Snake
Eat, grow, and stay off your own tail.
Neon Cascade
Drop the tubes, blow out the rows, bank a surge.
PuzzleCategory
HardDifficulty
FreePrice
NoneInstall
Neon Cascade is a falling-block puzzle in a well ten columns wide and twenty deep. Pieces of four cells fall, you turn and slide them into the gaps, and a row filled edge to edge flares white and blows out. Rotation is the standard system with wall kicks, so pieces twist into places they look too big for. There is a hold slot and a three-piece queue. What is not standard is the surge meter: clearing rows charges it, and a full meter blows out the bottom row of the well: the one row you can never reach once the stack is buried, and the one you always want back.
Controls
| ← → | Move the piece |
|---|---|
| ↓ | Soft drop |
| ↑ or X | Rotate |
| Z | Rotate the other way |
| Space | Hard drop |
| C | Hold a piece |
| F | Spend a full surge |
| P or Esc | Pause |
| R | Restart |
Touch: A seven-button pad under the board: move, rotate, soft drop, hard drop, hold and surge.
Tips
- The ghost outline shows where the piece will land. Steering by the ghost rather than the piece is the single biggest thing that separates a long run from a short one.
- Four rows at once scores 800 times the level; four single rows score 400. Digging a well down one column and waiting for the long piece is worth the risk it puts you under.
- Rotation kicks pieces sideways when a wall or the stack is in the way, so a piece that looks like it cannot fit against the edge usually can.
- The hold slot resets on every piece that lands, so holding costs nothing except the piece you get back. Bank the long piece when you have nowhere to put it.
- Surge fills ten percent per row and clears the bottom row when full. It is worth no points, so spend it to survive rather than to score, usually when the stack is four rows from the top.
Top scores
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Achievements (16)
Unlocked as you play, and tracked in this browser. See them all on the achievements page.
- First Line: Blow out your first row.
- Ten Down: Clear 10 rows in one run.
- Forty Down: Clear 40 rows in one run.
- Full Circuit: Clear 100 rows in one run.
- Double: Blow out two rows at once.
- Triple: Blow out three rows at once.
- Cascade: Blow out four rows at once.
- Triple Cascade: Blow out four rows at once, three times in a run.
- Level Five: Reach level 5.
- Level Ten: Reach level 10.
- Surge: Spend a full surge meter.
- Overcharged: Spend three surges in one run.
- Quarter Earned: Score 5,000 in one run.
- Neon Baron: Score 15,000 in one run.
- Blackout: Score 30,000 in one run.
- Slam Dance: Hard drop 50 pieces in one run.
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