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LiquidSketch – Puzzle Game Review
LiquidSketch is a Puzzle/Simulation game from Tobias Neukom, first launched in 27th September 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 111+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes LiquidSketch Stand Out
Solve puzzles using beautifully colored, unbelievably realistic liquid! Rotate your device to pour, use your fingers to splash around or build bridges and pipes with blocks. Engage in 90 challenges testing your logic over 6 stages covering different aspects of liquid mechanics or let your imagination run wild in the sandbox mode.
Features:
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Incredibly realistic real-time liquid simulation.
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Beautiful colors: liquid and paint mix realistically and generate stunning visuals.
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Highly responsive gyroscopic controls and cutting edge liquid physics means the water flows naturally, as if it were actually inside your device!
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90 challenging puzzles with 6 stages of liquid mechanics, from easy and intuitive to complex and mind bending.
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Build anything your mind can come up with in the sandbox mode using blocks, pumps, wedges and paint. Built-in video capture lets you record your masterpiece and share it on YouTube effortlessly.
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Awesome aquatic soundtrack from composer James Primate for each stage.
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Support for Retina display
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, LiquidSketch is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th October 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- 60 fps on iOS 11
Download & Availability
LiquidSketch is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We have been using this app with our students since we started using iPads back in 2014 or so. We still use it everyday. Kids do their drawings on it and screenshot their work to publish it on our classroom website. This app gets the buy in from kindergartners and it is a cornerstone for creating and publishing all the way to 5th grade – and beyond. If we ever meet this developer we would given them a hug and buy them a drink. Thank you for this gem.
One of the rarest apps that uses water mechanics. 5 stars! No need to buy, at the moment but it deserves.
Its so so so fun that we love it.
This is a great game but it has some glitches and to hard levels.
We have played this since we were 4 years old. But sadly at our age probably 7-9? We stopped because we got a new ipad. (Ipad 6) we love this game.
Wish there were more levels. One of the best puzzle games out there.
We love this app but we want you to add a bigger limit to the liquid. We love it if we had more water.
Honestly its a really good game but theres a bug making this level impossible. The colors are mixing through blocks. Not only are the colors mixing through blocks but the colors are mixing with the same color to make a darker color, not sure if its supposed to do that but its doing that. Everything but the bugs Id say its a good game. And you should also make more levels. If you fix the bug it would be easy and would need a new stage.
Lots of levels, some as easy enough for kindergardeners, other challenging enough for the puzzle junkies. Love it wish we could give it more stars.
Please keep updating this app! We love it.
Our new favorite game!! We've got a few levels left that are tricky, but this is a great game and we wish we were half as creative as the developers for the sketch mode! We hope more levels are coming soon.
This game is beautifully designed, and we love the physics-based problem solving (this is our favorite use of the iPad's gyroscope). Our only complaint is that there aren't more levels.
Love the gyroscope games, please make more levels.
This game is clever and engaging, visually interesting, satisfying, rewarding, and occasionally challenging. The puzzles, however, will run out before you're ready for them to.
Would be great if there were more.
We really love this game. It is mentally stimulating, while not being stressful. We hope they put out more levels.
This is a great game that combines really harnesses the features of the touch interface to create some cool puzzles. We liked the different categories of puzzle mechanics as well as including color. We did find the ticking clock of the fading color to be a bit frustrating sometimes, but it is a clever mechanic, nonetheless. This is a great game for exploring a lot of concepts. It could be a great way to teach a child about color…although some of the puzzles might be a little too hard for a young kid. A truly impressive demonstration of cool game features using just about every capability of a touch interface. Bravo.
By far our favorite game! The physics is amazing. We start playing & our friends are so engrossed by the beautiful colors & wonder how we're doing it! Even more exciting when they realize its a game with levels. We love it, just wished they would put out more levels. Or have where we could buy the, something.
Hypnotic and addicting. We keep losing time to this. Can't put it down. More levels please.
This game is beautiful and amazing. It is very addictive, and just so fun in general. You can make a color mixer, or make a siphon.
This would get 5 stars from us but there is a problem with some of the colors mixing without having any contact at all. Sometimes if the paint just sits there without moving it will start to change colors and mix all on its own. It's frustrating as we sit and think and the colors just change if we don't move fast enough.
We would give it 5 start IF… We went to sandbox mode and there was a save button for our creations. Other than that great game.
