Stretch Buddies

🎮 Overview

What makes Stretch Buddies stand out?

Stretch Buddies is a cheerful 3D voxel puzzle game about two friends who can only win together. Tall is a pink block three squares high who cannot walk: it moves by toppling over, falling flat, standing up at the far end or rolling sideways. Tiny is a little yellow cube on stubby legs that walks one square at a time, climbs one block up, pushes crates and holds down buttons. Each level is a small island of grassy blocks in a bright blue sea, with a pink pad for Tall and a yellow pad for Tiny. Neither buddy can reach its pad alone: Tall lies across the water as a bridge for Tiny, stands up as a ladder so Tiny can climb to high ground, and Tiny opens the way with crates and buttons. There are 50 levels across five worlds, from a sunny garden and golden dunes to a candy island, a frozen bay and a neon night.

Game Rules

You move one buddy at a time and can switch between them whenever you like. Tall tips over one quarter turn with every move: standing up it falls flat across three squares, lying down it stands up at the far end or rolls to the side. It never tips up onto higher ground, and if it ends up hanging over an edge or in the water, it falls into the sea. Tiny walks one square at a time, steps up one block at most, drops down any height, pushes a crate if the square behind it is free, and can climb a standing Tall to reach its top. A button raises its wooden bridge while something stands on it, and a low bar only lets something one block tall pass underneath. The level is cleared when Tall stands upright on the pink pad and Tiny is on the yellow pad. Gold rings are an optional bonus. Every level has a best number of moves: match it for three stars, stay close for two, and any clear earns at least one.

🕹 How to play Stretch Buddies?

Step-by-step to play Stretch Buddies:

1. Tap Play. The first levels show you what to tap with a pointing hand.
2. Tap one of the green squares around the selected buddy to move there, or swipe, or use the arrow keys or W A S D.
3. Tap the other buddy, or press SWAP, to switch who you are moving.
4. Topple Tall across gaps to make a bridge, or stand it next to a wall as a ladder for Tiny.
5. Push crates and hold buttons with Tiny to open new paths. Made a mistake? Tap Undo or Restart.
6. Get Tall standing on the pink pad and Tiny on the yellow pad to clear the level and collect your stars.

Tips for mastering Stretch Buddies:

- Look at where both pads are before you move, then plan which buddy has to go first.
- Tall covers three squares when it lies down, so it can reach much further than it looks.
- Tall can only go down, never up. Save the high ground for Tiny.
- A crate pushed into the water becomes a step Tiny can walk on.
- A buddy standing on a button keeps the bridge up for the other one.
- Stuck? Use Hint and the square for the next move lights up in yellow.

❓ FAQs

Q: Is Stretch Buddies free to play?
A: Yes. It runs in the browser with no download and no install, on a phone or a computer.

Q: How many levels are there?
A: 50, in five worlds. The first ones teach one idea at a time, and every level has been checked to have a solution that needs both buddies.

Q: What if I get stuck?
A: Tap Undo as many times as you need, or Restart the level. Hint shows the next move from exactly where you are after a short ad.

Q: Is my progress saved?
A: Yes. Your unlocked levels, stars and rings are kept on your device, and when you are signed in the levels you clear go to the leaderboard.

🏆 Conclusion

Stretch, swap and solve your way across 50 bright little islands. Stretch Buddies turns two unlikely friends and a handful of blocks into clever, satisfying puzzles that are easy to start and hard to put down.