Khel · games of memory
The games you grew up with —and the ones from someone else's childhood that you've never heard of.
A premium global hub for the physical, neighbourhood-played games of every country. Play live with friends across timezones, leave voice memos for your dad in Lahore, learn Mancala from a Yoruba grandfather.
Phase 0 · 6 games shipped · Pithoo · Carrom · Four Square · Lotería · Bafo · Patang
manifesto
We are not building a game.We are building the place those games came from.
Every neighbourhood on earth had its game. Seven flat stones in a Lucknow courtyard. A kite over a Lahore rooftop. Five gonggi stones in a Seoul schoolyard. A bao board under an Mombasa mango tree. The grandmother who umpired from the verandah. The chalk line on dirt. The shout — Pithoo Garam! — when the tower comes back together.
Urbanisation eats maidans. Apartment blocks bury chalk lines. Grandmothers grow old far from grandchildren who live in Toronto or Dubai. Khel is built so the kid in Mississauga can hold seven stones with her grandfather in Lucknow — even if the courtyard between them is now eight thousand kilometres of glass fibre.
Live play. Voice memos. Ambient beds from the city the game came from. A tower of seven stones, rebuilt — together — across timezones.
regions
Twenty-four cultural clusters.
phase 0 · ship
The first thirty days.
Phase 0 ships exactly one game, end-to-end. Pithoo. Once the vertical slice is in TestFlight, the rest compounds.
phase 1 · next
The next batch.
Patang
10–30 minLahore rooftop sunset. Manjha line. Wo kaata.
String & Aerialphase 1Kabaddi
20–40 minOne breath. Touch a defender. Get back across the line.
Tag & Catchphase 1Gilli Danda
10–25 minFlip the gilli, hit it mid-air, run while it lands.
Throw & Hitphase 1Stapu
5–15 minChalked grid on the verandah. Hop on one foot. Claim a square.
Hop & Claimphase 1Lattu
5–15 minWind the rope. Throw the top. Outspin or be knocked.
Spin & Strikephase 1Kanche
10–20 minGlass marbles on dirt. Flick. Win the marbles you knock out.
Flick & Shootphase 1