99 Khinkali

Eat khinkali. Keep the kuchi. A Georgian tavern clicker about doughy knots, a hungry man named Gurama, and never letting the plate go empty.

In Georgia you do not eat the top of the khinkali.

You hold the dumpling by its twisted doughy knot, you eat everything else, and the knot, the kuchi, goes back on the plate. At the end of a good meal the plate is a little monument to how much you ate.

This game is about building that monument.

Click the khinkali to eat it. Every one you finish leaves its kuchi behind, and the kuchi is the whole economy. It buys everything else. Each round gives you ten minutes and a score to reach. Clear it and you draft a card. Miss it and you are back to level one with nothing but the skills you bought.

THE PLATE FILLS UP

Start with your own two hands and one dumpling. Spend kuchi and the table gets busier:

- Gurama sits down across from you and starts eating too. He is the main character, and he has his own upgrades.

- A golden khinkali flashes up somewhere on the screen. Catch it before it goes.

- A mega khinkali occasionally takes the whole plate. Finish it against the clock or get nothing.

- An auto clicker with a hundred levels, for the long haul.

CARDS, NOT JUST NUMBERS

Every level you clear ends with a choice of three cards from a deck of 47. Some are small and honest, like +2% score or +1 per khinkali. Some ask a question:

- Loan Shark: pay 10 now, get 100 when the round ends.

- Far Shot: the golden khinkali pays more the further from the middle of the screen it lands.

- Sweet Spot: click the top of the khinkali, right under the kuchi, for extra bites.

- Patience: wait two seconds without clicking and the next click hits for eight.

- Purist: +40% score, but your auto clicker stops working entirely.

- Empty Pockets: +50% score while you are nearly broke. Rich Get Richer does the opposite.

Draw the same card again and it levels up. Some builds fight each other on purpose.

ALSO IN THERE

- A skill tree you drag around, with three branches off one root

- 16 milestones, from eat 9 khinkali up to earn 9,999,999

- Everything hand drawn as pixel art, one warm lamp over a dark tavern

CONTROLS

Left click to eat. Hover a skill to see what it does. Drag and scroll in the skill tree to move around and zoom.

That is it. There is no second button.

This is an in development build. Some art is still placeholder, Gurama is not finished, and the balance is being tuned round by round. If a number feels wrong or a card feels broken, tell me. That is exactly what I want to hear right now.

Made by me

Art, code and design: me

Some card art generated with AI and cleaned up by hand

Built in Unity