Games Like BONEYARD BOUNCE!

A block breaker, unfolded in four directions

Every edge of the board is your paddle, and all four move together with the mouse. Aim, fire, and the spell-ball tears through the walled graveyard maze — mowing down monsters, cracking headstones — until it swings back out and you catch it on a paddle. Every catch feeds your mana, and mana is ammunition for grand magic: meteors, tsunamis, phantom turrets. Fire. Carom. Catch. The faster that loop spins, the faster the graveyard empties.

Weakness chains blow straight through walls

There are 20 kinds of summoned monster, and each one is weak to fire, water or lightning. Kill it with that element and the corpse detonates — and anything killed by that blast with the same weakness detonates in turn. A daisy chain. The chain ignores walls entirely. The pack on the far side of the maze dies in the same breath as the one in front of you. This game exists for the moment a screen-filling horde evaporates off a single hit. Your ball's element swaps the instant you grab a capsule, so deciding which colour to set off first is what the clock is really measuring.

The vandalism is the paycheck

Each burial ground is furnished with 24 kinds of destructible — altars, censers, coffins, headstones. Smashing them raises the landlord's valuation (your score) and sets off an effect besides. Monsters, monuments — mow it all down. What to break, and in what order, is part of the read.

Why you are cleaning out a graveyard

A booming castle town, short on housing. The richest landlord in town set his eye on the last flat ground left: a prime lot packed with several centuries of graves. The lord of the land approved the redevelopment the same day, without reading past the tax revenue. The necromancer who keeps the boneyard took it badly and summoned an army. He is, for the record, the only character here with a reasonable motive. He also badly overdid it. The overflow went into town — raiding the market, peering down wells, chewing the laundry. So the landlord hired you. A troubleshooter with a reputation. "Kill the monsters, obviously. But while you're in there — and I'm only asking — the headstones, the coffins, the altars, all of it. Scrap the lot, so we can lay foundations. I'll pay generously by the pile!" You left your conscience somewhere. The money is good. Get to work.

Break the summoning circles and the boss comes out

Those glowing sigils on the floor are the necromancer's summoning gates, and they will keep producing corpses forever. Destroy them all and whoever is in charge comes out personally. Five bosses are drawn from a roster of ten each run — you will not see the same lineup twice.

Let them out and the townsfolk suffer

Monsters that reach a gap in the outer wall walk straight into town. Let too many through and the job fails. Knowing which exits to hold and which packs to drop first is the whole job.

The schedule is tight

The landlord is an impatient man, and he pays for speed. Runs are short. If a build stalls, rebuild it and go again.

Five burial grounds

From a modest parish plot to the master's own seat. Deeper means grander, and larger.

Race the clock

Grab your tools. It's going to be a messy job.