New: The Larger Picture

Features

• Paint to fight. Wherever you move, you leave a stroke of wet ink. Close it into a circle around the spirits to seal them.
• The rounder, the stronger. Every circle is judged: rough, fine or a perfect ensō. A perfect ensō rings the temple bell, triples your score and breaks even the toughest spirits.
• Many at once. Seal a whole kodama family in one stroke for a multiplier, and keep sealing to build chains.
• Ink dries. Wet ink fades after a few seconds. Paper cranes, lantern fire, crows and lightning cut your stroke - dash through danger, nothing can hurt you mid-flick.
• A story told in picture scrolls. The old painter Bokusai sealed every spirit of the land in his great scroll - until one night his last circle stayed open. You are the last drop of his ink. Every great spirit speaks in haiku and gives back a memory of his life, painted live as an emaki. What you learn changes how the story ends: close the last circle, or leave it open.
• Walk the painted world. Eighteen worlds lie on a map you walk freely, from rice terraces and a bamboo grove to the palace of the moon, a haunted house, a noh stage, hot springs where Orochi sleeps, a pagoda of dreams and the nest of the phoenix. The painter's temple opens hall by hall as you go.
• Every scroll its own trick. Festival lanterns that burst into fireworks, the moon in a pond that mirrors your circles, mist that hides the yokai, sliding doors no circle reaches through, a drum that doubles every seal on the beat, old circles that dream and come back.
• Signs and techniques. Draw shapes for special strokes - fire, thunder, a whirlpool, a wave, a star and more - and choose before every scroll which sign and which technique come along. Each one is learnt for good from a great spirit.
• The Shrine of Ink. Walk through the painter's shrine: lasting techniques, the brush case, brush spirits and offerings. Every scroll has three goals whose seals open new things.
• Eighteen great spirits, from the Drumming Tanuki to Ōmukade the giant centipede, Hannya of the noh stage, Baku the dream eater and the phoenix Hō-ō - and the Shadow of the Brush at the end of the journey.
• 43 kinds of yokai from Japanese folklore, with elite variants: lion-dog guardians that roar each other back, a lantern whose light shields its friends, wolves that hunt in packs, a spirit of masks, smoke that slips through your stroke. Every one you seal goes into the bestiary with its story.
• The Pilgrimage. A roguelike from the red gates of the map: all seven scrolls in one run, a technique card after every wave, roadside shrines, fortunes and master strokes, and five dan ranks to climb for the leaderboard.
• Four difficulties, from Gentle to Ichigo Ichie: one drop of ink, one chance.
• Your run as a painting. Watch a time-lapse of the whole run and save it to your gallery.
• Accessibility: gentle closing, reduced motion, high contrast.
• Nine languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian and Turkish.
• Everything is painted and played by the game itself: a real-time ink renderer, a hand-made brush font, and a fully synthesized soundtrack of koto, shakuhachi, taiko and temple bells.

Controls

• WASD / arrows / left stick - paint
• Mouse - the brush follows the cursor (left or right click to dash)
• Space / Shift / A - dash (invulnerable)
• Esc / P / Start - pause
• Gamepad supported

Made by hand