It's time to Petal Crash around the world with Petal Crash Online, brought to you by NovaSquirrel and lastwing! Petal Crash Online is a special game client built from the ground up to support online play, featuring rollback netcode for perfectly in-sync matches with no input delay. Hop into a lobby or make your own, and throw down in puzzle battles with players across the globe! The Petal Crash Online client is bundled with the game on Steam as a free update - when you launch the game, you'll have the option to launch either the base game or Petal Crash Online. Currently, Petal Crash Online is only available on Windows and Linux, though there may be a Mac release in the future. Petal Crash Online features all the gameplay modes of the base game, including Tug-of-war, Trash Attack, Clear Contest, and Co-op (complete with rankings!) - but it also features custom rules beyond those available in the board game, such as board size, number of block colors (up to 6!) and even game-changing "chaos options" such as pushable garbage blocks and "tilt controls". Every character in Petal Crash is available in Petal Crash Online from the start, even the hidden and unlockable ones, and all characters feature a greatly expanded color palette and long list of costumes. Pick your favorite character, costume, and player color to give yourself an instantly recognizable signature look! Communication in lobbies is handled by selecting from pre-made lobby phrases, letting you challenge players, negotiate rules, and even schedule meeting times for future sessions! If there's nobody around, check out the Friend & Fairy Discord server - there's almost always someone willing to play if you ask, especially with new players! It's been a whole year since Petal Crash has come out, and a wonderful community of supportive puzzle fans has sprung up around the game - I'm looking forward to seeing it grow and seeing what else the future of Petal Crash brings! Thank you so much for all your support!

[ 2021-10-12 16:58:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Easy to learn and rewarding to master, Petal Crash is a brand new puzzle game in the tradition of the arcade action puzzlers of the mid-90s. Like the games that inspired it, Petal Crash features a variety of single player challenges in addition to an intense head-to-head versus mode. The rules are simple - push a block any direction, and it'll keep going until it hits a wall or another block. If it hits a block of the same color, the blocks will burst, sending any other blocks next to them flying! Line them up just right to create huge chain reactions, racking up points and burying your opponents in garbage!

Enter the land of Florea, a loosely-connected smattering of city-states where people of many different fantasy races coexist with one another. Though the land is divided, it's said that it was once a united and prosperous country, where the people enjoyed a lasting peace presided over by the seven Sacred Blossoms, relics of great power assembled in the Royal Garden. How Florea came to be divided is lost to history, and the legend of the scattered Sacred Blossoms has turned to myth: whoever finds all seven and returns them to the Royal Garden will receive their heart's true desire.

Eons later, the Sacred Blossoms have each fallen into the hands of a different individual: The fairy scholar Lilibri, the tiefling delinquent Strelitz, human tailor twins Penny & Deony, the dwarven treasure hunter Ore Kid, the beastkin freelancer Daize, the legendary centaur dancer Yosoti, and the errant elven knight Rosalia. Each of them has their own wish, and their own story to tell.

Challenge the Story Mode to take your chosen character through their tale, challenging all the others in fierce puzzle battles to assemble all seven Sacred Blossoms! Shoot for high scores in Solo Play, racing the clock or rationing limited moves to get the highest rank you can! Solve puzzling brain-teasers with limited moves in the Puzzle Mode, and make your own puzzles to share with friends! Challenge another player or fight the CPU in Versus Mode, racing to make clears and bury your opponent!