- Grand opening today - Our next game is out now!! - 18 May 2026
Hi everybody!!! We’re so pleased to say that Thrifty Business is now open for, well, for business! We’re super excited/terrified to put it out into the world. Go little game!!Thrifty Business is a cozy management sim where you run your very own thrift shop. Sort through boxes to find hidden treasures and arrange nostalgic displays of clothes, antiques, toys & more. Befriend the regulars, help with their requests and expand your store into a hub for the local community.We’re a small indie team, and it’s safe to say we’ve poured our hearts into this one :,) Thanks so much to all our players, especially to those who’ve been around since the beginning. We hope you have fun! Spellgarden Games 🔮(Kathrin, Zoë, Kasimir, Sophie & Malin)
- Announcing our new game: ‘Thrifty Business’! ⭐ - 9 December 2025
Over the past few months we’ve been brewing up our newest project and we’re thrilled to finally be able to share the first few glimpses of it!In Thrifty Business you’ll experience the joy of running your own colorful thrift shop! Create a store that you love in the charming pixel style you know from Ritual of Raven! Explore little character stories and host events for your customers!We love creating fun little pixel worlds and scenarios for you to explore and we genuinely hope you’ll love discovering this new one!Spellgarden Games 🔮 (Kathrin, Zoë, Kasimir, Sophie & Malin)
- Nominate Ritual of Raven for Sit Back and Relax in the Steam Awards 2025! 🔮✨ - 24 November 2025
Hey everyone! 👋It's that time of the year! Steam is inviting all players to nominate their favourite game within a specific award category, and we'd love it if you'd consider nominating Ritual of Raven in the Sit Back and Relax category! 🍵If you enjoyed our cosy farming-sim with a magical twist, then we'd genuinely appreciate your vote in the Steam Awards 2025! ✨ We want to thank you for your support towards Ritual of Raven since our launch in August, and we hope you enjoyed your experience with the Arcana Constructs this year 💟 Please make sure to vote in all other categories too, for all the incredible games that launched in 2025. It's been an amazing year for gaming! 🎉Keep up to date with Ritual of Raven! 🐦⬛Ritual of Raven X/Twitter Spellgarden Games X/Twitter Spellgarden Games TikTok
- Vote for Ritual of Raven in the Cozy Quest Awards 2025! 💟✨ - 19 November 2025
Hey everyone! 👋✨We're excited to announce that Ritual of Raven is up for three awards in this year's Cozy Quest event, hosted by Secret Mode! 🍵 Coziest New Release of 2025 🔁 Coziest Simulation Game 💗 Best of the Quest Voting for the Cozy Quest Awards 2025 has begun and we'd be super grateful if you could vote for our witchy farm-sim, alongside voting for all the other amazing cozy games in the event. We really appreciate all of your support towards Ritual of Raven! 💟Vote for Ritual of Raven here! 💌Cozy Quest Discount!Alongside the awards, Ritual of Raven is currently 35% off in the Cozy Quest Steam event! ✨It's the perfect time to explore our magical and witchy world of Leynia, meet your quirky new villager friends and use your enchanting powers to automate your farm! Discount available until December 1st.Our recent Patch 2 release! ✨In case you missed it, we recently released our…
- Patch 2 - Out Now for Ritual of Raven! ✨💟 - 10 November 2025
Hey everyone 👋✨ Ritual of Raven’s second patch is out now on Steam! Our Patch 2 brings improvements and fixes to various bugs reported by the community. This includes fixing a game freeze during Charly's friendship quest cutscene, a fix to the Wait command card being unstoppable, a fix to characters glitching into walls when placing decorations near them, and more! Please find patch details below in our full Patch Notes 💟Patch Notes - Patch 2Fixed a game freeze playing a cutscene from Charly's friendship quests after finishing it.Fixed some character positions in their friendship quests.Fixed saved command chains not loadable if they were too long.Fixed Wait command being unstoppable.Fixed Marigold flowers yielding the wrong amount.Added a house marker for Sage to the map after finishing game.Fixed character glitching into the wall when placing decorations near them.Localization fixes…
- ❗Update Required - 4 October 2025
