Games like I Love Hue, for people who play for the calm
I Love Hue turned color into a meditation. If you have finished its palettes and want that feeling again, these are the color puzzles worth your screen time.
The best games like I Love Hue keep the same ingredients: pure color, no timers, and a quiet sense of order. Hueful is the closest daily-sized option, a free one-minute ritual where you mix the day's color by eye instead of sorting tiles. I Love Hue Too and Blendoku 2 fill the tile-sorting itch with new mechanics.
What made I Love Hue special?
I Love Hue asked almost nothing of you: no clock, no lives, no story. Just a mosaic of tiles to slide back into a perfect gradient. The pleasure came from watching disorder become order, and from realizing your eye could tell two nearly identical blues apart. Any worthy follow-up has to protect that feeling.
Hueful: the daily one
Hueful takes the same love of color and turns it into a one-minute daily ritual. Instead of sorting tiles that already exist, you build the color yourself: read the day's target, then mix it with RGB and HSL sliders until your version sits next to the original. You are scored on perceptual closeness (ΔE), and every finished day adds its color to a growing palette, a quiet record of how you saw the year. It is free, there is one puzzle a day, and it never nags you.
- Pure color, zero clutter: no timers, ads between rounds, or streak guilt.
- The same satisfying moment of "my eye got it", but measured precisely.
- A daily rhythm like Wordle, so it never swallows an evening.
I Love Hue Too
The official sequel keeps the tile-sorting meditation and loosens the grid: shards and irregular shapes replace neat rectangles, which makes gradients harder to read and more rewarding to finish. If you want literally more I Love Hue, start here.
Blendoku 2
The puzzle-designer's take on color sorting. Blendoku's levels are hand-built crossword-like layouts where rows and columns must blend correctly in two directions at once. Less spa, more brain, and a genuinely deep challenge in the later packs.
Which one should you pick?
- You want a daily habit: Hueful. One color a day, about a minute.
- You want hours of sorting: I Love Hue Too.
- You want a harder puzzle: Blendoku 2.
They coexist happily. Plenty of players sort tiles in the evening and still show up for their Hueful color every morning.
Frequently asked questions
Is Hueful like I Love Hue?
Is Hueful free?
Try today's color.
Hueful is free: three quick rounds a day, about a minute total. iOS and Android.