How to play
Glowdial · the rules in two minutes
Glowdial is an idle game built around one gesture. This is everything the game never tells you outright.
Spin to earn
Drag your thumb around the dial and let go. Every degree it turns makes glow. Glow is the only currency.
Buy lights
Lights make glow by themselves, even while the app is closed. Each one you buy costs a little more. Own 10, 25, 50 or 100 of a light and it doubles. The ×1, ×10, ×100 and MAX buttons set how many you buy at once.
Upgrade the dial
The Dial tab makes turning worth more, lets the dial coast longer, adds a motor that spins for you, and stretches how long away earnings keep running.
Land on the lit number
Now and then a number lights up. Stop the dial exactly on it and you earn a lump of glow. The dial pulls gently toward it to help.
Open the Lock
The dial remembers the last three numbers it rested on. Some sequences unlock a new finish and a permanent bonus. The Story tab hints at them. One, two, three is the first.
Crack the Daily Lock
Once you have found a secret, the Lock tab has a new combination every day, the same for everyone. Rest the dial on three numbers. Each one says cold, cool, warm, hot or click, with an arrow for the short way to turn. A click stays set. Six tries.
Catch the moth
Every few minutes a moth drifts across. Tap it for a burst of glow, or if it glows gold, a minute of double income.
Burn out
Once a run has made enough glow (a million the first time, ten million after that), More offers Burn Out. You give up your lights and glow and keep filament: a permanent multiplier. Each burnout also climbs the colour spectrum, and every colour doubles all income.
Light the sky
Filament brings out stars at set totals, and so does every Daily Lock you open. Spend them in the Sky tab on perks that last through every burnout: buyers that shop for you, a clockwork burnout, stronger resonance, longer afterglow.
Win the trials
From your third burnout, the Sky tab has six trials: hard runs on a bare dial where filament, colours and secrets do not help. Win one for a new dial finish and a reward that lasts forever.
Come back daily
A daily spark pays half an hour of income for showing up, more with a streak. Achievements each add one percent. The colour chip above the dial cycles themes: they change the colour and the song, never the numbers, and Auto follows your spectrum.