Ripple Home

Ripple Home is a free puzzle game made with AI by @jonathan310, and you can play it right here in your browser.

On the last night of a lantern festival, the paper lanterns of a hillside water garden have drifted astray. You are the garden's pond spirit, with no hands but the water itself. Every ripple you make pushes a lantern toward its glowing stone plate, but push too hard and the flame gutters out.

Click to drop a ring ripple, hold to charge a broad swell, and drag to pull a steady wake. Lanterns bob, tilt and slide down each wave's slope, so they surf away from wherever you touch. Walls reflect waves, pillars split them, and meeting crests stack, so a well-placed bank shot beats brute force. Hold right-click to calm the surface before a stray wave tips your lantern.

Keep the flame alive: tilting too far drains it, and drifting fireflies refill it. Settle each lantern softly inside its plate's ring to bring it home. Work your way through a series of quiet stone pools, from a simple round basin to long channels and pillar-studded gardens, all wrapped in soft lavender mist.

Controls: mouse aims, left-click taps a ripple, hold left for a swell, drag for a wake, hold right to calm, R restarts, Esc pauses.