pluvia

Pluvia’s main target is to gain the highest score by keeping a steady growing pile of stones from reaching the top of the screen.
In a Pluvia game, stones of different color drop from above onto each other to form gradually a heap that will eventually reach the top of the screen and end the game. Each stone that drops into the game screen increments the score one point.
Whenever two or more stones of the same colour land on top of each other, they vanish and leave space for more stones to drop.
Whenever two or more stones of the same colour land beside each other, they glue to each other and form a bar. Bars are very annoying and you will end up trying to avoid them.
Each time some stones have dropped into the game screen, you can interact with the heap; You can click on one of the stones with the left or right mouse button to push it to the left or right. The stone will move into that direction as long as there is room, pushing any other stones with along with it.
This way you can heap stones of same colour on top of each other to make room.
If you do not want to move any stone, you can press the space key to force new stones to drop.
You can exit any game using the escape button and selecting ‘Exit’ in the ‘Game Menu’. You can always continue such a game.

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You can click on one of the stones with the left mouse button to push it to the left.

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If you do not want to move any stone, you can press the space key to force new stones to drop

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You can click on one of the stones with the right mouse button to push it to the right.

Bird

is the mode for beginners that will help learn the tactics necessary to reach higher scores in the other modes.
In a bird game up to 3 stones can drop simultaneously into the game screen the size of 4×9 stones. There exist stones of only 6 different colors.
Each bird game starts with a score count of -4×9 = -36.

Rabbit

is complex and fast.
Only up to 2 stones can drop simultaneously into the game screen the size of 4×12 stones. There exist stones of 8 different colors, making it less likely to find a match.
Each rabbit game starts with a score count of -4×12 = -48.

Turtle

is the mode for people that have time. A good turtle player can spend hours in one game.#E5E9EC
Same as in the Bird mode up to 3 stones can drop simultaneously into a game screen size of 5×13 stones. There exist stones of 8 different colors, making it less likely to find a match.
Each turtle game starts with a score count of -5×13 = -65.

Dragon

is the mode for the expert. Different than in all the other modes, a Dragon game can be won. The game starts with a game screen full of stones. You win the game if you can reduce the stone heap height to only one row. The score reflects the minimum heap size you accomplished. A score of 60 is in this case the maximum you can reach. If you win the game, you will be awarded with a symbolic total score of 100.
Same as in the Turtle mode up to 3 stones can drop simultaneously into the game screen the size of 5×13 stones. There exist stones of 8 different colors.
Needless to mention, that it is very difficult to win a Dragon game. Only Pluvia experts will ever reach this goal.

Get Pluvia

Pluvia is free and open source. you can download it for Windows 10 or higher operating system.

At the moment pluvia ships as a zip archive including a Amazon Corretto java 11 jdk. All you need to do, is extract the archive to any folder and then start pluvia.bat.