Coming soon to the App Store
A free crab block puzzle for iPhone
Tap an order and little crabs carry the matching blocks home. 100 levels from Easy to Extreme, with no timer.
Want to play before launch? Become a beta tester
You choose the orders. They do the walking.
A dark glass tablet on the lagoon floor holds a picture made of glossy colored blocks.
Tap the front order of a queue and it drops into one of your five pockets.
Crabs hop out to pull free the matching blocks they can reach and carry them home to the burrow.
Every block you take opens a path to the next, so the order you pick matters.
Clear every block to win a cheering crab celebration and gold coins, but fill every pocket with colors the crabs cannot reach and you are out of room.
Rubber duck puzzle in play
100 levels in five tiers, from gentle Easy boards to Extreme. Every board is a picture made of glossy blocks, such as a strawberry, a rubber duck, an owl, a lighthouse and a mermaid, and every level is checked to be winnable and graded by hand. There is no timer, so think as long as you like.
Orders joined by a bar must load together, so you need room for both.
A padlocked order waits for its key block before it can load.
Masked orders keep their color secret until they reach the front of the queue.
Put back a pod
Send a loaded order back to the front of its queue.
Shuffle orders
Mix up the orders that are waiting in line.
Clear a color
Clear one color's remaining blocks and orders.
Make room
Out of room? Spend coins on one more pocket and carry on.
Real screens from Little Way Home on iPhone: three of the picture puzzles, the win celebration, the home screen and the Daily page.
Sneak peeks
Real clips from the build our beta testers are playing right now. The lagoon is getting busy.
Picture puzzles
Pick an order and the crabs hop out, pull the matching blocks they can reach off the picture and carry them home, one block at a time. This is Chameleon Disco, one of the Extreme boards.
New boss rounds
He is grumpy, crimson and very good at puzzles. Take him on round by round, win a badge for every round and never spend a heart trying. Just when his board looks clear, a treasure chest bursts open and he is back, furious. Beat him and he slams down his crown and storms off.
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Every crab has its own look and its own moves. Here is the beach crew, and how to make each one yours.
Yours from day one
The coral crab everyone starts with. He holds up your next level, blinks, grins and plays when you tap him.
Win 5 King Crab rounds
A shimmering rainbow crab and the King Crab's prize. Beat any five of his rounds and she is yours.
500,000 blocks in a season
Gold laurels and a number 1 medal he loves to show off. Collect 500,000 blocks in one season to win him.
Keep a 30 day streak
Frosted pink with sprinkles on top. Play 30 days in a row and the party comes to you.
October's crab
His shell is a pumpkin. Tap it and he grows a fresh one, harvests it and carries it home.
The crabs are never quite still. Keep an eye on them between moves.
Every win gets a dance, picked from 15. Sometimes the crabs build a tower.
Sometimes one floats off on a bubble and a friend pulls him back down.
Stop to think and a crab pops out to see what is taking so long.
Or one drifts down in a bubble, looks around and dashes home.
Hearts, gold coins, a free daily clam and a crab to call your own, all on a calm, sunlit lagoon floor.
Earn badges as you clear levels, keep a daily streak and collect blocks, then wear your favorite on your crab. Sign in to Game Center if you like, for the worldwide Blocks Collected leaderboard and five achievements. The game plays the same without it.
Explorer, 10 levels
Explorer, 25 levels
Explorer, 100 levels
Daily Flame, 7 days
Collector, 10K blocks
Extreme Master
Champion, top 10
Season Star, 125K
Clear 25 Levels
7 Day Streak
Collect 10,000 Blocks
Clear an Extreme Level
Clear 100 Levels
Beta testing on TestFlight
Little Way Home is in beta testing on TestFlight, Apple's app for trying games before they launch. Brandon at CalTech Web invites testers by email, so join the list and tell us a little about you.
Quick answers on the launch, the price, your device and how to play.
Version 1.0 is with Apple for review now, and it goes live on the App Store as soon as Apple approves it. Leave your email and we will let you know the moment it is out.
Little Way Home is free to download and play.
Little Way Home is made for iPhone and needs iOS 17 or later. It is available in every App Store country and region except China mainland.
Tap an order from the front of a queue and it drops into one of your five pockets. Crabs hop out to carry the matching blocks they can reach home to the burrow. Clear the whole tablet to win, and choose carefully, because the order you pick matters.
No. There is no timer, so you can think as long as you like.
Each level is played on a heart. Clear the level and the heart comes straight back, and spent hearts refill over time, one every 30 minutes, up to five.
Coming soon to the App Store
Little Way Home is with Apple for review now. Leave your email and we will tell you the moment it is out.
