This means that you're increasingly unlikely to solve stages with ease or dumb luck, and it's here that the children will be separated from the grown-ups. Then, in quite an un-Zen-like fashion, the challenge shows up towards the end of each chapter and gets you in a figurative headlock, overcoming you with a reason-defying arrangement of nested shapes that you need to carefully unpick.Īs you make your way through the hundred stages the game gradually introduces more elements - white shapes that turn the screen the colour of the shape they collide with black shapes that disappear along with the shape you pushed against them multiple shapes within shapes shields that you activate by double-tapping them. It's a gentle introduction to the mechanics of the game, and it may leave you wondering where the challenge is supposed to lie. Even when there are nested shapes that seem to be dictating a certain approach, you almost always stumble across the solution on your first attempt without giving it any thought. This is easy enough at first - you just note the colour of the border and make sure you bring those shapes together last. The aim of the game is to finally fill the screen so that it matches the border without leaving any other colours behind. When you bring two shapes of the same colour together it fills the screen, swallowing up any other matching shapes that are lying around. In each stage there are shapes of various colours, some of which you can move and some of which you can't, and around each stage is a coloured border. While it has a familiar minimalist aesthetic, Color Zen is unlike another other puzzle game you've ever played. You can get through the first 20-stage chapter in a fairly meditative state, and you'll be able to return to that state from time to time as you cruise or fluke your way through the game's easier stages, but you'll need to concentrate pretty intensely when the going gets tough, and you won't feel remotely relaxed. The word refers to an offshoot of Buddhism that emphasises the value of meditation - which means that Color Zen is using it wrongly too. It appears, mostly wrongly, in the titles of a pinball game, a fighting game, numerous puzzle games, and even a war game. "Zen" is an overused word on the App Store.
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