Onsen 2026

In Onsen play as the owner of your very own onsen, a Japanese-style hot spring resort or bathhouse. Welcome quirky guests and fill your pools with their desired flavor of water! But at each strike of the shishi-odoshi (bamboo deer scare), make sure your pools are ready when your guests wet their feet, in this cozy puzzle about timing.

Onsen is a 2 to 4 player tile laying game. During the gameplay, players draft a set of a guest and a water tile, place scented water tiles to fill hot spring pools, and then situate guests around the outside, each of which scores based on sets of the scents in their row or column. Each guest and water tile only becomes active on certain turns, challenging you to time when and where you place what!

—description from the publisher