Spillshot

Spillshot is a fairground knockdown game in 3D. A table stands in front of you stacked with big glass jars — honey, strawberry jam, paint, milk, orange juice — with soda cans, bottles and crates among them, and you knock it all off. Touch where you want to hit, the dotted line shows where the shot will go, and let go to fire. Shots are generous: the game is about the smash, not about scraping through.

Everything spills what is inside it. Honey falls in slow golden globs, juice goes up in a bright spray, paint and jam splash wide and stay on the table and the sand. A can you hit sprays its soda and spins away on the jet; crates splinter, stone crumbles, TNT takes its neighbours with it and gift boxes burst into coins. The physics is real rigid-body physics, so a wall of jars comes down the way a wall of jars would.

You start with a slingshot and buy the rest with the coins you win: a cork rifle that fires two corks dead straight, a bowling launcher heavy enough to shove crates off the table, and the cannon. Triple rounds split in the air for a bigger mess. If your launcher is weaker than a level expects, that level gives you extra shots.

A thousand levels in fifty chapters, across five fairgrounds — a meadow fair with a ferris wheel, a beach boardwalk, a harvest fair, a winter market and a night carnival — each in daylight, golden hour and evening. Jars come big, small and tall; every tenth table is a boss, a giraffe, a castle, a robot or a rocket built of crates with jars on its back. Later tables turn, slide and carry shelf racks. Every level was played by a bot in the same physics before it shipped. There is a daily table that is the same for everyone, where everyone fires the cannon, a daily gift, and it plays upright or sideways in five languages. Progress stays in your browser.