Glycohero is live on the iOS App Store

Glycohero is now available on the iOS App Store!

What Glycohero is

A 2D platformer about blood sugar.

You play a small caped hero who runs and jumps through themed levels: a kitchen, a supermarket, a beach, a forest, a hospital, and a particularly merciless night market. On the way, you choose what to eat. Vegetables, lean protein, and quality carbs reward you with shields and pills you can throw at enemies and bosses. Sugary drinks and junk food spike your blood sugar bar into the red. Stay too high or too low for too long and you lose. Reach the level’s flag with your blood sugar inside the safe range, and you unlock a boss fight themed around that level.

Each boss is built around a real-world food or lifestyle challenge: the Cake King, the Soda Titan, the Junk Food King, the Vending Machine Goliath.

See it in action 👇

Why a game

Most diabetes-education content reads like a textbook. Beautifully written textbooks exist; they tend to be read by people who already care. The audience this game is trying to reach (people whose HbA1c is creeping up but who have not been told anything is wrong, families helping a newly diagnosed kid, the merely curious) does not usually go looking for textbooks.

A game can be different. You feel the mechanic. You watch the meter spike after the donut.

Glycohero is built around a single principle: turn nutrition awareness into muscle memory.

What’s in v1.0

10 themed levels with progressive difficulty. The first two are free forever.
10 boss fights, each tied to a different real-world challenge (sugary drinks, fast food, late-night snacking, etc.).
A reviewed flashcard library across four topics: Blood Sugar & Diabetes, Food & Nutrition, Exercise & Activity, Lifestyle & Daily Habits. Every card includes a Reference button that opens the underlying authoritative source so you can verify and dig deeper.
Three playable characters, each with a different balance of speed, tolerance, and exercise effectiveness.
Multilingual support (English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, etc.), auto-detected from your device language.

No ads. No accounts. No data collection from inside the app. Your progress lives on your device.

What’s next

A monthly content cadence: new levels, new bosses, new flashcards, new foods.

If there is a topic you would find useful, a feature you want to see, or a bug you spot, feel free to reach out.

Try it

The fastest way to know whether you would like the game is to play it.

In your browser: scroll to the Play demo section on the homepage. The first level runs right there, no install.
On your iPhone: download it on the App Store.

Thanks for reading! Hope you find it useful, and that the next time you glance at the blood-sugar line on a lab report, it feels a little less like an arbitrary number.