Shades: A Simple Puzzle Game app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
8384 ratings )
Games
Entertainment
Puzzle
Action
Developer:
UOVO
1.99 USD
Current version:
1.3.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 15 Sep 2014
App size: 42.01 Mb
To celebrate the launch of our new game, DETACHMENT, Shades is FREE THIS WEEKEND!
We’re not going to pretend - we’re giving Shades away for free because we really hope you’ll try Detachment too. It has the same minimalist design and mellow, meditative gameplay. So download both games today - they’re both FREE!
Meditation + Panic. Its an addictive combo. Over 4 million people have chilled out with Shades, you should too.
~ Apple App Of The Week!
~ Buzzfeed - featured in "31 iPhone Games You Should Be Playing Already"
~ Buzzfeed - featured in "29 Games Every Procrastinator Should Know About"
~ Apple Best New Games
~ Starbucks "Pick of the Week"
"Shades is a really charming puzzle game, not unlike Tetris. It has some lovely design touches and is a really calming experience to play." - Buzzfeed
"The graphics are ingeniously simple as are the rules, but as you start to play you soon realize that the gameplay is anything but easy." - TouchArcade
"I highly recommend checking out Shades" - AppAdvice
"Surprisingly difficult!" ~ The guys who made it.
A mesmerizing, calming, zen-like experience. A very simple game that will challenge you to think very fast.
Features:
- Simple rules
- Intuitive gameplay
- Difficult to master
- 3 modes of play. Easy. Medium. Hard.
- Challenge yourself with 3,4 or 5 column play!
- Beautiful, colorful, minimalist design.
- Sound design by ONBC
How to Play:
The gameplay is simple.
- Move the falling blocks into the best position to combine blocks and clear rows.
- Place 2 blocks of the same color on top of each other to combine them into a single block of a darker color.
- Create a row of blocks with the same color to clear the row.
- Dont let your stack of blocks hit the top.
Super simple, surprisingly challenging.
We would like to thank Oliver North Boy Choir (http://www.onbc.dk) for permission to use the song “Sleep” in the Shades video preview - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sleep/id768761322?i=768761323
Pros and cons of Shades: A Simple Puzzle Game app for iPhone and iPad
Shades: A Simple Puzzle Game app good for
Its pretty much Tetris with pretty colours. I love it. The music/sound effects are really nice as well.
Ive played this game more than any other since I got it a couple of years ago! Many of my cognitive skills were altered by a mild brain trauma & PTSD after a 2007 MVA: A drunkard crossed the center line & hit my car head on. I wont detail the physical injuries & hardships. Having the cognitive deficits put on the back burner until 2014 says enough about how much physical rehabilitation and lifestyle changes I had to make. I can finally enjoy the games on my iPad. I was never good at airplane or wargames, so I moved toward puzzle types. When I started playing video games, if they made me stop breathing or want to through my iPad out the window, Id delete them. I stop playing a game when I cant relax anymore, but with practice the amount of time I can play increases dramatically.
But SHADES has been FUN! and has unexpected helped me improve many lowered or lost skills: Keeping a steady hand, thinking through several concepts instantaneously, processing difficult motor & visual skills, recognizing subtle differences in "SHADES" of color -LOL- and remembering all that info to further strategize & physically make the next move... often, in the final moments, within milliseconds!! My scores are improving faster lately. I have made a skill jump, recognizing more subtleties involved in the game strategy, particularly at the different skill levels. Most gamers would still probably smear me but I smeared myself!
The games use of multiple colors and basic game play makes for hours of addictive fun.
I really enjoy this game. Its a similar challenge to Tetris, but harder!
Easy to understand, difficult to beat in the hard mode. Love playing shades. Its a quick, fun distraction.
I like the challenge of this game. My kids even play it from time to time. I find it especially intriguing for the implications in telling the differences between the shades. It sounds crazy, but I swear it is harder to tell the blues and the greens.
Some bad moments
Lost my super high score for no apparent reason. Opened the app and it started at level 1! I was at 180,000!!!!!!!!! Grrrrrr
The concept is cool but it gets old fast. I had it for 2 days but I thought it was boring.
BUT I paid for the app, I shouldnt see your stupid ad for your new game EVERYTIME I launch the app
Letzter Schrott - funktioniert nicht exakt mit dem Touchscreen des iPhone 6s
Wasnt crashing for me before update, but now it is every time I choose a difficulty. Unplayable.
Update make it crash before you can even start a game. Did no one test this before release?
