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1.2 km · Arrival

Oshiro

Every piece has its place, and its moment.

A calm puzzle game. Stack building pieces in logical order, guided by Master Yamamoto, apprentice to the emperor's royal surveyor. Ink and watercolor on washi paper, with zen stories told in comics.

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Master Yamamoto in a straw hat, leaning on his cane, with his shiba beside him

Viewpoints

1.4 km · Look around

Lesson one: a castle stacked on a stone peg in an ink-painted garden, Master Yamamoto explaining the first move
The Puzzles scroll: a painted road winding through a town, each puzzle a stop along it
The main menu: the Oshiro brush logo beside an ink drawing of a castle

1.7 km · The fork

Three ways up

  • Puzzle

    Untimed

    Fifty hand-made puzzles along one painted scroll, each with an order that makes sense. Take as long as you need.

  • Quest

    Timed

    A journey from Edo to Aizu-Wakamatsu: twenty-five towns, the same craft against the clock.

  • Versus

    Two players

    Two builders on one device, or one against the computer.

Along the way, Yamamoto tells short zen stories, drawn as comics.

Rest stop: play the demo

2.0 km

Demo coming soon

The web demo will play here.

Oshiro in 2005: a flat Flash puzzle board with green castle pieces and Master Yamamoto's dialogue box

2.1 km · Back down the trail

The 2005 original

Flash is gone from browsers, but the first Oshiro still runs on a computer. 125 levels, free as it always was.

Leaving Oshiro · 2.4 km

Hear when Oshiro opens.

Letters from Walking Ideas: the demo, the release date, and devlog notes along the way.