How to play
- Goal
- Earn the highest spa score by giving visitors a comfortable soak.
- How it ends
- A shift lasts ninety seconds, or ends early when three visitors leave unhappy.
- Record
- Your best spa score is saved for each garden; uninterrupted completed shifts can enter its verified Top 10.
- Select a waiting visitor, then tap a free bath. Rabbits want 34–42°C, gnomes 42–50°C, and yetis 24–32°C. Tap an occupied bath to control its temperature.
- Hold Warm or Space to heat the selected bath. Release inside its marked comfort band to refill the dragon’s Breath. Tap Cool to lower the bath by 5°C; Cool is ready again after one second.
- Visitors need six comfortable seconds. Soak progress pauses outside the band. Waiting and bathing share the same patience countdown. Above 65°C, a visitor gives you two seconds to cool the water before leaving unhappy.
- A happy visitor earns 100 points plus five per whole second of patience left. Unhappy visitors earn zero; three close the garden early. The shift ends after ninety seconds, and unfinished visitors earn no points. Completed uninterrupted shifts can enter the garden’s verified Top 10.
Controls
| Visitor / bath cards | Select a waiting visitor, then seat them in a free bath |
|---|---|
| Space / hold Warm | Heat the selected bath; release to recharge Breath |
| C / Cool | Lower the selected bath by 5°C |
| 1–3 / Q | Select or seat in a bath / cycle waiting visitors |
| R / Escape | Restart a fresh shift / pause as a personal shift |
Tips for Dragon Hot-Spring Keeper
- Match the water Seat visitors in the closest comfortable bath. A yeti often suits water that is too cold for a rabbit.
- Stop in the band Release Warm before overheating. Let several visitors soak while the dragon rests.
- Read the forecast A cold gust is announced five seconds early and cools every bath faster.
- Keep patience Comfortable seconds never reset. Return to a cooling bath before its visitor runs out of patience.
Questions about this game
Why did the progress bar stop?
Only time inside the visitor’s comfort band counts toward the six-second soak. Warming or cooling the bath resumes that progress.
Why is my shift personal only?
Pausing, hiding the tab or interrupting play keeps a local best but prevents public submission.
Do I need to unlock gardens?
Every garden is open. Later gardens cool faster and need closer attention.
What is recorded?
The records worker replays the whole shift and computes its spa score. Time and happy-visitor count do not improve an equal score.
Personal best scores stay in this browser under morass.dragon-hot-spring-keeper.v1. Music and Effects are separate arcade-wide switches. No ads or analytics run inside the game.
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About Dragon Hot-Spring Keeper
A copper dragon runs three snowy hot-spring baths. Snow rabbits, gnomes and yetis arrive with different ideas of comfortable water. Seat them by temperature, warm one bath at a time, and save enough breath for the next visitor.
Twelve gardens are open from the start, from cedar groves to crystal caves and aurora terraces. Ninety-second shifts, a forecast cold gust, and six-second soaks make a small balancing act without an upgrade grind.
