About Pufferio

Pufferio player guide

Pufferio is designed, drawn, coded and shipped by one person, Omri Dicori, a software engineer in Israel, as an answer to a specific itch: a game a whole family can play in the same minute, deep enough to argue strategy about, simple enough that the youngest player needs one finger and zero tutorials.

The engineering is unusually honest for a small game: a fully deterministic physics core (which is what makes shared room codes possible), a real-time server that runs the very same simulation, bots that fill empty seats from day one, and over-the-air updates that ship fixes in hours. The creatures are hand-designed; the game’s seven languages are human-reviewed.

The design rules

Four principles decided everything else, and they explain most of what you will notice playing:

• One input, forever. Every character, arena and mode must be playable with a single finger. A feature that needs a second button is, by definition, the wrong feature.
• Depth from tension, not complexity. All strategy flows from one trade, big and safe against small and quick, bent in different directions by the arenas and abilities.
• Nothing sold is an advantage. Skins, eyes and auras change how you look. A free player and a paying player collide by exactly the same physics.
• A round never waits. Bots fill empty seats instantly, so the game works at 3 a.m., offline, and on launch day alike.

Get the game

• Pufferio on the App Store
• Pufferio on Google Play
• Play in the browser on a computer

Contact

Questions, bugs, ideas, press: omri@dicori.co.il. Legal pages: privacy, terms, support.