Inkgrove

Grab a brush, slow your breathing and paint your way through eight hand-painted scrolls. A fresh Daily Scroll waits for you every morning.

Somewhere under the blank rice paper there's a painting. Your brush is the only way to find it.

Inkgrove is a quiet little puzzle about drawing lines. Leave the edge of the paper, sketch a shape, and bring the brush home again. Everything you close off washes away to show the scene underneath: bamboo in the morning fog, a temple on a grey peak, lanterns glowing in the dark.

It sounds simple, and at first it is. Then the ink spirits show up.

THE SPIRITS DON'T LIKE YOUR WET INK Little smudges of living ink drift across the paper. If one touches the line you're still drawing, the stroke breaks and you lose a brush. So you start reading them: when to cut a quick corner, when to wait, when to commit to one long, greedy stroke that grabs half the page. And if two spirits share a painting, wall them off into separate rooms and they give up on the spot.

A FEW THINGS YOU'LL LEARN ALONG THE WAY • Rest a second finger on the screen for the Fine Brush. It's slower, but everything it paints counts double. • Don't stop halfway through a stroke. Ink that sits too long dries, and the burn creeps back along your line. • Claim a paper lantern and the nearest spirit dozes off for a few seconds. • Embers only run along the edges. The open paper is safe from them. • Red seals hide in the risky corners. Find them all for your second star.

EIGHT SCROLLS, 160 PAINTINGS Bamboo Dawn, River Mist, Mountain Temple, Lantern Night, Storm Grove, Jade Peak, Plum Blossom and Golden Autumn. Each scroll has its own colours, mood and tricks. Finish all twenty paintings in one and the whole scroll unrolls into a wide panorama you can save to your photos.

A SCROLL A DAY The Daily Scroll is the same painting for everyone, with one brush and no second chances. Stamp the calendar, keep your streak going and see how much of the paper you dare to take.

ENDLESS, WHEN YOU WANT IT No levels, no finish line. Painting after painting, your score keeps climbing until the spirits finally catch you.

COLLECT AND UNLOCK Every painting you finish hangs in your Gallery. Earn new brush inks along the way: Jade, Cinnabar and Gold Leaf, each one for something you've actually achieved.

MADE TO BE GENTLE • Calm difficulty: slower spirits, slower-drying ink and five brushes instead of three. You still earn stars. • On-screen D-pad, a left-handed layout, colourblind patterns and a Reduce Motion option. • Soft plucked-string music and haptics you can switch off. • Plays fully offline. No ads.

Pour some tea, find a quiet ten minutes and paint something.