We want to let you know about an important update. A recently identified security vulnerability within Unity has been spotted, and while there is currently no evidence of impact on users, we’re taking all relevant steps to ensure you’re on the latest and safest version of the game. To keep you safe, we’ve released a new patch that addresses the issue. Please update your game as soon as possible to stay protected. You can read more about it here: https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01 As always, our priority will be on keeping our games safe and enjoyable for everyone. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2066520/Ritual_of_Raven/
- What a month that was! 😮 - 3 September 2025
What a month! We’re safely back home from Gamescom and have finally beat the Gamescom bug (🤧), so it’s about time we slide in here to say another big THANK YOU for the support and help with Ritual of Raven these past few weeks, and also to give you a little update on where this game and our studio is heading next! ✨🎊 August was really something!August 7th. The day that will go down in the history of cozy games. And Ritual of Raven was part of it! 🔮For our release Malin (Social Media & Community Management) even flew all the way from Germany to Scotland to join Kathrin & Kasimir (Programming) for a little release party! And then once it was time for the game to actually go live, Sophie (Game Art) and Zoë (Game Design) joined via Discord call and our amazing soundtrack artist Marie also stopped by. 🥂 (More on the soundtrack later! 🤫)We also went to Glasgow Indie Games Fest around the…
- Quality of Life Patch 1 - Out Now for Ritual of Raven! ✨💟 - 28 August 2025
Hey everyone 👋✨ Ritual of Raven’s first patch is out now on Steam! Before we jump into the details of our QoL Patch, we want to thank you for your incredible feedback and reviews since Ritual of Raven's launch! We're thrilled with the positive reception to our witchy farm-sim game and appreciate all your support 💟 In Quality of Life Patch 1, we've implemented improvements and bug fixes from your feedback since Ritual of Raven's launch earlier this month! 🥳 This includes fixes to community-reported bugs, such as players losing the ability to interact after moving chests/fields, and a bug that led players to be stuck after certain cutscenes. Alongside this, we've made many improvements, including tweaking the game's tutorial, improving item stacking in the inventory, and more. Please find the full patch notes for QoL Patch 1 below: Patch Notes - QoL Patch 1 Fixed a bug that would lead…
- Ritual of Raven is OUT NOW on Steam! 🥳🔮 - 7 August 2025
Hey everyone! 👋 THE DAY IS FINALLY HERE... 🥳🔮 Ritual of Raven is out now on Steam! Play our witchy farming sim today and save 10% off Ritual of Raven in our introductory launch discount, running for one week until August 14th 💟 Watch our new Launch Trailer here: 👇 Play Ritual of Raven today! 🐦⬛ Ritual of Raven is a farming sim with a twist - you don't do the farming yourself. Instead, you'll Enchant Constructs with Tarot cards to grow your magical herb garden! 🌿 Alongside farming with Constructs, you'll meet quirky characters all with rich backstories! At the start of Ritual of Raven, Sage the witch will head through an erupted portal to find her missing Familiar. 🌀 With no way for Sage to return to the village, can you bring stability back to the magical world of Leynia and bring the missing witch home? 🐦⬛ Ritual of Raven - Key Features 👋 Meet your new neighbors - Befriend…
- Ritual of Raven (Nintendo Switch) Review - 1 August 2025
Naturally, Ritual Of Raven was going to land on my radar as my love of farming sims is well-documented within my work. However, despite how enjoyable and well-crafted a lot of these games are, there are so many that just imitate Story of Seasons or Stardew Valley, with the only innovation being a reduction in restrictions. After a while, it becomes a real “why go out for burgers, when you have steak at home situation.” Thankfully, Ritual of Raven caught my eye with its adorable aesthetic and unique magic-based gameplay. I was expecting to go in for a fairly reasonable time, growing some crops and maybe learning a little bit of magic along the way. But this game caught me completely off guard with a central mechanic that not only fits the genre but shakes it up in an engaging and interesting way. Ritual of Raven begins with the player, an average human in an average world, getting pulled…
- Pre-Order Ritual of Raven today on Steam! 🔮 - 24 July 2025
