ESCHER FALLS Optical Illusion vs Driftleaf

In 3D space, none of the channels are connected. Turn the view, though, and two distant channels land exactly on top of one another. In ESCHER FALLS, that is the moment they count as joined, and the water runs. Depth is never considered at all. This is M.C. Escher's "Waterfall" — that uneasy feeling of water falling and somehow arriving back where it started — made into something you can play with your thumb. ■ How it plays Turn the compass in 90° steps; move the elevation through three stops — low, high, top-down. That is nine combinations, and the water runs through exactly **one** of them. When you think it is joined, release the water. You may release at any time. Where it is not joined, the water spills out of the gap. The button never goes grey to tell you that you are wrong. Where it spills is the only thing that will tell you where the break is. ■ 41 stages · Main, Part One (12) — compass only at first, then elevation, then top-down · Main, Part Two (9) — levers arrive, and the castle itself moves. The search becomes two axes: where you look from, and what state it is in · Extras I (20) — reversal. The water climbs the fall. Dry wells appear in the second half. They are catches you must **not** reach, so you look for a view that keeps things apart rather than one that joins them Finish Part One of the main story and the first Extra, "The Upward Fall", is free to play. The rest open with an in-app purchase (which removes the ads as well). Clear the whole main story and a second pass opens, with moves and time tightened. ■ What is and is not in here · Ads are video only. **Watching is always your choice.** Nothing appears on its own · **The Extras you pay for carry no ads at all** · No account, no sign-up · Records are kept on your device and nowhere else Times are kept per stage, with a personal best and a running total. There is a rank, too — but it is never compared against anyone else.

You drop a leaf on a grid of arrows and let go. It drifts the way the arrow beneath it points — and here is the whole game in one line: as the leaf leaves a tile, that tile turns a quarter. So the path rewrites itself while you watch. Come back to a square a second time and it sends you somewhere new. Loops untie themselves. A route that looked hopeless closes like a door. You never touch the leaf. Before you release it you may turn three or four arrows — no more — and then you watch. The puzzle is not "draw the path". It is "build a current that will solve itself", and watching it run is the reward. Sixty-three puzzles across four worlds • Creek (2×1–5×5) — arrows and rocks, and the one rule everything else is built on. • Whirl (5×5–6×6) — marble arrows that never turn, and whirls that turn the other way. Two spins on one board. • Lily (6×6–7×7) — reaching the pond is no longer enough. Every lily has to be touched on the way. • Delta (7×7) — everything at once, on the widest water, with the tightest budgets in the game. And then it does not stop The campaign teaches the vocabulary and ends. What follows is a creek that keeps going: a hundred and eighty more proven boards, whose difficulty rises and falls on a twelve-board wave instead of climbing for ever. You are never more than six boards from a breather, and never more than six from a fight. One board a day The same puzzle for everyone, changing at midnight. Finish it and you can say how it went — the taps it cost, the days you have kept — on a card that never shows the board, so it cannot spoil it for whoever reads it. Each world has its own water The creek starts cool and green, deepens as it turns, greens again among the lilies, pales where the delta widens, and runs into dusk downstream. The leaf, the rocks and the lilies never change colour: they are things in the water, not the water. Every level is proved, not guessed Each board was generated and then brute-forced: a solution exists, no cheaper solution exists, and there are never more than a handful. When the counter says three taps, all three are needed. That is why the budget is a hint rather than a resource. A quiet game No timers. No lives. No score. Fail and the water simply settles — your taps stay exactly where you put them, and you try the next idea. The only thing recorded is how few taps you needed. The daily keeps a streak if you want one, and forgets it without a word if you do not. Free, with one short ad between every third level • No purchases, no accounts, no analytics, no energy timers. • A short video runs after every third level you clear, and you can choose to watch one for an extra tap when a board has you stuck — never more than twice, and never needed: every level is solvable within its printed budget. • Your progress lives on your device and nowhere else; we run no servers and receive nothing about you. • The puzzles need no connection. Offline, every level and language works normally and the ads are simply skipped. • Full keyboard support, screen-reader labels, reduced-motion and dark themes. • Ten languages: Turkish, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese. Set the current. Drop the leaf. Watch.