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Orizuru: a half-formed thing
Orizuru is a single-player tabletop story game about transforming into a beautiful bird. You’ll play a character who undertakes some kind of transformational quest to take themselves from who they are now, to becoming something new. You’ll take a square piece of paper, write on it, fold it and reflect on the result. Orizuru is the third in a series of shortform story games written by Marx Shepherd of Marx of High Water. It's complete, but feedback and reviews are invaluable for any future development. Note: When downloading the game, please also download the folding instructions. Cover image: Derivative of “Origami Paper Crane Crane” (retrieved from Max Pixel, no image credit provided), used under CC0 1.0 Universal. 
Price:
$1.00
Rating:
4.70 (from 10 reviews)
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