What's Next: PARU Games
Baby names, parent quiz — and now? Here's what comes as the third module of the PARU platform: small games for families, built like everything else we make.
If you scroll attentively through the PARU site, you'll see two apps: Baby Names. Parent Quiz. And on the edge, in the plans, a third: PARU Games. Here's what it'll be — and why it belongs to PARU at all.
A quick reminder of what PARU is so far
PARU isn't a "family app" in the broad sense. It's a collection of small, very focused tools, each taking one concrete question seriously.
- PARU Baby Names answers: "How do we find a name that fits our family?"
- PARU Parent Quiz answers: "Who are we, actually, as parents?"
Both have a clear job. Both work in ten minutes or less. Both stand independently, but you can combine them if you want.
What Games will add
PARU Games is the third module — and it fills a different gap. Not the gap of reflection (the quiz does that). Not the gap of decision-making (Baby Names does that). The gap of shared time.
Concretely: small games you can play with your child (or between siblings). No endless game loops with in-app purchases. No ads. No data collection on children. Instead, a few well-made mini-games that fit into five to fifteen minutes — on a train ride, in a doctor's waiting room, at the dinner table when food hasn't arrived yet.
What it won't be
So no one builds wrong expectations:
- Not TikTok-for-Kids. Not endless, not algorithmic, not approval-seeking.
- Not edutainment marketing. We promise nothing about "educational value" and don't wrap math problems in animations.
- Not free-to-play with energy systems. No "come back in 4 hours, then your lives reset." Play or don't play — your decision, not the app's.
What we're building is closer to board games than to mobile games. Less stuff, more substance.
When it's coming
We don't have a fixed launch date because we don't want to communicate one we can't keep. What we can say: the first mini-games are in prototype stage. They're being tested with real families before anything goes to the store. If they don't work, we rebuild. If they do, the next one comes.
Realistic expectation: in Q3 or Q4 2026, the first game enters a closed beta. Open launch likely in Q1 2027.
Why this order
Some people ask why we didn't first build a single big "all-in-one family app." The honest answer: because we don't think that's a good idea.
Three small, focused tools are more useful in practice than one big app trying to do everything. You use them when you need them. You ignore them when you don't. And you won't be paying for three problems you never had just because the one you do care about lives in the same app.
PARU Games closes a real gap. It comes from the same design principle as the rest: small, honest, no bullshit.
What you can do if you want to be there at the start
Right now: nothing. We've (deliberately) skipped a newsletter that would push you onto waiting lists. Once the closed beta starts, we'll find beta testers via existing PARU users and small communities.
If you want to be in the beta pool: use PARU Baby Names or the Parent Quiz, drop us a quick note via the contact form saying you'd be interested in testing. We'll reach out when it's time. That's all it takes.
What stays
Baby Names, Parent Quiz, Games — those are the three pillars we're building over the next twelve to eighteen months. After that? We'll see. We promise nothing we don't intend to keep. But we promise that every new PARU app will be as serious as the first two.