Kayac Opens Steam Page For Chopstick Simulator
Kayac's store page commits the publisher to a free-to-play bean-grabbing game built on one narrow joke about grip, with a Steam listing as the only public signal of when it might arrive.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Kayac opened a Steam store page on October 19 for Chopstick Simulator, a physics game by Kei Furukawa. Players move beans from one bowl to another with keyboard-operated chopsticks, solo or in online co-op for up to 4 players. Bowls hold 50 to as many as 1000 beans. The page lists it as free-to-play. No release date is set.
The page measures clear times, so the game sets itself up as a speed contest across beans that slip and fall when the pinch is off-center. Players drive the left chopstick with WASD and the right with IJKL, with Space lifting both and Shift lowering them. Online co-op puts up to four people around the same bowl, though Kayac has not said whether their chopsticks can collide.
The publisher's game division has handled the butt-fighting action game Ketsu Battler for Nintendo Switch and hyper-casual mobile titles. Furukawa's background is not public; Kayac's division lists a Kei Furukawa on the hyper-casual game Ragdoll Shooting, and the article says it may be the same person.
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