Press release:
The Pennsylvania-based (the US) indie games publisher Whitethorn Games and Hamburg-based (Germany) indie games developer Skaule, are today very happy and excited to announce that their Metroidvania-lite cooking game “Magical Delicacy“, is coming to PC and Xbox this Summer (2024).
Take on the role of the young witch Flora, who travels to the adventurer’s town of Grat to grow her magical skills and cook enchanting delicacies for the townsfolk. 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.
Magical Delicacy is coming to PC via Steam, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S in the summer of 2024. Magical Delicacy will be available day one on Xbox Game Pass.
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.
Keep up to date with Whitethorn Games on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitch, join the official Whitethorn Games Discord, and visit https://whitethorngames.com.
About Whitethorn Games:
We’re an indie game publisher focusing on pleasant, easy-going games that can be played in pieces, that require no special skills or knowledge, and that anyone can pick up and play. We’re believers in accessibility, inclusion, and widening the audience that gets to play. We like to consider ourselves the defenders of easy games.
While our games might challenge you, they’ll respect your time, they’ll make sure you can play, and most importantly, they’ll never punish you.
About skaule:
skaule is game developer and illustrator Steven Kaule from Hamburg, Germany. They have been making digital games since 2014, mostly on their own. Magical Delicacy will be their first commercially released game.
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Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround
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Tags: Cooking, Indie games, Magical Delicacy, Metroidvania, PC games, Skaule, Steam, Whitethorn Games, Xbox Series X