MaMills

MaMills is a 4×4×4 spatial tic-tac-toe with gravity-stacked drops - vertical sticks, four-in-a-row in any direction wins. This game is a tribute to my late Grandmother (aka Mami), who I used to play this game with. I loved it then, and I love it now; I hope you find some joy in it too! ❤️ This is a cozy puzzle game that I hope you enjoy as much as I do. Four-in-a-row, but the board goes up too MaMills is a calm, controller-first board game. You drop coloured cylinders onto a 4×4 grid of vertical sticks, gravity stacks them, and the first player to line up four wins. Because the pieces stack, every stick is also a column, every row of sticks is also a plane, and a line can run corner to corner straight through the cube. Sixteen sticks, sixty-four places, seventy-six ways to win. I learned it from my grandmother, Mami. It is an old rule set that people have played for generations. This is that game, made digital, with a clear layout to be comfortable to play. How a match goes - Pick a stick, drop a cylinder. A beam and a ghost piece show exactly where it will land. Four pieces fill a stick. - Four in a row wins. Rows, columns, vertical stacks, plane diagonals and the four cube diagonals all count, on every level. 76 lines in total. - Rotate the board, or lock the angle. Orbit freely to read a position from any side, or freeze the camera and play from the view you like. - Hint shows every live threat. One press rims the opponent's three-in-a-rows and marks the stick that blocks each one. Block it, or race it. - Undo, pause, walk away. Take the last move back, pause any time, and a match you leave is waiting on the main menu when you come back. Four ways to play - The Machine – five levels from Beginner to Expert. Beginner leaves room to learn; Expert does not. - Hotseat – two players on one device. Pass the controller or the Steam Deck back and forth. - LAN – two devices on the same network, each with its own screen. One hosts, the other joins; no Steam account required for either. - Remote Play Together – invite a Steam friend and play over the internet. They do not need to own the game. Learn it in a few minutes A short story-driven tutorial teaches the rules inside a real board, one control at a time, and ends on a card of the four winning shapes. A six-puzzle ladder follows: one-move positions that train you to see wins and blocks across rows, stacks and diagonals. Make it yours - Four palettes – Classic red and blue, Violet, a colour-blind-safe blue and orange, and Gold & Silver, which unlocks when you beat Expert. - Eight drop sounds – pick the one you like, from a soft bop to glass and cherry. A background track you can turn down or off. - Two loading screens – a tumbling cube of cylinders, or the windmill with cylinder sails. - Your controls – full keyboard and gamepad rebinding. Every action shows its button on screen, and the glyphs follow whatever you are holding. Accessibility - Patterned cylinders – stripes on one side, dots on the other, so colour is never the only cue. - Text size from 85% to 130%, applied to every label and button. - Reduce motion, opaque backgrounds behind every dialog, mono audio, adjustable drop speed, and an optional X, Y, Z readout of the highlighted stick. - English and Hungarian interface. There is no speech, so nothing to dub. Built for Steam Deck Designed and tested on the Deck from the first day: controller-first, readable at the Deck's native resolution, and safe to suspend mid-match. It plays just as well on the desktop with a keyboard and mouse or any gamepad. On Steam - 21 achievements – 15 you can see coming and 6 hidden ones for the sneaky lines. - Lifetime statistics and three leaderboards: longest win streak, total wins against the Machine, and fewest placements to beat Expert. - Steam Cloud keeps your settings and progress with you between machines. One price, the whole game.