TANUKI: Pon's Summer key art
TANUKI: Pon's Summer cover art

TANUKI: Pon's Summer

Help a lazy tanuki restore the shrine before the Tanuki Festival, one delivery at a time.

10 Nov 2026 · Paid

About TANUKI: Pon's Summer

Come spend a summer in Japan A whole month on a sunlit Japanese island, and you get to spend it as a little tanuki on a bicycle. Meet Pon: part-time postal worker, enthusiastic show-off, and your invitation to a summer of small adventures and people you’ll hate saying goodbye to. There’s a festival to prepare for and mail to deliver, so you’re going to have a very full summer. Deliver mail, become a familiar face Hop on your BMX, and bring letters and packages to the island’s colorful residents. Plan your delivery to fit all the awkwardly-shaped boxes on a bike, but don’t keep your neighbors waiting! As you learn your routes and get to know the people along them, the island begins to feel like your home. Build the heart of your summer Turn the money and rewards you’ve earned into a shrine worth falling in love with. Rebuild, upgrade and decorate it to your taste, watching your work come together as the Great Tanuki Festival approaches. Pon wants to do a good job. For all his showing off on that bicycle, he cares very much about the people here. When the Great Tanuki Festival arrives, you’ll have somewhere special to welcome the people you’ve spent the season getting to know.

  • • Steam Achievements
  • • Full controller support
  • • Steam Cloud
  • • Family Sharing

Gameplay

TANUKI: Pon's Summer is an open-world adventure life-sim game where the players plays as tanuki named Pon, who works part-time at a post office to restore his town's ruined shrine before the big festival in one month.

Offline play

Full single-player campaign available offline on PC.

Developer
Denkiworks
Publisher
CRITICAL REFLEX
Release
10 Nov 2026
Price
Paid
Modes
single-player

Screenshots

System requirements

PC — minimum

OS
Windows 10 or later
Processor
2.6 GHz Quad Core or similar
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
Nvidia GeForce 650 or AMD Radeon HD 7750 with at least 2 GB VRAM
Storage
3 GB available space

PC — recommended

OS
Windows 10 or later
Processor
Intel Core i5 3GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 3GHz
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 or AMD Radeon HD 7970 with at least 2 GB VRAM
Storage
3 GB available space

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