenstory stacks now hold up to 99 ingredients (previously 19) of a single type – inventory limit still applies
• Kitchen tools now show how they can be used to enhance ingredients when buying them from the merchant
• Improved guide graphic
• Adjustments to the audio setting controls

About Magical Delicacy

A wholesome adventure set in an enchanting world, Magical Delicacy invites you to play as the young witch Flora, who travels to the adventurer’s town of Grat to grow her magical skills and fulfill her dream of becoming a full-fledged witch. Upon arriving, she takes up shop to cook meals and potions for the diverse cast of locals, from the charming townsfolk and mysterious travelers to forgotten figures of legend and masters of their craft. As she traverses the cozy harbor town, she’ll discover their stories and learn that there is more to Grat than meets the eye.

Collect an assortment of inspiring ingredients from shops, foraging through the town, and by growing them in your garden, cook up a storm in your upgradeable kitchen using a variety of tools and deliver your meals to fulfill the orders from hungry townsfolk. Explore the unfamiliar town of Grat, learn new ways to traverse, discover secrets, and experience a unique and witchy world one dish at a time.

Key Features of Magical Delicacy include:

• Collect new recipes and ingredients through trade, questing, growing vegetables in your garden, and exploring throughout the town of Grat.
• Learn an extensive cooking system, allowing for flexible, creative choices to fulfill even the oddest orders.
• Build the kitchen of your dreams by commissioning new equipment to help you create even more delicious dishes.
• Experience a wholesome linear story filled with witchy wonder and intrigue, with many optional encounters and free play opportunities.
• Traverse a 2D platformer inspired by Metroidvanias, gain new abilities, reach new areas, and unlock shortcuts.
• Immerse yourself in a dynamic cozy pixel art style that brings colorful characters, environments, and, of course, delicious food, to life.

Magical Delicacy is now available for purchase on PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One and Series X|S for $24.99 USD and for free to Xbox Game Pass holders. The new update is available now, for free, for PC on Steam. The game will be available on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 in 2025.

The game is available in the following languages on PC and Xbox: English, French, German, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

Accessibility features for Magical Delicacy can be found on the Whitethorn Games website under the Accessibility menu.

To stay spellbound, be sure to follow Magical Delicacy on TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram, and visit the official website. Follow sKaule on Twitter and their official website.

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