What's new in Jigsaw Addict

Quick Match matchmaking, painting picks in PvP, and a recolorable table

Added

• Quick Match now searches on a proper finding a player screen and keeps scanning until a rival appears. Two players who press it at the same moment find each other instead of waiting alone in separate rooms.
• Player vs Player picks got richer. The winner of the first throw can choose a real painting for the race alongside the quick patterns, and the winner of the second picks the cut style together with the piece count.
• Recolor the plain table. The Plain Room tile in the shop has a new pencil button that opens a color picker with a wheel, brightness, and exact number fields, and the table updates live while you drag.
• New display options under Settings, Video: cap your frame rate, lower the render resolution for more speed on a weaker machine, and switch on a performance overlay that shows your frame rate and render time. The desktop app adds a vsync toggle and a fixed window size.

Changed

• The menus now rest in the game's own warm room, softly blurred behind them, in place of the flat puzzle-piece wallpaper.
• The main menu now looks out low across the game's own table, with a few loose puzzle pieces resting near the bottom of the screen.

Fixed

• Quick Match no longer lands you in a race that already finished, stuck watching a result screen for two strangers.
• Watching a Player vs Player room as a third player now shows a proper spectator view. No more throw buttons you cannot use, and the winner banner names the winner instead of telling you that you lost.
• If a rival's game freezes during rock paper scissors, the server now throws a hand for them once the clock runs out, so the match always moves on.
• A brief connection blip while matchmaking no longer kicks you back to the bare room screen, and cancelling a search that is still looking now really cancels it.

Tidy your table, an interface that fits your screen, and the Pips exchange

Added

• Tidy your table in one tap. Sweep every loose piece into a neat grid below the board, either as a plain grid or with the edge pieces grouped together first. Find it in your board tools.
• The Pips exchange: turn the Pips you earn in multiplayer and daily challenges into Lumens, once a month, from the shop. Two Lumens cosmetics arrive with it, the Aurora Veil cursor and the Gilded Nebula table.
• Scale the whole interface to fit your screen. Big displays and small windows now size the menus and the heads-up display to match, and you can set the size yourself under Settings, Video.

Fixed

• Sign in after playing as a guest and the Pips and items you earned now follow you to your account.

New languages and early controller support

Added

• Jigsaw Addict now speaks more languages. Spanish is fully translated, with early drafts of German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Choose your language under Settings.
• Early controller support. Steer a cursor with the left stick and grab pieces with the A button, rotate with the shoulder buttons, and move the camera with the right stick, D-pad, and triggers. A controller also moves through the menus, so you can play from the couch.
• Remap your controller under Settings, Controls. While a pad is in use, an on-screen legend shows what each button does, and the game lets you know when a controller connects or disconnects.

Changed

• Piece sounds now play recorded wooden effects by default. The synthesized set stays a free pick in the shop if you had it equipped or want it back.
• The Addict campaign tour shows a coming soon badge while we finish it. Your saved tour choice and its stars are untouched and will be waiting when it reopens.

Fixed

• If part of the game fails to load, from a flaky connection or an update landing while you play, the game now refreshes itself once instead of stopping on an error screen. The error screen also gained a Reload button for anything else.

Removed

• The 3D Puzzle preview card left the lobby while we build the mode properly.

Player vs Player races and shareable invite links

Added

• Player vs Player: race a friend on side-by-side tables to finish the same puzzle first. Win two quick rounds of rock paper scissors to choose the image and the piece count, then reach across to their board and steal a piece to slow them down. Turn on Addict rules for power pieces during the race.
• Copy a room invite link from the lobby and send it to a friend. Opening the link drops them straight into your room.
• Your Discord profile now shows what you are up to in Jigsaw Addict, from waiting in a lobby to solving, with the piece and player count.

Changed

• The campaign map now sits against a deep night sky with puzzle pieces drifting past and a raised trail winding between the stops. Turn the moving backdrop off any time under Settings, Video.
• Richer power piece reveals in the experimental Addict campaign, with a proper opening moment when you hit a jackpot at the acquisitions shop.

A rebuilt multiplayer room browser

Added

• Quick Play: one tap drops you into an open room, or starts a fresh one when none are open.
• Room listings now show who is already inside and a bar for how far along their puzzle is, and the list keeps itself up to date.
• Join by code now accepts a pasted invite link as well as a plain code, and a complete code joins right away.
• A Customize button on your profile opens the shop straight to your look.

Changed

• The multiplayer screen now leads with the ways to play: Quick Play, Create a room, and Join by code. The full room list opens from a Server List button with a smooth slide.
• The Cozy Room table is marked coming soon for now, so games open in the Plain Room again.
• A bigger logo across the main menu and the room browser, and the version line now shows Early Access.

