Un pacte à deux, un tour chacun

PactXP is the independent game studio of 1PACTXP in Meyssac, in the Corrèze countryside. We design cooperative turn-based games for Android in which two people share one phone and take turns working towards the same goal.

Every match begins with a small pact made of two rules the players choose together, such as never using the same path twice. The pact changes how the board plays and keeps every match different.

Boards are short adventures through villages, forests and old stone houses inspired by the Corrèze landscape. Each player controls one character with different strengths, so the best moves come from talking and planning together rather than from speed.

There is no online play, no chat and no account. Everything happens on one device between people sitting side by side, which makes the games well suited to families, couples and friends who want a calm shared puzzle.

A finished match is saved as a short story that can be read back later, with the pact the players chose and the moments where they helped each other most. We are building the first adventure now and testing it at kitchen tables around the region.

Each adventure is divided into short chapters that take about fifteen minutes to play, so a match fits easily into an evening. Characters gain small new abilities between chapters, and the pact can be changed at the start of each one, which gives couples and families a reason to talk about how they want to play before they start. The illustrations are painted in warm autumn colours, with chestnut trees, slate roofs and small stone bridges drawn from walks around the village. A gentle tutorial explains the first pact, and the game remembers which pacts each pair of players has tried.