Hey everyone! 👋 Today we're thrilled to announce that Pre-orders are now live for Ritual of Raven! 🎉 But that's the only piece of good news... as Pre-orders of our witchy farming sim will save you 10% in our pre-order discount! Our 10% discount will be available all the way until our launch and then roll into a one week launch discount, with our 10% discount running until August 14th for Ritual of Raven ✨ Watch our new Pre-Order Trailer here: 👇 Releasing on August 7th for Steam! 🥳 In case you missed it, we recently announced that Ritual of Raven will launch on August 7th for Steam! 🥳 We're just two weeks away from our launch date... 👀 We hope you're excited to meet our quirky characters, enchant your new construct friends and explore the magical world of Leynia on August 7th! Can't wait to experience Ritual of Raven? Whilst you wait for our full launch on August 7th, why not try o…
- A trip down MEMORY LANE! 🖼️ - 7 July 2025
One month?? Just one more month until the release of Ritual of Raven? That seems surreal! Honestly it feels as though we just announced this game last month and then showed it off at Gamescom for the first time. And now here we are: July 7th, 2025 - exactly one month before the full release (August 7th)! 😮The last few weeks on our end have been spent bug hunting (and catching) 🐛🪲🐞 and with lots of playtesting, so that your experience will hopefully be a rather smooth one! So as we prepare to get our game ready to go, we haven’t really implemented any big changes we want to show you, but rather let’s take this time to look back. To reflect. To see where the idea initially started, how it transformed and how far we’ve come! Hopefully this is as fun for you to see as it was for us! 💜🌱 Early BeginningsWe first started working on the idea of a witchy farming simulator with a twist back…
- Play Ritual of Raven's demo in Steam Next Fest! - 9 June 2025
Hey everyone! 👋 We're thrilled to announce that Ritual of Raven is a part of Steam Next Fest from 9th to 16th June! 💟If you are yet to experience our demo, Steam Next Fest is the perfect time to play our story-based witchy farming sim and meet our quirky characters! 🌿🔮Play our demo now! 👇Ritual of Raven launches on August 7th 🥳In case you missed it, we recently announced the release date of Ritual of Raven in The MIX Summer Games Showcase!We're super excited for you to explore our demo in Steam Next Fest and then experience the full game of our witchy farming sim very soon! ✨We hope you're excited to play our demo and for our launch on August 7th! 💜Keep up to date with Ritual of Raven! 🔮🐦⬛Ritual of Raven X/TwitterSpellgarden Games X/TwitterSpellgarden Games TikTok
- Let’s talk about Decorating & our RELEASE DATE?! 😮 - 4 June 2025
Hi there! Now if you read that title, you know that we’ve actually got some news today that we’re really excited to share with you (and also a little nervous because this makes it all the more real…) But before we reveal the great date, we also wanted to take today to look at all the decorating you’ll be able to do in Ritual of Raven! 🛋️ ✨ Decorating in Ritual of Raven We’ve talked about the constructs and the tarot cards, the villagers and friendships, the farming & spells and ok yes, we’ve also briefly mentioned the decorating , but let’s dive a little deeper into that today! 💫 🗺️ Where can you decorate? We absolutely loved seeing the creativity of players, so we wanted to make sure to give you quite a bit of freedom when it comes to making the world of Ritual of Raven feel like your own! So you can actually decorate pretty much everywhere. Of course that includes the space around…
- Ritual of Raven launches on August 7th on Steam! 🔮 - 3 June 2025
Hey everyone! 👋 Today we have exciting news to share, as we've just revealed Ritual of Raven's launch date in The MIX Summer Showcase through our new Release Date Trailer! Ritual of Raven launches on August 7th on Steam! 🥳 In Ritual of Raven, Forbidden Magic has opened portals across Nevar! 🌀 Can you stabilise the portals to restore balance in this magical world? Ritual of Raven - Key Features: 🌱 Witchy farming sim- enchant magical creatures to help you grow the ingredients for your Rituals and complete your book of shadows! 🔮 Delve into the magical world- jump into the world of Leynia and interact with magical portals that have erupted across the land! 🥹 Help magical and quirky locals- Meet and interact with witchy and magical characters, assisting them in quests and befriending them as you explore Leynia. 🧺 Decorate the world- not only your farm but the magical land beyond. Dec…
- A look beyond our demo: Museums & Friendship 🥰 - 24 April 2025
