Darkwaar is an experiment in creating and publishing small playable ideas regularly.

Today's puzzle

Today's Darkwaar is Darkwaar14 — a tiny tactics puzzle built around height and a straight cut.

You take one action each turn: Step onto a neighbour, Lift a slab to raise or flatten it, or Cut along a row or column. Raised cells stop the cut. The foe telegraphs first.

A tiny browser puzzle for a few minutes of play.

How to play

• Tap Step, Lift, or Cut, then tap a cell
• Step moves to an adjacent flat cell
• Lift raises or flattens a neighbouring empty cell
• Cut travels in a straight line and stops on a raised slab
• The foe shows its next action before you move
• Reduce the foe to 0 HP

Play on itch.io

Play Darkwaar14 in the browser: https://darkwoodcom.itch.io/darkwaar14

Development note

One 5×5 slab, three actions, a telegraphed foe. Godot primitives only. Source lives in the Darkwaar monorepo: github.com/darkwood-com/darkwaar.

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