WAGASHI: Knead & Craft

Japanese sweets do not combine on their own. When two of a kind end up side by side, the cluster is outlined with a pulsing gold ring. Press and hold on it, watch the ring fill, and knead the whole cluster by hand into the next sweet. An azuki bean becomes konpeito, then dango, daifuku, manju, dorayaki and on up, all the way to a grand kagami-mochi. THE KNEAD IS THE GAME Dropping a sweet only sets out an ingredient. Nothing rises a tier until you knead it. A cluster of six becomes three in a single press, so the craft is in gathering sweets together before you work them. Kneading costs you no moves at all. YOUR SCORE IS YOUR CRAFTSMANSHIP Points come from how many sweets you fold into one knead, and from how tightly they were packed before you did. A wide, scattered cluster scores poorly. A big, snug one scores beautifully. TWO TOOLS THAT SHAPE THE BOARD Tap the uchiwa fan to select it, then drag across the board to send a gust through the pile. Or tap the chopsticks and drag to lift one sweet you choose and set it down anywhere. Because scoring rewards big, tightly packed clusters, the tools raise your score indirectly, by letting you gather the pile before you knead it. They carry over from stage to stage and between both modes, chains of kneads earn you more, and you can watch an optional ad to refill. TWO WAYS TO PLAY Play Orders to fill a sweet-shop request, making the sweet the customer wants within a set number of drops, across 200 stages. Running out of drops is not the end, because the board is still yours to knead. Or play Zen, an endless and relaxing run. Each mode keeps its own gentle pace. TEN SWEETS, A TIGHTENING VESSEL Work through ten classic wagashi, from a single azuki bean to a New Year kagami-mochi. As the stages go on, the vessel grows narrower and the warning line sits lower, so each one packs the sweets a little more tightly than the last. MIND THE LINE If the sweets stay above the line for about a second, the round is over. Keep the stack low, gather with care, and knead with intent. FEATURES - Sweets never combine on contact. Press and hold a glowing cluster to knead it - One knead folds a whole cluster at once, and never costs a move - Scoring rewards big, tightly packed clusters, so preparation is the skill - Two tools you tap to select then drag: a fan to blow the pile and chopsticks to move one sweet - Tools carry over between stages and modes, and chains earn more - Two modes: fill Orders across 200 stages, or endless Zen - Ten kinds of Japanese sweets, azuki to kagami-mochi - Optional rewarded ads to refill tools and continue - Sound and haptics toggles, default on - 12 languages - Portrait and landscape support - Supported by ads A PixelRyu original. The wagashi artwork and the game logic were made for this title, and the game runs on the Godot engine.