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Swipe the board up, down, left, or right. Every metal slides that way, and two equal metals touching fuse into the next rung of the ladder. After each valid move a new base tile appears. Keep climbing from Prima Materia to the Philosopher's Stone. The first-run tutorial walks you through it.

Forge the Philosopher's Stone by merging up through the seven planetary metals: Lead, Tin, Iron, Copper, Quicksilver, Silver, and Gold. Reach the Stone once and you unlock the next topology — and you can keep going into the endless modes beyond it.

The three topologies follow the stages of the Great Work. Reach the Philosopher's Stone on the square board (Nigredo) to unlock the hexagonal board (Albedo); reach it again there to unlock the radial mandala (Rubedo).

Yes. Scores, unlocks, Codex discoveries, achievements, and settings are saved on your device automatically. Everything stays local — see the Privacy Policy. Deleting the app removes this data.

No. Athanor runs entirely offline and requests no location, no notifications, and no other permissions. It collects no personal data of any kind.

Athanor is free to play — the full square board with Classic and Daily modes. A single optional Full Unlock purchase (buy once, own forever) opens the hexagon and radial topologies plus Zen and Mutation modes. There are no ads and no subscriptions. Purchases go through Apple's App Store. To move a purchase to a new device, use Restore Purchases in Settings while signed in with the same Apple ID. Refunds are handled by Apple.

Yes — open Settings in the app to toggle sound and haptics and adjust volume. All audio is synthesized on-device in real time; there are no recordings.

Email h.ahmetgezgin@gmail.com with your device model, iOS version, and what happened. The more detail, the faster it gets fixed.

An athanor is the alchemist's slow, ever-burning furnace — the vessel of patient transformation. It's the perfect name for a game about turning base matter into gold, one careful merge at a time.