Press kit

The counts on this page are from the build of 10 November 2026. The game is still being made, so they may change.

Fact sheet

Game: Tumbalo (said TOOM-ba-lo; from the Spanish túmbalo, “knock it down!”)
Genre: Run-based domino score-building game, single player
Made by: A solo designer
Based in: Croatia
Platform: Windows PC
Release date: To be announced
Price: To be announced
Engine: Unity
Contact: hello (at) playtumbalo.com

In one paragraph

Tumbalo is a run-based domino score-building game. Lay a line from your hand, flick the first tile and score every one that falls, chips times mult. Seat a crew of odd patrons who bend the rules, get through eight hours of house rules, and beat a topple record of 4,491,863.

A little longer

Every table in Tumbalo is one line of dominoes. Build it from your hand, flick the first tile, and the fall runs down the felt. Each tile that falls adds its top to your chips and its bottom to your mult. Match the ends and they link. Line up doubles, suits, runs and chains for bigger patterns, and a line that loops back on itself makes a Ring.

A run is a night at the bar: eight hours, three tables each, from the warm-up to the headliner. Every headliner brings a house rule, and from the fourth hour on the night draws its headliners from a pool, so no two nights line up the same. Between tables you spend matches in the shop on patrons, vouchers, chalk that rewrites a tile, rulebook pages that level up a pattern, and crates you open blind.

Glass tiles double your mult, and one in four shatters and stops the fall. The tiles it never reached stay on the felt for your next flick, so a shatter costs you the fall, not the line.

What's in it

72 patrons, each a pixel-art regular with one trick; five seats at your table.
8 hours, 24 tables and 11 house rules, seven of them in any one night.
16 vouchers, 10 chalks and 9 rulebook pages in the shop.
Six domino boxes, from the classic double-six to the Painted Box (only 0, 3 and 6) and the Pocket Box.
A daily run of twelve tables, five challenges, and a short Rehearsal of nine tables.
Endless hours after the record falls.
Mouse, keyboard or controller, with rebindable keys.
Three text sizes, a calm table, pip numbers on tiles and mult pips with their own shape.

Screenshots

1920 x 1080 PNG. Each one downloads at full size.

Logo and art

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