Vial and Error
A little paper laboratory full of colourful possibilities. Pour, sort, and stopper each finished vial, one experiment at a time.
LynchPin Games
Made for our family. Shared with yours.
I make approachable, well-crafted games that my family actually plays — calm puzzles, a couple of otters, and one map you will lose an evening to. No third-party ads and no dark patterns dressed up as features. Every purchase is one-time and yours to keep.
- No third-party ads
- Free means a real game
- Buy once, keep it forever
- No account required; gameplay statistics are opt-in
The line-up
Two ready to launch. Five coming soon.
These are real builds, and these are real screenshots of them. They are not on the stores yet — every title below is heading to the App Store and Google Play. There is nothing to download here in the meantime.
Ready to launch
Finished and waiting on store approval.
Little Tileworks
Tap connected colours, send a small batch around the belt, and watch the tiles find their places. A quiet mosaic puzzle, one little piece at a time.
Coming soon
Five more games I am still finishing.
Bead Bracelet
Every bead points somewhere. Slide it off the mat that way when the lane is clear, thread it onto a matching cord, and finish the bracelet one cord at a time.
Bloom Sort
A pocket greenhouse where you move flowers between pots. Fill a pot with one variety to harvest the bouquet — and find out what was hiding underneath.
Otter Cove
A calm river home for Pebble and Pip. Feed them, play, groom, and let them rest — and watch them find each other in the middle of the cove.
Star Swarm
Planets build ships while you watch. Swipe to send half a garrison, decide which neutral worlds are worth paying for now, and take the system before the other side does.
Hatchery Heights
Lay paths, size habitats, incubate eggs, and place each hatchling where it can actually live. Guests only turn up if they can reach the exhibit.
The full game is free to play. Optional cosmetic items may be offered later.
Also in the workshop
Three more on the bench
Playable, but not ready to be photographed. I would rather show you nothing than show you something I am about to change.
Ocean Rescue
An underwater sorting puzzle with the working title Ocean Rescue. Pick rubbish from mixed bundles, fill bags with three matching pieces, and manage a small shelf for everything that does not match yet. As you clear the water, fish and other sea life move back into the spaces you have restored.
Sand Clearing
A relaxing falling-sand colour sort. A pixel picture made entirely of coloured sand sits in an open-bottomed hopper; send containers along the belt underneath and the sand pours out wherever a matching colour passes, dissolving the image from the bottom up.
Dragon Zoo Dash
A cheerful endless runner set in the Hatchery Heights world. Collect rideable dragons and dinosaurs, then take them out on the zoo trail — first-person hoop courses for the fliers, side-view jumping for everyone else.
The deal
How our games are sold
For games with level packs, buy a pack or buy them all. Little Tileworks offers a paid collection of extra mosaics. In Hatchery Heights, the full game is free to play, with no gameplay purchases. The line between free and paid is always spelled out before you spend anything.
No third-party ads
No ads from outside advertisers and no ad SDKs. Our games may promote other LynchPin Games titles.
Free is a real game
The free edition is a substantial, replayable game — not a tutorial with a paywall at the end of it.
Buy a pack, or buy them all.
Extra levels come in small packs you can buy one at a time. Or unlock every pack at once, including any we release later, and never pay again.
Optional cosmetic packs may be sold separately and are not included.
No loot boxes
Any future cosmetic packs will show their contents and price before purchase. They change appearance only, with no randomised rewards or gameplay advantages.
No account required.
Every game works fully without signing up for anything. Your progress lives on your device, and you can move it to a new one with a one-time code. If we ever offer an optional account, it will be just that: optional, and never needed to play or to keep what you've bought.
The family test
If a screen would annoy someone in my own house, it does not ship. That is the whole review process.
Want to know when they land?
No mailing list yet, so this is just a note to me. Leave your email and I'll tell you the day the first one goes live, and nothing else.