Arrow Escape: Puzzle Game

The idea

The concept is dead simple: the screen is a tangle of glowing arrows, and each one wants to escape. Tap an arrow and it slides free along its own path, unspooling out of the maze. Clear every arrow and you win.

The twist is the order. Arrows block one another, so you can't just tap randomly — you have to figure out which arrow can slip out now to open a path for the next. It starts cozy and gets genuinely brain-bending.

What I love most is how the arrows move. Instead of sliding rigidly, each one follows its own shape like a snake, gliding along every bend before straightening out and flying off the edge. It's oddly satisfying to watch.

What's in it

• 30 levels that ramp from a gentle warm-up to a proper challenge
• Hidden animated pictures that reveal themselves as you clear the maze
• Star ratings — solve a level cleanly (no hints, no undos) to earn all 3
• Smart hints that actually point to an arrow you can free right now
• Light & dark themes, sound effects, and haptics
• No timers, no lives, no stress — just calm, at-your-own-pace puzzling

And a few principles I care about as a player myself:

• No ads. None.
• No in-app purchases.
• 100% offline and no data collected — your progress lives on your device, full stop.
• A tiny download.

A peek under the hood 🛠️

For the fellow developers reading:

• The whole thing is built with Kotlin + Jetpack Compose — every arrow, particle, and confetti piece is drawn on a Compose Canvas, with movement driven by a frame-timed animation loop for smooth, constant-speed gliding.
• The mazes are procedurally generated but provably solvable. The generator places arrows in reverse-removal order so a valid solution always exists, and a unit test runs a solver over every level on each build to guarantee none ship broken.
• The sound effects are synthesized from scratch (tiny WAVs), and the app ships with zero third-party SDKs — which keeps it small and makes the "no data collected" promise genuinely true.

Try it (soon!)

I'm putting the finishing touches on the store listing now. If a relaxing, no-pressure puzzle sounds like your kind of thing, keep an eye out — Arrow Escape lands on Google Play very soon.

I'd genuinely love your feedback once it's out: which levels felt too easy, too hard, or just frustrating enough to be fun. Drop a comment below or reach me at saktisankarb@gmail.com.