{"rewrite":{"id":"r_8cd50455a524bbe70795f825","clusterId":"c_e0f77d17777bd94d5798c3a7","slug":"jono-puts-one-player-in-control-at-a-time-on-steam","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Jono Puts One Player in Control at a Time on Steam","summary":"Jono, a free side-scrolling action game from Finnish studio Part Time Monkey, released on Steam on October 5. Players worldwide share one character and queue for turns of one minute each, then pass control to the next person. Losing five lives also ends a turn. Since release, more than 1,000 players have participated and over 72,000 rooms have been cleared toward a goal of 1 million.","whyItMatters":"A free Steam game built around a single global queue turns waiting into the product, and the 1,000-plus players and 72,000 rooms cleared since October 5 show the format finding an audience.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003ePart Time Monkey, an indie studio founded in 2015 by Tuomas Erikoinen, who worked on graphics for the original Angry Birds, built Jono around a shared character and a global line of players waiting their turn. Rooms cleared by one player stay cleared for everyone, and a tombstone marks where a player died. The October 17 update removed the one-minute limit when no one else is waiting.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJono also ships with a level editor. Stages made by players can be added to the main route others challenge, and an October 13 update added MEAT GRINDER, a separate mode for high-difficulty stages. The game is free for Windows on Steam.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Jono hands the same character to strangers one minute at a time, so Part Time Monkey has built a game where no single player owns the outcome. The five-life rule makes a careless stranger cost everyone else a turn.","twitterPost":"Jono gives each player 60 seconds on one shared character, and losing five lives ends the turn. One careless player costs the whole queue.","threadsPost":"Jono is a co-op game with no party to form: strangers worldwide queue on one shared character for 60 seconds each. Part Time Monkey built the stakes around the handoff, since five lost lives end a turn someone else was waiting for.","newsletterBlurb":"Jono is a free side-scrolling game where players worldwide share one character and take turns of one minute each, with everyone else watching and chatting while they wait. Since its October 5 Steam release, more than 1,000 players have joined and over 72,000 rooms have been cleared toward a goal of 1 million. Finnish studio Part Time Monkey also included a level editor and added a high-difficulty MEAT GRINDER mode on October 13.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"KAI-YOU\",\"url\":\"https://kai-you.net/article/96902\",\"title\":\"A game where only one player plays at a time despite the crowd (!?) - swap every minute and clear 1 million rooms: 'Jono' is wild\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4634,"outputTokens":622,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792578167,"createdAt":"2026-10-21T10:17:59.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-21T10:21:09.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T10:21:09.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_e0f77d17777bd94d5798c3a7","canonicalTitle":"大勢で遊ぶのにプレイヤーは1人だけ（!?）1分ごとの交代で100万の部屋を攻略するゲーム『Jono』がヤバすぎる","representativeArticleId":"a_65a018ab29f5adeec2e83960","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Jono\"],\"studios\":[\"Part Time Monkey\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-21T09:01:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-21T09:01:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T10:21:08.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"KAI-YOU","url":"https://kai-you.net/article/96902","title":"大勢で遊ぶのにプレイヤーは1人だけ（!?）1分ごとの交代で100万の部屋を攻略するゲーム『Jono』がヤバすぎる"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Jono"],"studios":["Part Time Monkey"],"people":[],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}