Fix & Tidy

About this series

Fix & Tidy is our calm-hands series: small 3D tabletop and garden jobs that feel satisfying to finish. You mow a lawn in one unbroken stroke, strip a vintage radio down part by part, or align brass dial rings on a desk device and pull the bolt — and every stage is short enough to clear on a coffee break. The twist is the same one that runs through all of Sly Arcade: something in the scene is lying to you. In Lying Lawn it is a patch of plastic turf that looks exactly like grass and a garden gnome whose SAFE sign points the wrong way. In Dismantle Desk it is a friendly green glow on the part you should not touch yet. In Dial Desk some gaps on the rings are only painted on, and a jam flakes the paint so you can retry. These games reveal the trick fairly after a slip, so a failed attempt always teaches you something and the retry is instant. Lying Lawn and Dismantle Desk have 30 hand-tuned stages; Dial Desk has 36 dials across five devices. There are no timers on most stages, no lives and no shop, which makes the series a good pick when you want a relaxing puzzle that still asks you to think. Play them in any order; they share a mood rather than a story.