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Winch the Wombat

If it's not stuck, you're not trying.

A wombat, a battered ute called Shirl, and the long way to the top of Cape York.

Game screen: Winch it. Push it. Get Shirl through. Shirl on a red dirt track, a ringed log ready for the winch.

Game screen: Find campsites nobody else knows. Shirl parked by a lily lagoon at sunset.

Game screen: Winch tells the hula wombat what you did. Day 1 complete at camp.

The game

Winch the Wombat: Recovery

A puzzle game about getting unstuck. Winch, push and haul Shirl up Cape York. Free to try, no ads.

Coming to Android

YouTube

The road trip

The road trip, one day at a time. Calm narration, bad decisions.

Watch on YouTube

Instagram

@winchthewombat

Mud, mishaps and the odd emu.

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Bird's-eye view of a small felt island in a turquoise sea, with a meadow of round thatched shelters, a forest, a rocky cave and tiny creatures scattered across it. — The island on day 40.

In production

Grown

A world grown inside a computer, filmed like a terrarium.

Grown is a Hektic Labs series of short films about tiny worlds that run on their own. Each episode is a real simulation: a small island of artificial creatures who gather food, build shelters, make friends and keep secrets. We set the rules, press go, and film what happens over 100 days.

Visit the island

Coming soon

We built a friend. It's still working out the stairs.

More when it's ready.