Herri Kirolak: Village Games

Step into the plaza during the fiestas and compete in Basque rural sports.

Herri Kirolak: Plaza brings together fifteen traditional disciplines from Euskal Herria, the Basque Country, with short touch-controlled matches and rules inspired by the real regulations. Never heard of the Basque Country? The game introduces it.

FIFTEEN RURAL SPORTS
• Aizkora: chop through the log from both sides.
• Harri-jasotzea: lift the stone to your shoulder and rack up lifts.
• Sokatira: anchor when your rival pulls and pull when they recover.
• Esku pilota: bare-handed pelota on every village's fronton.
• Idi-proba: drive the oxen that drag the stone.
• Ingude altxatzea: lift the anvil with rhythm.
• Segalaritza: mow and sharpen in time to cut more kilos.
• Lasto botatzea: pitch the straw bale over the bar.
• Txingak: carry the txingas until one of them touches the ground.
• Lokotx biltzea: gather the corncobs before your rival.
• Trontza: two-person sawing against another pair, without binding the blade.
• Orga jokoa: walk the cart round the pivot without the wheels touching down.
• Traineras: row to the cox's call, in sync, and nail the turn at the buoy.
• Zaku lasterketa: a relay of three with a sack of corn on the shoulder.
• Ontzi eramatea: a milk can in each hand around the square.

BIZITZA: A WHOLE LIFE
Live the career of a herri kirolari from your family farmhouse, season by season: fiestas, training minigames (rhythm, breathing, strength and technique), fitness that changes with age and, when you retire, your daughter or son takes over. With the village club, sign specialists with the club's prestige and climb the divisions of the league between villages.

THREE STORY BOOKS
“From the plaza to the txapela”, in six chapters; “Diaspora”, following the letters of a shepherd who emigrated, through Basque festivals in Boise, Elko, Reno, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Iparralde; and every autumn, “Mitoak”: challenge Basajaun in the forest and keep your word to Mari in her cave.

FESTIVAL TOUR AND TXAPELKETAS
Travel through eight villages: each event awards up to 3 txapelas and every village ends with a txapelketa. Fiestas from the real calendar (San Fermín, Aste Nagusia…) and txapelketas on three levels against three rival villages.

CUADRILLA
Up to six players take turns on one device, with no coins or records. On a tablet, head to head: sokatira and pelota against each other, the trontza together.

YOUR ATHLETE AND YOUR PLAZA
Create your athlete (face, hair, build and outfit) and take photos with poses, frames and filters. Rivals who remember your duels, a real technique in each sport and the esatari, the voice of the plaza, commenting on it all; on the podium, a bertso.

AND ALSO
• Quick play with three difficulty levels, a tutorial for every event and learning mode.
• Knowledge plaza: real rules, villages, fiestas and a Basque glossary.
• Weekly challenge, the ghost of your record and challenge codes for your friends.
• Over 60 outfit pieces for your athlete, including home football shirts.
• 60 challenges and daily goals with a streak.
• Female and male athletes in every event.
• Accessibility: visual and gesture aids, sound captions, reduced motion, larger text, colour-blind mode, high contrast and left-handed controls.
• Controller support in menus and all fifteen events, also on Android TV and Google TV.
• In Basque, Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese.
• Plays offline, no sign-up needed.

ADS
Free with ads: full-screen ads only in breaks between events, never during one, and optional videos for coins or outfits. In the shop, one-time purchases: “No ads”, four outfit packs and Bazkide, which brings it all. No gameplay advantage is sold: no loot boxes, no energy.

Fictional characters and villages; this is not an official game of any federation.