Top Hat Studios bringing farm simulation "Ova Magica," action RPG "Sonzai," and 3D platformer "Hyper Team Recon" to Switch

Top Hat Studios has announced three separate titles for the Switch today. You can get details on all three games below.

Ova Magica (early 2022)

Farming

You can grow crops and fruit trees and take care of your blob animals! Work hard to create your own dream farm! You need good products to produce quality feed for your blobs.

Blobs

Blobs hatch from eggs and it’s up to you to train them!

Unlike other games, you don’t receive experience points after battle. To make your blobs stronger, you must feed them well, pet them, and use specific skills in battles.

Your blobs can also help you with your farm work.

Bachelor(ettes)

You can make friends and build relationships with different characters. Talking, battling, and gifting increases your friendship and unlocks new events, places and more. There are wonderful stories you can experience!

Battle System

Fight against other trainers and wild blobs. Experience a strategic Active Time Battle system with a little twist! Attacks throw you back to the ATB bar and can even cancel your current action. Think carefully when it’s time to defend and when to attack. Also plan to use the right skill type to gain elementary advantages.

Expedition

You can explore dangerous mazes where you can find eggs and rare treasures. These dungeons change every time you enter them! In the end a strong blob boss guards the rare eggs. A tough battle awaits you!

Breeding

Grow stronger and unique blobs! You can crossbreed all blobs!

Create your dream team and become the strongest trainer.

Activities

Enjoy many wholesome activities like fishing, bug catching, cooking and more!

Crafting

Gather resources to create new items with the workbench and decorate your farm and home!

Sonzai (2022)

Sonzai is a 2D action brawler platforming RPG. The town of Kumotoshi holds secrets. A new life, new people, new spirits. What are the threads that bind people together? What is the nature of magic?

Sonzai is an innovative hand-drawn action RPG about life, magic, and relationships. The town of Kumotoshi holds secrets; a new life and new people. What threads bind these people together? What is the true nature of magic? Thrown into a new town, form relationships with people around you. Sonzai is the debut game by trailblazing video game duo 2 Odd Diodes, hailing from Kolkata, India, and published by New York-based Top Hat Studios, Inc.

Taking place in a dynamic, living town filled with unique characters, each with their own lives and stories. The game embraces social links and relationship building that affect both the course of the story and the scope of the player’s skill. Visceral character-action combat with RPG mechanics means Sonzai brings customizable “rune” abilities and weapon load-outs to the table. Thus accommodating vastly different fighting styles along with the game’s more traditional life sim elements.

The game is wrapped in a beautiful, inky minimalist art style with precisely choreographed animations (every single animation frame hand-drawn), complementing a thought-provoking narrative about existence and magic, within a vast world filled with hidden lore to discover. While getting tangled in the lives of a colorful, diverse cast of characters.

Key Features

Discover the Secrets of a Magical World – Explore a vast world. Whether it is a burning town right beside Kumotoshi or a civilization underground. Each new area has its own aesthetic and beings who reside in them. Discover its rich history while also managing your high school life.

Engage in Visceral Character-Action Combat – Experience combo based action with deep customization. Passive Runes give you strength if you can fulfill its conditions. Actives Runes are devastating spells that you unleash on your enemies. Modules are modifiers that you can mix and match, to fine tune your loadout.

Form Relationships with the Townsfolk – Each character you meet may or may not like a new face in town. Form bonds with them and get tangled in their stories. Get stronger through your relationships.

Story

Kumotoshi is a magical town; a hub for young mages. Its outskirts are a dangerous place—infused with dangerous magical energy. As you arrive, in town as a new student, you find yourself ready to begin a new life. New opportunities and new friends await. However, we secrets lay in the shadows?

Hyper Team Recon (2022)

Hyper Team Recon is an adorable 3D platformer about three aliens and their adventure across Earth!

Three energetic aliens—Ember, Penny, and Lite—are tasked by their commander to travel to Earth in order to learn more about the lifeforms inhabiting the planet, using their species unique morphing abilities to disguise themselves as girls in order to keep a low profile, but after the trio get split up and stranded on Earth after their ship crashes, they will each have to traverse through a variety of levels and locations full of platforming, puzzles and combat!

On their journey, each of the girls will make friends with the people and creatures they find on Earth that they can trust, who will be happy to tag along and help the girls re-unite, fix their ship, and complete their mission, as well as let them copy their forms to gain new abilities along the way!

However, there will also be some people who won’t be as hospitable for their alien guests, and will do everything they can to stop the trio! But that won’t stop them from simply morphing into these enemies and using their own moves against them in combat!

Jump, solve, and fight your way across Earth, morph into a wide variety of different forms, people and creatures, gain access to new abilities, re-unite the girls and complete the mission!

Key Features

Transform Into Anyone You Meet – As a shape-shifting alien, morph into friends and foes alike to copy their forms and gain unique abilities to use with them!

Mechanics – From platforming, to puzzles, to combat, use the morphing mechanic to gain new abilities to help you in each of these fields!

Travel the World – As the girls travel across the planet, jump, solve, and fight through various platforming challenges, puzzles, and combat encounters in a variety of locations!

Collectables – Pick up foil scattered throughout the levels in order to fill out your scrapbook, as well as break open objects for even more foil! Be on the lookout for rarer collectables too, such as the souvenirs hidden throughout each level!

Charming Visuals – Cutesy paper inspired visuals during gameplay are paired up with expressive, animated anime-style models of the characters during visual novel-style cutscenes to add a further level of charm and character to the game’s world and storytelling!

Lively Cast – Meet all sorts of cute and colorful characters on your journey across Earth, each with their own forms and abilities to copy!

Inviting Gameplay – Forgiving, easy to learn controls and gameplay allows anyone to feel welcome in the world of Hyper Team Recon as they settle in at their own pace!

Unlockable Extras – Complete optional goals or spend foil to fill out your scrapbook to unlock different outfits for the alien trio, as well as special scenes to watch!

Replayability – Replay old levels and push your abilities to their limits to find hidden routes and collectables to clear optional objectives!