Squared2 vs Atomicom

No Ads, No Subscriptions, No Tracking. Draw the fourth side. Claim the box. Take another turn. In Squared2, one well-timed move can open a whole chain and turn a close game around. The pencil-and-paper classic Dots and Boxes is back for quick matches and friendly rivalries. Play with two, three, or four people, or challenge the computer. This is a game I remember playing in school with my friends, and I am so pleased to bring it to a new, modern digital format. This game goes by a few other names too, depending on where you grew up: Boxes, Squares, Paddocks, or Pigs in a Pen. MORE WAYS TO PLAY TOGETHER - Pass & Play: gather around one screen and take turns. - Live online: challenge friends and trade moves in real time. - Turn-based online: take your turn when it suits you, without needing everyone online together. - Nearby: connect on separate devices and play people in the room. Each seats two, three, or four players. Online matches use Game Center. Local and nearby play do not require a Game Center account. Online features are subject to account restrictions. THE PAPER CLASSIC, MADE FOR YOUR SCREEN Clean dot grids, colorful claims, and an ink-on-paper design in light and dark keep the board easy to follow. Play on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac, with support for 50 languages. One purchase covers all four: play with the Siri Remote on the TV, or with menus and the keyboard on the Mac. OPTIMIZED FOR IPHONE DUO Open the phone and the board fills the inner display; close it and your game carries on, on the outer display, right where you were. SIMPLE RULES. SATISFYING TACTICS. Join two dots with a line. Complete a box and it belongs to you, marked with your initial or player number. You also get another turn. Finish with the most boxes to win. The challenge is knowing which line to leave. Give away the wrong opening and your opponent may collect a chain of boxes before you play again. Look ahead, time your moves, and make the next turn count. How to Play and the Video Instructions teach the chain strategy. PICK YOUR PACE Choose eight board presets, from 3×3 dots to a sprawling 12×12 grid. Start small for a quick round or settle into a larger contest. The Swedish opening begins with the border already drawn, changing the choices from the first move. Four computer strengths, Easy through Expert, give you room to learn and a reason to improve. Ask for a hint when you want a nudge, undo during local play to try another approach, and revisit a finished game with Watch Replay. KEEP YOUR PLACE. BUILD YOUR RECORD. Local games save as you play, with room for up to six unfinished games, and iCloud carries them to your other devices. Return when you're ready for the next round. Earn XP in qualifying games, climb the levels, and pursue 28 achievements and six Game Center leaderboards. Track your wins, boxes, chains, and progress. Pass & Play is for the rivalry, not XP. One purchase. No subscriptions or in-app purchases. No third-party ads or tracking. We may show you our other games. Pick a board. Bring your friends. Leave them one less box.

Space is young, dark and scattered. Atoms drift alone, touching nothing, and in all that emptiness not one thing has ever been built. No water. No stone. No star with a planet worth the name. That is what you are here to change. Atomicom is a puzzle game about binding matter together. Atoms come to you one at a time. Place them on the board, let their loose electrons find a partner, and when every electron in a connected group has one, the molecule is finished: it holds, it leaves the board, and the universe keeps a piece of itself that did not exist a moment ago. HOW IT PLAYS • An atom arrives in the glass cylinder below the board. Take it and drop it on any free square. • Atoms bond with the neighbours above, below, left and right of them. Never diagonally. • A green atom has one electron to give, yellow has two, orange three, red four. Blue atoms give nothing at all: they only take up room you were going to need. • Satisfy every electron in a connected group and the molecule forms and goes. • Run out of squares, or let the cylinder overflow, and the mission ends there. 300 MISSIONS The board starts wide and gets smaller: twelve squares across, then ten, then eight, then a six by six where there is nowhere left to be careless. Every mission asks more than the one before it — more molecules, more obstacles in the way, heavier atoms that need more neighbours before they are satisfied — and every time the board shrinks you begin again at something gentle and climb back up. MADE TO BE PLAYED BY EVERYONE Atomicom is made by Tyflos Accessible Software. Accessibility here is not a switch in the settings, it is how the game is built. • Fully playable with VoiceOver, from the first tap to the last molecule. Nothing has to be seen. • Every square tells you its coordinate, what is on it and how many electrons are still free: "A2, red, 3 free bonds". • The sound tells you where. An atom bonding on the left is heard on the left, and the top of the board sounds higher than the bottom, so the board has a shape you can hear. • Everything that happens without you touching it is spoken: an atom arriving, a molecule finished, a move the rules will not allow and why not. • Vibration answers every move, soft for an atom placed and hard for a molecule completed. • Drag if you like, or tap the atom and then the square. Both always work. • Dynamic Type throughout, and Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency are obeyed. • Choose your own background, square borders and cylinder colour, and the game tells you when a colour you picked is too faint to make out. ALSO • Play in seventeen languages. • Made for iPhone and iPad. • Your game saves itself: leave in the middle of a mission and pick it up later. • A table of your best games, kept on your device. FREE, AND WHAT COSTS MONEY • The first ten missions are free, with advertising. • "All levels" is a one-off purchase that opens the three hundred. The advertising stays. • "No ads" is a second one-off purchase that removes the banner. It needs "All levels" first. The universe is not going to assemble itself. Start with two atoms.