Chromatic Drift

Chromatic Drift

You can't touch the colors – only their laws.

A color puzzle for iPhone and iPad. Balls grow, spread and clash across the field. You never move a single one: you set the rules for what happens when two colors meet, and try to turn the whole field one color.

Coming soon to the App Store iPhone and iPad · iOS 17 or later

Try it: break the loop

Red beats Green, Green beats Blue, and Blue beats Red, so the colors chase each other forever. Change the rules below until one color fills the field. One change is enough.

Red + Green
Green + Blue
Blue + Red

0 changes

How it works

You set the laws.
The colors do the rest.

  1. Balls grow and spread

    Every ball grows, charges up and reaches into a neighboring cell. An empty cell gets a new ball of the same color.

  2. Every meeting has a rule

    When two colors meet, their rule decides: one wins and takes the cell, they stop and form a wall, they pop and both vanish, or it's a coin toss.

  3. One color wins the field

    Change the rules whenever you like, even before a level begins. Turn every ball one color to win. Fewer changes and a quicker time earn more stars.

  • WinsOne color takes the other's cell.
  • StopNothing happens. The two colors build a wall.
  • PopBoth balls vanish and leave room.
  • 50/50A coin toss decides who wins.
  • MixLater on, two colors make a third.

On iPhone and iPad

Calm to watch.
Tricky to solve.

  • A large field of red, blue, yellow, green and purple balls, with the rule for every pair of colors in a grid below
    Watch the colors spread and clash.
  • Red and blue balls fighting over a field while a small drifter rolls across it
    Drifters roll across the field and repaint balls.
  • A close-up of glowing balls with the rules grid below, ready to change
    Pinch to zoom in. Change a rule at any moment.
  • A close-up of balls with cartoon faces: calm blues, alarmed reds, love-struck greens
    In the Emotions style, every ball has a mood.

The campaign

A stranger.
A field of living colors.
The way home.

The stranger wakes in warm grass with no memory of lying down. Every level opens and closes with one line of their story, from the first humming field to the door that leads home. Each chapter brings something new to master.

  • The stranger lies in a misty meadow scattered with glowing red and blue balls
    AwakeningThe stranger wakes in warm grass that hums in two colors, with no memory of lying down.
  • A sunset field packed with red balls under strings of lights
    Crowded FieldsThe next field is packed shoulder to shoulder, and Red keeps bumping into itself with a pop.
  • A maze of stone walls with colored balls glowing along its paths
    Stone GardenThe path turns into a maze of stone, and the bell echoes from every direction at once.
  • A purple whirlwind crosses a night field of colored balls while the stranger watches
    Storm SeasonThe sky over the road turns the color of a bruise, and the first whirlwind skips across the field.
  • A path of glowing balls leads up to a bright open door
    The Way HomeThe ground rises toward the door, and everything the stranger has learned seems to be waiting along the way.
  • Drifters that repaint balls
  • Strange field shapes
  • Mixing colors
  • Stone mazes
  • Laws carved in stone
  • Storms, quakes and rain

Ball styles

Pick your mood

Choose how the balls look in Settings. The rules stay the same.

  • Softly glowing colored balls with drifting light particles

    Meditation

    Soft glow and drifting light.

  • Colored balls with cartoon faces showing different moods

    Emotions

    Every color has a mood, and every face reacts when it changes color.

  • Round cartoon tomatoes, blueberries and limes in place of balls

    Fruits

    Tomatoes, blueberries, limes and friends.

Good to know

Play your way

  • Stars for clever play

    Win a level for a star, and earn more by using few changes and finishing fast. Stuck? Skip a level and come back to it later.

  • Game Center

    A global leaderboard and achievements, if you're signed in to Game Center.

  • Sync with iCloud

    Your progress, scores and ball style follow you between your iPhone and iPad. No account to make.

  • Free to play

    The game is free with a small banner ad. A one-time purchase removes the ads for good.

Chromatic Drift

Coming soon to the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Questions or ideas? We'd love to hear from you.

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