Dot Quest

How to play Dot Quest

1. Press on star 1 and drag through the numbered stars in order. Each star you reach locks with a flash; the next one pulses.
2. Join the last star and the picture blooms: an etched star-atlas drawing with gold leaf, added to your atlas.
3. Every sky has three stars to earn: finish it, finish under the par time, and finish flawless (one stroke, no wrong star, no hint).
4. Touching a star out of order, or an unnumbered decoy, snaps your line and costs a strike. Three strikes and the sky is lost; take too long and dawn breaks.
5. Lift your finger or mouse if you need to, then press on your last star to carry on. The one-stroke bonus is gone, but the line is kept.
6. Hit stars dead centre for Clean bonuses that build a combo up to x4, and skim past hazards without touching them for Close +50.
7. Stars open six charts, each with its own twist: Harbour adds decoys, Drift moves the stars, Lantern only shows numbers near your pen, Blind makes you memorise the order, and Eclipse mixes them all.
8. Meteor Rush (after 3 skies) puts quick skies on one clock: each bloom adds time, each wrong star takes 3 seconds. The Daily sky is the same for everyone each day.

About this game

Dot Quest is connect-the-dots rebuilt as a skill game for a night sky. Every picture is an original star-atlas etching drawn in code for this game: a cut gem, a paper plane, a lighthouse, a koi, a phoenix, a skull, a game controller, a samurai kabuto, a ringed world and a stag with full antlers. You drag one continuous line through the numbered stars, and when the last one locks the lines flare, the etching blooms out from the middle and gold leaf catches the light. The challenge is in how you get there: a par time on every sky, a one-stroke bonus, Clean hits that build a combo, and hazards that snap your line. Forty-eight skies are split into six charts that each change the rules. Harbour hides unnumbered decoy stars right beside your path, Drift sets the stars orbiting until you catch them, Lantern only lights the numbers near your pen, Blind shows the order for a few seconds before it vanishes, and Eclipse throws decoys, drift and hidden numbers at you together. Stars open new charts and seven line inks. Meteor Rush strings quick, mirrored skies on one clock for a high score, and the Daily sky gives everyone the same picture and twist each day, with a streak to keep.

Controls

• DragDraw your line through the stars (mouse)
• →Step to the next star (slow: +1 s, no Flawless star)
• HHint: show the next star (−200)
• RRetry the sky
• PEscPause and resume
• SpaceStart tracing after memorising (Blind skies)
• EnterNext sky / play from the atlas
• MStar atlas
• DGDaily sky / Meteor Rush (on the atlas)

On a phone or tablet: Drag one finger through the stars; a loupe above your finger shows what it covers, and the next star catches your finger from 24 px away. Hint and Retry are the big buttons at the bottom (on the side when held sideways), Go starts a Blind sky, and Pause sits at the top. The pause menu has On-screen controls (Auto, Always, Off), Left-handed and Vibrate; controls and hints follow how you play, touch-screen laptops included.