JAPARTMENT for Playdate
Japartment title art: Ric, sweating, clutching himself next to a toilet, with トイレ written in big letters

JAPARTMENT

A tiny puzzle game about peeing in peace.

Ric just got home. Too much green tea. The toilet is right there. The apartment, however, has other plans.

AWatch the trailer BHow to play
// TRAILER

Thirty seconds of pure urgency.

Grab the paper, crank the doors, haul the futon out of the way, and kick your shoes off before the tatami. Then run.

// THE SITUATION

Home at last. That was a lot of green tea.

Every stage is a cramped little apartment drawn one pixel at a time. Doors swing the wrong way, chairs sit where they shouldn't, and someone left the futon out. You have one bladder and a clock that never stops.

Ric
You'd run for it, but you have manners. Grab the TP first. ▶ continue
// HOW TO PLAY

Six rules of the apartment.

No timers to read and no menus to dig through. Just the D-pad, the A button and the crank on the side of your Playdate.

Ric picks up a roll of toilet paper; a bubble says Got TP!

1Grab the TP

No paper, no relief. The toilet won't let you sit until you've picked up a roll.

Ric next to a hinged door that is swinging open

2Crank the doors

Turn the crank to swing hinge doors and slide shoji. Doors that open toward you bump you back.

A futon halfway through being folded in half

3Crank the futon

Stand at the pillow end and give it two full turns. It's heavy. Your bladder notices.

Ric at the shoe rack beside tatami mats; a bubble says Shoes off

4Shoes off on tatami

Street shoes never touch the mats. Swap them at the rack with A, then swap back for the wooden floor.

A multi-room stage with chairs, doors, a folded futon and tatami

5Shove the chairs

Walk into a chair to push it, as long as there's room behind it. Push it into a corner and it stays there.

Game over panel reading OOPS. Didn't make it this time.

6Don't hold it too long

The gauge only fills up. Past halfway the music speeds up, and near the end you can hear Ric's heartbeat.

// CONTROLS

Made for the crank.

D-PADWalk. Hold it to keep going.
CRANKSwing and slide doors, fold futons.
ASwap your shoes at the rack.
BBack to the title.
Stage select screen showing stage cards with best times
// STAGES

Eleven apartments. One goal.

Each one teaches a new trick and then mixes it with the others. Beat your best time on every stage.

  1. 01First Steps
  2. 02Detour
  3. 03Knock
  4. 04Second Hinge
  5. 05Push It
  6. 06Bedtime
  7. 07Genkan
  8. 08Combo Locks
  9. 09Bedroom Order
  10. 10The Compact Gauntlet
  11. 11The Apartment
Stage 4: two hinge doors between Ric and the toilet Stage 9: a bedroom with an unfolded futon blocking the way Stage 11: a whole apartment with tatami, a shoe rack and doors RELIEF! panel with time and best time
// FEATURES

Small game, lots of care.

1-BIT, PIXEL BY PIXELHand-drawn art made for the Playdate's black-and-white screen, from the woven tatami to the waves on the wallpaper.
CRANK-DRIVEN PUZZLESEvery door and every futon moves with the crank, at the speed you turn it.
ORIGINAL CHIPTUNEA laid-back title theme and a bouncy stage loop that speeds up as Ric gets desperate.
THREE SAVE SLOTSShare the Playdate. Each slot keeps its own progress and best times.
BEST TIMESEvery stage remembers your fastest run. Go back and shave off the seconds.
TINY AND TIDYShort stages that fit a coffee break. Or a bathroom break, appropriately.
Title screen menu: Continue, New game, Stages, About Save slot picker with three slots Ric in a room with an empty bladder gauge
// DEVELOPER

Made by Rabbit Tell.

Rabbit Tell is an independent game studio. Japartment is our first game for Playdate, following the adventure game Dawn, P.I.

PLATFORM
Playdate
GENRE
Puzzle
PLAYERS
1
CONTROLS
D-pad, A, crank (required)
STAGES
11
RELEASE
Coming soon