Cubrius

Cubrius is a fun little puzzle game for the casual gamer. The object is to clear away all the colored blocks in a level by pushing them next to blocks of the same color. If you push a block so that it’s orthagonally adjacent to any other blocks of thesame color, they all disappear. Part of what makes the game interesting is that you don’t move blocks around like the finger of God. You’ve control a little guy who runs around each level pushing blocks. This places limitations on which blocks you can push in which directions. Additionally, there are blocks with special symbols on them. Blocks with an anchor can’t be moved. Blocks with a puzzle piece can only remove other blocks with a puzzle piece. Blocks that have a joker on them can eliminate any block of the same color or a block of any color with a joker on it also. Particularly cute is a block with an animal footprint on it. When you eliminate that block, you gain a little animal friend on your shoulder the color of the block you just eliminated. Going forward, any block that you push of that color will disappear regardless of whether or not it is adjacent to any other blocks. As a nice touch, the game automatically saves your progress so that you can return later and start again at the place where you left off.

As with moth of these kinds of games, there are a few levels playable for free on the site. The full game costs money, which promises more challenging levels. Still, there’s a couple hours of diversion on this site for free.

Note: After the writing of this entry, the game has changed names and location. It’s now called CuberXtreme.