The boss does not wait for your move. You weave patterns against a closing window, read what he puts on the board, and answer it in the right colour before it lands. No energy, no ads, no power for sale — what you earn, you earn by playing.
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It looks like a match-3. It plays like a boss fight. The board is the battlefield, and every rule below exists to make a move mean something.
Your first move opens a Weave. Every move after it has to extend the pattern, and the window to do so shrinks each time. Five stones forge a special; let go too early and you get less, hold on too long and the boss acts while you are still thinking.
The boss puts states on your stones — a Threat with a clock, an Infection that rots, ice that locks, a tear in the board. Each shows the colour that answers it and how many stones it costs. Pay in full and it is gone. Fall short and the shortfall comes for you.
Every stone you weave pays its pool. A full pool is a button: a strike, a heal, a block, a few seconds bought back. What you can do is always readable off the board — there is no second screen to check.
Skill points come from challenges — things you do anyway while learning — and cap at fifty for everyone. No loot boxes, no boosters, no energy, no daily logins. When the ladder ends in an endless fight, the only difference between players is how well they play.
One figure, one room, five forms. Each one teaches a word before it combines it with the ones you already know. There is no victory screen between them — it comes apart and the next form is standing where it stood, and you are still on the board.
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Every colour on the board has a path in the tree, and every path has the same shape: a root that opens it, three branches off the root, a trunk that climbs through Power to the path's own idea and its charge. A rune carries no word. Tap it and it tells you what it is, what it does, and what it costs.
This is an alpha: the fight is in, the ladder is in, the tutorial is in. Some of what makes it a finished game is not. If you play it and tell us what you found, you are part of how it gets there.
What is in: five bosses in one arena, each with an entrance, a way of standing there, a wind-up to every strike and a transformation into the next; the full board with specials and every threat; five pool actions that burn when they are full and land as a gash, as lightning or as a flash; the skill tree as sixty runes and the rewards that pay for it; a table of your own runs; a tutorial; a pause.
What is not yet: a global leaderboard, sound beyond stand-ins for a good many cues, and the balance is still moving. The score is real, and your phone keeps it, but it is not ranked against anyone yet.
Version 0.3 · alpha · built from the current main branch.
The APK is signed by Spooner Games. It asks for no permissions and sends nothing anywhere.
Echoes of Avarin is a private indie project, made by one person at Spooner Games. Everything you see — the bosses, the board, the sound — is paid for out of one pocket and, if you choose, by you. None of it will ever be paid for by ads.
The most useful thing right now. A move that felt wrong, a threat you could not read, a fight that was too easy — that is exactly what the alpha is for.
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The game is the developer's. The idea, the rules — the closing window, the priced threats, the pools as buttons, the ladder of five forms — the bosses and what each of them does, the world, the words on the board, and every decision about how it should feel were conceived, designed and written by Falko Löffler at Spooner Games, and are set down in a design document that predates any picture.
Much of what you see and hear was produced with AI tools. The boss scenes and their animated shots, the stones, the HUD art, the key art, the music and the sound stand-ins, the trailer's title cards, and parts of the text on this page were generated with generative AI, from the developer's briefs — then selected, redone, edited, cut and put together by him. Nothing here was published as it came out of a tool.
The code was written in dialogue with an AI assistant, directed and reviewed by the developer, against the design document and a test suite that holds every rule.
Disclosed in line with the transparency obligations of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 50).