Small games, made slowly

Vela Insula

Your finger is the wind

Swipe alongside your boat and the water ripples: that is exactly where it starts to blow, and your sail catches it. You do not steer with a button, you steer by choosing where to put the wind. Round the numbered gates in order and hunt for the fastest line between the islands.

At the purple rings, time stands still. You draw your wind ahead of you and see exactly where you will come out. That line never lies. When it looks right, you let go.

The voyage

Forty handmade courses in four chapters, from your first crossing to the master test. Every level has a character of its own: steady wind, beating upwind, a sea that breathes, storm, sailing by moonlight. Each chapter sails in its own night, so the sky above you changes as you go.

1. The Flat Sea. Quiet water, where you learn to read a gust and trust the line.
2. The High Sea. Springs that fling you forward, a wall of water, storm rain, and lighthouses to steer by.
3. The Ice Sea. Floes and thin ice, under a polar night lit by the northern lights.
4. The Chasm. The sea splits open. You take a ramp, and cross it on the wind alone.

Free sailing

Next to the voyage there is a whole tab of sea with no campaign behind it. Five ways to sail, each with its own rules.

• Today

  A fresh course every day, the same one for everybody, drawn from the date itself. Some days blow a storm, some lie calm, and now and then the whole sea has frozen over. Missed a day? Yesterday's course waits one more day, though it will not feed your streak.

• Clock race

  Rings keep coming and every one you take buys you seconds. Sail on until the clock runs out on you.

• The last sea

  The sea falls away behind you. Your score is how far you got, and a ring the sea swallows first ends the run.

• Open sea

  No clock, no stars, no route. Sail. Just sail. The open sea keeps your own hours: at dusk it lies in a thin mist, at night you sail by moonlight past the odd lighthouse. Your trip gets a small map of its own when you come back in.

• Dead calm

  Eighteen puzzles with no wind at all. The purple ring is your only move, and lying still for two seconds is the end of it.

Nothing in the way

• Relax mode switches off the countdown and the stars. Your times and records still count.
• A ghost boat of your own best run sails along beside you.
• A ship's log keeps the count: stars, rings, days in a row, and every metre you have ever sailed.
• Dutch and English, both written by hand.
• Everything works offline. No ads, no accounts, no tracking.
• A Support button, for anyone who wants to say thank you. It unlocks nothing; the game is exactly the same without it.

Coming soon to the Google Play Store