🌙 The Big Cosy Update - Quests, Stars, Themes & Smarter Hints

It's been a while - and Relax Scramble has grown a lot. Here's everything new since launch, all in one cosy place. 💜

🗓️ Daily Quests & Streaks

Six fresh quests every day, up to 3 active at a time, replaced as you finish them. Goals adapt to your language — words starting with a letter, longer words, scores, golden and bonus words, and more. Tick them off at your own pace, watch the countdown to tomorrow's set, and keep a daily streak alive (shown right on the menu).

⭐ Collect Stars

Earn a Star for every 5 golden letters you collect — with a live progress bar — plus rewards for finishing quests and a bonus for clearing them all. Spend Stars on hints today, with more to come.

🎨 Three relaxing themes

Pick your vibe in Settings (saved to Steam Cloud):

• Cosmic — a starfield drifting through aurora.

• Ocean — soft, rising bubbles.

• Forest — greens, warm amber light and fireflies in the trees.

Switching a theme now recolours the whole interface — buttons, sliders and highlights, not just the background — and each theme carries its own music and sound set.

🌌 A living, calmer world

Softly drifting gradients, twinkling stars, fireflies and bubbles, plus occasional little easter-egg animations (shooting sparks, ripples). A flatter, low-key HUD keeps the focus on the grid: score top-center, quests top-left, redesigned action buttons, and a new menu with "hero" stats over an animated sky. Pause and hint dialogs now use a frosted-glass look.

💡 Smarter hints

Ask for a hint and the word's letters gently glow right on the board, so it's easy to spot. Step through the board's words one at a time with "Another word," and the hint tidies itself away the moment you play a word or regenerate the grid.

📖 Livelier loading screens

A rotating "did you know" word fact keeps you company while things load — dozens of them, fully localized in every supported language — with a softly glowing logo and a spinner that follows your theme. Quick loads now linger just long enough to read.

⌨️ Controls & polish

Unified, fully-localized keyboard controls — Arrows move, Space picks, Enter submits, Backspace undoes, R = new grid, H = hint, Q = quests (working on any layout). Fully controller- and keyboard-friendly settings, a language picker that shows each language in its own name, and a friendly first-run tutorial.

🔧 Fixes

Music resumes correctly after a long silence, Backspace removes a letter on the very first press, and the score stays perfectly centered.

Pour a cup of something warm and play a few words. 💚