A nighttime game from PanMarie Studio
Nerukoneko
A gentle lullaby for sleepless nights
Settle the night to sleep, and you settle too.
Wander the nighttime world with Chopin the cat, settling everyone in for the night. Turn off the lights, carry a kitten, line up the stars — and somewhere along the way, the sleepiest one is you.
To begin
The phone before bed is hard to put down.
You know it, yet you keep watching the screen right up until sleep. It happens all over the world, and it isn't because your willpower is weak.
So this game never says "put it down." Instead it quietly turns those last ten minutes before sleep into ten minutes made to carry you toward it.
No flashy rewards, no time limits, no way to fail. No ads either. It's a game with every keep-you-awake trick taken out.
Give it a touch
A bedtime like this, for instance.
It's time for the whole village to sleep. Touch a lit window, and it softly goes dark.
Star shards 0
The lights come softly back after a while
30 little bedtimes
The same game never comes twice in one night.
Turn off the lights. Carry a kitten. Polish the moon. — 30 little games, each with its own rule, arrive one after another in a shuffled order. Through a single round, each game appears just once. And they keep coming until you're asleep.
None of the games have a time limit or a way to fail. The further you go, the gentler they become.
Lights Out
Gently turn off each home's light
Carry the Kitten
Carry the kitten to bed
Arrange the Stars
Gently place the drifting stars in the sky
Counting Sheep
Tap a sheep that stops to help it hop the fence
Polish the Moon
Trace circles around the moon to polish it
Constellations
Trace a thread from star to glowing star
Pouring Milk
Press and hold to pour milk up to the line
Close the Curtains
Softly draw the curtains to the middle
Music Box Lullaby
Wind the music box to let its lullaby drift off
Wipe the Window
Rub the misty glass to peek at the snowy night
Thirty in all. The other twenty are for you to find in the night.
The spine of this game
The deeper you go, the deeper the night.
As you play, the brightness of the screen, the sound, and the tremor under your fingers all sink a little at a time. The whole app drifts toward sleep along with you.
The screen
A night palette of almost nothing but black and warm tones. The further you play, the darker it grows on its own.
The sound
Both the music and the night's ambience grow quieter and softer as you go. Once you're asleep, nothing plays on until morning.
The tremor
While your finger rests on the screen, a faint pulse of about 1.6 seconds keeps time under your fingertip — the pace of a resting heartbeat.
In the app, this pulse reaches your finger
The science of sound
The sound was made to match sleep research.
Rather than sounds that just feel "kind of soothing," each one is built to the conditions in published research and checked by machine measurement before it's recorded.
A tempo of 60 to 80
Research reports — including several meta-analyses — suggest that calm instrumental music at the pace of a resting heartbeat can help shorten the time it takes to fall asleep. Every track is made within this range.
Built on low tones
Research reports suggest that high, sharp sounds can act to keep you alert. The nighttime ambiences of rain and waves are recorded only after measurement confirms their high tones are held down.
Deep night mode
Research reports point to a favorable effect from an acoustic technique that slowly lowers the "beat" born from the faint difference between what each ear hears. It's a quiet touch that works only when earphones are connected.
This does not guarantee any effect. It is not a medical device.
How it ends
When your finger stops, that's the win.
When sleep comes, it's fine to just let it. Leave the screen untouched for a while and it dims by itself, and the sound, the tremor, and the light all quietly fade away.
No alarm, no streak to keep up, no "just one more." This game has a single condition for winning: that you fall asleep.
……good night
And then, morning
Good morning.
The morning after a night you slept, you open the app to find a single little report waiting.
Another gentle night spent with Chopin — that little memory is what each morning brings. Star pieces quietly add up as you play, and they never shrink or reset.
Good morning
It looks like you drifted off during "Arrange the Stars"
- Last night's star shards
- 120
- Total so far
- 2,340
Starting tonight, with Chopin.
On the night it's out, we'll send just one note to let you know.
Please wait just a little longer for its release on the App Store.
