Pastimes
Pastimes is a calm 2D logic puzzle based on Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting Children's Games (1560). Players fill a large numbered grid where each clue indicates how many cells must be filled in the…
Pastimes is an indie, released 28 August 2026 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Pastimes is
Pastimes was released in 2026. It was published by Kalmasca. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Godot Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Pastimes, a vast numbered grid hides Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Children's Games. Cell by cell, logic unlocks the painting: children at play across a busy sixteenth-century town, each scene waiting to be brought back into view. As regions of the puzzle are completed, fragments of the artwork return, along with short notes on the historical pastimes Bruegel painted. There is no race and no failure state, only the quiet work of filling the grid until the full scene reappears, alone or side by side with another player on the same shared canvas.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
What it launched against
Pastimes launched on 28 August 2026, within three weeks of Marvel's Wolverine, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Onimusha: Way of the Sword and Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Wolverine, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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