Promise Catcher - Catch Hope. Dodge Hype.

Promise Catcher is a colorful, one-thumb arcade game for iPhone about catching useful civic promises, dodging broken ones, and climbing a completely fictional political career. It turns the familiar language of campaigns and public promises into a quick, playful game that is easy to understand within seconds.

Move the basket left and right as promises fall from the stage. Bright heart-shaped promises help your campaign, while dark cartoon bombs represent the problems and broken promises best left alone. Catch 10 good promises to earn a promotion, but catch three bad ones and the campaign ends.

Why I Built Promise Catcher

I wanted to create a mobile game with a simple physical idea, a strong visual identity, and enough progression to keep short play sessions interesting. The core interaction needed to work with one thumb, without tiny controls, complicated menus, or a long tutorial.

The political theme grew from that arcade mechanic. Campaigns are full of promises, so catching the useful ones and avoiding the disastrous ones became a natural, humorous metaphor. Promise Catcher uses fictional civic satire rather than real-world political commentary: there are no real politicians, parties, campaigns, slogans, or government organizations in the game.

The result is a lighthearted reverse paper-toss game. Promises flutter down like sheets of paper, the player moves a wire basket beneath them, and every successful catch contributes to a larger career run.

Catch, Dodge, and Get Promoted

The rules stay intentionally clear:

1. Drag the basket horizontally with one thumb.
2. Catch bright heart-shaped promises to fill the promotion meter and increase your score.
3. Avoid dark bomb-shaped broken promises that fill the three-strike meter.
4. Collect 10 good promises to complete the rank and earn a promotion.
5. Continue into the next rank with your campaign score intact.

Promise Catcher includes 27 distinct promise types. Good promises cover ideas such as clean water, community clinics, public transport, housing, internet access, and solar power. Bad promises include potholes, broken pipes, smog, red tape, ghost projects, and vanishing funds.

Each promise keeps an instantly recognizable heart-or-bomb silhouette, with its own emblem inside. New types appear gradually as the career advances, adding variety without changing the simple catch-or-dodge rule.

Two Paths Through 15 Ranks

Every new campaign begins with a choice between two fictional career paths:

• Parliamentary: Work your way from Community Volunteer to Prime Minister.
• Presidential: Campaign through the same arcade challenge on the way to President.

Both paths share a 15-level difficulty curve, but their later titles create two different progression stories. With every promotion, promises fall faster, swing farther, arrive more frequently, and become harder to separate. Each tier also introduces a new illustrated environment, moving the campaign from neighborhood streets toward a national capital.

Completed levels create a resume checkpoint, so you can close the game and continue the active campaign later. Your cumulative score travels with you between successful ranks, while an independent Personal Best survives new campaigns and failed runs.

Beyond Career Complete

Reaching Prime Minister or President is not the end of the high-score run. Career Complete unlocks Dictator mode, a deliberately exaggerated endless bonus challenge outside the normal 15-rank ladder.

Every 10 good catches advances the wave and increases the pressure. Promises move faster, bad promises become more common, and more objects can appear at once. The three-strike limit remains active across waves, so the challenge becomes a test of how long you can protect the score built during the full campaign.

Made for Quick iPhone Play

Promise Catcher is designed specifically for portrait play on iPhone:

• Simple touch controls: The basket follows a horizontal drag, making the entire game playable with one thumb.
• Readable feedback: Separate good- and bad-promise meters keep progress and danger visible at a glance.
• Personal Best score cards: Open a detailed record from the start or pause screen and share it as a custom image through the native iOS share sheet.
• Original presentation: Illustrated environments, responsive celebrations, original music, and distinct catch sounds give every promotion and failure its own personality.
• Persistent settings: Campaign checkpoints, unlocked ranks, Personal Best, career path, and audio preferences are saved locally on the device.

Technical Details

Promise Catcher was built as an iPhone-first game with a small, data-driven architecture:

• Engine: Built with Godot 4 using typed GDScript.
• Game data: Rank tuning, promise definitions, difficulty progression, scoring, and endless-wave behavior live in configurable data resources.
• Native iOS sharing: A small Objective-C++ plugin connects Godot to the iOS share sheet for score-card sharing.
• Release pipeline: Fastlane automates testing, signed App Store builds, validation, and delivery.
• Product website: The official landing page, privacy policy, and support pages is on https://promisecatcher.prmworks.com.

The first release targets iPhone in portrait orientation and requires iOS 18.0 or later.

Privacy and Pricing

Promise Catcher is free to download, with no advertisements, in-app purchases, or required account. The game does not include third-party analytics or advertising SDKs.

Campaign progress, unlocked ranks, Personal Best, and sound settings remain on your device. The game does not request access to contacts, location, photos, camera, or microphone, and score-card sharing only opens the iPhone share sheet when you choose to use it.

Get Started

Promise Catcher is available now on the App Store. Start a campaign, choose your career path, and see how far you can climb before the broken promises catch up with you.

Download Promise Catcher on the App Store

Visit the official Promise Catcher website

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Catch hope. Dodge hype. Rise through 15 fictional political ranks in a colorful one-thumb arcade game for iPhone.