MAL88Astra

MAL88Astra is a vertical timed match-elimination puzzle mobile game that places same-color linking, gravity falling, and timed survival on the same board. Players face a rune array of ten columns and fourteen rows. They swipe with a finger across adjacent same-color cells up, down, left, and right to form a continuous path; connecting two or more eliminates them and scores one point. After elimination, runes in the same column immediately fall downward, and the empty spaces are filled with new runes. The board reorganizes instantly, so the next link must be reassessed. At the start, there are only four colors; every three points accumulated adds one more color, up to eight, leaving fewer and fewer available paths. The countdown is only three seconds, and only a successful elimination refills the time; if no valid elimination is completed within three seconds, the round ends immediately. Connecting only one rune and releasing does not score and triggers a brief vibration alert. During a match, you can pause, restart, or return to the main menu, and the all-time high score is recorded separately. The controls are swipe-only, and the rules are clear at a glance, but you must carve out the next same-color path on a board that keeps changing colors and falling—easy to pick up, yet it heavily tests observation and trade-offs.