We love this game but it was better when in sandbox the colors don't go when we remove the paint, please fix it! And can you add an option in sandbox that all the paint erase alone. And this game is great and everyone buy it it's fun and worth it.
As mentioned by others, this app has some issues that need correcting. Colors mix when they should not, etc. Going on three years since last update. Kind of looks like app has been abandoned by developers. We would not recommend unless you can handle frustration of mentioned bugs. Too bad because app could be a winner with some fixes.
This game is fun up until the last section of levels. We fill up the orange and purple boxes and then they slowly begin to lose their qualifying status, no matter what we do. This is because the colors leak through the blocks, which there is nothing we can do about. Don't buy if you want to actually complete all of the levels.
This is an amazing game and is extremely unique, but with no new updates with new levels in more than a YEAR, we have stopped playing entirely.
Very smart and clever. Hours of fun.
There is all ready alot of content but we want more!! This is one of our favorite game. There is nothing else quite like it out there. Please make more levels. Thanks.
Love this app. Unfortunately finished all levels and am looking forward to new puzzles Hope you put up some new levels or puzzles soon.
Very nice App. Ready to buy next version! Stephen Stephen J. Quinn Productions, LLC.
This app is amazing!! It doesn't matter if you're young or "mature", this app will intrigue & challenge you at the same time. Congrats to the developer & thanks for the time & effort that you put into making such a realistic liquid puzzle app. The only thing that could make it better would be a version of it for the iPhone/iPod. Thanks again, we're thoroughly impressed.
An excellent puzzle game that makes you think.
We had this app for several weeks without playing, and then we randomly opened it…and we are so glad we did. This is such a unique and beautifully made game, and we think it is one of the best apps out there. We loved the graphics as well as the puzzles. Hope more is on the way!!! We still can't get over how beautiful this game is. Never loved an app this much.
Once we started, we couldn't put it down. A few hours later and we were done. We would give this to any adult for pure challenging fun and any child for a true learning experience. Great attention to detail, excellent use of physics, intuitive interface. Really demonstrates the capabilities of the iPad.
Incredible animation. Difficult puzzles. Just plain pretty to look at. We want MORE.
This game is amazing! Hard but possible levels, replay value for sure. Excellent time killer too =) Developer please make more levels or a number 2.
Incredibly fun and addictive. Why else would we still be up at 4am? :) Really hoping you come up with more levels.
We think you need to add more colors and levels! Other wise we love the game :).
It is very rare for us to get addicted to any app or game but liquid sketch got the entire family (age range 45 years – 4 years) hooked within 15 minutes of use. Can't wait for more challenging puzzles to be added. Will gladly purchase.
Such a fun way to pass the time!! We, addicted!! Though we finished the levels please add moreee.
This is the first review we have written for an app. This game is so addicting!!! We were hooked from the beginning. The puzzles get more difficult as you move through each set. We want MORE.
The liquid simulation physics are incredible, and the puzzles are challenging. Really, no complaints. Need more levels :).
This game is so much fun no so addicting! We live trying to solve the easy then complicated puzzles! Hugely recommended to anyone Looking for fun colorful games and puzzles.
As an engineer (not the kind who drives trains), we have spent hours playing this and teaching our boys about gravity and fluid dynamics. The use of colors, pumps, hydraulic jumps, static pressure make this a great teaching tool as well as a fun game.
It's our all time favorite puzzle game on the App Store. The concept is original and the puzzles are challenging. If you are an artist or are into color theory you will love this game. Now we just need more puzzles. We community of submitted puzzles created in the sandbox would be awesome.
This is a great puzzle app, addicting. The only problem we have is that solving all the puzzles is like the getting to the end of a great book! Thanks for helping us pass time.
Love the puzzles. Wish there was more to the sandbox.
This game is so awesome and addicting we got it about a week ago and it is still fun. In sandbox mode you ave everything exept for half blocks which we really want also in sandbox you can turn on and off gyroscope.
This game is beautiful and has fantastic physics.
Isth si a llyrea unf mega! Ereth uldsho eb remo elslev ughtho. Everwho si ioningquest isth ppa ouy uldsho allytot etg isth! Esthon nionopi! And that is a language we made up so we wouldn't expect you to understand it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5
- Size: 66.54 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Tobias Neukom]()
Last updated: 16th October 2017 | Genre: Puzzle, Simulation | Developer: Tobias Neukom