StellarDuel

A freighter drifted dark for years before you found it. Its cargo bays are still full, the landing runes beneath the plating are still warm, and every deck needs clearing before the hold is yours.

StellarDuel is a match-three puzzle built around a single, focused idea: you have a limited number of pushes, and every one of them should count. Swap two neighbouring cargo pods to line up three or more of a kind. They lock together, vent off the deck, and everything above them drops into the gap — which is where the good runs come from, because those falling pods land in new matches of their own and the chain keeps going.

WHAT YOU GET
- 24 hand-built decks that grow from a quiet six-by-six shuttle bay to a nine-row hold split by sealed bulkheads.
- Four cargo types, each with its own silhouette and colour, so the board stays readable even when it is full.
- Etched rune plating that only burns away when you land a clear on top of it — a second objective that changes where you want your matches to happen.
- Sealed bulkheads that break gravity into separate columns, so pods do not fall the way you expect.
- Stars awarded against each deck's par move count. Finishing is easy; finishing clean is the real game.

TOOLS WHEN YOU NEED THEM
Embers are earned by securing decks, claiming the daily tribute, and unlocking commendations. Spend them mid-run on Scan to reveal a viable swap, Rewind to take back a push, Pulse to vent a whole three-by-three bay, or Reshuffle to rearrange the deck without spending a move. Reset is always free.

REFIT BETWEEN RUNS
The Forge holds four permanent upgrade tracks, three tiers each. Cargo Clamp buys extra moves on every deck. Signal Amp raises your score. Rune Primer starts each run with a free Pulse charge. Salvage Rig increases every ember payout. Refits stack, they persist, and they apply to the next deck you launch.

BUILT TO BE PLAYED ANYWHERE
StellarDuel is completely offline. No account, no sign-up, no ads, no in-app purchases, no analytics, no network calls at all. The release build requests zero permissions. Everything — your progress, your embers, your refits, your record — lives in a local database on your device and nowhere else. It works identically in airplane mode, on a plane, or underground.

MADE TO BE READABLE
Turn on pod shape badges to separate the four cargo types by silhouette rather than colour. Turn on reduced flash to damp the clear bursts, drifting dust, and idle motion. Confirm-large-spend and low-move warnings are on by default and can be switched off. The game follows your device language and never asks you to pick one.

No timers. No energy meters. No waiting. Open it, clear a deck, put it down.