KINTSUGI - A Journey Through The Broken Pieces

At first glance, this is a deceptively simple game centered around restoring shattered ceramic pieces. Its presentation is minimal yet calming: your view is fixed to a table in the center of a traditional Japanese house, but you can rotate the camera to take in peaceful surroundings like distant mountains, swaying trees, and a serene Zen garden. Interestingly, each new object restoration begins in a different area of the house. Gameplay revolves around picking up broken ceramic fragments and reassembling them. The experience changes significantly depending on the difficulty level you choose. With six difficulty settings, the easier modes assist you by snapping pieces into place and rotating them correctly once you're close to the solution. On the other hand, higher difficulties strip away these aids and demand full manual control and high precision. There are 29 ceramic objects to restore, mostly bowls and pots. While all are technically available from the start, you'll need to unlock them by spending in-game currency. This currency is earned by completing restorations—less on easy mode and increasingly more on higher difficulties, with the hardest potentially yielding enough to …

It's a very calm and relaxing game. Nice to pull up and enjoy for a few minutes when I want a break. Getting the pieces aimed where you want them can be a little finicky sometimes but you get a feel for it the more you play. The new rotation hint glow really helps as well Has 27 different objects in the game at the time of this review and they are pretty replayable, especially with how different the difficulty levels feel.

Unapologetically tranquil and satisfying. Kintsugi is not just a game of puzzles, it's an invitation to take a seat in a cozy courtyard to ease your troubled mind and restore your soul. I'd like to see a display of pots assembed so far:D + works on Ubuntu

I enjoy chill cozy games and this qualifies for the most part. The thing that was frustrating and made me stop playing after a little over an hour is the lack of explanation for controls and mechanics. "New game" means select a new vase. I thought it meant new game. What do the + and - above the pictures mean?? I can't choose and new vase why?? The controls to manipulate the pieces could also use a bit more explanation as well. I understand there is a single developer and this is a work in progress. The puzzle part of this game is awesome and I have a great deal of hope for the game as the developer makes some improvements to the explain the controls.