Rowdy Rows: Swipe to Zero

Rowdy Rows is a game about clearing rows. It starts as a convincingly boring list. You swipe a row away and it feels exactly like clearing a real one: a stretch, a click at the point of no return, a thud as the rows below settle up. Then the rows start misbehaving. They arrive crooked, slide in from the sides, ask for a different gesture, and pull-to-refresh stops doing what it should. By the end of each world the table has come apart completely. EIGHT WORLDS Inbox, Chat, Notifications, Calendar, Settings, Fitness, Reviews and Bank. Each one teaches its mechanics one level at a time — mail to keep, mail to sort the right way, menus to open and tap, threads that gather themselves, rows you hold until they pop, the ones that come back — and adds a twist of its own: an undo you have a moment to take, bubbles that go away by themselves, a pile to peel or sweep, a row that asks how far, a…