Cinderbox is a free puzzle browser game by Quarrykit. Play it on desktop, phone or tablet, with no download.
Cinderbox is a short 2D heat-and-coal puzzle built in Godot 4. Keep the fire alive, manage scarce coal, and clear compact puzzles aimed at desktop and browser play. Free HTML5 demo on itch (https://quarrykit.itch.io/cinder-box); full Windows + Linux build is $8.99 on Gumroad (https://quarrykit.gumroad.com/l/kvrtpn). Also from Quarrykit: Wage Bench $19 (https://quarrykit.gumroad.com/l/hbrhye). From Quarrykit.
How to play
Push living coals onto the grate before they go cold. Get at least one living coal onto the grate; the win is checked after cool/ash resolve.
Controls
- Arrows / WASD: walk / push
- Z or U: undo
- R: restart level
- Enter / Space: advance after a win
- Phone (coarse pointer / narrow viewport): swipe to push; use on-screen Undo / Restart / D-pad
Rules
- Invalid moves spend no turn.
- After a successful walk or push, every coal not moved this turn loses 1 heat.
- Heat 0 becomes ash (an immovable blocker).
- Pushing a coal onto another coal stacks heat; the stack counts as moved and does not cool that turn.
- A heat-1 coal left unmoved on the grate becomes ash and does not win.
- Keep pushing a coal and it never cools — heat is a detour budget.
Three tutorials, then twenty puzzles. Stock Godot 4 HTML5 export; no custom index.html shell.
- Devices
- Desktop browser, mobile and tablet browser
- Input
- Keyboard and mouse, touchscreen
- Latest update
- September 2026
Media
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