Undue Games presents
Hold the center. Set off the chain.
A turn-based puzzle-survival game. Blocks close in from all four sides, and one well-placed shot can bring the whole wall down. Break Gold Blocks for loot, forge your arsenal between levels, and crack open Nova Cores that change how you play.
How it plays
Easy to read. Hard to survive.
You are the Nova at the center of the grid. Every turn you get three shots, then the board moves. Blocks carry lit Blast Faces, and when a block breaks, its faces detonate into whatever is touching. Nothing moves while you think. You lose to the board, not the clock.
Break the gold
Every Gold Block is a gamble worth taking.
Gold Blocks hide a prize, and you never know how big until it cracks. Some are small. Some are jackpots.
- Points, Celestium and Powers. A Gold Block can pay any mix of them, and the loot flies straight to your counters.
- They won't come to you. Gold slips away from the board's advance, so if you want it, you have to go and break it yourself.
- Safe move or greedy one? Chasing gold while the walls close in is the decision the whole game is built around.
Build your arsenal
Three Powers. Two Apex Powers. Your call.
Your Beam, Primer and Push never run out. On top of them you bring a loadout of limited Powers into every level, and what you pick decides which answers you have when the board gets ugly.
Powers
carry 3- Freeze
- Locks a block in place. Anything the board shoves into it gets crushed.
- Pierce
- Punches through an entire line, hidden blocks and all.
- Multi
- Fires a spread of five shots at once.
- Ricochet
- Banks off blocks to reach what you can't see.
- Arc
- Jumps from block to block of the same size.
Apex Powers
carry 2- Sunder
- A beam two tiles wide that crosses the entire board.
- Burst
- Blasts a block on all four sides, and everything touching it.
- Repel
- Shoves every block in your four lanes two tiles back.
- Re-Block
- Upgrades every block in an area, and never makes one worse.
- Magnet
- Pulls two metal blocks together and crushes everything between.
More Apex Powers unlock as you go deeper.
The Forge
Spend it or save it.
Between levels you visit the Forge. Turn the Celestium you broke loose into more rounds of the Powers you rely on, then lock in your loadout for the next fight. Stockpile for the hard levels ahead, or spend it all now to survive the one in front of you.
Nova Cores
Crack them open. Break the rules.
Win a level and you may walk away with sealed Nova Cores. You don't know what's inside until you open one, and the rarer it is, the bigger the show.
- Stable Cores sit in your center socket for the whole campaign: a permanent passive you build around, like extra bolts on every Nova Surge.
- Unstable Cores go in the outer sockets: a one-time move you save for the moment it matters, like turning a block to stone or wiping out every block you've already damaged.
The campaign
Choose your path. Then survive it.
The campaign branches. Many levels offer more than one version, each with its own board, its own Threats and its own reward, and you pick which one to take on.
- Threats change the rules. Swarms of small blocks, heavy advances, shielded formations. Read the card, then plan your loadout.
- Charge the Nova Surge. Big chains fill the meter. Release it and the Nova fires bolts across the entire board.
- Losing isn't the end. A lost level can be retried on a fresh board. What you fired stays spent.
The studio
Undue pressure, by design.
Undue Games is an independent mobile studio. We make games where every move is a decision you own: where losing is something you can trace back to a choice, and winning is something you actually figured out. Blast Face is our first.
Thinking over reflexes
Turn-based on purpose. The pressure comes from the board, never from a clock.
Hard, but never unfair
Threats announce themselves and limits are stated. You should never lose to something you couldn't have seen.
Measured, not asserted
Every rule runs on a deterministic simulation we replay and test thousands of times before a player sees it.
Contact
Want to play it first?
Playtests on iPhone and Android are coming soon. Email us with "Playtest" in the subject and we'll let you know when there's a spot.