Fixed

• When a room is full, gone, or needs a different password, the browser tells you right there instead of dropping you to a full-screen error.

A playable demo, one Settings panel, and a cleaner board

Added

• A playable demo of the Grand Tour: solve the first two legs, from the opening cinematic through the finale.
• One Settings panel you can open from anywhere, with tabs for Gameplay, Audio, Video, Controls, and Accessibility.
• The changelog now opens from its own tab in Settings, in a single click.
• An experimental Addict tour, flagged as such while we refine it: after each solve you draft power pieces from the acquisitions shop and use them mid-puzzle. Classic stays the pure solve and reveal.
• Rebind the rotate and ping keys to whatever suits you, and reset them to the defaults any time.
• Ping captions: an on-screen caption for every teammate ping, so you never miss a call-out.
• Text scaling for menus and captions, plus a reduce-motion option that calms the animations.
• Snap, connect, and place effects from your equipped cosmetics now play as you build, and you can preview any cosmetic in the shop before you buy it.

Changed

• Redesigned the main menu with a cleaner, gallery-style layout.
• The in-game clock now shows your time and the single next star target, instead of listing every target at once.
• Board tools (the lens, board preview, outlines, flashlight, and living texture) start off for a clean board. Turn them on from Settings, under Gameplay.
• In the on-board tools cluster the lens and the tools are clearly separated, the buttons share one size, and clicking the active lens turns it back off.
• In multiplayer the host controls now sit clear of your tools so the two never overlap.
• The room browser now shows the puzzle each room is playing and lists Grand Tour rooms first, with faster paging.
• Subtle hover and click sounds across every screen.

Fixed

• Music now starts as soon as you begin playing, including in the campaign and the demo.
• The Collection button on the campaign map sits evenly again.
• The in-game ping button no longer overlaps the controls panel.
• The Grand Tour campaign note in the multiplayer setup screen now lines up with the game settings panel instead of stretching across the window.

Removed

• The in-game Controls cheat-sheet is gone; the controls now live in the Settings panel.

My Gallery, Steam launch prep, and a richer campaign

Added

• My Gallery: turn your own photos into offline puzzles.
• Steam support: friend invites, rich presence, achievements, cloud saves, and Steam Deck controls.
• A Campaign solve timer with star targets and a cloud-backup chip on the board.
• Curator's Cut replay tiers with named reward reveals.
• Visiting Exhibitions and a stamp calendar that tracks your cumulative milestones.
• Co-op solves now credit each helper's Grand Tour progress.
• A Support page.

Changed

• Every campaign artwork now streams from the online catalog at higher resolution.
• Each journey leg has its own signature piece-cut style.
• Pieces always scatter without overlapping, even on the largest boards.
• Bundled Nunito as the body font for a cleaner, more consistent look.
• Campaign leg backdrops are now blurred crops of real public-domain paintings.

Fixed

• Earned cosmetics no longer look like they are for sale.
• Currency prompts stay hidden until after your first win.
• Large galleries finish importing without hitting a server limit.

Security

• Hardened image handling with size and dimension limits, and tightened account, replay, and economy safeguards behind the scenes.

Coming to Steam: pings, cut styles, and new places to solve

• One account now ties your progress together across Steam, Discord, and email sign-in, so your stars and stats follow you wherever you play.
• Ping your teammates right on the board. Call out a spot, point at a piece, cheer a good find, or ask for help. Everyone sees the marker and hears it land.
• Pick how your pieces are cut. Classic knobs, rounded tabs, hand-cut irregular edges, and hexagons each change the whole feel of a puzzle.
• Two new places to solve: drift beside a slowly turning black hole, or build under a living sun. Finish the puzzle and the sky answers back.
• Living Canvas replaces the photo with a moving pattern that ripples away from your cursor as you build.

The Grand Tour campaign and cosmetics you can see

• Campaign is now the Grand Tour: 25 masterpieces at the 16 real museums that house them, played as one westbound journey from New York to Vienna. Every stop comes with a short history of the painting.
• The trail groups stops by country, from the United States and Japan through the Netherlands, France, Britain, Spain and Italy. Puzzles grow from 40 pieces up to 280, and the finale, Klimt's The Kiss in Vienna, opens once you have earned 36 stars along the way. Museum bonus puzzles count toward that total.
• Cosmetics you own now show up while you play. Table skins change the surface you build on, cursor trails follow your pointer, and finishing a puzzle plays the celebration you picked.
• You can preview a cosmetic in the shop before spending on it, and your equipped look is saved offline, so Campaign looks the same as multiplayer.

