Instructions
Mergecliff
Slide carved rune stones up a cliff face and fuse matching pairs into the next rune. Boulders roll in to block the board until a merge lands beside them.
- Year
- 1993
- Era
- 16-Bit
- Genre
- Puzzle / Merge
Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.
How to play
- Arrows or WASD to slide the whole board.
- P to pause.
On touch
- Swipe anywhere to slide every stone.
Every run starts on the title screen. Pause any time with P or the pause button; calm mode removes flashes and screen shake.
Maker’s note
Every fifteen moves a boulder rolls onto an empty square and will not budge until you merge next to it. New stones skew toward higher runes as the run goes on, so the board gets richer and tighter at the same time. Spawns come from a seed.
The Eracade workshop
Target scores
- 1300
- 2700
- 31,200
- 42,000
- 53,000
- 64,500
- 76,500
- 89,000
Each target is a step up. Beat them all and you have outplayed the workshop.
The 16-Bit era, 1990–1996
Dithered sunsets, parallax hills and more colours than anyone knew what to do with.
High scores
The top ten runs are saved in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded unless you submit a ranked run, so clearing site data clears the table.
