Kuyil

A kuyil — the golden kuyil whose call carries across the whole valley — has the sky to itself and a long way to go. Every stone island you land on is another metre behind you, and every crystal you catch is a piece of something being built back home. Kuyil is an endless platformer about a single clean line through the air: run, time the jump, hold it a fraction longer to clear the gap you thought you would miss. Nothing chases you. The only thing that ends a run is the ground running out. HOW FAR YOU GET CHANGES THE GAME The run is not one difficulty stretched thin. It changes underneath you as the metres add up: • 100m — a double jump, and gaps you could not reach become gaps you can • 250m — the islands pull apart, and the crystals string themselves out over the void • 450m — platforms start giving way under your feet, and stopping stops being safe • 700m — nightfall, and the sky turns over into deep blue and fireflies The sky changes as you fly. Warm gold at the start, then dusk, then a saturated night — so how far you have come is something you can see rather than something you read off a counter. CRYSTALS BUILD SOMETHING THAT LASTS Most runners let your score die with the run. Here, every crystal you carry is banked at the temple and stays banked. They pay out as storeys, raised one at a time on the title screen: Cleared ground. The plinth. The pillared hall. The first tier. The second tier. The tower. And, a long way in, the golden finial — the kalasam set on top, and the temple finished. The first storey costs about two good runs. The last one will take you a while. MADE FOR ONE HAND ON A BUS • Touch controls with a real jump feel — hold for height, tap for a hop • Coyote time and buffered jumps, so a fair jump lands as a fair jump • Checkpoints, so a long run is not thrown away by one mistake • Plays completely offline. No account, no sign-in, no connection needed • Mute music and effects separately, whenever you like WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No sign-up. No energy timers. No waiting. Your progress lives on your device and nowhere else. Pick it up for ninety seconds at a bus stop, or chase the finial for a fortnight. The valley is the same either way.