Jono, the Steam Game Where Only One Player Plays at a Time, Gets a Second Look
A game that spends most of its time on waiting and watching runs against current design habits, yet the data Part Time Monkey posted shows a small, committed group clearing about 5,000 stages a day.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Part Time Monkey released Jono, a free 2D jump action game on PC via Steam, on October 5. Only one player can play at a time: a turn lasts until one minute passes or the player fails five times. Waiting players watch together and chat. A Reddit post on October 23 with gameplay data drew over 1,000 upvotes. More than 100 players have logged 10 hours or more.
Turns pass to the next player in line when the minute runs out or five failures pile up. Where a player dies, a gravestone stays behind as a warning for whoever comes next, and players can build stages and submit them once they have cleared the stage themselves.
The player data puts the community's size in plain terms. The tally includes six players past 100 hours and one who has cleared more than 7,500 stages alone. At roughly 5,000 clears a day, the 1 million stage target comes around April next year.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.