Two Dots - Connect the Colors

Two Dots Review: One Loop Clears the Whole Board

The Square Is the Whole Idea

Dots are connected in straight or right-angled lines, and each move costs one of a limited number. The mechanic that matters is the loop: enclose four dots in a square and every dot of that colour disappears from the board, wherever it sits. That turns a level from a search into a plan, because a square in the wrong place wastes the one colour you needed. Targets sit along the top — fifteen each of four colours in the store example — and a move counter falls with every line drawn.

Five Thousand Levels and a Second Game Inside

The level count is past five thousand, arranged into themed chapters with different palettes and obstacles: ice that cracks, anchors to drop, bombs that clear a radius when triggered. Alongside the dots sits a hidden-object mode, where a densely illustrated scene hides a handful of items to find — an entirely different puzzle bundled into the same app, and a better one than most standalone hidden-object games manage. Both share the same lives and currency. Chapters are unlocked in order rather than opened all at once, so the harder obstacles arrive gradually across the first few hundred levels.

605 MB, Adverts and Power-Ups

The install is 605 MB, which is the largest of any puzzle game in this catalogue and remarkable for a screen of coloured circles. Google Play carries an advertising badge with 50 million installs and 4.3 stars from 1.16 million reviews; Apple shows 4.5 from 172,000 ratings and rates it 9+, listing infrequent contests, loot boxes and advertising. Purchases are power-ups and lives at $0.99, extra moves at $1.99, and currency packs from $1.99 to $9.99 — bought, as ever, at the moment a level fails by one move.