Yakko Tako Royale

everywhere, cuts landing in threes, the crowd thinning until two kites circle each other over the water. One button rematches the whole lobby.Or fight on the couchTwo to four players, one screen, one machine. Everybody picks a stall at the night market, picks a kite and presses START. No accounts, no waiting, because everybody is already sitting in the room. Empty seats take bots, at four skill levels you can mix in the same match.Easy to fly, wicked to masterHold to fly. Release and your kite glides down. The floor bounces you back up.Steer with the shoulders, or tilt the pad if gyro is on. Your kite goes where the nose points.Lunge to cut. Flying through a string does nothing on its own. The lunge is a short committed dart with a cooldown, and it is the only thing that cuts.Two passes cut a string. Damage stays until somebody clears it, so a rival you caught once is a rival one pass from falling.From Edo to the patangThe roster runs from the yakkodako of Edo Japan to the fighter kites of the Indian subcontinent. Patang, chand, addha and dabba fly alongside oni, kitsune, tanuki, hannya, kappa and a long line of yokai.Four arenas, six formatsBatsu: An island on an open sea. Room to run, nowhere to hide.Shinkai: the deep sea. Schools of fish cross the board and the anchor splits the arena.Back to Edo: the great wave, in woodblock with Fuji behind. The busiest sky of the four.Yume: the dream, which puts on a different look every single time you enter.Play a timed round where the most cuts wins, a first to 3, 7 or 12, a battle royale where a cut is final, or last survivor. Set the speed and the whole board changes character. With sixteen in the sky, last survivor is a tournament and a comedy at the same time.The seven lucky gods, armedDaruma drift across the board and open on contact. Fukurokuju makes one pass enough. Jurojin makes rivals need four. Benzaiten makes you uncuttable and wipes the passes banked against you. Bishamonten makes you invulnerable and armed, so two rams take a rival out with no string work at all. Hotei clears your own damage. Ebisu casts your lunge far past its normal reach, and Daikokuten hands you the mallet, so you can lunge again almost at once. In a sixteen-kite sky, a god in the right hands turns the whole match.Learn it in one sittingA hands-on tutorial runs inside a real arena with real physics, not a slideshow. The game checks you did each thing before moving on, and button prompts show the pad actually in your hands.Built for the Steam DeckDeveloped and tested on the Deck, with gyro steering and its own Steam Input configuration. Runs on Linux and Windows. On the couch, the Deck's own controls count as one of the four players, so a Deck plus one pad is already a two-player match.Steam achievements climb from your first match to Royale with Cheese, and every takedown you land online counts on the global Takedowns leaderboard.