NEON HOLD

NEON HOLD

Focus and concentration game

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Released
August 25, 2026
Updated
October 17, 2026

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Most people break inside twenty seconds. Put your thumb on the glowing spot. Keep it there. That is the entire game, and it is harder than it sounds, because every second you hold is a second of unbroken attention and the grid spends all of them trying to take it back. The spot relocates and you have to slide fast. Near perfect decoys appear beside the real thing. GLITCH, a lying neon imp in increasingly desperate disguises, talks you into fatal mistakes. NOVA never lies. Telling those two apart with your run on the line is the whole skill. WHAT YOU GET One thumb, twenty levels, and a difficulty curve that keeps taking things away from you. Twenty atmospheres, each with a sunrise, daytime, sunset and night version, so a long run travels through a whole day. A live global leaderboard, plus a friends board you fill by sharing a code. An announcer with many voices calling your run out loud, and a synthwave soundtrack that builds as the grid heats up. Twenty achievements, plus six limited ones for Halloween 2026, with every requirement shown, so you always know what you are chasing. One free revive every 24 hours, and bonus revives for daily streaks. FAIR BY DESIGN Revives are capped at three per run for everyone, paying or not, so skill decides the leaderboard and money never does. Invite a friend with your code and you both get five revives. Ten rewards a week, and they reset every week. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO ACCOUNT. There is no sign up, and there is no third party analytics or advertising SDK anywhere in this app. Play on your own and nothing is sent to us at all: every level works with the network off. The global leaderboard is the one thing that sends anything, and it is opt in. Switch it on and it publishes a display name, a country flag and a best time, tied to a random id your phone makes on first launch, never to your Apple ID and never to an advertising identifier. Inviting a friend hands a code to the iOS share sheet, so we never see an address and never touch your contacts. You can erase all of it from inside the game, in one tap. Game Center is optional too. NEON HOLD never signs you in on its own, and you can stop it using Game Center at any time in Settings. Suitable for everyone, 4 and up. How long can you hold on?
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What's New in NEON HOLD

1.4

October 17, 2026

The biggest update since launch, and the grid has dressed up for it. HALLOWEEN ON THE GRID Until November 3 the arena, the spot and the sky wear Halloween. GLITCH comes as a pumpkin imp and NOVA carries a lantern, and NOVA still never lies. There is a haunted soundtrack and a new set of sounds to go with it. It switches on by itself. If you would rather hold the line in plain neon, it is one switch in Settings, and after Halloween it stays there as a skin you can turn back on whenever you like. The costumes change what things look like, not how they behave. Every decoy still gives itself away by its shape and its pulse, so a run is exactly as fair in a pumpkin patch as it is on the grid. Six limited Halloween achievements count until November 3. Finish one run and TRICK OR HOLD leaves wisps circling your thumb, yours to keep. There is a jack-o'-lantern app icon too, if you ask for it. CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS CHALLENGE A FRIEND sends your time as a link that works for anyone. If they have the latest NEON HOLD, the game opens and your time is waiting on their rail before they even start. Beat a challenge and SEND IT BACK. The game over offers a share card when a run is worth sending: a new record, a friend overtaken, a challenge beaten, or GLITCH talking you off the spot. A KINDER GRID When a run ends, the game shows you what ended it, and RETRY is the first button. Your first few relocations show you where to go and give you a little extra time to get there, so the one rule that kills most new players (slide, don't lift) gets taught instead of just enforced. A phone call or Control Center no longer ends a run: it pauses, and you put your thumb back to carry on. EASIER TO READ, EASIER ON THE EYES Differentiate Without Color marks every decoy and the real spot by shape, not only by hue. Reduce Motion keeps a still marker on the real spot instead of a moving one. A red ring shows the moment your thumb starts to drift. Sound effects, music, the announcer's voice and haptics each have their own switch in Settings. AND Fixes and polish throughout. How long can you hold on?

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