Crate Shove

Crate Shove is a warehouse at the end of a long shift. Somebody has chalked targets on the concrete, the crates are standing in the wrong places, and it is your job to walk them home before the foreman comes back. You play a forklift driver in a hard hat and a hi-vis vest, and you move one square at a time. Step into a crate and you shove it one square ahead of you. That is the only thing you can do to a crate: you can never pull one back, and you can never shove two at once.

That single rule is what turns a tidy job into a proper brain teaser. Push a crate into a corner and it stays in that corner for good. Push one flat against the racking and it can only slide along the wall. Fill the nearest chalk square first and you will find you have walled yourself out of the one behind it. The fix is always the same: stop, look at the whole floor, and work out which crate has to move first. Undo is unlimited and restart is one key away, so you are free to try a line, see it fail three moves later, and wind the whole thing back without losing anything but a few seconds.

There are forty hand-made floors across five aisles, from a Loading Bay that teaches you the shove in two moves to a Night Shift that will have you staring at five crates for a while. Every one of them was checked by a solver before it shipped, so there is always a way through. Each floor carries a par on moves, and beating it earns a star on the level select. There is also a daily run — one floor picked from the set by the date, the same board for everybody, a nice five minute sit-down with a coffee. Arrows or WASD on a keyboard, a swipe or a tap on a phone, and a move counter and a push counter along the top so you can see exactly how tidy your solution was.