Whirlware
Released
You are a porcelain spinning top. Knock the other tops out of the bowl before your spin runs out.
Spin is life.
Whirlware is a spinning top brawler roguelite set on a tea table. You are a little porcelain top, painted in cobalt blue. The arena is a dish. Your enemies are other tops: celadon dreidels, charging Imari bells, jade gyros, nesting tops that split when they break, firecrackers that blow up their friends, lodestones that pull you towards the lip, and a black basalt mirror that moves exactly opposite to you.
Ram them. Dash through them. Knock them over the rim and watch them shatter on the table below. Every clash costs spin, every broken top gives some back, and when your spin runs out you wobble, topple and break.
Unless you mend. In the Japanese art of kintsugi a broken bowl is repaired with gold and becomes more beautiful than before. After every dish you pick one of three kintsugi, and each one is painted onto your top as a golden seam.
Every top has its own glaze art: leap and crack the glaze with a quake, become a celadon cyclone, raise a golden guard of plates, whirl a windmill, spill an oil slick, or lasso three tops with gold threads and fling them out of the dish.
The service goes from round bowls to long platters, rounded trays and ring dishes with a hole in the middle, with chopsticks to bounce off, mochi rolling about, a sushi conveyor and teapots that spray tea from the lip. Every host changes the dish when it gets angry. Break the Colossus and the Endless Banquet opens: a huge platter, guests that never stop arriving, and a host served every three minutes.
Features
- Seven courses: Morning Tea, the Willow Garden, the Dragon Kiln, the Imperial Banquet, the Cabinet, the Tea Garden and the Sushi Bar
- 28 dishes: round bowls, oval platters, trays and ring dishes, hand decorated in Ming, Delft, iron red, Imari gold and black tenmoku
- 7 hosts: the Grand Teapot, the Two Doves, the Kiln Dragon, the Imari Empress, the Colossus, the Matcha Whisk and the Cup Tower
- Hosts change the dish: tea floods, the dish turns, the lip breaks, the dish cracks in half
- 6 playable tops, each with its own big glaze art
- 15 clear, punchy kintsugi upgrades - one quick pick of three after every dish
- House rules, gilded elite tables and a teahouse stop before every host
- The Endless Banquet: a survivor-like mode on a giant platter with platter events and a host every three minutes
- The Workshop: permanent upgrades bought with the gold you bring home
- English, Deutsch, Español, Русский and 中文, fully rebindable keys and complete controller support
- Everything - every pot, every brush stroke, every clink and every note of music - is made in code
Controls
WASD or left stick to steer. SPACE / left mouse / A or RT to dash. Hold SHIFT / right mouse / LT to wind up your spin. Q / Y / RB for your glaze art. P / ESC / Start to pause. All keys can be rebound in Options.