"It's rare you get such an excellent combination of simple gameplay and an interesting theme as Ringdown: Switchboard Puzzler."Read the full piece →
Ringdown
Switchboard Puzzle
It's 1962. You're on the switchboard. The lamps are lighting faster than you can plug them — and every caller is one breath away from hanging up.
Out now on iPhone. Free to try — one purchase unlocks everything. No ads, no pay-to-win.
The feel
It should feel like brass.
Ringdown isn't a grid of flat buttons. The board is brass and bakelite. The cables have weight. Every plug lands with a click you feel in your fingers, backed by period sound recorded to match.
We spent the time on the small stuff — the hum of the panel, the snap of a connection, the haptic thud of a cable going home — because that's the difference between a puzzle and a place.
How it works
A lamp lights. It tells you a colour and a number.
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Read the lamp
A call comes in and a lamp lights. The colour is the cable you grab; the number is the jack you plug into. The ring around it shrinks from amber to red — that's the caller's patience.
Make the connection
Drag the right cable up from the dashboard, drop it on the right jack, and you've made the connection. Answer fast and you build a combo. Fumble the port or let a caller hang up, and it breaks.
Work the squeeze
The longer your shift runs, the worse it gets. Priority calls expire fast but pay double. On a squeeze shift there are more callers than cables — so you'll tap a seated plug to free a line and reuse it before the next lamp turns red.
Baker Street screenshot
What you get
One purchase. Six ways to play.
New · Third campaign
Baker Street
The game's afoot. Take the switchboard at the Baker Street Telephone Exchange and help Sherlock Holmes crack the case — connect the calls, trace the clues, and stay one step ahead of his enemies.
Campaign
The 1960s Campaign
A run of timed shifts that climb from quiet evenings to chaos. Earn one to three stars on each.
Second campaign
The Blitz
A second campaign that moves the board to the London air raids of 1940. Shells rock the building. Power cuts black out the panel, so you work the grid from memory. And every so often something scuttles across the floor to rattle your nerve.
Endless
Endless
One shift that never ends. It just keeps ramping. See how long you last and how high you score.
Daily
Daily Challenge
The same board for everyone, every day. Play it once, take your shot, see where you land on the leaderboard.
Game Center
Leaderboards & the trophy cabinet
Leaderboards for the bragging rights, and a cabinet of milestones that fills up as your career does.
In the press
What they're saying.
"The background is one of those snazzy, retro brass and wood contraptions with satisfying clunks and clicks as you make connections."Read the full piece →
Out now
More campaigns on the way.
Ringdown is on the App Store now, and Baker Street won't be the last exchange. Leave your email and we'll tell you when the next campaign — or our next game — lands. Nothing else.
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