The twist that makes Global Swipe Puzzle tick is that one swipe moves everything. Slide, and every free polyomino shifts together, so the challenge is choreographing a whole board at once until each colored piece lands on its matching striped target. It scratches the same itch as a good sliding puzzle, then adds a layer of group-think on top.

Across 25 handcrafted portrait levels the designers keep introducing new friction — broken floors that swallow pieces, neutral blockers that clutter your lanes, and one-way gates that only let you through in a single direction. Because moves are shared, a route that frees one piece can just as easily strand another, and untangling that is the real puzzle.

It plays comfortably however you like: swipe with mouse or touch, or steer with the arrow keys or WASD, with Z to undo a misstep, R to restart, and P or Esc for the pause and level-select menu. A free, no-download brain-teaser — and there are more puzzle games when you clear it.