Water Sorter

Review by eFreeware

Some evenings call for a puzzle you can poke at without a timer breathing down your neck. Water Sorter, a free puzzle game from Gimica GmbH, is built around exactly that mood: colored water sits mixed inside a row of glasses, and your job is to separate it until every glass holds just one color.

The premise is familiar to anyone who has spent time with sorting puzzles, but the design leans toward calm rather than pressure. The developer pitches it as both soothing and challenging, a combination that usually means simple rules with levels that get steadily trickier.

It has been installed more than a million times and holds a 4.2 average from over 16,000 ratings, which suggests a lot of people have stuck with it long enough to bother scoring it. The game is free, carries ads and offers in-app purchases.

A sorting puzzle that lets you set the tempo

What appeals to me most is the relaxed feel. The developer describes play as easy and at your own pace, which matters in a genre where many entries lean on countdowns and score multipliers to manufacture tension. Here the tension comes from the arrangement of colors itself.

That makes it a good fit for short breaks and longer wind-down sessions alike, since nothing punishes you for pausing mid-level to think. You can study a stubborn glass arrangement before committing to a pour.

The trade-off of that gentleness is that the game lives or dies on its level design. The challenge has to come from how the colors are stacked and how many glasses you have to work with.

How a pour works, and how a level ends

The controls are as stripped down as they come. You tap the glass you want to pour from, then tap a second glass whose top color matches, and the water moves across. The interaction stays minimal.

A level is finished once every glass contains a single color and nothing else. That is the whole win condition, and it is a satisfying one because you can see progress with every successful pour.

The catch is that every pour changes the board. A level can reach a state where the remaining moves no longer add up. Reading the board before you start tapping is where most of the thinking happens.

New players should expect early levels to fall quickly and later ones to require real planning. The developer's framing of the game as charmingly challenging fits that curve.

Who will get the most from these glasses

This suits players who like logic puzzles with a visual, tactile quality and who prefer to solve at their own speed. If you enjoy the feeling of tidying something messy into order, the loop here is likely to land well.

It also works for mixed audiences, since the content rating is Everyone and the rules can be explained in a sentence. That makes it easy to hand to a younger player or to someone who does not play games often.

The free download with ads and optional purchases means there is no barrier to trying it, though players who dislike interruptions or spending inside a game should weigh that before committing time.

The most recent update, from October 2026, brought new SDK integrations rather than gameplay changes, so the core experience is the one you would be installing.

What's new in version 1.32.1

- New SDK integrations