Serious Bara

Capybaras are the secret custodians of history. From their cozy mountain onsen, the Peaks of Yuzuyama, they slip through hot springs to the fragile moments of the past and quietly fix the flow of time. Nobody thanks them. Nobody knows. They are fine with that; the water is warm.

You are the newest keeper. You have a towel, a good heart and the most important job in history. No pressure. (A little pressure. The good kind, like a warm soak.)

THE PUZZLE
Every mission is a board of springs, stones and channels. Draw warm-water channels to connect the matching spring stones and let the flow run. No lives, no ads, no clock ticking in your ear. Hints nudge, they never answer.
• More than six hundred missions across the ages, from the first rivers of the Stone Age to the far future
• Over 2,500 hand-tuned maps in twelve elemental settings
• Fences, spring gates, pressure plates, sun mirrors, bridge decks, ward plates, treasure nooks and chests, each explained on the board the moment you meet it
• Nothing bad can ever happen: redraw as often as you like
• The puzzle is sacred: nothing you can buy ever solves one

HISTORY, HOSTED BY CAPYBARAS
Each mission visits a real moment in history and is hosted by the person who was actually there, as a capybara. Tutankhamun runs his bath as Tutbarahamun. Nikola Tesla harnesses Niagara as Nikola Tes-bara. Florence Nightingale carries her lamp through the long ward as Florence Nightin-bara. Julius Cae-bara fixes the calendar, James Watt-bara listens to a kettle, Joan of Bara lights a lantern, Albara Einstein loses a pencil, Ada Lovegraze writes the first program and Amelia Earherd checks the weather twice. Fix the flow, hear their story, and learn what almost went wrong that day. Every fact in Professor Liliane Llama's archive is true. Only the whiskers are added.

THREE PLACES
• The Peaks of Yuzuyama: your home outside time. The Pool of Time, the Sacred Yuzu Tree, a waterfall, and a village that talks back.
• The River of Time: the mission map through the ages, revealed stop by stop as you fix the flow. Scroll into the past, scroll into the future, pick a moment, dive.
• The board: the puzzle itself. Touch or controller, your choice.

THE VILLAGE
• Grandfather Kapi, the Elder. Has soaked in more centuries than he admits and forgotten none of them. His tea is always exactly the right temperature. Nobody has seen him check.
• Sage Yuzula, the Mythic. Speaks with the runes, holds the yuzu ceremony, and claims the winter yuzu bath was her idea.
• Grandma Momo, the Shopkeeper. Runs the Outfitters on Yuzu Seeds: peeks, lily pads, fence nibblers, bridge kits. Nothing on her shelves solves a puzzle for you. House rule.
• Professor Liliane Llama, the Knowledge Keeper. A llama, yes, halfway up a Japanese mountain of capybaras. Excellent filing, long story. Reads you true tales at the fireside.
• Schnabbeldab, the Renegade. A platypus who took a wrong turn at the Cretaceous and liked the water. Cheers every run. Two thumbs up. Always two thumbs up.
• The Sacred Yuzu Tree, the Ancient Heart. Older than the Order. Drops a small gift every day for a keeper who remembers to say hello.

SERIOUSLY COZY
Because somebody has to be. Serious Bara is wholesome and family-friendly: no violence, no dark themes, no tricks. Warm colours, soft steam, birds riding on backs, yuzu floating in the bath. Real capybaras really do soak in hot springs with yuzu fruit around their ears every winter in Japan. We did not make that up. We would not dare.

ONE PRICE
Buy it once and every mission, every map and every story is yours. The capybaras consider this basic pond manners. iCloud keeps your progress across iPhone and iPad; Game Center holds the achievements.

Serious Bara is made by Emmington Entertainment, a small games house in Zurich, Switzerland.