Kintsugi — The Art of Golden Repair

A vessel breaks. That is where this game begins.

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold — not hiding the damage, but honoring it. In this quiet puzzle game, you gather the scattered pieces of a tea bowl, a sake flask, a grand jar, and drag each one back to where it belongs. When the last piece settles into place, molten gold flows along the cracks, and the vessel is whole again — different from before, and more beautiful for it.

Twenty vessels are waiting on your workbench. Each mended piece takes its place on your shelf, and each leaves you a short poem — a single quiet line, as if the vessel remembered something.

Mend all twenty and the workshop opens its last door: Free Create, where any vessel will break a different way every time, and you can save a photo of each one-of-a-kind repair.

No timer. No failure. Just you, the pieces, and the gold.

The repair in four moments

Begin with Broken Pieces

Fit Every Fragment

Watch Gold Flow Through the Cracks

Keep Every Completed Repair on Your Shelf

Features

• 20 vessels to mend, from tea bowls to a grand jar
• Simple mouse controls: drag pieces home, scroll or right-click to rotate
• Gold that flows along the cracks when a vessel is made whole
• A short poem for every mended vessel — 20 in all
• A shelf gallery of everything you have repaired
• Free Create mode: endless random breaks, with photo saving
• English and Japanese, switchable from the title screen
• Gentle sound effects; no timer, no score, no game over

Please note

• The current build is for Windows 10/11, 64-bit.
• The direct-download executable is unsigned and Windows may show a SmartScreen warning on first launch (the included README explains the two clicks to get past it).
• Progress saves automatically.

More from KIGAKU Games — small, quiet games about Japanese things. No timers, no failure. English & Japanese included.

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• KINGYO — Goldfish Scooping Night — a festival game: scoop goldfish with paper that tears if you rush.
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