Rue des Moulins · Strasbourg

Albus Bakery

Your aunt left you a bakery. And her cat.

A cozy storybook baking game. Shop the street at dawn, knead and score every loaf by hand, open the door at seven and sell to your neighbors, while Albus naps in his corner.

See a day at the bakery

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How it begins

A letter from Tante Odile

For forty years, Rue des Moulins bought its morning bread from Odile’s little bakery. Now the keys, the notebook of recipes and the cat are yours.

Your first morning

Odile stands beside you, and the spot that lights up is always the one to tap.

Buy a little bag of salt at Klein’s grocer.
Pet Albus. He’s been waiting.
Pour, knead, shape and score your first tray of baguettes.
Open the door at seven. The rest of the day is yours.

Tante Odile in an oval gold frame: white hair in a bun, round glasses, a floury apron and a warm smile.

Rue des Moulins, Strasbourg

My dear,

I’m leaving you the bakery, and my cat Albus. The sign carries his name: the street has bought its morning bread from “the cat bakery” for forty years.

There are coins in the till, and flour, sugar, yeast and butter on the shelf. The salt has run out. Everything else is with our neighbors: Weber’s mill, Muller’s dairy, Klein’s grocer.

On Sunday evenings Madame Schaeffer comes for the rent. Bake well and your name will spread: you’ll learn the recipes in my notebook, take orders and grow the shop.

I won’t leave you alone on your first morning. We’ll make your first baguettes together.

With love, Tante Odile

Morning to evening

A day on Rue des Moulins

Every day keeps the same warm rhythm, and a whole one fits in a coffee break.

Jean Weber

Sophie Muller

Marc Klein

1Dawn

Shop the street

Flour from Jean Weber’s mill, butter from Sophie Muller’s dairy, sugar, salt, yeast and chocolate from Marc Klein’s grocer. Small bag or big sack? The sack is cheaper, but rent day is coming.
2Morning

Make the dough by hand

Every tap pours one scoop into the bowl. Hold to knead and let go in the dark green. Then comes each bake’s own skill: score the baguette with the baker’s blade, fold the croissant’s butter in rhythm.
3Before seven

Proof and bake

Trays rise on the rack, then slide into the stone oven. Take them out in time: a little late and the crust dries, too late and it burns.
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4Seven o’clock

Open the door

Customers come in, look over the display and show you what they want. Set your prices: a bargain spreads your name, too dear and they leave empty-handed.
Day 6 · Saturday

Evening report

Sold
31 pieces
★★★
12
Orders
1 delivered
Ingredients and gas
−610
Profit
+2,140

Rent due tomorrow12,000

5Evening

Count the day

The evening report adds up sales, orders and costs. On Sundays Madame Schaeffer leaves the rent bill: pay it, and a new week begins.

From Odile’s notebook

Four recipes, one skill each

Every bake has a recipe in scoops and a single skill to master. Knead to the dark green, do that skill well, and the tray comes out ★★★: worth more, and the first thing customers reach for.

Baguette

From your first morning

Recipe in scoops:
- flour × 2
- salt × 1
- yeast × 1
For three stars: Score it with one long, slanted stroke of the blade.
Croissant

From your first morning

Recipe in scoops:
- flour × 1
- sugar × 1
- yeast × 1
- butter × 2
For three stars: Fold the butter in when the ring turns green.
Bretzel

As your bakery grows

Recipe in scoops:
- flour × 1
- salt × 1
- yeast × 1
- butter × 1
For three stars: Hold it in the lye bath and lift it out in the dark green.
Pain au chocolat

Later on

Recipe in scoops:
- flour × 1
- sugar × 1
- yeast × 1
- butter × 2
- chocolate × 1
For three stars: Drop each chocolate bar right on its line.

Make it yours

A plain little shop, for now

Boulangerie Albus starts the way Odile left it: cream plaster, a wooden sign, bare shelves. Every awning, flower box and lantern you put up shows on the street, and works for you.

Outside brings customers
Every piece on the street has its own charm, and charm brings more people through the door.
Inside brings tips
Curtains, floors, window sills and pictures, Albus’s own portrait among them, add a little to every sale.
Try before you buy
More than 180 pieces: tap one to see it on the house first, then put it up.

Your first dayA few weeks inNoël

Boulangerie Albus as inherited: a half-timbered house with red shutters, a wooden sign and baguettes and croissants in the window. Albus lies on the doorstep. — As Tante Odile left it, with Albus sunning himself on the doorstep.

Boulangerie Albus a few weeks later: red geranium boxes, a red and white striped awning, a flower wreath on the door, lamps over the sign and a gilded pretzel emblem. — Geraniums, a striped awning, a door wreath, Luc Roth’s sign lamps and the guild’s pretzel.

Boulangerie Albus at Christmas: a garland-trimmed awning, pine boxes, star lights over the shop window, a wreath and a little Christmas tree by the door. — December on the season road: a Noël awning, pine boxes, star lights and a little tree.

Come back tomorrow

A street that’s glad to see you

Gentle reasons to come back, and never a penalty for staying away: no energy bars, no timers to skip, no streak that breaks.

The neighborhood board

Three requests a day from the neighbors, from easy to hard. Finish all three and the day’s crate opens.

“My butter is fresh: let twelve croissants sell!”
Sophie Muller
“Fifteen pieces, all ★★★, please.”
Marc Klein
“Pet me.”
Albus

Five crates in a week bring the week’s prize too.

Orders

Café du Coin, Hôtel Cathédrale and the Winstub order by the half-dozen. Deliver from the display before closing; all ★★★ pays a bonus.

The stamp card

A stamp for every day you visit. Miss a day and nothing is lost; the seventh stamp is the big one. Fill four cards and storks nest on your chimney.

Twelve seasons

Each month brings an Alsatian tradition and its own road of rewards: the harvest in October, Saint-Martin’s lanterns in November, the Christmas market in December. They come back every year.

The week’s event

Croissant week, orders week, the master’s week: a new little festival every Monday.

Luc Roth’s workshop

A second oven, a stone floor, a proofer, more rack space. Bring bricks, oak and brass; Luc builds it overnight.

Medals and mastery

Sixteen long goals in bronze, silver and gold, and five mastery stars for every recipe.

A peek inside

See it in motion

The street, the bench, the oven and the shop, as you’ll play them on iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

The street at dawn
Kneading at the bench
Seven o’clock: the door is open
Decorating the front
The neighborhood board
The evening report

The bakery’s cat

Albus keeps the corner warm

A cream-colored British Shorthair with blue eyes, drawn from a real cat named Albus. He sleeps, rolls over to show his belly, lifts his head to see who came in, and sits up to wag his tail.

Tap him: he wakes up and purrs.

Pet him once a day and he finds you a little gift. Away for a while? He missed you, and there’s a purse waiting.