The archetypal web app-based strategy experience and darling of emerging smartphones.

The great-uncle once-removed of today’s idle clickers.

It’s a stately, beautiful thing.

A masked warrior and a priestess in Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess

Thank goodness it’s out (onSteamandthe Xbox store) in just a month or so’s time.

Kanitsu-Gami doesn’t look like a tower defender and I very much doubt it was actually conceived as one.

It’s not always a good idea to have Yoshiro advance continuously when the sun is up, either.

Characters dancing before a purified Tori gate in Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess

Equally, if you’re feeling confident you might fast-forward the seconds till dusk.

You’ll also have the chance to talk to Yoshiro, offering her sweets in return for power-ups.

Where could Kanitsu-Gami lose its way?

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It’s not that these are bad.

But for the moment, let me bask in the glow of this game.

I wanted to keep playing because it felt like sanctuary.

A host of evil spirits with long tongues and tentacles in Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess

A warrior fighting orangy monsters near a red-tinged portal in Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess