Get help with Hillside Hum, the seasonal terrace puzzle.
Hillside Hum is an iOS and Android puzzle: plant wheat, orchards, beehives, huts and mills on a small terraced hill and bloom it by reaching a Hum target for up to three stars. It has 100 hills in ten worlds, a Daily hill with a streak, Meadow Run with three hearts, 24 free Charms for your home hill that you buy with coins earned by playing, is free to play with ads, has no accounts, and works offline. Questions? Write to bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com.
Yes. Hillside Hum is free to play, with ads served by Google AdMob: a banner on the menu screen and below the play field, and a full-screen ad after some finished hills. You can earn ad-free play each month by watching short videos, or go ad-free every month with an optional monthly subscription.
Pick a seed in the tray, then tap an open furrow to plant it. Every building hums differently in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and gains or loses Hum from the neighbours on its four sides: bees like orchards and wheat, mills like wheat, crowding like with like costs. Tap a season to see that season’s Hum. Rocks block a furrow, ponds cool the summer for neighbours, sunny plots add and shaded plots subtract, wind strips autumn, late plots sleep through spring, and on later hills you may tend a building to double its best season. Reach the bloom mark to win; the marks near the end of the bar give the second and third star. Tap a planted building to lift it. There are no timers and no lives, except the hearts in Meadow Run.
Open Clear Skies from the menu and watch short rewarded videos. A progress bar shows how many videos you have watched this month and the date it resets. Reaching the goal turns ads off until that date. Watching is always your choice.
Clear Skies is US$2.99 per month (local price shown in the store). It renews automatically every month until you cancel, and it removes ads for as long as it is active.
iPhone and iPad: Settings > your name > Subscriptions > Hillside Hum > Cancel Subscription. Android: Google Play > Profile > Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions > Hillside Hum > Cancel subscription. Deleting the app does not cancel it.
Open Clear Skies in the app and tap Restore purchases. You need to be signed in to the same Apple ID (iPhone and iPad) or Google account (Android) that subscribed.
Yes. The game plays fully offline; only ads and subscription checks need a connection.
The app has no accounts and no servers of ours, and your progress stays on your device. It shows ads served by Google AdMob, which may use your advertising ID. Where the law requires it the app shows Google’s consent form, and on iPhone and iPad it asks permission through Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt. See the Privacy Policy.
Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement on iPhone and iPad, and the Google Play Terms of Service on Android.
Progress is stored on your device, so it does not carry over to a new device or after an uninstall.
Email bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com and tell us your device, the app version and what happened.