A walk through the temple courtyard from spring to autumn, up to a grown juniper on its pedestal, then the juniper tended outdoors: the pot turns, the cutters take a twig from the crown and go back on the mat. Recorded in the game with its interface hidden, a frame at a time at 24 frames a second.

House of Bonsai

A bonsai cultivation simulator.

Grow, water, prune and wire a tree that remembers its care. Its shape comes from simulated growth, so every cut, pinch and missed watering shows in the seasons that follow. Ficus, juniper and cherry each follow their own growth and seasons. Tend a tree at the grow-room bench, or outdoors on a pedestal in a walled temple courtyard whose ground, paths, stones and water basin you lay out yourself.

Status
In development
Category
Simulation
Species
Ficus · juniper · cherry
Devlog
10 posts
A ficus sapling on the bench with a vertical wipe through its trunk: on the left as it was on 1 June, on the right on 1 July with new shoots and pale fresh leaves.
Thirty days: the wipe rests on the trunk, before on the left, now on the right. 17 Oct 2026
A ficus on the bench split by the wipe: 1 June on the left, 1 September on the right after one season-long watch.
One watch: a ficus's summer, 1 June to 1 September, as the watch ends on its own comparison. 17 Oct 2026
A ficus on the bench five days unwatered, an amber paper tag reading Growth slowing hanging from the bowl's rim, the plaque's condition line amber.
Five days dry: the tag and the plaque. 17 Oct 2026

Devlog

All 10 posts
  1. A tree that answers back.
  2. A house, a dry pond and a sun that moves.
  3. The glow that looked like wood.
  4. Grease, tentacles and a floating bowl.
  5. Leaves that wait, and a cherry that grows like one.