diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/application.css b/app/assets/stylesheets/application.css
index 1638e8d..d137dcb 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/application.css
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/application.css
@@ -352,6 +352,21 @@ main, .modal-panel {
   to   { opacity: 1; transform: translateY(0); }
 }
 
+@keyframes wave-rise-in {
+  from { translate: 0 200px; }
+  to   { translate: 0 0; }
+}
+
+@keyframes hero-detail-slide-in {
+  from { transform: translateX(100vw); }
+  to   { transform: translateX(0); }
+}
+
+@keyframes hero-wave-slide-in {
+  from { transform: translateY(100vw); }
+  to   { transform: translateY(0); }
+}
+
 @media (max-width: 1023.98px) and (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) {
   .start .hero-container {
     overflow: clip;
@@ -610,6 +625,108 @@ main, .modal-panel {
 
 }
 
+@media (min-width: 1024px) and (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) {
+  body:has(.start) header {
+    animation: header-drop-in var(--dur-base) var(--ease-out) 100ms both;
+  }
+
+  .start > article {
+    animation: fade-in var(--dur-slow) var(--ease-out) 250ms both;
+  }
+
+  .start .hero-container {
+    animation: fade-in var(--dur-slow) var(--ease-out) both;
+  }
+
+  .start .hero-container svg.ico-wave {
+    animation: wave-rise-in var(--dur-slow) var(--ease-out) both;
+  }
+
+  .facts-modal[open] {
+    translate: 0 0;
+    transition: translate var(--dur-base) var(--ease-out);
+  }
+
+  @starting-style {
+    .facts-modal[open] {
+      translate: 0 100dvh;
+    }
+  }
+
+  .facts-modal[open]::backdrop {
+    opacity: 1;
+    transition: opacity var(--dur-base) var(--ease-out);
+  }
+
+  @starting-style {
+    .facts-modal[open]::backdrop {
+      opacity: 0;
+    }
+  }
+
+  .facts-modal[open].is-leaving {
+    translate: 0 -100dvh;
+    transition-timing-function: var(--ease-in);
+    pointer-events: none;
+  }
+
+  .facts-modal[open].is-leaving::backdrop {
+    opacity: 0;
+  }
+
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"] main {
+    view-transition-name: game;
+  }
+
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-old(root),
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-new(root),
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-old(game),
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-new(game) {
+    mix-blend-mode: normal;
+  }
+
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-old(root),
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-new(root),
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-old(game) {
+    animation: none;
+  }
+
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-new(game) {
+    animation: screen-slide-in var(--dur-base) var(--ease-out) both;
+  }
+
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"] .stage .hero-container img {
+    view-transition-name: hero-image;
+  }
+
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-new(hero-image) {
+    animation: fade-in var(--dur-base) linear var(--dur-base) both;
+    mix-blend-mode: normal;
+  }
+
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"] .stage .hero-container svg.ico-wave {
+    view-transition-name: hero-wave;
+  }
+
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"] .stage .hero-container #inter-ikea-systems {
+    view-transition-name: hero-logo;
+  }
+
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-new(hero-wave),
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-new(hero-logo) {
+    mix-blend-mode: normal;
+  }
+
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-new(hero-wave) {
+    animation: hero-wave-slide-in var(--dur-base) var(--ease-out) both;
+  }
+
+  html[data-screen-transition="stage-in-wide"]::view-transition-new(hero-logo) {
+    animation: hero-detail-slide-in var(--dur-base) var(--ease-out) both;
+  }
+}
+
+
 .facts {
   --clr-bg: var(--clr-green);
   --clr-action: var(--clr-white);
diff --git a/app/javascript/application.js b/app/javascript/application.js
index b663638..6fd2780 100644
--- a/app/javascript/application.js
+++ b/app/javascript/application.js
@@ -47,16 +47,26 @@ const SCREEN_TRANSITIONS = {
   "bad_answer>results": "slide-up"
 }
 
+// The desktop layout is a different composition -- two columns rather than one
+// stack -- so the pairs that animate there, and how, are their own map.
+const WIDE_SCREEN_TRANSITIONS = {
+  "intro>stage": "stage-in-wide"
+}
+
 const TRANSITION_MEDIA = "(max-width: 1023.98px) and (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference)"
+const WIDE_TRANSITION_MEDIA = "(min-width: 1024px) and (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference)"
 
 function screenTransition(newFrame) {
   if (!document.startViewTransition) return null
-  if (!window.matchMedia(TRANSITION_MEDIA).matches) return null
 
   const from = document.querySelector("turbo-frame#game main")?.classList[0]
   const to = newFrame.querySelector("main")?.classList[0]
+  const pair = `${from}>${to}`
+
+  if (window.matchMedia(TRANSITION_MEDIA).matches) return SCREEN_TRANSITIONS[pair]
+  if (window.matchMedia(WIDE_TRANSITION_MEDIA).matches) return WIDE_SCREEN_TRANSITIONS[pair]
 
-  return SCREEN_TRANSITIONS[`${from}>${to}`]
+  return null
 }
 
 // Turbo hands over the function that swaps the frame's contents, so running it
diff --git a/app/javascript/modal_controller.js b/app/javascript/modal_controller.js
index d869617..64ad795 100644
--- a/app/javascript/modal_controller.js
+++ b/app/javascript/modal_controller.js
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export default class extends Controller {
   // The screen underneath may still be animating out. The wave is the last
   // thing to leave, so waiting on it holds the modal until the exit is done.
   async #openWhenSettled() {
-    const wave = document.querySelector(".is-exiting .hero-container svg.ico-wave")
+    const wave = this.#isMobile && document.querySelector(".is-exiting .hero-container svg.ico-wave")
     if (wave) await this.#settle(wave, "animationend")
 
     if (!this.element.isConnected) return
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ export default class extends Controller {
   // hero pushes past it. The wave rides the same shrink from the screen edge
   // up to the seam, since it no longer sits inside the hero it draws under.
   async #playEntrance() {
+    // Desktop opens the panel as a centred dialog that slides up whole, so the
+    // hero never needs to fill the screen first.
+    if (!this.#isMobile) return
+
     const panel = this.element.querySelector(".modal-panel")
     const frame = panel?.querySelector(".carousel-frame")
     const carousel = frame?.querySelector(".carousel")
@@ -94,6 +98,12 @@ export default class extends Controller {
     boxes.forEach((box) => (box.style.height = ""))
   }
 
+  // The screen exit and the panel's full-bleed entrance are mobile choreography;
+  // the desktop panel just slides up over a screen that stays put.
+  get #isMobile() {
+    return window.matchMedia("(max-width: 1023.98px)").matches
+  }
+
   // Resolves when the element's animation or transition ends. Safari doesn't
   // reliably have one registered at the moment we ask for it, so the declared
   // timing is used as a fallback rather than getAnimations().