Kitson Hootstorm: Owl Night-Keeper Action (Browser, Offline, No Ads)

Most survivors-style games on a phone sell you energy, revives and "watch an ad to continue". Hootstorm doesn't. Buy it once and it's yours, and nobody gets hurt.

Ember the little owl keeps the meadow's night-dreams safe from the Grumbles: little grey storm-puffs that drift in from the dark. You only move; Ember's abilities fire by themselves. Spinning feathers, a moonbeam, an echo hoot and more pop the Grumbles into harmless sparkle-dust, the dust fills the bar, and every time it fills you pick one of three cards. Take an ability to its top level with its partner feather and a card offers an Evolution: a soft bloom that turns every Grumble on the screen into sparkles. Keep the night until the timer runs out.

Try it free first: play Hollow Meadow's 5-minute night in your browser at kitson-workshop.pages.dev/owls/hootstorm/

Watch Shade's review: https://youtu.be/Enw5yzLhLyw

Easy enough for little ones, deep enough for grown-ups

• One big START button. The first minute teaches itself: a finger shows "drag to move", and the first card choice is explained in one line. Cards can even choose themselves if nobody taps.
• 6 stages with their own Grumbles and looks: Hollow Meadow, Reedy Pond, Thistle Hill, Birch Edge, Stormcap Ridge and Dreamfield.
• 6 owls to earn, each starting with a different ability: Ember, Pell, Scoop, Gran Tawny, Mossy and Flint.
• 30 abilities (20 active, 10 feathers) and 12 evolutions, Dream Gifts from the Big Grumps, warm berries, zippy rings and drizzle waves.
• The Dream Tree: lasting boosts paid with moonstones you earn by keeping nights. Earned, never sold.
• 4 challenge nights, the 5-minute and 15-minute nights, and the endless night.
• Kid-safe: Grumbles pop into sparkle-dust, Ember never gets hurt. If her Courage runs out the night just ends early and she flies home with her dust. "No flashing" is on by default.
• Nothing to buy inside the game, ever: no energy, no revives, no ads.
• Touch (drag anywhere, or a fixed stick) and keyboard. Reduced motion, large text, left-handed stick and a save code.

What you get

• The full game as one file: double-click it and it opens in your web browser.
• Plays offline in any modern web browser on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chromebook, in portrait or landscape on a phone or wide on a desktop. Nothing to install. Smooth with hundreds of Grumbles on the screen.
• Touch controls are built in, but opening a downloaded file on a phone or tablet varies by device, so a computer is easiest.
• No ads, no accounts, no coins, no tracking. Your progress is saved in your browser, with a save code to move it.
• Original owls, Grumbles, abilities, music and sound by Kitson Workshop; the display font (Sniglet, OFL) and one ground texture (ambientCG, CC0) are free-licence assets, credited in the game's Credits screen and README.

An original Kitson Workshop game. Not affiliated with kitson LA or Kitson Co., Ltd. For personal use; please don't resell or re-upload it.