Features
- Two game types — Standard with plain colors, and Deluxe with 24 material finishes (gold, glass, velvet, oak…), richer animations and English voice lines.
- Fair dealing — the three pieces of a deal always fit on the board together; sometimes a deal lets you clear the whole board.
- Materials — wood, crystal, gold and lava pieces with their own bonuses, particles and sounds.
- Combos and abilities — cleared lines charge energy for swap, hammer and bomb.
- Levels and worlds — the score opens new worlds with their own colors and background particles; for a few moves all blocks may turn into one material.
- Three difficulties — easy, normal, hard; best scores are kept per game type and difficulty, an unfinished game is saved.
- Sound — background music tracks and sound effects, each switchable.
- Mouse, touch and keyboard — keys 1–3 pick a piece, arrows move it, Enter places it; F11 toggles full screen, Esc leaves it.
- 14 languages — the UI follows the system language.
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Install
Arch Linux (AUR) — x86_64 and aarch64:
yay -S syn-blocks-bin # prebuilt
yay -S syn-blocks-git # built from source
The whole desktop: yay -S synshell-bin. From source: cargo build --release -p syn-blocks in the synshell repository; cargo test -p syn-blocks runs the model and integration tests without a GPU.
Android
An APK for Android 11 and newer (arm64) is attached to the synshell releases on GitHub: download it on the phone and open it to install. To build it yourself: syngui build -t android -p syn-blocks (the syngui tool).
Command line
syn-blocks # play
syn-blocks --screenshot board.png --page board # screenshot of a sample game
syn-blocks --screenshot deluxe.png --page board --deluxe
--page takes start, board, drag, over, menu, clear; --size and --scale set the size.
Part of synshell
Syn Blocks is one of the applications of synshell — a Wayland desktop environment in Rust for computers and phones, built on the syngui UI framework.
License
GPL-3.0-only