Syrious Games

Syrious Squish

Round them up. Hoard them. Then squish them all at once.

Ninety-six little monsters live at the bottom of the water. They watch your finger. Bigger groups pay far, far more — so this is not a game about spotting a match, it is a game about how big you can grow something before it falls apart.

Play free in your browser Get it free on Google Play App Store — coming soon Free, nothing to install, and nothing to sign up for. The browser version needs a keyboard-and-mouse computer. There is a free browser version too, but it wants a bigger screen than this one — open this page on a computer.

Ninety-six of them

They can see you, you know

Ninety-six little monsters live at the bottom of the water. They watch your finger. They blink when they feel like it. When you close in on their group, their eyes go wide and their mouths fall open.

Squish them anyway.

Tap a group of touching monsters of the same color. They pulse, a ring draws around them, and the score you would get floats above their heads. Tap again and they pop. Whatever is left falls into the hole, empty columns slide shut, and the board is a different board than it was a second ago.

Gus

The biggest one is not exactly on your side

Gus hangs over the board and talks you through your run in a voice that keeps sliding out of encouragement into something else. They can see you, you know.

Squish a monster that was all on its own and he goes cold and gray: You took a lonely one. Rude. Pull off something enormous and he comes down off his perch to stomp the group flat himself.

The one rule that matters

Bigger is better. Much better.

Every monster you add to a group is worth more than the one before it. Ten together are worth 356 points. Split those same ten into two fives and you get 152. So this is not really a game about spotting a match. It is a game about how big you can grow something before it falls apart.

You can squish a monster that is all on its own. It costs you 100 points. That one rule is what makes this a thinking game: tidying up has a price, and the last few moves of a round turn into a real decision. Clear the whole board without ever taking a lonely one and your score doubles.

You always see what a group is worth before you take it. Nothing is hidden from you.

In motion

Six moments from a run

  • A group of twenty-three yellow monsters charged, wide-eyed, with plus 2020 floating above them
    The score is on the table before you commit
  • Gus airborne off his perch as burst particles scatter across the board
    Gus comes down for the big ones
  • A single blue monster charged on its own, with minus 100 in red above it
    A lonely one is legal. It just costs you.
  • Timed mode with ten seconds left and the clock turned red
    120 seconds. Move fast, score more.
  • The level five cleared screen, showing the level score, the run total and a button on to level six
    The ladder has no top
  • Versus mode mid-match with both player scores, the 2000 goal, and a blue group previewing a doubled score
    Two players, one board, one phone

Scroll sideways for the rest.

Four ways to play

Same board, four arguments with it

  • Level

    Hit the target score and go deeper. There is no last level, and you never lose your place. Put the game down for a week and you come back to the deepest level you ever reached.

  • Timed

    120 seconds. The faster you move, the more each squish is worth, and every second you have left over pays out at the end.

  • Endless

    No clock, no target. Just you and the board.

  • Versus

    Two players, one phone. Take turns. Your own color is worth double to you. First to 2000 wins.

Six colors, six temperaments

Each one panics differently

Each has its own eyes, its own way of blinking, and its own way of panicking when you come for it. The six were chosen to stay easy to tell apart, including if you are color blind.

  • Blush
  • Sky
  • Yolk
  • Wisp
  • Mint
  • Berry

What is not in it

Nothing left down there but water

  • No ads

    Not a banner, not an interstitial, not a rewarded video. Nothing interrupts a game.

  • No in‑app purchases

    There is no shop. Nothing is locked behind a currency, and nothing is easier to win if you pay.

  • No account

    No sign-in, no profile, nothing to connect. Open the game and it is already yours.

  • No ad tracking

    No ads, so no advertising ID and no ad network watching you. Nothing about you is sold to anyone.

  • Plays offline

    Your scores and progress live on your device. Put the phone in airplane mode and nothing changes.

Ten pieces of music, written for this game. None of them loop, so none of them wear out. The rules are borrowed from a 1999 arcade puzzle classic, and they have not been watered down since.

Squish does send crash reports, so we can fix what breaks, and a report you write yourself if you use the in-game feedback button — that one includes what the game was doing when you wrote it. Both are covered in the privacy policy.