Volcano Tamer

The game

Pressure vents bubble up the slopes of an obsidian volcano, each puffing a stack of lava bubbles that tells you which stone it needs. Plug the right vent with the right-sized stone at the right moment and the mountain keeps simmering; miss the timing or bring the wrong rock and the pressure ring keeps climbing toward an eruption. Every eruption that gets through costs a heart and buries a house in your village — survive all six waves to tame the mountain. Rendered in chunky pixel-arcade style: black obsidian blocks, animated lava glow, ember particles and heart-shaped lives.

How to play

• A vent grows a square pressure ring — click / tap the vent while the ring is inside its white target band to drop a stone and seal it (dead-centre hits flash PERFECT! for bonus points).
• The vent's bubble stack shows the stone size it wants; press 1, 2 or 3 (or tap the stone buttons under the canvas) to pick the matching stone before you tap.
• Wrong size, too soon or too late bounces the stone off, resets your combo and nudges the pressure up — score builds with stone size, timing precision, wave number and combo streak.
• Each wave demands a quota of plugs (shown top-centre); clear it and the village rebuilds before the next, harder wave with faster-pressurising vents.
• An eruption you let through costs one of your 3 hearts and destroys a house — at zero hearts the village is buried. Press P or Esc to pause, Enter or click to start and retry.