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Croquette고로케
Star in the Crack · a rough breadcrumb crust and a crack where the filling shows
Crispness is brief. Being me is for keeps.
The clan where Growkeh began. Korean-style bread croquettes belong to this clan's food family too.
Growkeh · Grow your kehracter. Then eat it.
A 72-hour body,
a life that carries on: tiny foods
Growkeh food bodies live for up to 72 hours: three days. If you eat one in that time, memories of its past life can carry over to the next one. If it rots or gets tossed, that’s the end of it. In this world, the Growkeh are the main characters. You? You’re the sub-character.
15official clans 19expansion candidates 72hours, the maximum life of one food body 8axes in the recipe GENOM
Inner face
What's inside always shows
A Growkeh's face sits right on its food body. When feelings well up, the filling inside shows through more clearly. Here are Moro's three faces, made from potato, corn and onion.
72 Hours
Life can continue after the food body’s three days
A single individual’s food-body stage can last up to 72 hours: three days. If eaten by a human sub-character within that time, the character moves into the host and continues with the same Character ID, Individual ID (I), and memories. Being eaten does not create a new individual. An independent life made later from the same recipe receives a new Individual ID, and the same recipe alone does not continue the same character’s life.
If eaten by a human sub-character within 72 hours, the food body’s time ends and life inside the host begins.
72hours in
- MeetingGet a name, spend time together
- Care and growthTime together adds up
- Friends and choicesChoose who to be with, and what to do
- Transition or endBeing eaten continues life in a host; rotting or being discarded ends this life
- Life LogKeeps how they lived, not a score
The 72 hours are the lifespan of a food-body individual in the story. They are not a real food’s storage time or use-by date. Nor do they define the host human’s lifespan or the total length of the character’s continuing life. We’ll share soon how this time will flow in the game.
Recipe GENOM
The recipe is the blueprint. The individual number is the birth record.
A character's recipe blueprint is called GENOM. It writes down, on eight axes, what the character is made of, in what proportions and how. For example: Croquette clan, potato base, cheese filling.
- BBaseA · Ingredients
- MMain ingredientA · Ingredients
- USide ingredientA · Ingredients
- ZSeasoningA · Ingredients
- CCoatingA · Ingredients
- RMixRatio
- PMaking methodProcess
- KFinal cookingCooking
- Recipe (GENOM)
- The blueprint of what it's made from, in what proportions, and how.
- Prototype
- Which clan and which recipe the character is made from.
- Character ID
- One identity that remains the same after moving into a host. It refers to the flow of memories and life linked to GENOM.
- Individual ID (I)
- Records one unique life that begins in a food body. It keeps the same I after moving into a host, and that I is never issued again to another life.
Food body · 72 hoursBorn with a unique Character ID and Individual ID (I), it builds choices and relationships.
Eaten by a humanThe human sub-character becomes the host, and the food body’s time ends.
The character continuesIt keeps the same Character ID and Individual ID (I), continuing its memories and life inside the host through GENOM.
Being eaten is not the end, but a transition to a host
- Eaten by a human
- If eaten by a human sub-character within 72 hours, the character extends its life with that person as its host. Its Character ID and Individual ID (I) remain the same, and its memories continue through GENOM.
- Rotted
- No host transition occurs, and the life of this food body ends. New memories from this life do not carry on, but memories already stored in GENOM are not erased.
- Thrown away
- The same applies as with rotting. This life and its new memories do not continue, while memories already stored in GENOM remain.
Remaking the same recipe alone does not create the same character. The Character ID, Individual ID (I), and GENOM memory link must all continue together. The Life Log and the stories you remember can remain separately from this link.
Clans
Meet the stars of each clan
Even when they're born into the same clan, they differ in height, build, habits and worries. Pick a clan to meet six of them.
Songpyeon is an official clan rooted in a Confucian tradition that values courtesy, promises and caring for family. They call themselves Confucian boys and Confucian girls, but each keeps tradition in their own way.
Fifteen clans, fifteen mottos
A clan is a food's culture and making tradition. Body ingredients like potato, rice and wheat are called the base. A motto is just a value handed down. It doesn't decide anyone's personality or choices.
19 candidates
- Gimbap
- Onigiri
- Triangle gimbap
- Kachori
- Modak
- Gujiya
- Kozhukattai
- Dal pitha
- Briouat
- Pataya/Pastel
- Samusa
- Brik
- Burek
- Fish pastel
- Manti
- Shishbarak
- Fatayer
- Qatayef
- Dawali/Warak enab
Any food from any country can become a new clan, as long as it's stuffed or wrapped and eaten in one bite. Real food history and the clans in our story are two separate things.
Characters
10 members to meet first
Their faces sit right on their food bodies, and they get around on two short arms and two legs. Even in the same clan, they differ in height, build, eyes and habits. Tap a picture to see it bigger.
In the making
Chungmukung충무쿵
The little guardian of the Chungmu gimbap clan New friend · Chungmu gimbap clan coming soon
A small body wrapped in seaweed, folded seaweed hair swept to one side, and an inner face where the white rice shows through. Holds a long radish kimchi like a sword and a half-moon radish kimchi like a shield. In front of others, Chungmukung holds out to the very end, but is secretly afraid of being the only one not picked. The harder Chungmukung tries to hide a soft heart, the more the rice shows through under the face.
“I'm not fearless. But I'll stand in front of you.”
MBTI is just a first impression from when you first meet. It can change as much as it likes over three days.
The World
Meet them in the game, taste them for real
Raise the characters in the game, watch their days in animation, and taste them yourself at the shop. One bite, and you'll wonder what that character's next day looks like.
A line you'll find on the wrapper
Crispy again today.
Meaningfully so.
- Game
- Give them a name, look after them and spend three days together. Your time together stays in the Life Log.
- Stories
- Meet the characters' days through short animations, short videos and emoji stickers.
- Merch
- Things that carry clan crests, your favorite characters and the Life Logs you shared.
- Shop
- Taste the clan menus for yourself at shops and pop-ups. In this world, the moment a human sub-character eats the character they are linked to, the story of its transition to a host begins.
Coming Soon
What's about to be served
Growkeh is setting the table right now. These are the first things to reach the table.
Serving first
- Short storiesShort episodes about the three days of Moro, Pomi and Nukeu.
- Three-day careA small game where you name a character and spend three days together.
- One-bite pop-upA small pop-up where you can taste a few clan dishes.
Try it now
- Tap a speech bubbleSee what a character really thinks behind what they say.
- Meet the stars of each clanNine clans, fifty-four characters waiting for you.
- Request a canon bookTell us which character's inner thoughts you'd like to hear more of.
Hungry for the characters' deeper, juicier stories? You can request a character canon book.