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Bryan Livingston · Published by Bryan Livingston · Official site ↗
Last updated 29 Sept 2026
Somewhere under that mountain of bricks is your floor. Sort the impossible Pile in first person with a grappling hook, sieves, and part-seeking vision. Fill drawers, pull parts, watch MOC builds snap together brick by brick. Cozy, satisfying, and governed by one rule: never sort by color.
Indie, Simulation, Casual · 2026 · More free games
About this game
There is one rule of brick sorting. Everyone learns it the hard way.
You've inherited a workshop and a Pile that swallowed it whole. Never Sort By Color is a first-person zen organization sim about setting it right - sorting an impossibly huge mountain of plastic bricks into a perfectly labeled workshop, one satisfying handful at a time.
Tame the Pile
The Pile doesn't look conquerable. That's the point. Start by picking out bricks one at a time, and grow into an unstoppable sorting machine:
Grappling Hook - aim at a part and every loose copy rips out of the Pile and streams into your hand.
Sorter's Eye - mark a part type and watch every instance glow through the chaos.
Sieve Tray - scoop, shake, and let gravity sort a whole load by size in one motion.
Bucket Sort - bind bins to hotkeys and fling bricks blind over your shoulder, pure muscle memory.
Locators - hold up any brick and its home drawer lights up across the room.
Buy bins, trays, and cabinet walls. Stack them into towers. Label everything. Watch the floor appear.
Pull the parts. Watch it build.
Instruction books lie scattered around the workshop, each one a MOC waiting for parts. Crack one open, pull its bill of materials from your perfect drawers, and watch the model build itself, brick by brick - a time-lapse of parts flying up and clicking into place, stud by stud.
This is where your sorting pays off or bites. Honest drawers mean a full kit pulls in seconds. A contaminated drawer means the tray rejects your wrong part right in front of you.
Finished models don't ship away - they fill your workshop. A fire truck on the windowsill. A spaceship hung from the ceiling. Pick one up and swoosh it around the room. I won't tell.
Chaos in. Order out.
One workshop, one enormous Pile, one deeply satisfying loop.
No timers, no fail states - just you, the bricks, and the quiet click of things going where they belong.
Every brick you sort visibly shrinks the mountain. The before/after is the game.
The Rule
Sorting by color feels right. It looks beautiful. And every brick collector on earth will tell you the same thing: you will never find anything again.
Sort by part. Always by part.
Never. Sort. By. Color.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit (version 21H2 or newer)
- Processor: Quad-core x64 with SSE4.2 (Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 12-capable GPU with compute shader support, 2 GB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / AMD Radeon RX 460 / Intel UHD 620)
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Free Demo Coming October 6
The free demo arrives October 6. You have watched the trailers. On October 6 you get to dig into the Pile yourself. The Never Sort By Color demo is free, and it is the first time anyone outside my workshop gets their hands on the bricks. To fully show off the Pile, I'm currently thinking the demo will not have a limited part count. It will have the full over 100,000 piece Pile to play with, but will have limited upgrades and models available. The full game follows on November 10. Wishlisted players hear the moment the demo goes live. Sort by part. Always by part. Never. Sort. By. Color. - BryanRead full article on Community Announcements (Bryan - Legend Studio)AnnouncementsOfficial
New Gameplay Trailer
If you liked the first trailer, this is the same game with more toys and lots more polish. If you are new here, welcome to the workshop. A wishlist is the single most helpful thing you can do for a small game like this. Thank you to everyone who already has. Release is coming November 10. Sort by part. Always by part. Never. Sort. By. Color. - BryanRead full article on Community Announcements (Bryan - Legend Studio)AnnouncementsOfficial
Introducing the Master Builders
Never Sort By Color is a game about a mountain of loose bricks and the one rule that tames it. But sorting is only half of it. The other half is the MOC build: you find an instruction book lying around the workshop, open it, work the pick list, and watch the model click together part by part. Then it stays. Shelf, windowsill, place in the garden, wherever you want it. I found some of the best designers in the world to license and contribute models for us to build and play with. Here are the Master Builders and many of their building instructions can be purchased via the links below. USS Iowa BB-61 8,108 pieces by Chuck via BrickVault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46215616/af0eedb4cb5fd82ff34ea5f508ad222abff96dbf.png Atlanta Class Light Cruiser 3,583 pieces by Chuck via BrickVault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46215616/1c0efc600b5c96567498efbdda47133f39724b8d.png Fletcher Class Destroyer 2,252 pieces by Levelcap via BrickVault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46215616/0a35b1c21d73bb2bea2bc428c1e4f2d108ce0d0f.png Cherokee Class Tugboat 806 pieces by Chuck via BrickVault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46215616/660b8135c64f954ab9bd110bfa59cb992d7122bb.png Viper Attack Helicopter 660 pieces by Levelcap via BrickVault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46215616/013b4409283d601053550c6db7121db7a4752648.png Haunted House 4,090 pieces by Łukasz Ćwik via BrickVault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46215616/84c51641d0345e16d5bf48d93343a10c08e1931d.png Theatre 3,763 pieces by Łukasz Ćwik via BrickVault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46215616/dba58bbe2a7b22b23876d828c681ac2287adb39d.png Antique Store and Ice Cream Parlor 3,257 pieces by Łukasz Ćwik via BrickVault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46215616/0d0af271ead5c97d4169c9992d241e6b512e3e9a.png Coffee Stand, Andy's Cafe 1,489 pieces by Norton74 via BrickVault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46215616/1aaa21bec520d63ae63c950dbe53ac66c7942855.png Dump Truck 714 pieces by Fukusaku via BrickVault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46215616/07b928a3aa1e7031255327f8a572e57bf4d60ab3.png Loader 373 pieces by Fukusaku via BrickVault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46215616/457a...Read full article on Community Announcements (Bryan - Legend Studio)AnnouncementsOfficial
Go Play Librarian - Tidy Up the Arcane Library!
Never Sort By Color has an inspiration: Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! by ArtRising. You've probably already spotted the kindred spirit. Consider this the formal introduction. The setup: a fairy has trashed a gorgeous arcane library, 3,072 books are scattered across the floor, and the doors stay sealed until every single volume is back in its proper place. That's it. That's the game. And it is wonderful. I literally bought Librarian after watching 30 seconds of a YouTube video about it. It came across my YT feed and I smashed the buy button and binged it that day. It was so gorgeous and satisfying to play I was left thinking to myself, the world needs more of this!Making something that good is a high bar, and I'll try my best to reach it.Rick Rubin put it better than I ever could: - Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of BeingRead full article on Community Announcements (Bryan - Legend Studio)
