A lacquer box full of stories

Transform your smart device into a beautiful Japanese lacquer box and solve challenging puzzles in the mobile game SHI•RO!

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SOLVE CHALLENGING PUZZLES

In over 60 handmade puzzles, you connect golden moons to separate the sea from the sky. Think out of the box while playing on a lacquer box! Will you help empress Gemmei to create the first Japanese islands?

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SHIRO welcomes you by showing you a golden circle that pulses on the surface of a black lacquerbox.
This is an island shimmering in silver that is part of the mobile game SHIRO
The star constellation Cepheus is the menu to enter puzzles and narrative parts in the game SHIRO
This SHIRO's first puzzle, in which players learn to seperate sea from sky.
Here's a puzzle of SHIRO's first part, KURO, that is halfway solved.
Drops are floating around golden moons in this challenging puzzle.
Seven golden moons with many drops floating around each of them float above endlessly moving waves.
SHIRO's illustrations depict the story of empress Gemmei. Here, she sees golden reeds above the sea.

Play an engaging story

SHI•RO tells the story of an ancient empress, a lost love and a blossoming friendship. Based on the first Japanese writing, the Kojiki, you engage with an emerging world.

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a stylized, golden star constellation

Enjoy a beautiful design

SHI•RO celebrates the beauty of Japanese lacquerware by transforming your iPhone and iPad into a lacquer box. Gold and silver shimmer in your hands while you unriddle complex geometries and find stories of depth beyond the surface.

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SHI•RO is a game by Topicbird, published by The Brothers Grimm. Find out more about the team.

The team behind SHI•RO

SHI•RO is a game by Topicbird: Jasper Meiners and Isabel Paehr

Sound: Leonard Bahro

Voice: Chieko Zacharias Mori

Translations: Amelie Meiners (Spanish), Rose-Marie Biehlig (French)

Publisher: The Brothers Grimm

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