Mintstack

KETIS TOV

About this game

Mintstack is a calm, precise balancing game set in an old city mint. A screw press strikes collectible medallions, and your job is to set each one on the column below so the stack stands true. Build the column to the height the treasury asks for, and it goes on display in the mint's museum vault.

Every medallion has real weight. Mintstack works out the column's centre of mass from the physics. A medallion set a little to one side shifts the balance, and small offsets add up into a lean. Go past the edge of a joint and the column topples from that point. Slide the screw press along its beam, hold still for a moment, and lift your finger to release. Set a medallion dead centre over the one below for a true strike, and chain several in a row.

KEY FEATURES
✓ Physics-based balance: centre of mass, contact patches and an accumulating lean decide whether the column holds
✓ 24 striking dies of different sizes: petite silver, broad copper, green bronze and wax-red enamel, each with its own crest and history
✓ Column targets that climb from 8 to 40 medallions as you move through the rack
✓ A swaying floor on the later dies: the cellar pumps rock the hall, and you time each drop to the swing
✓ Workshop with eight press upgrades: guide rails, a broad anvil, a plumb bob, floor dampers, a master's loupe, a leather glove that catches a falling medallion, and more
✓ Museum vault with 24 vitrines that fill with your best columns
✓ A daily commission from a city patron, with a special rule for the day and a streak to keep
✓ 30 guild honours, detailed records and a treasury ledger of recent columns
✓ The master's handbook explains balance, slip, lean and sway in plain words

HOW IT WORKS
1. Pick a die from the rack and step up to the press.
2. Slide to move the press, then lift to strike and drop the medallion on the column.
3. Keep the column plumb until it reaches the target height.
4. The treasury grades the column from one to three stars for straightness and pays you in wax seals.
5. Spend seals in the workshop and on new dies, then take on taller columns.

WHY MINTSTACK
Mintstack rewards a steady hand and a careful eye rather than speed. There is no timer on the press, so you can take each drop at your own pace. The whole mint is drawn in a crisp flat vector style in copper, silver and bottle green, with a sound kit made for the game. Seals are the only currency. They are earned only by playing, and nothing is ever for sale.

PRIVACY
Mintstack works fully offline. There is no account, no ads, no tracking and no in-app purchases. Your progress stays on your device.

Step into the striking hall, find your rhythm with the press, and stand the tallest, straightest column the old mint has ever kept.