Zen Color - Color By Number | Game Brain

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"Zen Color - Color By Number" is a calming game that transports players to peaceful settings, such as tranquil gardens and cozy nooks, where they can bring realistic pictures to life through coloring. The game encourages mindfulness and relaxation, offering a welcome escape from daily stress and promoting a sense of harmony and inner peace. Players tap and fill areas with colors, enjoying the simplicity and satisfaction of the coloring process, which can be done at their own pace, in their own space.

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Play Modes

Single-Player Play through the game's story or campaign solo

91%

Audience ScoreBased on 10,000 reviews

music265 positive mentions

monetization1.5k negative mentions

The game offers a wide variety of beautiful pictures to color, making it enjoyable and engaging.
The app is relaxing and helps users unwind, with calming music enhancing the experience.
The functionality of the app is generally smooth, allowing users to easily select colors and fill in areas.

The app frequently crashes or freezes, causing users to lose their progress on colored pictures.
There are intrusive ads that can disrupt the coloring experience, with some ads being difficult to close.
The hint feature sometimes fails to work, leaving users unable to find small uncolored areas.

monetization
1,619 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The monetization aspect of the game has received mixed reviews, with many users expressing frustration over the frequency and intrusiveness of ads. While some appreciate the option to pay a one-time fee to remove ads and gain unlimited hints, others feel misled by advertisements claiming the game has no ads, only to encounter them frequently during gameplay. Overall, while the game offers a relaxing experience, the overwhelming presence of ads detracts from its enjoyment for many players.
- “I love this app; it's really good. I gave 4 stars because I thought downloading it after seeing the ads meant no ads available, but it's okay so far; I've loved it.”
- “I loved the price of the no ads option being so reasonable; it made coloring even more relaxing.”
- “The no-ads purchase is a welcome sight, instead of dozens of microtransactions.”
- “I only wish there were fewer ads, but other than that it's great.”
- “The ads are ridiculously long, uninstalling.”
- “The ads are a constant annoyance.”
music
811 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game is widely praised for its calming and soothing qualities, enhancing the overall relaxing experience of coloring. However, many users express a desire for more variety in the music tracks, as the repetition of the same songs can become monotonous. While some appreciate the option to turn off the music or listen to their own, others find the music integral to their enjoyment of the game, highlighting the need for a more diverse soundtrack.
- “The music is perfect as it adds to that zen feeling and in minutes you feel tons better!”
- “With the calming music and beautiful artworks that you get to color, it just made the experience more enjoyable.”
- “I love the music and the gorgeous colors 😍”
- “The only thing I would improve is the button to turn the music on and off.”
- “The music would be okay if it was changing often enough or was more varied, but it's repetitive and begins irritating quickly.”
- “I wish there was a way to keep scene sounds on separately from music.”
graphics
142 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Overall, the graphics in the app are highly praised for their clarity, vibrancy, and artistic variety, with many users appreciating the beautiful artwork and calming color palettes. While some users noted issues with certain ads and a desire for more diverse subject matter, the majority found the graphics to be engaging and relaxing, enhancing their coloring experience. The detailed artwork and smooth graphics contribute to a satisfying and enjoyable creative process.
- “The graphics are clear and bright.”
- “Beautiful graphics, incredibly relaxing and excellent picture choices.”
- “The artwork is beautiful and fun to bring to life.”
- “I downloaded this app twice and both times the picture graphics were not even close to being as sharp as they were in the ad.”
- “Personally, I think the graphics look like they were done by a grade school student.”
- “Awhile back, I posted my disappointment in the graphics.”
stability
72 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The stability of the game has received mixed reviews, with many users reporting frequent freezing and crashing, particularly during ad transitions, which often results in lost progress. While some players have experienced no issues and praise the app's performance, the prevalence of glitches and the lack of a manual save option have led to significant frustration among others. Overall, stability appears to be a major concern, with calls for improvements to enhance the user experience.
- “I've experienced no glitches or technical problems.”
- “It works every time, no glitches, and great pictures.”
- “No bugs, no glitches, and regular updates = no complaints from me.”
- “Love the game but that stupid Pandora ad comes on and freezes; you cannot close it and have to restart my phone every time.”
- “I love this, but I'm giving it 1 star because it crashes/glitches when I am halfway through a drawing or on the last color, and then it doesn't save, so I have to start all the way over.”
