Press kit

Tales of the Sanctuary

Everything you need to write about the game without asking. For anything else, write to me.

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Screenshots in English and Italian, wide shots of the four moments of the garden, banner, icon and logos.

Factsheet

Title
Tales of the Sanctuary
Developer
onebitdev
Genre
Relaxing garden game, single player
Platform
Android phones and tablets
Release date
To be announced; pre-registration on Google Play
Price
Paid, one purchase. No ads, no in-app purchases
Languages
Italiano, English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Português, Русский, 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文, 繁體中文, हिन्दी
Google Play
play.google.com
Press contact
nathanreven@gmail.com

In one sentence

Tales of the Sanctuary is a calm Japanese garden game for Android, where you breed koi, shape bonsai and rake sand on a small island left to you by an old keeper, whose letters reach you one at a time.

A little longer

Haru tended this garden in the hills all her life, and left it to whoever would come after her with one wish: look after it, without hurrying. Her letters arrive one at a time, carried by Genji, the old koi dealer from the village.

The pond holds koi with real genetics: twenty-five varieties, recessive forms, families. Each bonsai is unlike any other and ages for decades, shaped with copper wire while the wood is young. The zen bed is raked with one finger. Seasons, rain, snow and night pass over the garden on its own clock, and deer, foxes, cranes and butterflies come by now and then.

There are no ads, no in-app purchases, no account and no timers to chase. Everything lives on the phone, and it plays offline.

Images

All captured from the game. In the press kit at full size.

Cherry blossom, and petals on the grass.Red maples and a golden ginkgo at dusk.Bare branches, and snow on every roof. Someone is walking down to the water.Stone lanterns, the moon and the fireflies.
Koi swimming among lily pads, seen from above.A golden koi’s card, with its variety and beauty.A black pine bonsai on the bench, with its care buttons.A raked zen bed with three stones, inside its wooden frame.

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