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hocus.

Mind bending head scratchers

Ratings

Age

4+

Category

Games

Languages

English

Hocus is a minimalist puzzle game that challenges your perception of space. Inspired by the impossible drawings of M.C. Escher, the game tasks you with moving a small red cube to a target hole along the edges of geometric shapes that shouldn't exist in 3D space. With over 100 hand-crafted levels and no time limits or pressure, hocus. offers a meditative yet mentally stimulating experience for puzzle lovers.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

87/100

Hocus is one of those 'impossible geometry' games like Monument Valley, but it focuses purely on the puzzles without any narrative distraction. It’s incredibly relaxing, thanks to the lack of timers or lives. You just sit there and trace the path until your brain finally clicks and sees the solution.

The minimalist aesthetic is beautiful, and the 100+ levels provide a good amount of challenge. Some of the later levels are truly mind-bending. It’s the perfect game to play when you want to unwind but still give your brain a light workout.

Dinsun reviewed on: Mon Feb 09 2026

Features

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100+ beautiful hand-crafted levels

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Meditative music and sound effects

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Minimalist 3D art style

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Optimized for all iOS devices

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

The game does not have a formal hint system, encouraging players to explore the geometry and solve puzzles at their own pace.

Ratings & Reviews

App Store Editors’ Notes

Great, relaxing mind-bending puzzles
Fri Oct 16 2020 Luna Lunita Lunera

This is a nice little game to get enough of a challenge in while perhaps waiting in line, relaxing after a tough day or challenge the kids to stretch their imaginations a bit. Some levels are trickier than others but they’re all quite doable without any kind of hint system or walkthrough. Reminds me of a much more simplistic and less-involved version of The Bridge (which is another great game I’m still waiting for on mobile). A bit of a mind-bending puzzle game. You can tap or swipe to lead the block around. Not sure why another reviewer broke their phone as you certainly don’t need to tap or swipe that hard. Calibration shouldn’t be that intense.

Nice Relaxing Game
Thu Jun 30 2022 Allegra Peterson

I love the simplicity of hocus and how relaxing it is. The little puzzles get more challenging over time, but never in a frustrating way. Some may say that it’s too basic, but I appreciate the muted color scheme, dreamy music, and the game’s ability to get you to just focus on moving the little cube around to its goal. I love to play when I’m stressed or just want to do something calming. My only disappointment was that I eventually ran out of puzzles. So I’m very glad hocus 2 was released!

Great game but…
Sun Oct 06 2024 airira

I like this game very much. It’s stimulating and relaxing at the same time. Gets my mind off my world and allows me to concentrate on a red cube. One question though: I’d love to know who’s in first place, what their score is and what level they’re at. But I can’t possibly scroll from my position in 372,000 (something like that) to find out. Can’t you put a button that jumps to the top of the Global listings?

Great game. Just one thing.
Fri Mar 12 2021 Liquidsmk

Can we get iCloud progress sync. Just installed the game on my iPad and none of my progress is a available and if I want to play on that device I have start from level 1 again.

Beautiful, but boring
Mon Dec 04 2017 taysxfq

Games like this are beautifully crafted and pretty to look at but the novelty quickly wears off when you realize how easy they are. There isn’t much strategy to these levels, you just can swipe around in a relatively limited number of paths until you win.

Absolutely no logic needed
Mon Oct 20 2025 Surenart

So this has mothing to do with logic. It’s just lazy programmed game where you push something to get to place, even my dog could do this. I almost made it to the end- just to see if there is anything logical in it. Simple, primitive and really stupid game. Just to make money I guess they programmed something like this. Totally disappointed . I was trying to find some puzzle , where yoh use logic or brain. This actually freezes your brain!

Its okay, but...
Tue Aug 25 2020 βwabel

So i got this a couple years ago and its really fun! The challenges and puzzles are nice, but after a bit of time the puzzles were to challenging & to repetitive at the same time. They didnt add any features like maybe a blue square, or something, but just the repeating levels with just little change and no new features get repetitive, and VERY boring after a bit of time.

Actually Fun
Sun Oct 22 2017 Faraven

An actually fun/challenging puzzle game. It's unique and creative and really challenges ones special skills. While still being a very fun puzzle game we haven't had new maps in forever and it doesn't look like that will change. You're paying for 100 maps folks.

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