Pixelswarm: Hunt & Defense

A calm colour-sorting puzzle with a thin layer of defence. The grid in front of you is a picture made of coloured cells. Your drones fly out one by one, pick up a single cell each and carry it home. Watching them work is most of the appeal — they take their time, and so can you. BOUGHT ONCE, YOURS FOR GOOD No ads. No coin packs. No season pass. No energy timers. All seventy levels are included at no additional cost. THE PUZZLE Your supply arrives in three columns, and only the front tile of each is available — so you always have exactly three moves to choose from. Each group holds a colour and a number, and the numbers add up exactly: there is one drone for every cell in the picture, never one more. Choose the wrong colour and the group sits in a module and blocks it. Fill every module with colours you cannot reach and you are stuck. THE DEFENCE Dark cells are breaches. Clear one and enemies come out and steal drones from your base — and drones are the currency that pays for your turrets. So the defence protects exactly what it costs you. Turrets sit on a small number of platforms and can be upgraded in tiers. SEVENTY LEVELS Each one is a different shape: single fields, corridors between four courtyards, wedges, rings, a fortress with a turret in its courtyard. The gates decide how far your drones have to fly, and the number of open modules decides how often you may be wrong. LANGUAGES English, German, Spanish, French. Light and dark appearance, portrait only, iPhone and iPad.