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It is said that beautifully folded paper can make your heart’s deepest wish come true. In Folded Wishes, you’ll compete in a prestigious contest to be named a master of origami.
Each turn, you’ll connect a paper pattern tile to the grid of tiles in the center of the table. Each pattern tile has a fold action that lets you change positions of animals in the grid. Then, you’ll push your tile into the grid and take a new tile for your next turn. Folding your animals into specific shapes in the grid lets you learn new skills to make your folds even more powerful.
The origami crafter with all four of their origami animals in a straight vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line inside the grid of pattern tiles earns the favor of the emperor and wins!
In addition to wooden animal pieces, Folded Wishes comes with sheets of origami paper so that players may craft their own pieces.
-description from developer
- beautiful tile art
- puzzle potential and neat origami motif
- felt dull and lacked meaningful decisions
- some players felt there was a single 'correct' path and little agency
- spatial puzzle with origami aesthetics
- origami-inspired abstract world
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- limited but strategic choices — tiles have restricted placement and impact based on turn order and patterning
- Pattern Building — arrangement patterns provide different abilities and scoring opportunities as you attempt to create four-in-a-row style goals
- pattern-based puzzle — arrangement patterns provide different abilities and scoring opportunities as you attempt to create four-in-a-row style goals
- tile/board manipulation — you slide origami tiles/apples onto a grid, influenced by tile abilities and the order they are placed
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- there are dastardly sky raisins that will land on your flowers and just like in real life change how you can pass a string through them
- the greatest twist a game can pull is allowing you to cheat
- this game literally has parcel delivery drivers and squids
- I love this game it only takes about 30 minutes and is easy to teach and is engaging right up into the end
- folded wishes was just a little bit dull
- the art on the tiles is wonderful, like something you'd find in a magic I 3d book
- the three rounds of the day, you know, nap at the end—this is your work life turned into a game
- there's one problem you can't buy this game frequently—publishers from Asia will bring small print runs to Essen