Sand Alchemy: Block Puzzle

Melodeon

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About this game

A falling-sand puzzle set on an alchemist's bench.

Pour pieces of alchemical sand into a glass vessel. On landing they crumble into thousands of grains that flow, slide and settle. Build a line of one colour from wall to wall and it dissolves. The sand keeps rising — how long you last is up to you.

AN HONEST ENDLESS GAME
One pure rule, no gimmick levels, no forced progression. Every line you dissolve is a line you built yourself.

FIVE WAYS TO PLAY
• ENDLESS — the pure run, played for the score.
• SQUEEZE — the glass narrows at every drop. Resist as long as you can.
• DREGS — a crust of stone lies on the floor. Break all of it: the only mode you can win.
• ART — no score and no end. Pour sand with a finger, press it in where you want it, then seal the work into a wax-stamped vial and keep it on your shelf.
• DISSOLVE — take a work back off the shelf and play it. It is dealt into the glass framed in stone, and every line you close eats into it.

RARE MATERIALS
A hot piece freezes into glass that counts for any colour. Salt melts and takes what it touches. Stone stays until a line shatters against it. Water levels into a floor, then dries away. The transmuter recolours the sand around it.

TWO TOOLS IN ART
The needle pushes grains aside and the column above drops into the gap: it leaves a furrow with a bank beside it, and nothing travels more than a cell, so two bands of sand stay two bands. Draw it down through the boundary between them and the colour above pours into the notch — a row of notches is how a figure is drawn. The injector adds: press for a disc under your finger, hold still and it grows, drag and it draws a line. Press one colour inside another and the first is left as a ring around it. Nothing is ever erased.

A BENCH FULL OF CHOICES
• Three Ways of the alchemist — Fire, Salt and Mercury — each a full palette of sands, unlocked with the Essence your lines pay.
• Six themes dress the room, three lit for night and three for day; four finishes tint the glass.
• Grain size from chunky gems to the finest powder: the same game at three resolutions.
• A record for every run you can lose, and a shelf that keeps your sealed works — 24 of them, with room for more to buy.

QUIET BY DESIGN
A dark, elegant apothecary's atmosphere — engraved stone, embers and glass. Light on ads: optional reward videos, one full-screen ad between two runs, and never anything in the middle of one.

In English, Italiano, Español, Français, Deutsch and Português.

From the maker of Gravity Alchemy: Merge Drop.

What’s new

Five modes: Endless, Squeeze, Dregs, Art and Dissolve. Three Ways of sand — Fire, Salt, Mercury — plus six themes, glass finishes and three grain sizes. In Art, pour and press sand with the injector, drag the needle, then seal your works into vials and keep them on the shelf. Six languages.