Walk · Taste · Listen
Pagdandi Arcade · free to play
Take the long way home.
Quick games about the trails, food, music and people of India's hills and forests. Meet Tara, pick a game, and fill your field journal.
Eight games
Pick a game
Choose from the list, or find it on the map where it happens. The game opens on its own page.
Trail Run
Walk four landscapes, eat what the locals eat
Campfire Jam
Tap the drum, keep the fire alive
Thali Atlas
Serve 25 dishes to the right region
Pack the Rucksack
Fit it all in under 12 kg
Canopy Spotter
Find six rainforest animals in 45 seconds
Dabbawala Dash
Pack Mumbai lunches and hand them over
Vallam Kali
Row a snake boat on the beat
Pickup Trail
Drive the apples from Manali to Kaza
Game 01 · Trail Run
Walk to the monastery.
One trail stitched from Agumbe rainforest, the Kullu valley, Hampta Pass and Tabo in Spiti. Jump the logs, goats and yaks, grab the local food and music, and keep your five hearts.
Field journal
What you tasted and heard
Stamps light up as you collect them on the trail. Every one is a real dish or sound from the place you are walking through.
Game 02 · Campfire Jam
Keep the fire going till the last song.
Night at the campsite. Pick a folk drummer and tap each beat as the embers reach the fire. Land it and the flames climb; miss and they sink. Keep it burning for 40 seconds.
Game 03 · Thali Atlas
Serve every dish to its own thali.
Dishes drop into the dhaba one at a time. Send each to the right regional thali (North, West, South, East or Northeast) before it hits the table. You have 60 seconds and five hearts for wrong plates.
Game 04 · Pack the Rucksack
The jeep leaves in 75 seconds.
Your guide has laid the gear out on the homestay deck. Pick a trek, pack what it needs, leave what it doesn't, and keep the bag under 12 kg. Over the limit and the guide won't let you on the jeep.
Game 05 · Canopy Spotter
Six animals are watching you.
Morning in the Western Ghats canopy. A giant squirrel, a hornbill, a macaque or a gliding frog could be behind any leaf. Find all six on your list in 45 seconds. Every find opens its species card.
Game 06 · Dabbawala Dash
Pack it hot, hand it over.
Mumbai, late morning. Office workers are waiting for their home-cooked lunch. Look at what each person wants, pack those dishes into the steel tiffin, and the dabbawala runs it over. Feed everyone before the clock says 12:30.
Game 07 · Vallam Kali
A hundred oars, one beat.
Punnamada lake, race day. Your red-band crew rows a chundan vallam against two rival boats over 1,150 m. Stroke on the beat of the vanchipattu boat song; the song speeds up as the finish gets close.
Game 08 · Pickup Trail
Manali to Kaza with the apples.
Pick a pickup, load the Kullu apple crates and take the mountain road over Rohtang into the Spiti cold desert. Climb the hills, land the jumps, keep the crates in the back and the diesel in the tank.
Brainstorm
Thirteen trails, eight playable
Each one reuses a mechanic Clayhood already ships, so it can go from idea to a client's subdomain fast. Swap in the client's mascot, guides, campsite or town.
Rules of the road
How these games should behave
Work on one bar of signal
Trekkers play at base camp on a weak network. The whole arcade loads in under 2 MB, and the games keep running once it has loaded.
Sacred places are never targets
No zapping, smashing or jumping over shrines, mani stones or idols. At spiritual sites the mechanic slows down: breathe, light, listen.
Leave no trace, in the game too
Reward picking up litter and staying on the trail. Tie in with Suzhal's circular-waste games for a shared campaign.
Credit the locals by name
The homestay aunty, the dhaba, the drummer. Real names and places make the share card worth posting and send traffic back to them.
Every run ends in a postcard
The end screen is the ad: distance, stamps and the client's handle, ready to copy into WhatsApp or Instagram.
Under a minute, then go outside
Short rounds that make people want the real trail. The call to action is a booking link, not another level.
For trek companies, campsites, homestays and tourism boards
Your trail. Your guides. Your food.
We put your landscape, your people and your local menu into a game your guests share before they arrive and after they get home.