Color Zen

Color Zen is a Puzzle game that was developed by Large Animal Games for the Nintendo 3DS and was released on June 05, 2014. Color Zen is a puzzle game about combining items to turn the game area into a single colour. A typical level is filled with objects with different colours. The pulsating ones can be dragged into another one to combine them, filling all the available backgrounds with that colour.

By doing that with multiple objects the entire area can be cleared. There is a catch however as the final colour needs to be the one of the area’s border, already shown at the start of the game. That way, the challenge is focused on combining the colours in the correct order. Later levels add additional game elements. Dotted shapes can be tapped to toggle a shield, preventing them from being affected by a colour fill. There are also black shapes.

When an object is dragged into a black one, it disappears, without spreading its colour. As the objects can be flung with a swipe next to dragging them, the player also has to watch out not to bump into black objects accidentally. Certain levels have spikes that are used to make a shape disappear. Unlike a black object, a single spike can be used multiple times.