Cascadite

The rules are simple

You push a colored block onto the board. It slides until it hits something. If three or more of the same color end up in a line - they disappear.

That's it. That's the whole game.

Except then the blocks that were stuck behind them start moving. And some of *those* line up too. And suddenly half the board is gone and you're not entirely sure how that happened. That's a cascade - and chasing that feeling is what Cascadite is about.

How it works

There's a board. Around it - queues of colored blocks on all four sides. Each turn you pick a queue and push the front block in. It slides across the board until it bumps into something (or, if the path is clear, flies off the other side - the game won't let you waste a move like that). The goal: clear the board, don't let it fill up.

The tricky part is that every block you push changes the layout for every block after it. So you're always thinking a few moves ahead - "if I push this blue one here, that red column lines up, and then..."

Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it *really* works out.

Features

• Blocks slide from the edges - not your typical swap-and-match
• Chain reactions when cleared blocks unblock others that keep moving
• Trajectory preview - see where your block will stop before committing
• Undo - because hindsight is 20/20
• Board sizes from 5x5 to 20x20, adjustable colors and rules
• Save your favorite setups as custom presets
• 20 achievements
• Mouse, touch, gamepad - your call
• 10 languages: English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Turkish

Why this game exists

Years ago my father found a puzzle game he loved. He played it for years - on PC, then on a tablet - until a system update killed it. The game was gone, and there was no way to get it back.

I'm not a game developer. I'm an ML engineer. But I figured - how hard can it be? (Turns out: pretty hard.) I built Cascadite from scratch with AI as my co-pilot. It took a while. But now my father has his game back.

I'm putting it out there to see if anyone else enjoys it as much as he does.