Cellar

Run a cheese cave as its mouse cellarmaster. Wheels age in real time: sell them young, or wait and they are worth up to five times as much. Nothing ever spoils, so leaving is always safe. Hire apprentices, hand over cheeses for the notes at the grating, dig rooms for cheeses that take an afternoon, a night or three days, win rosettes at the County Show, and listen to 1910s gramophone records while you wait. Every wheel you set on the shelf begins a quiet countdown, and the choice of when to sell is yours alone. Some keepers rush their stock to market and take the steady money, while others let the months pass and watch the value climb toward its peak. NAJOX brings this little cellar to life, where patience pays and the shelves slowly fill with treasure. The cave itself grows with you, room by room, as you carve out space for cheeses that ripen at different speeds, from a quick afternoon batch to ones that need three full days. Apprentices help tend the wheels and keep the work moving, and the grating at the front is where your cheeses become notes in your pocket. The County Show is your chance at a rosette, a small triumph for a well aged wheel. All the while the gramophone crackles with old tunes, and the whole place is drawn in pen and ink, like a 1920s magazine, warm and a little worn at the edges.

Tap or click a shelf to make, sell or turn its batch; tap a wheel for its card; tap the cellarmaster for caps. Keys (changeable in Options): 1-4 pages, Q W E the bench cards, S sell every ripe wheel, L next Book page, G hand over a note, R change the record, M sound off, O or Esc options.