A colour-sorting puzzle. Choose a vial to lift its top band, then choose another vial to pour it in. Sort each vial into a single colour.

Tap a vial, then another

We make word puzzles, colour puzzles, and one long adventure about a world that lost its colour.

A small puzzle studio in Tallinn, Estonia. Since 2020.

The games

Games

Word puzzle

Kalamatic

Connect the letters, find the words, fill the board.

App Store
4.8 from 19,540 ratings
Levels
6,000+
Languages
11 on the App Store
  • Kalamatic gameplay
  • Kalamatic gameplay
  • Kalamatic gameplay

Six more out in the world, learning what they need to be.

We put small puzzle games on the stores to find out whether an idea holds up outside the studio. Most need another year. A few do not.

  • HexomindHexagon block puzzle
  • Letter ChaosCan you find order in the chaos?
  • Fit RushFit it, don't force it
  • Sort RainCategory match
  • Hexel FlowFlow puzzle
  • Sip SortWater sort
  • Still brewing

Everything we have ever shipped, including the hyper-casual years, is on our App Store developer page.

Small studio. Long games.

Joyixir has been making puzzle games from Tallinn since 2020. We are small enough that whoever designs a level is usually the same person fixing it at midnight, and we have never wanted to be much bigger.

Our first game is still running. Kalamatic went out in 2019 and we are still shipping updates to it — six thousand levels later, in eleven languages, mostly for people who play it on the bus every morning. That is the kind of game we are trying to make again.

Before the puzzles there were a few years of hyper-casual work, including a game we built for Voodoo that passed ten million installs. It taught us how to finish things quickly. We would rather use that now to finish things properly.

What we hold to

Generous early, honest late
The first twenty levels should make you feel clever. After that the game should stop flattering you.
No timer unless the timer is the puzzle
Most of our games can be put down mid-thought and picked up a day later.
Readable before it is hard
You have to be able to see a solution before you can be asked to find one.