Guide

The match

A match has up to 4 players on a board of 8 × 8 tiles. It lasts 90 s.

1. Waiting. In a public room, you wait on the search screen until all seats are taken. In a private room, you can play freely while your friends arrive. Nothing counts yet.
2. Reset. When the last seat is taken, the board resets: all tiles become clean, all scores go to 0, and each player goes to a corner.
3. Countdown. A 3 s countdown starts. You can already choose your direction.
4. Match. The player with the most points at the end wins.

Move

• Your Splatty never stops jumping. Swipe up, down, left or right to change direction. You can swipe anywhere on the screen.
• It moves only up, down, left or right. It never moves diagonally.
• At the edge of the board, your Splatty stops and waits for your next swipe.
• You can turn back at any time.
• Tap the screen to fire a missile, if you have one.

Paint

Each tile you land on becomes your color. This includes other players' tiles: you can paint over them, and they can paint over yours.

Cash in

Land on a chest to cash in. You get points for each tile of your color on the board (1 per tile). Then all your tiles become clean again, except the tile under the chest. Other players' tiles do not change.

There are 2 chests on the board most of the time. A new chest appears soon after someone takes one.

The golden chest

• Some chests are golden. They are more frequent in the final rush.
• A golden cash-in gives ×3 points.
• Its tile pulses for 3 s before you can take it. Then you have 6 s to land on it.
• Only one golden chest is on the board at a time.

Streaks

Your streak is the number of tiles in a row that you paint and that were not yours: clean tiles and rival tiles. A long streak makes your next cash-in bigger.

• You can land on your own tiles and keep your streak, up to 1 in a row. One more, and the streak ends.
• A missile hit ends your streak.
• A cash-in uses up your streak: it goes back to 0.
• The streak bonus and the final rush multiply together, up to ×4. A golden chest multiplies on top of that.

Power-ups

Land on a power-up to take it. A power-up on the ground goes away after 12 s.

Chest

Changes your tiles into points and cleans them.

2 on the board

Golden chest

A rare chest that pays much more. It does not wait for you.

×3 points6 s to take it

Speed

You jump faster. A second bolt restarts the timer.

×2 speed5 s

Missile

Take it, then tap to fire it in the direction you face. It stops the first rival it hits, and their streak ends. You can hold only one at a time.

1.5 s stun

Roller

Its arrow turns. Land on it to paint a full line to the edge, in the direction the arrow pointed when you jumped.

turns every 1.6 s

Final rush and sudden death

Final rush

In the last 15 s, every cash-in is ×2. Power-ups appear more often, and golden chests are more frequent. Many matches turn around in these last seconds.

Sudden death

If two or more players tie for first place, they play sudden death. The other players watch.

• The board becomes clean, and each player gets a missile.
• After a 5 s countdown, a golden chest appears in the middle of the board.
• The first player to take 2 chests wins.
• If nobody does it in 30 s, the player with the most chests wins.

Play with others

Quick match

Tap PLAY. The game puts you in the public room with the most players.

• If no new player joins for 8 s, a bot takes a free seat. Bots play at the level of the strongest player in the room.
• Before the match starts, a new player can take a bot's seat.
• Bots do not get rewards.

Private rooms

In FRIENDS, create a room and share its 5-character code. Your friends type the code to join.

Connection problems

If you lose your connection, your seat is held for 10 s. Your Splatty continues to jump in the same direction.

Leaving a match

If you leave before the end, your tiles become clean and you get nothing for that match: no coins, no level points and no mission progress.

Coins and tint

Coins

Each match that you finish gives you coins. You get more when you score more, and even more when you win.

• Daily chest: your first matches each day give you extra coins, even if you lose.
• Daily reward: open the game each day to collect a gift. Over 7 days the gifts get bigger. If you miss a day, you keep your progress.

Spend your coins in the shop on new skins, paints and more.

Tint

Tint is the premium currency. You buy it through the App Store or Google Play. With tint you buy the most special items in the shop. You also get small amounts for free: from the daily reward, the season mural and the Splatty Road.

In the shop, you can trade tint for coins. You cannot trade coins for tint.

Your look

• Skin: the look of your Splatty.
• Paint: the color and the texture of your tiles.
• Cash-in effect: the animation when you cash in.
• Emotes: 4 on your wheel. Tap the emote button in a match. You can send one every 3 s.
• Title, frame and card background: they show on your profile card.

Titles, frames and card backgrounds come only from the Splatty Road. The shop does not sell them.

Levels and the Splatty Road

Each public match that you finish gives level points. You get points for the tiles that you paint and that were not yours, for finishing the match, and for placing well.

Private rooms give no level points. A match that you leave early, or in which you paint very little, gives none either.

There are 100 levels with prizes: coins, tint chests, and exclusive items that you cannot buy: skins, paints, cash-in effects, titles, frames, card backgrounds and emotes.

Missions and seasons

Daily missions

Each day you get 3 missions. For example: paint tiles, cash in at chests, make a long streak, play matches or win a match. They change each day. Private matches count toward missions.

The season mural

Missions give you brush strokes, and the strokes paint the season mural. A season lasts 28 days. The mural has 20 steps. Each step gives a prize. The last step gives the season's exclusive item, which the shop never sells.

Each week of the season also brings new season missions, the same for all players.

Account and settings

Your account

• The game creates a guest account for you. Link it to Apple or Google in your Profile. Then you keep your level, coins, tint and items if you change or lose your phone.
• Your name can have 4–12 characters. A number after it (for example, Splatty#1234) makes it unique.
• Your first choice of name is free. You get 1 more free change. After that, each change costs 200 tint.
• You can delete your account in Settings → Account → Delete account. See the support page.

Settings

• Colorblind patterns: a shape on each painted tile, so you can see who owns it without relying on color. It is off by default.
• Mute emotes: hides other players' emotes.
• Music and sound: each has its own volume.
• Language: the game uses the language of your phone: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Indonesian, Polish or Turkish.