Press kit
Everything here is free to use in coverage of Zoupa. No permission needed, no embargo. If you want something that isn’t here — a specific level, a longer clip, a build to play — just ask: hello at zoupa.app.
Fact sheet
- Title
- Zoupa
- Developer
- Ovidio Mallo, independent
- Platform
- iPhone, iOS 17 or later
- Genre
- Puzzle
- Price
- Free, with a single in-app unlock for the full game (€2.99 / $2.99, no subscription)
- Release
- In TestFlight beta; App Store date to be announced
- Languages
- English
- Website
- zoupa.app
- Contact
- hello at zoupa.app
What it is
One line. Zoupa is a puzzle box that won’t sit still: push blocks inside a closed box, then rotate the whole box and watch everything fall.
Short. A small character pushes blocks left and right inside a closed box. That is the easy part. Rotating the box 90° sends every block falling somewhere new, so thinking a move ahead means thinking a fall ahead. Solve a level by landing every coloured block on its matching ring. 88 levels across four chapters, one shared daily puzzle, and an endless Zen mode.
The unusual part. Every level is generated and then machine-verified before it ships: proven solvable, with a proven shortest solution. That number is the par, and matching it earns a star. The difficulty of each level is measured by analysing its full state space rather than estimated by hand, which is how the curve is tuned level by level.
Screenshots
Click any image for the full-resolution PNG (1320×2868). These are the App Store frames; captions are part of the image.
App preview
22 seconds, two levels, no commentary — the same clip as the App Store preview. Silent by design: the store autoplays previews muted.
Download the preview (MP4, 886×1920)
Other assets
- App icon — 1024×1024 PNG
- Board render — a level on the app background, for use as a cut-out
- Screenshots, icon and board as a ZIP — the video is a separate download, above
Using the name
The game is Zoupa — one word, capital Z. The
character has no name. The palette is the game’s own: background
#14151D, accent teal #2EC4B6, block colours coral
#F2617A, amber #FFB454, teal #2EC4B6
and violet #9B7EDE.
Privacy, for the record
Zoupa has no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking and no third-party SDKs, and makes no network connections of its own. Progress never leaves the device. The privacy policy says the same thing at length.