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Cinderbox

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ControlsWASD or arrow keys: walk and push. Z or U: undo. R: restart the level. Enter or Space: continue after a solved puzzle. Touch: swipe to push, or use the onscreen D-pad, Undo and Restart buttons.

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Cinderbox

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About this game

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

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