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Glow Garden

Grid puzzles with a glow-and-garden theme, daily streaks and gardens that unlock as you play. Relaxing to sit with, still built around real skill rather than waiting.

Not on the stores yet. In closed testing on Google Play and App Store. Not publicly listed yet.

Glow Garden — a puzzle board mid-solve

Inside the app

  • Glow Garden — a puzzle board mid-solve
    A puzzle board mid-solve
  • Glow Garden — gardens unlock as you progress
    Gardens unlock as you progress
  • Glow Garden — the daily streak screen
    The daily streak screen
  • Glow Garden — rewards earned from completed boards
    Rewards earned from completed boards
  • Glow Garden — the level map
    The level map
  • Glow Garden — the leaderboard
    The leaderboard

Real product code

Light every row, every column and every garden — with no two fireflies touching.

The rule check is Glow Garden’s own code, vendored unmodified, including the solver that refuses any placement which would leave the board unsolvable. The board is fixed rather than generated, and was searched for with that same solver until one with exactly one solution turned up.

Feel why a placement can be refused even when it breaks no rule on its own.

    No installNo sign-inAbout a minute

Why it exists

A cozy puzzle game with a firefly, a garden and 900 levels.

The cozy puzzle genre is crowded with games that are cozy in art direction and hostile in structure — energy timers, forced ads between boards, progress gated behind currency. Glow Garden keeps the calm surface and drops the coercion underneath it. Lumi, the firefly, is the guide rather than a mascot selling boosters.

What it does

The parts that matter.

  • 01

    Gardens that unlock

    Progress opens new gardens, each with its own art and palette, so the long tail of levels stays visually varied.

  • 02

    Daily streaks

    A reason to come back that does not punish you for missing a day.

  • 03

    A leaderboard worth reading

    Ranking is skill-based, and the subscription does not buy position.

How it was built

A solver decides what counts as a legal move

The puzzle is not validated against a list of rules. Every placement is tested by asking the solver whether the board can still be completed, which is why a tap can be refused even when it breaks no rule by itself. It costs more per tap and it is the reason the game feels fair rather than arbitrary — and the same function is what guarantees a generated board has a solution at all.

Where it stands

BETA

In closed testing on both stores. Public release is pending.

We do not publish download counts, ratings or revenue figures for any product. Nothing here has been on a store long enough for one to mean anything. Privacy information for Glow Garden.

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