Mochi Push

About Mochi Push

Mochi Push is a box-pushing puzzle in the Sokoban tradition. Each level is a small walled room scattered with crates and glowing target pads, and the goal is to seat every crate on a pad. The one rule that makes it a brain-teaser: your mochi can only push, never pull, and only one crate at a time - and only when the tile directly beyond the crate is empty. The instant the last crate clicks onto its pad the room is cleared, with a burst of confetti over every pad and three stars on the win card.

The twenty hand-built levels are grouped into five themed worlds of four levels each, and the order is also a tutorial. Sakura Meadow teaches plain walking and pushing; Sunny Beach piles on more crates and tighter corners; then the special tiles arrive. Mint Forest adds ice that sends a crate (or the mochi) skating in a straight line until a wall or another crate stops it. Ocean Deep introduces holes - push a crate into one and the crate is gone for good while the hole fills in to become solid floor - alongside one-way arrow tiles you can only enter from the matching direction. Starry Night combines everything with paired teleport pads that whisk the mochi to its twin, plus a key that opens a closed door.

Because you can push but not pull, a crate shoved off a pad into a wall corner is stuck for good. Mochi Push watches for exactly that: if an off-pad crate ends up boxed against walls or a closed door on two sides at once, a "Try Again" card pops up reading "A crate is stuck!" There is no timer and no move limit, though - the puzzle never punishes thinking time, and an unlimited Undo (it remembers up to 600 moves back) plus a one-tap Restart mean a tangle is never the end of the run.

Clear all twenty levels and an Endless run opens up past the curated set. Endless boards are generated by reverse construction - the maker places crates on their pads first, then drags everything backwards along legal pulls, so a forward solution is guaranteed to exist on every board. Endless keeps walls, several crates, and sliding ice in the mix, and its difficulty ramps: the first endless room lands around the toughness of curated level 20 and climbs from there toward a larger grid with more crates as your level number rises. It runs entirely in your browser with synthesized sound effects and no download.

How to play Mochi Push

1. Walk your mochi one tile at a time around the room. The board itself shows the goal - every glowing pad needs a crate on it.
2. Step into a crate to push it one tile in the direction you are facing. The tile right behind the crate has to be empty, and you can never push two crates in a row.
3. Work out the order before you shove. A crate driven into a corner with no open tile behind it can never be moved again, so plan around the tricky ones first.
4. Use the special tiles to your advantage: ride a crate across ice, fill a hole to make a shortcut, follow the arrows, take a teleport pad, or grab the key to open the door.
5. Slide the final crate onto the last empty pad to clear the room - you earn three stars and can press Next, or open the Levels grid to replay any world.
6. After level twenty, pick Endless from the Levels grid for an unlimited run of generated rooms that start hard and keep ramping up.

Controls

Tips & strategy

• Push corners first. Solve the crates nearest walls and corners early, while you still have room to approach them from every side; leave the open-floor crates for last.
• Never shove a crate against two walls at once unless it is already on its pad - that is the dead-stuck position the game flags with the "A crate is stuck!" card.
• On ice, a crate keeps sliding until a wall, a closed door, or another crate stops it. Trace the line of travel and find the blocker before you give it the first nudge.
• A crate that slides across ice straight into a hole still fills the hole and vanishes - so on icy hole levels, line up the slide carefully or you will lose a crate you needed.
• Holes are a trade: pushing a crate in costs you that crate but turns the hole into floor you can walk and push over. Count the pads first so you never sink a crate you cannot spare.
• Arrow tiles can only be entered from the way the arrow points - for both the mochi and a crate - so route your pushes to approach them from the correct side.
• Step onto one teleport pad and you reappear on its partner; use the pair to cross to pads you cannot otherwise reach, and grab the key early so the door is already open when you arrive.
• Undo is free and generous - experiment with a move, watch how a crate slides or where it stops, and step back without restarting the whole room.

Game features

• Twenty hand-built Sokoban rooms grouped into five themed worlds: Sakura Meadow, Sunny Beach, Mint Forest, Ocean Deep, and Starry Night.
• Push-only movement - one crate at a time, only into an empty tile - the rule that turns simple rooms into thinking puzzles.
• Five special tile types layered in across the worlds: sliding ice, swallowing holes, one-way arrows, paired teleport pads, and a key-and-door.
• Unlimited Undo that remembers up to 600 moves back, plus a one-tap Restart, so a wrong push is never a dead end.
• A built-in stuck detector that pops a friendly Try-Again card the moment a crate is corner-locked off its pad.
• An Endless mode of reverse-built, always-solvable rooms that ramp from curated-level-20 toughness toward bigger grids and more crates.
• Touch-first controls - flick, drag, or tap - that play identically to arrow keys or WASD on a desktop.
• Three stars for every level cleared, with unlocked levels and stars saved privately in your browser.
• Soft pastel worlds with their own colours and confetti, plus synthesized sound effects you can mute anytime.
• Opens straight into your highest unlocked level - no landing screen, no account, nothing to install.

Where The Finger Watches You Think

What sells Mochi Push is how little it raises its voice. The crates are not boxes but glossy pastel blobs, each dabbed with four small hearts and a sweep of gloss, and your mochi is a pink dumpling whose two dot eyes drift toward whichever way it walks and whose cheeks stay blushed. A shove resolves in about a tenth of a second with a quick squash and a low triangle-wave thunk; when a crate finally seats on a pad it picks up a white outline, a four-spoke sparkle, and a rising chime. The room never throws confetti at you mid-puzzle. It just warms a degree, which fits a board you are meant to sit inside and study.

The cleverest touch is one the game keeps quiet about until you need it. Stall on a board for five seconds, or shove a crate uselessly into a wall six times running, and a cartoon hand fades in and bobs over one off-pad crate, pointing at a single safe direction to push it. It only ever suggests a plain shove onto open floor or an empty pad, and it specifically refuses any push that would wedge the crate into a dead corner. It will not solve the level, and one tap or keypress dismisses it. That is a lifeline tuned for a stuck small child, not a walkthrough.

Control is unusually forgiving for a grid puzzle. You can flick a quick swipe to step once, hold and drag so the mochi keeps walking tile by tile as your finger crosses each tile width, or simply tap a far square and it takes one step toward it; arrows or WASD do the same. Z rewinds and R resets, and there is no timer and no move count anywhere on screen, just a single level pill. Undo holds up to six hundred steps, so the honest move is to try a push, watch a crate skid down a sheet of ice to wherever it stops, then quietly step it back.

The push-only rule means a crate cornered off its pad is gone for good, and the game watches for exactly that, popping a gentle Try Again card the instant one wedges. Across five themed worlds it layers ice slides, swallowing holes that fill into walkable floor, one-way arrows, paired teleporters, and a key and door, each world drifting with its own petals, rotating sun, rising bubbles, or twinkle. Clear all twenty hand-built rooms and an Endless run opens, built backwards from solved boards so every one is guaranteed solvable, starting near that final curated bite and growing into larger, busier grids.