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Battle SHIRYU
Mouse or webcam—experience the controls of the future! Swing your dragon’s body and use the recoil to slam its tail! Defy convention in a whole new kind of action game. No webcam required!

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Single-player
Steam Achievements
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Languages:
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English ✔
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German ✔
Spanish - Spain ✔
Finnish ✔
Portuguese - Portugal ✔
Simplified Chinese ✔
Traditional Chinese ✔
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Korean ✔
Italian ✔
Spanish - Latin America ✔
Turkish ✔
Portuguese - Brazil ✔
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Includes 2 items: Battle SHIRYU, ePaperCraft SHIRYU

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Reviews

“Battle SHIRYU brings SHIRYU’s papercraft creatures to life”
Global by Design — guest article by Takahiro Yonemura (Oct. 15, 2026)

“You move your hand in front of an ordinary webcam, and the game uses that movement to steer a paper dragon.”
The Gaming Diary — Launch coverage (Oct. 30, 2026)

About This Game

An action game developed by an Engineering Ph.D. Control a paper dragon with webcam hand tracking: raise your hand to start, close and open to click, lower it to pause
Developed by Takahiro Yonemura, Ph.D. (Engineering)

New here? Watch the tutorial!

Leave the game on the title screen without any input for a little while. A tutorial will start automatically and walk you through the controls and gameplay. Give it a watch to learn how to play!

Experience the future of control!

Steer a paper dragon with your hand in this action game. Raise your hand for automatic webcam recognition, close and reopen it to click, and lower it to pause. No special markers or green screen are needed. Swing the dragon’s tail into Moai, trigger same-colour chains and clear stages across eras. Mouse controls are also available.

The present, Edo-era Japan, prehistory—and somewhere mysterious!

Your journey continues across multiple stages, with changing eras, scenery and challenges. Break through each stage and see where the paper dragon’s journey leads. Can you reach the Goddess at the end… or will it all explode?!

Base price: US$4.99 / ¥500 in Japan. A 25% launch discount is planned for 10 days (Japan: ¥375). Regional prices vary.

In real Battle SHIRYU gameplay, developer Takahiro Yonemura holds up a hand to the webcam while a green papercraft dragon flies past a field of yellow Moai in a paper village.

Line up the next strike

Hard Moai and obstacles make each stage trickier. Guide the dragon around them and use its tail to reach the next target.

Paper pictogram showing an open hand, a webcam, and the paper dragon in a stage; hand movement can control the dragon.

Hand control needs a compatible webcam and camera access permission in Windows or macOS. No markers, green screen, or elaborate backdrop are required; lighting and framing can affect recognition. You can always play with a mouse instead. Pictograms guide play without in-game text to read.

Takahiro Yonemura's 2002 research on a contactless camera interface inspired this game, realized in 2026.
Comparison of a 2002 CCD-camera study of finger and head recognition with a 2026 webcam hand-recognition demonstration.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some visual assets and prerecorded animation sequences were created with generative AI tools, then selected and edited by the developer. The game does not generate content during play or connect to external AI services.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
    • Processor: 64-bit x86-64 processor (Intel or AMD)
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX 11-compatible integrated or virtual graphics; dedicated GPU not required
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Confirmed to run in a Windows 10 (64-bit) VMware virtual machine with 4 GB RAM. Mouse play requires no camera; webcam hand controls may need a faster CPU.
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 11 (64-bit)
    • Processor: 64-bit x86-64 processor (Intel or AMD)
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER or equivalent DirectX 11 GPU
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: USB webcam, including a Windows-compatible CCD camera, recommended for hand controls. No green screen required.
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 13 Ventura or later
    • Processor: 64-bit Intel processor; Apple Silicon requires Rosetta 2
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL 4.1-compatible graphics
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Mouse play requires no camera. A webcam is required for hand controls. Intel 64-bit app; Rosetta 2 is required on Apple Silicon. Steam achievements are available in the Windows version.
    Recommended:
      Minimum:
      • OS: Ubuntu 22.04 or later (64-bit), or a compatible Linux distribution
      • Processor: 64-bit x86-64 processor (Intel or AMD)
      • Memory: 4 GB RAM
      • Graphics: OpenGL 4.1-compatible graphics
      • Storage: 2 GB available space
      • Additional Notes: Native Linux version. Mouse play requires no camera. A Linux-compatible webcam is required for hand controls. Tested on physical hardware via USB boot, including Zorin OS. XWayland is required on Wayland desktops. Steam achievements are available in the Windows version.
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