Music: “A Journey Awaits” by Pierre Bondoerffer (@pbondoer), CC BY-SA 3.0, via OpenGameArt. This video is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
About 100 seconds, one thumb, no connection needed. The sea is drawn in flat hanafuda colors with thick ink outlines, and no two runs ride the same waves.
CATCH THE CREST
Build speed and a crest launches you. JUMP OK! lights when the next one will.
SPIN INTO FLIPS
Hold left for a backflip, right for a frontflip. Chain doubles, triples and switch flips.
LAND IT CLEAN
Land clean and the points are yours. Come down wrong and it is a wipeout.
A full pack meter is five cards in a foil pouch. In the game you tilt it, shake it and tear it with your finger. Here, a tap will do.
Any pack card can come prismatic, about 1 in 50.
Hanafuda's flower cards are twelve months of four, from humble Plains up to five rare Brights. Complete the eight traditional sets, earn each month's hanko seal, and fill a linen hardcover book with clear sleeves and a silk bookmark.
Duplicates are never wasted: enough copies leaf a card’s edge silver, then gold. Gold leaf catches the light, with glints running around the edge and small stars that twinkle as you tilt your phone. Get a card to gold and pull it prismatic too, and it is an ULTIMATE card, shining both ways at once and counted in your book out of 48.
The Moon Rabbit and Tanuki ride from the start. Twelve more follow the months, from January's Crane to December's Phoenix. Pick one and it takes the wave up top.
Riders change who you surf as, never the score. One optional purchase unlocks all 14 and removes ads.
HEAD-TO-HEAD
Race head to head against other riders online.
ROOMS
Ride with friends, here or anywhere. Up to eight riders on one sea, with a code or with phones in the same room.
LEAGUE
Race riders at your level and climb from Bronze to Master. Medals stay on your card.
One sea a day, the same for everyone, with an Easy, a Medium and a Hard challenge. Clear all three in one run and the Daily pack is yours. A longer streak raises its odds.
THE WORLDWIDE BOARDCompose a profile card from the cards you collect. It stands beside your name on one board everyone shares. Beat your best and watch your nameplate climb.
PADDLE OUT
Free on iPhone, iPad and Android. Plays offline.
Everything here is free to use in coverage of Hanafuda Flip!!. For codes, interviews or anything else, write to contact@iroi.ro.
FACT SHEET
- Developer
- IROIRO, LLC, an independent studio in California
- Release
- November 12, 2026, worldwide
- Platforms
- iPhone and iPad (iOS 15 or later), Android (8.0 or later)
- Price
- Free, with one optional purchase that unlocks all 14 riders and removes ads. Packs, cards and points are never sold.
- Genre
- Surfing arcade game with card collecting
- Players
- 1, or 2 to 8 in a Room
- Offline
- Hi-Score and the Daily play with no connection and no sign-in. A Room of phones in the same place needs no internet.
- Website
- flip.iroi.ro
- Stores
- App Store · Google Play
- Press
- contact@iroi.ro
IN SHORT
Hanafuda Flip!! is a one-thumb surfing arcade game set inside a painted hanafuda card. Launch off the crest, spin into flips and land them clean, then earn packs of the 48 traditional Japanese flower cards by playing. Race friends in Rooms of up to eight riders and climb the League. Free on iPhone, iPad and Android.
THE LONG VERSION
Hanafuda Flip!! opens on a still card lying on an oak table. The camera flies in and the sea starts to move, a swell drawn in flat hanafuda colors with thick ink outlines. Build speed and a crest launches you. Hold left for a backflip or right for a frontflip, chain them into doubles, triples and switch flips, and land clean to keep the points. Runs last about 100 seconds and play with one thumb.
Every run pays toward packs of the 48 flower cards of the hanafuda deck: five cards in a foil pouch you tilt, shake and tear open with your finger. Packs come only from play, never from money. The deck's eight traditional yaku are the sets, each month earns a hanko seal, and duplicates leaf a card's edge silver, then gold. The cards live in a linen hardcover book with clear sleeves and a silk bookmark.
The Daily gives everyone the same sea and three challenges. Fourteen riders, from the Moon Rabbit and Tanuki to December's Phoenix, change who you surf as, never the score. Race a real rider's run head to head, host a Room of up to eight riders by code or with phones in the same room, play Surf Royal, where the last rider at each buoy drops out, and climb a monthly League from Bronze to Master. A profile card composed from your collection stands beside your name on one worldwide board shared by iPhone and Android players.
FEATURES
- One-thumb surfing runs of about 100 seconds, with backflips, frontflips, doubles, triples and switch flips
- Hi-Score mode on a new sea every run, and the Daily: one sea and three challenges, the same for everyone
- Packs of the 48 hanafuda flower cards, earned by playing and never sold, with the odds for each card listed in the game
- Prismatic cards, silver and gold leaf, and Ultimate cards that are both
- The eight traditional yaku as sets, a hanko seal for each month, and a linen hardcover card book
- 14 riders, two from the start and twelve more won through the months' Dailies or the optional purchase
- Head-to-head races against real riders' runs
- Rooms of 2 to 8 riders by code, or over Bluetooth with phones in the same room and no internet
- Surf Royal: the rider furthest back drops at each buoy until one is left
- A monthly League from Bronze to Master, with medals that stay on your profile card
- One worldwide board, all-time and weekly, shared by iPhone and Android, where any row plays back the run behind it
- Follows Reduce Motion, with haptics that can be switched off
ART AND VIDEO
- App icon, 1024 × 1024 PNG
- Social card, 1200 × 630 PNG
- Gameplay reel, 1920 × 1080, 30 seconds, MP4
- Reel still, 1280 × 720 JPG
- Five phone screens in one strip, 2700 × 1172 WebP
- All 48 cards in one sheet, 3168 × 1728 WebP
- All 14 riders in one strip, 4858 × 320 WebP
- IROIRO studio mark, 512 × 512 PNG
The reel's music is “A Journey Awaits” by Pierre Bondoerffer (@pbondoer), CC BY-SA 3.0, via OpenGameArt, so the reel is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Please keep that credit with it.
ABOUT IROIRO
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