Halcyon is a calm game of mahjong solitaire. Match pairs, clear the board, unwind — with the game's own illustrated tiles, or tiles made from photographs of your own.
EVERY BOARD CAN BE FINISHED
Each board is built so that it can always be cleared. If you get stuck, it is the order of your moves, not the deal. Hint points out a pair you can take right now, Undo takes back your last move, and Shuffle re-deals what is left into a fresh layout you can finish.
PLAY IT YOUR WAY
• Quick boards for a few minutes, Standard boards for a coffee, Evening boards for a long sit
• Gentle, Standard or Tricky dealing — difficulty changes how far apart the pairs land, not the shape of the board
• Classic layouts, plus 10,000 numbered boards you can return to by number or share with a friend
• Surprise Me picks a board, a set and a background for you
YOUR PHOTOS AS TILES
Choose twelve or more photos, crop each one to the tile, and play any board with them. Photos are chosen through the system photo picker, so Halcyon never asks for access to your library and never sees it — only the pictures you hand over. They are copied into the app on your device and are never uploaded. A sample set is included so you can see how it plays.
ONE BOARD A DAY, THE SAME FOR EVERYONE
The Daily Board is replaced at midnight and is identical on every device. Play on consecutive days to build a streak: three days earns a Free Pack Pass that opens any locked pack for twenty-four hours, and every twenty-eighth day earns a pack to keep. Missing a day is forgiven once a month, automatically. On some days a locked pack is lent to you for the daily, for nothing.
THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATED PACKS
Every pack is a set of tiles, its own backgrounds and tile styles, and its own music, all made for Halcyon — no stock art, no licensed audio. Bento and Bodega Cat, Cryptid Field Guide and Goblincore, Moon & Dagger and Neon Horizon, Origami, Stained Glass, The Orchestra, Best in Show, The Ski Lodge and many more. Three illustrated sets are yours from the start, and more are earned as you level up. Buy the packs you like one at a time, or unlock everything — including every future pack — with the Complete Collection. Not sure about a pack? Try it for one full game by watching a short ad, and keep playing your own boards without ever seeing one.
MADE TO BE QUIET
• No account, no sign-in, no tracking
• Your streak, level and earned packs follow you between iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud — your photos stay on the device
• No tracking prompt, because there is nothing to track — ads are never personalised
• Ads only when you ask for one
• A night sky behind every screen, system Reduce Motion honoured, a switch for background motion, and haptics you can turn off
• Plays in portrait and landscape, on iPhone and iPad
• Optional daily reminder — one quiet notification, only on a day you have not played
Halcyon is made by Fourth Funnel Games, a small independent studio in Burlington, Massachusetts. If something is not right, tell us at www.fourthfunnelgames.com and we will fix it.
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