Vahadlo

Step into the wagon of a touring Czech marionette troupe and work the strings yourself. Vahadlo puts a real wooden control bar in your hands. Your left thumb steers the puppet — walk, lean, bow, sit — while your right thumb flicks the hand strings to wave, point, swing the slapstick or raise a lantern. A narrator reads each scene aloud as cue marks glide by, and every cue you land on time earns applause. Miss a step, lift the puppet off the boards, or tangle the strings, and the crowd lets you know. Six traditional public-domain plays make up the repertoire, retold across three or four scenes each: Doctor Faust with Kašpárek as his servant, the princess and the dragon, Kašpárek and the devil at the mill, Long, Broad and Sharpsight, the enchanted castle, and the water goblin. Between scenes, pick the joke Kašpárek tells that town — slapstick for a village fair, wordplay for a town hall. In the Dílna workshop, stars you earn carve new puppets from linden wood and pay for costumes and extra strings, each one adding a trickier cue to master. On the Cesta, follow the troupe's route across a map of invented Bohemian and Moravian towns, each with its own taste, and leave a poster behind after every show. No accounts, no ads, no online play. Every bit of progress stays on your device.