The Larger Picture

1.1.0
22 October 2026
Areas
22 changes in this update

Added

15 changes
New worlds
  • Mountain Path - mist hides the yokai until a circle tears it away; wolves hunt in packs, the mountain echo throws your circles back, and Omukade the giant centipede is sealed piece by piece from the tail up

  • Haunted House - paper sliding doors open and shut and no circle reaches through a closed wall; Hyakume, the hundred eyes, can only be sealed when it blinks

  • Noh Stage - a drum keeps the beat and seals on the beat count twice; Hannya dances three masks: a smile, a rage, a grief

  • Rice Terraces - flooded fields mirror one sky; the giant Daidarabotchi leaves footprints that become ponds

  • Dream Pagoda - old circles dream and come back; Baku, the dream eater, eats your wet stroke

  • Phoenix Nest - sealed yokai leave embers you can set ablaze; Ho-o the phoenix rises from its ashes

Story
  • Six new memories of the painter Bokusai, painted as picture scrolls, with new haiku for every great spirit

  • Two new rows on the journey: the mountains and the dream

The brush
  • Signs: draw shapes for special strokes - fire, two, whirlpool, blade, wall, thunder, wave and star

  • Techniques: eight lasting techniques, among them the new shadow brush, drum beat and ember heart

  • The brush case: choose before every scroll which sign and which technique come along

  • Goals: three goals per scroll; their seals open a new brush spirit, a fourth hook and a golden brush stroke

Also
  • 12 new yokai for the bestiary, 6 new pieces of music, 6 new achievements

  • Nine languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian and Turkish

  • Hints show gamepad buttons when you play with a controller

Improved

6 changes
Shrine
  • The Shrine of Ink is a place you walk through: lasting techniques, the brush case, the spirits' pond and the offering lanterns, opening part by part with your journey

  • One purse, one spirit and one shrine for the story and the pilgrimage

Map
  • The pilgrimage starts at its red gates on the story map; the map is bigger and the halls are entered with Space

  • A row of scrolls opens the next row once two of its great spirits are sealed

Progress
  • Your progress carries over: bestiary counts move to the new list automatically

  • Winter now opens after two scrolls of the mountains, also for saves from before the update

Removed

1 change
  • Inks, the zen garden and the separate map of game modes (the pilgrimage now lives on the story map)