Dynasty Builder

Open a lacquered box and watch a masterpiece rise out of it in a column of light. Then it breaks apart into dozens of pieces, and it’s your turn.

Dynasty Builder is a hands-on VR building game about classical Chinese architecture. Pick up stone platforms, columns, painted beams, interlocking dougong brackets and tiled roofs, and fit them together in the order real carpenters did. Every piece knocks into place. Set the last one and the whole building dissolves into gold and reassembles before your eyes as lanterns light up and petals drift down.

• 16 buildings, from garden pavilions, a covered walkway, a waterside pavilion and a stone boat to pagodas and halls, all the way to the Temple of Heaven’s Hall of Prayer and the Forbidden City’s corner tower
• Real construction order and real joinery: learn what each piece is called and what it does while you hold it
• Hand tracking or controllers; a classical workshop or mixed reality on your own table
• Paint your buildings in imperial hexi, xuanzi and Suzhou-style patterns
• Step inside at life size, then see your favorites standing in a Chinese garden
• Relaxed by default; Artisan challenges with stars when you want more
• English and Simplified Chinese