A merge game from Haiti
Your grandmother's lakou has been empty for six years. Merge two of anything to make something better — then spend what you make putting the place back together, one stubborn corner at a time.
Twigs into beams, seeds into orchards, thread into cloth. Five chains, up to nine levels deep, on a board that never runs out of ideas.
The house, the veranda, the kitchen, the well, the workshop — and the ones nobody has looked at in years. Each one changes what the board can do.
Man Odette, Rico and Camille each want something different from you, and none of them says it the first time.
Man Odette is not sentimental. Rico is optimistic in a way that costs him nothing. Camille arrived with an offer to buy the land, keeps raising it, and keeps finding reasons to stay for dinner. Forty tasks, four acts, and a yard that fills back up: chickens, shade, a gate that finally swings, and a Sunday that becomes a thing people do here again.
Bring me something out there that's still alive. Anything. I'd like to be proven wrong.
Man Odette
English, French and Haitian Creole are each written on their own. The jokes land in different places, and the Creole reaches for a proverb where the others reach for a clause. That is the point, not a side effect.
Free to play. Available on iPhone and Android.
Lakou