Pressed

The whole world is a quilt, and someone left it crumpled in a drawer for a hundred years.

You're a tiny tailor with a travel iron and a thimble for a home. Press the creases flat, wind the loose thread into buttons, and find out what was stitched underneath.

Iron the world flat

Every crease is a real hill you walk over, and ironing it out reshapes the land for good. Mind the heat: stay in one spot too long and you'll scorch the cloth, and scorched cloth only gives part of the thread until you sew a Patch Kit over it.

Three fabrics, three levels

Press a level 40% flat and its seam opens. Each fabric is more heat-sensitive than the last, and pays more thread per yard.

• Cotton Meadows: gingham, polka dots and florals. Watch out for moths.
• Denim Badlands: stiff indigo twill, copper rivets for boulders and a rivet lighthouse. Wind gusts shake your pressed cloth loose.
• Silk Dunes: pastel silk, giant pearls and ribbon bows. The ground is slippery, and static sparks jump to your iron.

Four presses

Start with the Travel Iron, then buy the Heavy Press, the Roller Press (a wide strip as you walk) and the ride-on Steamroller (a big circle just ahead of you, no aiming). Scroll the mouse wheel to switch.

Wind, earn, upgrade

Fill your bobbin, carry it back to the Thimble, and spend your buttons on 20 upgrades: a wider, stronger press, a bigger bobbin, Starch, Patch Kits, and wind-up Tin Pressers that iron while you work.

Raise the village

Flatten a stitched outline and a building pops up out of the fabric, with villagers and a story square about the quilter who made it all. There are ten to find, and 28 badges, two of them hidden.

This build (0.2.0)

• Three levels: Cotton Meadows, Denim Badlands, Silk Dunes
• Roller Press, Steamroller and a scroll-wheel hotbar
• Wind gusts, static sparks, Starch
• A first run takes roughly an hour to reach the end of the Silk Dunes (estimated from a bot playing it); pressing every level fully flat takes a good deal longer
• Behind the Silk Dunes' east seam: Corduroy Canyons, coming next

Controls

WASD move · Mouse look · Hold Left Mouse to iron · Shift sprint · Space jump · E interact / patch / cross a seam · TAB upgrades · M quilt map · Scroll wheel or 1–4 switch press

Notes

• macOS: the app isn't notarised yet. Right-click → Open the first time, or install through the itch.io app.
• Made in Godot 4.7. Every model was built in Blender. Fonts: Nunito and Fraunces (SIL OFL).