- “The pictures are beautiful, but on most pictures I have tried to color, I only have a few small areas left when the app freezes up and deletes all of my progress.”
emotional
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users express a mix of emotional experiences with the game, highlighting its calming effects during stressful times, particularly for those dealing with mental health challenges like PTSD. While the game offers beautiful and wholesome imagery that helps players focus and relax, technical issues such as ads and glitches can lead to frustration and disappointment, detracting from the overall emotional experience.
- “It's really heartbreaking.”
- “I have to add that I have PTSD and when I'm on emotional overload, I play this game to calm down.”
- “For an overthinker, this really helps calm my mind, especially since I'm always focusing on way too many things at once. I come to this game when I'm overwhelmed and too emotional in order to sort my thoughts and calm my mood.”
gameplay
11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Overall, the gameplay is praised for its soothing mechanics and appealing visuals, making it a relaxing experience. However, some users express concerns about ad placements, noting that while they are generally well-balanced, there are instances where ads disrupt gameplay. Additionally, a few players find the mechanics to be somewhat mechanical and lacking in excitement, particularly in puzzle-solving aspects.
- “Love the pictures and the mechanics!”
- “Gameplay is great and soothing, but there's an ad problem.”
- “Litterly the best game ever to relax, so relaxing and a good variety of gameplay vs advertisements.”
- “It feels mechanical and, quite frankly, a bit boring.”
- “Now, minute-long ads interrupt gameplay, and it stops to install Pandora without even asking for permission.”
- “Sorry, but this game is not appropriate for puzzle solving as the mechanics are absurd.”
humor
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The humor in the game is derived from the quirky and unexpected results produced by the AI photo generator, often leading to amusing and bizarre images like a one-legged rooster. Players find joy in the whimsical nature of the artwork, which inspires laughter and creativity as they color in various funny and wild designs. Overall, the game successfully combines humor with artistic expression, making it an enjoyable experience.
- “Also, it's an AI photo generator, which is funny because you'll get some odd details in the picture.”
- “Nice job developers! Some of the artwork is very hilarious, such as a one-legged rooster. There are also spectacular works that are quite difficult.”
- “This game can be funny because when coloring, you can see many different things that come out of what you color, like a foot, bird, animals, and I pictured in my head a clown and many different things.”
story
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users express a deep emotional connection to the story aspect of the app, highlighting how it evokes feelings of nostalgia and love for family and faith, particularly during the Christmas season. They appreciate the narrative elements in certain puzzles that reflect cultural themes, although some technical issues detract from the overall experience. Overall, the story enhances the app's ability to provide a meaningful and reflective escape.
- “I like the zen ones, Asian style, the ones that tell you a story about the place.”
- “This app reminds me of what's really important: love for God, family, and friends.”
- “The ads though, are another story.”
optimization
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game offers minimal latency and excellent touch response, allowing for a personalized and relaxed coloring experience. However, some users report significant performance issues, causing slowdowns on their devices, which detracts from the overall enjoyment compared to other well-optimized coloring apps.
- “Moreover, this game does not put any subliminal performance pressure, allowing you to color at your own style and rhythm.”
- “Also in terms of performance, it has minimal latency and great response to touch compared to other coloring apps; it performs exceptionally well for localized coloring on the screen, even when you have larger fingers like me.”
- “Runs smoothly.”
- “I love the selection of artwork, but the game is so unoptimized that it slows my phone down a lot.”
grinding
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users find the grinding aspect of the game to be tedious and time-consuming, detracting from the overall experience. While the balance between cartoonish and realistic visuals is praised, the repetitive nature of the tasks can quickly become monotonous, overshadowing any potential for relaxation.
- “Images get real tedious, real fast.”
- “Especially that I can tap/hold and the color will be highlighted, that way I don't have to scroll through the numbers which can get tedious and ruin the whole zen thing.”
- “I would call this tedious and time-consuming rather than relaxing.”
atmosphere
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users praise the atmosphere for its stunning zen imagery, highlighting the beautiful colors and meticulous attention to light, which collectively create a captivating and serene experience. The overall functionality of the app enhances this immersive atmosphere.
- “Love the zen images - they are truly beautiful, with gorgeous colors, great attention to light and atmosphere, and the functionality of the app is flawless.”