BLOCKROT

IT GETS WORSE THE DEEPER YOU GO

PLAY IN BROWSER

free  ·  no account  ·  works offline

or download the Android test build

WHAT IT IS

Fill a row. Fill a column. Watch it clear. Then it starts to rot.

BLOCKROT is a block puzzle with a roguelike underneath it and something worse underneath that. Every depth you survive makes the board more hostile: rot that spreads through your own blocks, ash that lines clear around instead of removing, columns taken from you permanently.

And a Watcher that pays attention.

THE WATCHER

It is not scenery. It has attention — rising every time you place, falling every time you clear — and it takes turns. It stares and demands a line. It marks cells and pays you for filling them. It reaches a hand across the board one cell at a time, and you can see every cell it will take before it takes them. Deep enough, it reaches into your hand and removes a piece.

WHAT YOU BUILD

SIGILS

Carve a blessing into a specific row or column, permanently. Cross two and the intersection pays quadruple.

CHIPS × MULT

Beat each depth's score quota by building a multiplier, not by surviving. Rot only pays if you make it pay.

CURSES

Paid up front, billed forever. They are how big scores happen and how runs end.

28 OMENS

One rolls every depth. The Fog hides your hand. The Hollow deals you a piece that is not real.

THE HONEST DETAILS

Contains sudden loud sounds, flashing imagery and deliberate jump scares. Each of those can be switched off independently, and everything still works with them off.