Hi there! Have you already had the chance to try out our demo? Then you might have fished up one or two peculiar looking items from a portal and asked yourself what to do with them… Or maybe you talked to some of the NPCs and would have loved to know just a little more about their backstory… Well, after releasing and updating our demo, let’s take a glance beyond that and see what more will be waiting for you soon! 🤫Psst, there’s also a way for you to see these features in action already, we’ll get to that at the end! 📚 Complete the Museum (& more) Now, you may have found yourself in possession of some fun trinkets like some rose petals, a bow, a feather, or… a toilet seat? 👀 There’s truly many things you may find in portals… But then what do you do with them after? 🤔 Well, you donate them to a museum of course! Because who wouldn’t want to walk around an exhibition showcasing a toil…
- An update for our demo 🥳 - 24 March 2025
Hi there! And can we just say: Wow! Finally getting to share a piece of this game we’ve been working on for the past few years has been absolutely incredible! First of all a big thank you to each and every one who already tried the Ritual of Raven Demo and wishlisted the game! 💜 As more and more people play it we have also been able to gather further feedback and tweak a few things as well as hunt down some more pesky bugs… 🐞 Let’s talk about it! 😎 (A full list of the patch notes can be found at the bottom of the post.) 🤖 Constructs no longer blocking each other Up until now constructs often ended up blocking each other when working on the same field or even when close to each other. They’d just end up standing around swinging their little arms awaiting further instructions. Now, that can be cute for sure, but we do understand that it’s quite frustrating when you’re trying to set up…
- Ritual of Raven Demo - OUT NOW on Steam! ✨🔮 - 3 March 2025
Our demo for Ritual of Raven is NOW LIVE! ✨ Hey everyone! 🌿 We're so excited for you all to experience our witchy farming-sim game and to hear your feedback on our Ritual of Raven demo! Ritual of Raven is our cosy, witchy farming sim – but you don’t do the farming yourself. Enchant magical creatures to help grow your farm! Play via our Steam page! 👇 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2066520/Ritual_of_Raven/ Ritual of Raven - Key Features: 👋 Befriend magical characters - Meet witchy and magical characters that you can befriend and trade with. 🌱 Grow your farm - Enchant Arcana Constructs, magical creatures who help you grow the ingredients for your Rituals and complete your book of shadows. 🧺 Decorate the area - not only your farm but the magical world beyond, to your liking with many customisation options. ✨ Explore the world - Jump into the magical world of Leynia and interact wit…
- Everything we changed based on your feedback 🛠️ - 27 February 2025
Hey everyone! We can’t quite believe it, but we’re already way into 2025 which also means we’re slowly but surely making our way towards our planned release date! 🤫 Initially we wanted to talk about some general game features today, but as we did a little playtest in December, we got TONS of awesome feedback and spent the last few weeks tweaking and overhauling some mechanics. So of course we want to share those changes with you! 😍 🗺️ Easier & faster to travel across the map One of the things a few players mentioned was that it can take quite a long time to get from one point to another on the map. Especially when your pockets are full (dang forageables, right? 😅), but you need this one specific item for a quest, so you gotta go home and get it before returning to your previous location and before you know it two in-game hours have passed… 😶 That can be frustrating, we hear ya! So…
- Villager introductions, Customization & Decorations 🌿 - 12 December 2024
Hey there! The holidays are just around the corner and so is the new year, but we didn’t want to leave 2024 behind without another update about Ritual of Raven - lots has happened once again after all! ✨ 👋 More quirky Friends In our last Dev Log we got started introducing you to some of the quirky characters waiting for you in Leynia and as promised, there’s more friends to meet! 🥰 Once again we’ll show you their different moods that can show up in conversations and tell you a few snippets about who they are! Let’s go! Coco (she/her) Coco is who you want to talk to if you require any seeds for your farm - safe to say Raven absolutely loves her. 😋 She is friendly but can be a little shy at first and generally tends to be on the introverted side - her lovely and down-to-earth character makes her the perfect counterpart to Charly! 🌈 Charly (she/her) Charly can be the exact opposite of…
