Scribble on a shared canvas and let Kakiko - a small, over-confident AI - read it out loud. Whatever it thinks it sees becomes real. Disguise a cat as a dog to sneak it past the pack, or draw against your friends while Kakiko commentates. Bad art is not a problem here. Being misread is.

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About This Game

You do not control a character. You draw - and an AI decides what you drew.


Sketch Switch is a drawing game built on one idea: a small, loud AI called Kakiko looks at your canvas, says out loud what it thinks it sees, and the world changes to match that reading.

Draw a cat. Kakiko says "That is a cat!"
Add two pointy ears and a wagging tail. Kakiko leans in and says "...a dog, is it not!" - and your cat strolls safely through a room full of dogs.

The gap between what you meant and what Kakiko sees is the entire game.

Puzzle Mode - on your own


Each stage hands you a situation and a pen. Blend in with the dogs. Get across the ravine. Make it eat. There is nothing to steer and nothing to time. The only question is how to draw a thing so that Kakiko reads it the way you need.

Two pens do the work:
  • The pen puts an object into the world.
  • The context pen puts nothing into the world at all - it only nudges how Kakiko reads what is already there.

Stages are short, and a wrong reading is never a fail screen. It is the punchline.

Party Mode - online, with friends


Everyone draws on the same canvas, one object per turn, thirty seconds a turn.

Then the teams get their orders, and the orders are opposites. One side is told to wreck the ocean. The other is told to save it. You watch a shape appear next to yours and try to work out what it is for.

At the end of every turn Kakiko reads the whole picture, brings it to life, and commentates on the wreckage.

The score is fair. The commentary is not.


Kakiko never decides the winner. It answers plain yes-or-no questions about the canvas and the game does the arithmetic, so you can always see why you won.

Then, entirely separately, it hands out titles nobody asked for, worth exactly zero points.

You win on the score. You get quoted on the title.

Bad drawings are fine here


Nothing in Sketch Switch rewards draughtsmanship. A wobbly circle with two lines coming off it reads as a dog just as well as a careful one does, and sometimes better. What matters is knowing what to add.

Languages


Full interface in English, Japanese and German. Kakiko talks in whichever language you are playing.

One thing to know before you buy


Kakiko runs as a cloud service, so Sketch Switch needs an internet connection to play - Puzzle Mode included.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Sketch Switch sends the pictures you draw to a third-party vision-language model while the game is running, and shows you what that model says back. This is the core mechanic of the game rather than a side feature.

LIVE-GENERATED CONTENT
When you finish a drawing, the picture on the canvas and the stage prompt are sent to a generative model (Google Gemini, accessed through OpenRouter). The model returns a short label naming what it believes the drawing shows, plus a one-line remark written in the voice of the in-game character Kakiko. Both are displayed to you as returned. In Puzzle Mode that label is also what decides whether the stage is cleared. In Party Mode the model only answers fixed yes-or-no questions about the canvas; the score itself is calculated by the game code, not by the model.

PRE-GENERATED CONTENT
None. All artwork, music, interface text, stage design and character writing in the game were made by hand.

WHAT IS SENT
Only the drawing on the canvas and the stage prompt. No account details or personal information are sent to the model.

GUARDRAILS
Model responses are length-capped and are used only to name and comment on the drawing currently on screen. Because the model runs as a cloud service, Sketch Switch requires an internet connection to play.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
    • Processor: Intel Core i3 / AMD Ryzen 3 or better
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Direct3D 12 capable GPU with 1 GB VRAM
    • DirectX: Version 12
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: A permanent internet connection is required. Kakiko, the AI that reads your drawings, runs as a cloud service.
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 11 (64-bit)
    • Processor: Intel Core i5 / AMD Ryzen 5 or better
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Dedicated GPU with 2 GB VRAM (GeForce GTX 1050 or better)
    • DirectX: Version 12
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: A drawing tablet or a touchscreen makes drawing more comfortable, but a mouse works perfectly well.
    Minimum:
    • Requires an Apple processor
    • OS: macOS 11 Big Sur
    • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core i5
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Metal capable GPU
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: A permanent internet connection is required. Kakiko, the AI that reads your drawings, runs as a cloud service.
    Recommended:
    • Requires an Apple processor
    • OS: macOS 13 Ventura or later
    • Processor: Apple M1 or later
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Metal capable GPU
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
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