Tessera: Hex Puzzle
A quiet slide-match puzzle
Free · In‑App Purchases
World 15 just landed — Cairn. A new objective: reach the marked stones, not empty the board. Plus animated tutorials and ambient wildlife.
Tessera is a puzzle game about stillness and sequence. Each level is a small hex board. Slide a tile until it hits another; match three of a color to clear them.
One hundred hand-curated levels across ten worlds — every one solved by the game's own solver before it shipped. No guessing. No luck. No timers. Just a puzzle and a quiet place to think.
Thirty levels are free. The rest unlock with one purchase.
FEATURES
• 100 hand-curated levels across 10 worlds
• Every level provably solvable — verified by an IDA* solver
• Sliding hex tiles with cascading chain merges
• Pre-charged tiles and chain annihilation
• Rewarding bonus puzzles for clean clears
• Dark mode (paper by candlelight)
• Offline play · cloud sync across devices
• Keyboard shortcuts for desktop play
QUIET PAPER
Tessera is designed around a "Quiet Paper" aesthetic — near-monochrome ivory and charcoal, one muted accent per world, humanist typography, no drop shadows, no particles, no clutter. Ten worlds, ten colour moods.
NO DARK PATTERNS
• One-time purchase. No ads, no subscriptions, no loot boxes.
• No stamina systems, no "wait 4 hours" timers, no energy meters.
• No tracking, no third-party analytics.
• Your progress is yours. Delete it any time in Settings.
THE WORLDS
W1 Threshold — Learn the slide. Learn the chain.
W2 Ember — Three colours. Richer chains.
W3 Tide — Four colours. Deeper reads.
W4 Ashwood — Think before you slide.
W5 Helix — Five colours. Wider grid. The climb begins.
W6 Prism — Dense lattices. Longer chains.
W7 Aurora — Long chains. Rolling clears.
W8 Halcyon — Denser boards. No escape.
W9 Quartz — Six colours. Every cluster counts.
W10 Obsidian — The wall. Everything learned.
Designed for short sessions. Built for quiet.
Ratings & Reviews
World 15 — Cairn
A new kind of objective. Some cells now have colored markers; you win when each marker holds a tile of its required color. The board doesn't need to be empty — sometimes clearing is wrong, because it consumes the tile that was supposed to land on a target. Ten new levels in the first non-clear objective world Tessera has shipped.
Animated tutorials
New worlds now show the mechanic in motion. Locked tiles, mixers, gravity arrows, and target cells each have a short looping demo above the explainer text — readable in four seconds.
Tutorial recall
A small "?" button on the playing screen and the picker re-opens the relevant tutorial anytime. If the rules didn't stick the first time, they're one tap away.
Wildlife
Some levels now have small visitors. Sit still long enough and a fieldmouse, fennec, or frog might peek up from an empty cell to look around. They retreat the moment you make a move. Different species per world.
Quality fixes
— Levels you've cleared now show a check mark, even on out-of-order plays.
— Sound resumes correctly when returning to the app from multitasking.
The developer, Nirmal Acharya, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- Nirmal Acharya
- Size
- 11.8 MB
- Category
- Puzzle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Tessera Full $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Nirmal Acharya

