How to start playing, what the four game modes are, and the full list of controls.
Quick start
Press Play on the welcome screen to reach the lobby. The lobby has four game modes: Tutorial, Hexpeditions, Safari and Homestead. Choose one, choose a level, and the game loads for everyone in the room.
Playing with friends. The Multiplayer button in the lobby shows your room in the drawer. Open Room makes it joinable and displays a five letter code to share. You can also invite friends through Steam or Discord, or use Join With Code to enter someone else's room. Only the host chooses the level, and everyone plays it together.
The loop
You draw cards into your hand. Drag a card onto the grid to place its tile, or click the card and then click a space on the grid. Three tiles of the same type and tier, placed in that type's shape, combine into one tile of the next tier.
The drawer along the edge of the screen lists the level's tasks. Finishing the required tasks completes the level. Bonus tasks are optional, and finishing those as well earns a gold star. Hexpedition and Safari levels also award a loot chest containing something you have not unlocked yet.
Where to play
Begin your journey by learning how to merge tiles and completing puzzles.
A set of puzzle levels that teach the game. The first few show you which hex to use and which tile to place there. Later levels give you a goal and let you work it out yourself.
Continue your journey with challenging tasks and worthwhile rewards.
Puzzle levels generated for each run, so the grid, the cards and the tasks are different every time. There are five difficulty ranks: Scout, Trailblazer, Navigator, Mountaineer and Hexpert. Higher ranks unlock as you complete the ones below them.
Grab your camera and search far and wide for animals to photograph.
You do not place tiles in Safari. Animals are hidden across a large field, and the goal is to find them and photograph them. An animal has to be centered and in focus before the photo counts. The hint button plays an animal's sound and highlights a large radius around where it is hiding.
Craft a town of your own with rewards you've unlocked.
A town of your own, with no tasks and no ending. Build with the tiles and objects you have unlocked, pick placed tiles up again to move them, change their height, add animals and props, and set the weather. Everyone in the room can build, and anything unlocked by one player in the room can be used by all of them.
Reference
| Action | Keyboard and mouse | Gamepad |
|---|---|---|
| Move camera | WASDordrag with Left click | Right stick |
| Rotate camera | Hold Middle clickorQE | LBRB |
| Zoom camera | Scrollor-= | Triggers |
| Top down view | F3 | Unbound |
| Action | Keyboard and mouse | Gamepad |
|---|---|---|
| Point | F | Gesture wheel slice |
| Signal a tile | Ctrl + Left click | Gesture wheel slice |
| Grab an object | Hold Left click | Hold A |
| Rotate held object | Scroll | Right stick |
| Push | Hold Right click | Hold X |
| Gesture wheel | Hold Space | Hold either stick in |
| Action | Keyboard and mouse | Gamepad |
|---|---|---|
| Select a card | 12345 | D-pad along the hand, then A |
| Place tile | Left clickorEnter | A |
| Change previewed card | QEorScroll | Triggers |
| Rotate tile | VB | LBRB |
| Move placement | Move the cursor | D-pad or either stick |
| Cancel placement | Right click | B |
| Undo placement | Z | Unbound |
| Remove tile | X | Unbound |
| Action | Keyboard and mouse | Gamepad |
|---|---|---|
| Pick up a placed tile | Middle clickorG on a trackpad | X |
| Place tile | Left click | A |
| Rotate tile | VB | LBRB |
| Change tile height | Scroll | Triggers |
| Action | Keyboard and mouse | Gamepad |
|---|---|---|
| Enter camera mode | C | Y |
| Adjust focus | Scroll | Triggers |
| Take photo | Left click | RB |
| Exit camera mode | Right clickorC | B |
| Action | Keyboard and mouse | Gamepad |
|---|---|---|
| Navigate menus | Arrow keysorTab | D-pad |
| Select menu item | Enter | A |
| Show controls | F1 | Settings, then Controls |
| Open drawer | F7 | Select |
| Open draw pile | F6 | Unbound |
| Open level select | L | Unbound |
| Open settings | Esc | Start |
| Screenshot mode | F2 | Unbound |
| Send feedback | F4 | Unbound |
| Restart level | R | Unbound |
| Return to lobby | F5 | Unbound |
Press F1 in game to see these controls for the device you are currently using, including any changes you have made to them. Controls can be rebound in Settings under Input.