Game replays and rejoining after a crash

• You can now watch a replay of any finished game from your profile history. Scrub through the solve and save it as a video to share.
• If the game closes while you're mid-puzzle, we'll offer to put you back into the same room when you return.
• Two new modes are in the works: a 3D Puzzle where you build a model out of blocks, and a Daily Challenge with a shared puzzle and timed leaderboard. You'll see previews in the multiplayer lobby while we finish them.

Faster loading and smoother play

• The game opens faster, and large puzzles now load without freezing the screen.
• Busy rooms stay smooth while you drag pieces and watch other players move.
• If your connection drops for a second, the game reconnects on its own instead of showing a sign-in error.
• You can open and close every menu with the keyboard, and the main menu now has a clear close button.
• After you switch accounts, the game signs you in as your current account.
• The profile preview is cleaner, and scrollbars now match the app's colors.

Invite by code, room passwords & board helpers

• Share a room code with a friend so they can jump straight into your game by entering it under "Join by code".
• Add an optional password to keep your room private; locked rooms show a 🔒 in the browser.
• New board helpers: show piece outlines to see where every piece belongs, plus a flashlight mode that dims the board and lights only around your cursor.
• A piece hidden underneath another now shows a faint outline so you can spot it.
• A clearer "Drop all pieces" host control, a tidier mobile lobby, and a fix for the puzzle size sometimes showing as 0×0.

Regional multiplayer & smoother updates

• Pick a server region near you, so rooms run closer to players for lower latency and a snappier feel.
• We auto-detect your region, and you can switch it any time from the room browser to play locally or with friends across the world.
• Rebuilt the multiplayer backend so updates roll out with little to no downtime and fewer interruptions mid-game.

Museum journey & in-game host controls

• Campaign mode now winds through a museum journey. Scroll a path of painting puzzles grouped by real museums.
• Finishing a puzzle keeps the completed picture and plays a "reassembles itself" celebration.
• Museums are playable as bonus puzzles, and the artwork is now higher resolution.
• Hosts can broadcast a message to their room and admins can announce game-wide, shown with a branded typing overlay.
• New in-game host controls, a live spectator view, a screen-brightness slider, and one-tap Discord link copy.

Campaign polish

• More work on Campaign mode and a batch of bug fixes.

Single-player Campaign mode

• New Campaign mode: play jigsaw puzzles solo and fully offline, with no account or connection needed.
• Rebuilt the puzzle engine under the hood so solo and multiplayer behave the same (multiplayer plays exactly as before).

Native iOS & Android apps + accounts

• Jigsaw Addict is now a native app for iOS and Android, alongside Discord and the web.
• Optional accounts: sign in with Google or Apple to sync your progress across devices.
• Edge-to-edge mobile layout with proper safe areas, clearer sign-in messages off Discord, and tidier gallery thumbnails.

Room flow & a bigger art gallery

• Smoother lobby: a clear Create / Join screen that connects instantly without reloading.
• New gallery powered by Wikidata, with famous paintings only, plus a curated catalog.
• On phones, grabbing a piece now auto-uprights it. Reconnect handling and sign-in stability improved.

Phone controls & view options

• Touch controls: one finger pans, two fingers pinch to zoom, with on-screen rotate buttons.
• Board preview gets an opacity slider, and the stats panel can collapse to keep the board clear.
• Connecting and error screens are now fully branded.

Jigsaw Addict launches in the cloud

• The game is reborn as Jigsaw Addict and now runs in the cloud.
• Brand-new loading animation and logo, a redesigned lobby with a spectator rail and player docks, and a full audio engine with sound effects and music.
• Built-in gallery of famous public-domain paintings from Wikimedia, the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Met.
• Puzzle-complete celebration with confetti, a results card, and play-again.
• Server-authoritative identity so no one can impersonate you, plus safer image uploads.
• Lots of reliability fixes for joining, leaving and reconnecting, and performance work so big puzzles don't freeze.

Leaderboards, profiles & rooms

• Profiles with lifetime stats like time played, pieces connected, and hardest puzzle, plus your session history.
• Ranked leaderboards (global, country and regional) with an optional "hide my location" toggle.
• Public room browser showing host, status, player count and live ping; owners can list a room publicly.
• Player name tags above cursors, a collapsible controls panel, eased zoom, and an Esc / leave-room menu.
• Privacy Policy and Terms of Service published.

First playable

• The very first build: real-time co-op jigsaw puzzles you solve together.
• Custom puzzles from your own images, proper interlocking piece shapes, and sound effects.
• Runs as a Discord Activity right inside a voice channel.