SPALL
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Puzzle. Free.
SPALL is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
A match-3 where the board is your mech. The grid is a walking machine's armour plating, laid out as a silhouette: head, torso, two arms, two legs. When something hits you, it spalls the plates in the region it struck. Those cells turn to rubble. Rubble cannot be swapped, cannot be matched, and does not fall. It stays exactly where it landed for the rest of the fight.
So damage is not a number going down beside the board. It is holes in your puzzle, in the place you were hit. A crippled arm is not an arm with a penalty attached, it is an arm whose plates you can no longer reach. Free, plays in your browser, no account, nothing to install.
The plate decides what a match does; where you match decides how much The board is a walker, and each of the five plate types feeds one system, with a home region on the walker: Optic: your targeting lock. Home: the head. Coolant: venting heat. Home: the torso. Flux: weapon charge. Home: the arms. Servo: evade. Home: the legs. Armour: repairs the rubble beside the match, anywhere.
Match a plate in its home region and it counts 2.6 times as much.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.