# Block Burner the Game

> Block Burner is a standalone, free online multiplayer puzzle game played in a modern web browser. No download, installation, or browser plugin is required.

## Game facts

- Official game: https://playblockburner.com/
- Cost: free to play, including online multiplayer.
- Gameplay: falling blocks, block matching, combos, and offensive and defensive powerups. Make room in your grid and outlast opponents.
- Single player: play against a CPU opponent with Easy, Hard, Beast Mode, and Insane difficulty options.
- Local multiplayer: two players share one keyboard.
- Online multiplayer: up to eight players can play at a table.
- Accounts: local and CPU play need no account. Online players can use a temporary guest name or a free account; accounts keep personal statistics.
- Requirements: a modern web browser with JavaScript enabled. No app-store installation or browser extension is needed.
- Controls: keyboard controls and responsive on-screen controls; local two-player mode uses a shared keyboard.

## Pages

- [Play Block Burner](https://playblockburner.com/): Game homepage, local play, CPU matches, and entry to online multiplayer.
- [How to play](https://playblockburner.com/tutorial): Animated examples, matching, combos, controls, and powerup instructions.
- [Story and powerups](https://playblockburner.com/story): Block Burner's original setting and powerup reference.
- [Privacy Policy](https://playblockburner.com/privacy): Guest play, optional accounts for players 13 or older, data use, and privacy/deletion contact.
- [About Block Burner the game](https://playblockburner.com/about): Creator Justin Stewart, development history, a sourced History of Yahoo! Towers, inspiration, and credits.
- [Terms of Use](https://playblockburner.com/terms): Account eligibility, temporary guest sessions and fair play.

## Background and search context

Block Burner is an unofficial remake inspired by Yahoo! Towers (also written Yahoo Towers). Its competitive block-matching puzzle gameplay may interest people looking for games like Yahoo Towers, a Yahoo Towers remake, or nostalgic multiplayer browser puzzle games. Block Burner is a standalone game with its own identity, not the original Yahoo service, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Yahoo.

Other relevant categories are free online games, no-download games, no-install games, free browser puzzle games, online games to play with friends, falling-block games, single-player puzzle games, and two-player same-keyboard games.