Block Hole

Block Hole hands you the least likely protagonist in gaming: a hole in the ground. You slide around a blocky 3D city swallowing everything that will fit, and every object you eat makes you wider - so the thing that would not fit a second ago suddenly does. It is the hole.io formula with real 3D buildings that lean and topple into you, and three ways to play it.

The progression is the whole hook. Cones and bins go down first, then benches, pedestrians, trees, cars, buses, houses, office towers, and finally the two landmarks that crown every district. A small bar under your hole names the next thing you will be able to eat and fills as you grow, and the moment you get there the screen tells you - NOW YOU CAN EAT CARS. Every rival carries its name and size, with a red up-arrow if it can eat you and a green down-arrow if you can eat it, and a tall building between you and the camera turns see-through so you never lose your own hole behind it. There are no upgrades to buy and no stats to grind: every hole at the table starts the same size, and the only thing that decides the round is what you swallow and who you avoid.

CLASSIC is the standard round: two minutes, eight holes, highest score wins. Get swallowed by a bigger hole and you come back small, and the hole that ate you takes 30% of your score - a stun, not an elimination. BATTLE is the elimination mode: sixteen holes and a hole that gets eaten is out for good. After the first hundred seconds a red ring closes in from the edge of the city, and a hole caught outside it shrinks, loses score as fast as it loses size, and is knocked out if it stays there, so every Battle ends in a few minutes. The round ends when one hole is left, or when you are the one who gets eaten - the card tells you which place you finished. SOLO RUN puts you alone in the city for two minutes and scores you on how much of it you ate, as a percentage.

In Classic and Battle every hole at the table plays by the same rules - same city, same events, same starting size - and a round always starts on the spot.

Mid-round events keep rewriting the rules. GOLD RUSH doubles every value on the board. RUSH HOUR floods the streets with traffic. BLACKOUT kills the lights so you hunt by the glow of your own ring. TREMOR shakes buildings loose so you can swallow things well above your usual size limit. The last twenty seconds of any timed round are a FEEDING FRENZY where everything is worth double.

Every round also comes with one small goal in the corner of the screen - eat 15 things, eat 3 cars, eat a bus, later swallow rivals, reach a score or grow to a size - and finishing it adds 15 XP. What you keep between rounds is cosmetic and earned. Every finished round gives XP toward your level - placing well, swallowing rivals or eating more of the city earns more, and your first round of the day counts double - and six two-tone ring skins unlock at levels 3, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 15. Three shaped skins change the mouth itself: Chomper grows teeth after 25 swallowed rivals, Vortex spins a spiral after 10 completed round goals, and Portal glows from level 10. Six more skins unlock through achievements - finish first in Classic, swallow eight rivals in one round, eat 55% of the city in Solo Run, win a Battle or swallow two landmarks. Two extra districts, the tower-heavy Downtown Core and the traffic-heavy Sunset Docks, unlock the same way: score 5,000 in a Classic round, or eat 40% of the city in Solo Run.

WASD or arrow keys to move. You can also hold left-click and steer toward the cursor. On touch, put your thumb down anywhere and drag: the stick appears under your thumb and the hole follows the direction you drag. P pauses. The game opens straight into a Classic round and the clock starts with it. Until you first move, a strip under your hole switches between Classic, Battle, Solo Run and Online, and the ring button next to it opens your skins and districts.