Runway Show

Runway Show is a dress-up game about putting together a whole collection, not just one outfit. Every show starts with a set of picture cards. The theme is one of eight seasons: Spring Garden, City Night, Winter Wonderland, Beach Club, Retro Disco, Future Chrome, Folk Festival or Sports Day. There is also a four-colour show palette and a client wish, such as a hat on every look, two bags or separates only. Three models are booked for each show. They come with all kinds of skin tones, hair textures, body shapes and heights, and some wear glasses or a hearing aid or roll the runway in a wheelchair. Every piece fits every one of them.

The wardrobe is drawn entirely in code. It holds 139 pieces across nine tabs: tops, bottoms, dresses, coats, shoes, hats, bags, extras and hair. Every piece can be recoloured in 26 swatches, from pastels to silver and gold. Drag a piece onto any model or tap it to dress the one in the spotlight, and use undo or the None tile to take things off again. A hint bulb puts a star on the pieces that suit the theme, if you want one. The score is out of 100 and splits four ways, so it is a small brain teaser as well as a fashion game: theme fit for each look, a shared palette across all three, variety so the looks are not copies of each other, and complete styling plus the client wish. Stars come at 60, 80 and 95.

Then the lights go down. The runway glows, the crowd lifts their phones, and the music kicks in. Each model walks out, strikes a pose in a burst of camera flashes, turns and heads back, and then all three come out together for the finale. The applause grows with your score, and at the end your collection lands on a magazine cover with its stars. There are sixteen shows across two seasons, and each new one opens once you earn a star on the one before. The Daily show is the same for everyone and builds a day streak. Endless season keeps the themes coming, and your streak of shows scoring 60 or more is your high score. Free Studio has no brief and no score: pick each model's look, dress them in anything, run the show just for the applause, Save it in your browser or press Photo for a picture. It is a quick, relaxed game with a gentle soundtrack you can mute, and it plays with a mouse, a keyboard or a finger, upright on a phone or wide on a desktop.