Witch Brew

Witch Brew is a cosy potion-mixing game for Halloween. A little witch keeps a bubbling cauldron at the edge of a moonlit village, and her customers line up for a potion: friendly ghosts, black cats, bats, owls, a pumpkin-headed kid and a skeleton who never stops dancing. Each one brings an order card with the potion's colour, three ingredients and a stir pattern. Drag the coloured dyes and the jars from the shelf into the pot, then grab the spoon and stir along with a glowing spark that circles the cauldron: clockwise, back the other way, a quick whirl or a little pause. The closer you stay to the spark, the better the brew.

The 40 orders start gently with one dye, one ingredient and a single turn of the spoon, and grow from there: mixed colours that need two dyes (the card shows the recipe at first, later you remember that purple is rose and sky), ingredients that must go in a set order, and stir patterns of up to four moves. A wrong jar just goes pff and bounces back out, costing a few seconds of the customer's candle, so you can relax and take your time, or race the candle for a speed bonus and three stars. It is a quick little brain teaser of colours and rhythm, about half a minute per order.

Rush is the endless mode: customers keep coming, their candles get shorter and the potions trickier, and every clean brew in a row raises your multiplier. Let three customers float off and the night ends with a sweet haul and your high score, kept on your device next to the stars for every order. Drag or tap on a phone or tablet; on a computer drag with the mouse, or toss with Q W E and 1 to 8 and stir with the arrow keys. P pauses and M mutes, and every sound has a visual cue, so it plays just as well in silence.