Marble Shooter

Fire pumpkin-faced marbles into a chain rolling through a Halloween graveyard: match three to clear a stretch, chain the gaps together, and keep the head of the train out of the crypt at the end of the route.

🎃 Marble Shooter: Stop the Chain Before It Reaches the Crypt

Marble Shooter is a match-three game where the board refuses to stay still. A line of pumpkin-faced marbles rolls along a track through a Halloween graveyard, and you sit at a cauldron that pivots on the spot, feeding new marbles into that moving line. Match three of the same colour and they vanish. Fail for long enough and the front of the chain rolls into the skull-faced crypt at the end of the route.

The publisher's art for this one is titled Pumpkin Hollow, and the theme is carried through everything: jack-o'-lantern marbles, a black cat watching the cauldron, gravestones, candles and a full moon doing the lighting. It is a Halloween game first and a puzzle game second, which is the right order for a game with this much atmosphere.

Everything else rests on one pressure. The chain is both your puzzle and your timer.

🎯 How a Shot Works

Move the mouse and the cauldron swings around its base; left click fires the loaded marble. Where it lands is where it matters — the clearing rule is simple, but the placement rule is where the score comes from.

The shot nobody thinks of first is the one aimed at a gap: pick two clusters that share a colour and fire into the space between them. Aim into that gap and the two ends eventually meet, joining into one match that takes the complete stretch with them. That is the difference between a level you survive and a level you clear with the progress bar still climbing.

If the loaded colour is wrong, right click swaps it with the reserve marble. Holding a good colour for two shots later is often better than firing it now.

🕹️ Adventure and Survive

Adventure mode runs stage by stage. The yellow bar at the top is the objective: fill it and new marbles stop being fed into the track, at which point the job turns into clearing what is already there before the head of the chain reaches the crypt. Each stage you clear opens different tracks and maps.

Survive mode is the harder, endless-flavoured side of the same idea, spread across 20 maps with a rank ladder behind it — Rabbit, then Eagle, then Jaguar, then Sun God. There is no stage boundary to reach; you keep the chain clear for as long as you can and the rank follows.

💥 The Four Power-Ups

The four cover different emergencies, so the skill is knowing which one the situation is. A chain about to reach the crypt wants Backwards or Slow Down. A tangled section with no matching colour anywhere in reach wants the Bomb. Accuracy is the one to use before a hard shot rather than after it.

Gold coins sit behind gaps in the track itself. Shooting through one is a free bonus, and it costs nothing but a slightly braver angle.

🎮 Controls

💡 Tips That Save Runs

• Clear near the end first. The marbles closest to the crypt are the ones that will end the run; a chain elsewhere can wait.
• Look one colour ahead. Fire with the next marble in mind, not this one — the launcher reloads faster than you can rethink.
• Use the swap early. A reserve marble sitting unused for a whole stage is a shot you paid for and did not take.
• Snipe the connecting gap. Firing between two same-coloured groups beats a direct match almost every time, because it clears the chain that was in the middle.
• Hold the power-ups for structure, not panic. Timing one to break a genuinely stuck section is worth more than firing it at the first awkward moment.