Contre Jour HD
Step into the gaming world with Contre Jour HD, one of the top $2.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Maksym Hryniv, this captivating Entertainment game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 4+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 25th August 2011, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 29th March 2016.
Whether you have a liking for Entertainment, Puzzle, or Adventure games, Contre Jour HD is sure to keep you hooked!
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Apple has named Contre Jour HD iPad Game of the Year in more than 10 countries across Europe and Asia in App Store Rewind 2011. Thanks to Apple and all of our wonderful fans for supporting this special game.
Best Mobile Game of E3 ‹ GamePro
Best Mobile Game of E3 Finalist ‹ IGN
Best Mobile/Handheld Game of E3 Nominee ‹ Game Critics Awards
Blurring the lines between games and interactive art, Contre Jour welcomes you to a hauntingly beautiful world shaped by the interplay of light and darkness.
Use your finger to morph the landscape, propelling the mysterious creature Petit to safety. Pull, swipe, and tap gadgets such as tendrils, air geysers, and pulleys to complete clever puzzles. Set to a poignant orchestrated soundtrack from composer David Ari Leon, Contre Jour both delights and bedevils from start to finish.
Press Quotes
"Contre Jour…seems like the complete package. It has challenging physics-based puzzles, a unique gameplay hook, beautiful graphics, and an eerie soundtrack. Keep a gigantic, rolling eyeball out for this game…” — Slide To Play
“I’m totally loving the look and feel of this one.” — TouchArcade
“It’s a seriously gorgeous and addictive game, and I can’t wait for it to come out.” — IGN
“The star of [E3] was Contre Jour, a darkly-weird platformer where you manipulate the ground around you.” — GamePro
Contre Jour Highlights
- Five chapters featuring 100 unique levels, as well as 300 collectable lights, will have you playing for hours and hours.
- Use extremely intuitive controls to change the environment around you.
- Twelve different interactive elements to master; portals, slingshots, tentacles, blowers and more.
- Stunning visual style places Contre Jour in a league of it’s own – simply one of the most beautiful games of the year.
- Rich, organic and original soundtrack by David Ari Leon perfectly matches Petit’s journey. Get some headphones and lose yourself in the world of Contre Jour.
- Unlock a variety of achievements as you play, can you find them all?
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Contre Jour HD on 29th March 2016:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Various bug fixes and improvements
Hear from the Players – Contre Jour HD Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Contre Jour HD:
Beautiful graphics and score plus addicting gameplay…. This is art in action people.. And proves the power of games when you do them completely right.
This game, like many, was a part of our childhood and we are glad to see it still running. Thank you for updating it consistently.
If you like World of Goo, you will love this game!
For children and adults alike, are captured by a kinder, gentler way to pass time than with explosions, murder and looting. Much gratitude goes out to the creators.
Beautiful and fun. If you like interactive puzzles we highly recommend this one.
Worth the money, clever, and gorgeous.
This was our favorite app game back in the day. Gonna reinstall it to our phone and play it again.
Challenging and rewarding, with great sound design to minimize frustration, Contre Jour is a game of stress relief and finger dexterity.
This is that great game that everyone should play. Only people who truly understand it, and can find their own interpretation of it are the ones who will find this game appealing . For us, it is one of the reasons why we get up in the morning. We even bought the soundtrack and listen to it almost every day. This game is more than just game which is why it deserves more than a 5/5.
One of the best puzzles we’ve ever played. One of the best games we’ve ever played period. And we’re a gamer. Reminds us of the game Portal.
Just get it if you like ‘physics’ games.
We played this game years ago and recently began playing again, its just as fun as we remember.
The art is beautiful, the music pleasing. We play at the end of our evening after tiring of our "in app purchase" games and our tolerance for greedy developers is shot. It’s relaxing and challenging. Sometimes we go back to lower levels just to clear our head for sleep. It never tells you "you FAILED, youSUCK, YOU’RE DEAD!" Instead you get pleasant feedback, and you can determine if you need or want to do better, or simply find nirvana in the art & completion of the puzzle. Love it.
This game is an adorable, soothing work of art.
Contre Jour, if you like these types of puzzle games you will enjoy this one, pleasing design, humor, most of the puzzle’s aren’t too difficult but there are a number of head scratchers, plenty of fun for three bucks. The game works very well, the way in which you grab the little eye ball/head works flawlessly and allows you great control of the game pieces, well suited to the iPad inerface.
This game WAS fun…… Till level 10!!! Then it all comes to an end!!!! Whenever they WARN you about skipping the level, you know it’s over! People, don’t believe all the positive reviews like we did, don’t waste your money on this one.
We first fell in love with Mr. Leon’s music on Smule Piano. We played the songs over and over, wondering where they came from. Finally checked it out on iTunes and found that the music was created for this game. Now, we’re hooked on the game. We LOVE brain teasers and this is a good one! We highly recommend Contre’ Jour!
A beautiful, atmospheric, relaxing game. A tour de force.
No ads. Wonderfully conceived. Almost perfectly executed. A joy to play and play again.
Good puzzle game concept. Good artwork. Relaxing soundtrack. Not sure what else you could ask for. 5 stars.
Awesome music, beautiful design and interesting missions.
Fun, challenging, and relaxing. We like games that we have to use our brain and this is the perfect combination of features. Thanks!
We really love this game, the colors, the music, everything. We find it rather peaceful. It’s also a very fun game, similar to Cut the Rope.
No ads here, just a really fun, challenging game.
You’re like an old friend, we missed you when you were gone (during the iOS7 update) and we’re happy to see you back. This game is better than ever!
We loved this game on our nexus 7 and wanted to buy it again for ios. Reading the reviews we were saddened to hear they had added ads to a paid app. We emailed Chillingo to ask why they did this and received a response saying they had removed this feature that advertised their other games. We purchased immediately. This game is beautiful. It’s fun, challenging and has one of the best soundtracks we’ve ever heard. We especially love the ability to skip any level we just can’t seem to beat. There are in-app purchases but these are unnecessary to buy. You can unlock every level the old fashioned way.
One of our favourites iPhone games! Beautiful soundtrack and sound design. Great layout and gameplay, appealing aesthetics, and nice flow of difficulty as you progress through the levels.
We’ve been waiting for an update for a long time can’t wait to play again!
We’ve had three iPads and install this on each one. The music alone is awesome and without the Ads it is one of the best games out there to just chill with. Definitely worth trying if you want a laid back mellow game.
Great game – Definitely makes you think.
This game is part dexterity and part puzzle. The rules make it so you have to manipulate the environment instead of the character, which requires a shift in how we usually play games. Beyond that, you have to figure out how to navigate the little guy through these boards, which can require a fair bit of timing and finesse. We highly recommend it!
Says it all. Loved it 2 years ago when we first bought it. Now it’s even better on the iPhone 6 plus.
The beautiful music keeps us playing this game. The game is also very nice, and the dark colors make it even more relaxing to play. Very nice job!
Difficulty gets pretty intense as you progress. Great modern puzzle game. Design is cool too.
Amazing! Good graphics, nice music, and nice layout, too. It’s worth every penny!
Delightful game, enjoyable music. Both challenging and relaxing.
It was always a great game. Now that ads are gone its once again a five star app!!
We did not think we would enjoy this game as much as we do. It makes you think & understand the levels in order to complete it. Lots of levels & a fantastic sound track. This quickly has become a favorite of ours. Very cool concept & gameplay is awesome!