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Zen Trails
A zen-inducing spirograph-making experience to calm the soul while stimulating the mind.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“This is not a game, it's an relaxing-fun art. Enjoy the chill and the fulfillment of curiosity for about 1-2 hours. Pretty good!”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“I love it, when things on my screen move in beautiful patterns - this is some kind of paradise for me. I feel like the cat with the laser pointer: I don't understand why it does what it does, but I follow it with my eyes (unlike the cat, for me the experience is relaxing…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“It's fourier transforms, the game! Keep going... SPIRALGRAPH OUT!!”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedLatest official news
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Wee li'l update
Fixed some little bugs. Added option to hold shift while creating or adjusting segments to escape the snap to grid.
Little Update
Little changes: - Scooch will move only selected segments, or all segments if none are selected. - Apply colors sequentially can now be either done in the order they were selected, or their distance f
A wee lil update - Segment Groups!
SEGMENT GROUPS If you have selected any segments, and you want to remember that groups, you can press CONTROL + 1,2,3 or 4. Recall the group by pressing SHIFT + that same number. Made some other littl
v.1.19 - G R A D I E N T S !
GRADIENTS Gradients have come to Zen Trails! Wooooooooo! It's true. The segment info panel got a little rearranging, now with a new button called "Switch to gradient". It's a toggle for switching betw
v.1.18 - RECURSION! And also KEY BINDINGS, because why not?
So one of my favorite things to do when making spirographic masterpieces is to make some cool-looking design, then copy and past it a bajillion times while shrinking each recursion. It can make some r
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Casual, Simulation |
| Player tags | Casual · Simulation · Sandbox · Experimental · Building · Immersive Sim · 2D · Programming · Colorful · Minimalist · Stylized · Crafting (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or newer Processor: 2.0Ghz 2-Core Memory: 2 GB RAM Storage: 500 MB available space