One of the games I kept my eye on from Idea Factory International was Calamity Angels: Special Delivery. I loved the look of the art, and the premise I thought was hilarious.
Game Name: Calamity Angels: Special Delivery
Platform(s): PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 (Reviewed), Nintendo Switch
Developer(s): Compile Heart
Publisher(s): Idea Factory International
Release Date: February 17th, 2026
Price: $29.99
You are in Yuri’s shoes, the new leader of the courier team Cutie Angels. In the courier world, the Cutie Angels have a bad reputation, so they are called the Calamity Angels. It is up to Yuri to make them into a renowned delivery team.
The Good
Calamity Angels: Special Delivery does a solid job getting you straight into the action. It only takes a few chapters before you unlock all the Cutie Angels playable characters. You select three of the six party members to be in your battle party.
The characters in your party have a lot of gimmicks that change how you build your party. For instance, Luminous can start battles with a magical girl transformation, turning herself into a creature. If Selma is in your party, then that creature could make her so scared that it turns her angry. In her anger, she can eviscerate the battlefield beneath her. It makes changing your party create lots of differences in your strategy. It makes it not just engaging but also entertaining, and adds another layer of hilarity to your battle lineup.
In combat, your characters are influenced by their mood. You have attack skills, defense skills, support skills, and/or magic skills based on the character. Characters like Ivris have a strong desire to do things their stats aren’t geared for. Ivris is a mage, but she loves to punch enemies with her fists instead of using her strong arsenal of magical spells. To get her to agree to using her magical spells, you need her to be in a good mood. If you try to spam magic, she will likely stop listening to your commands in battle.
The Bad
Calamity Angels: Special Delivery does a good job of throwing everything at you right out the gate, but it makes it a bit too repetitive. You already have your party, and the gameplay loop is the same for every mission. You grab your mission, get yourself geared up, and go to the mission map. You look at where the destination is and hope the compass spins get you there quickly enough. If you grab some books in your bag, you can alter the spins, but it is very reliant on luck of the draw on where you land.
Unlocking main missions requires you to rank up the Cutie Angels delivery ranking in the guild. The first three ranks are a good pace where you need to accomplish a few side missions before you rank up. As I neared the last rankings, it felt way too fast from ranking up to ranking up again. Ranking up made me skip a lot of the side stuff unless it was character quests.
Plus Edition
Calamity Angels: Special Delivery is a solid Plus Edition in terms of physical goodies. You get the main game, which is a good case. You also get a set of three postcards, an art book, and the famous Idea Factory International trading card.
I did not talk about this in the game section of the review, but the art of Calamity Angels: Special Delivery is one of my favorite aspects of the game. I loved looking through the art book. Another thing I love about this art book is that it has concept art for what some characters might also have looked like. I love the what-if concepts that are in art design before the final product is finalized, and it is one of my favorite things in an art book.
The Verdict
Calamity Angels: Special Delivery overall is a pretty solid bite-sized title from Idea Factory International. It isn’t a grand-scale epic, but if I played this game for longer than its play time, I would probably get a bit bored with the gimmicks and the mood swings of my party members. I laughed during the first few times I saw Selma decimating the battlefield out of fear, as well as how Ivris would have a transformation that turns her into a beast magician that oddly made her obey your orders more frequently.
The Steam version of Calamity Angels: Special Delivery will launch in 2026, which will include English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese language formats. The physical and digital releases for the PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch in North America and Europe are set to launch on February 17.
You can download the demo on Steam.
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Calamity Angels: Special Delivery is a fun, bite-sized experience. It may make some not too happy about the number of things reliant on your luck and mood, but it was enjoyable.
Pros
- Art is charming
- Mood’s special skills are a good surprise
- Easy gameplay loop
Cons
- Lots of aspects are based on luck
- Repetitive gameplay loop
