Keel: Listing

A balance puzzle that starts you in trouble. The ship begins with a permanent lean, so instead of merely staying level you must actively counter-load: drop and clear cargo on the high side to drag the deck back toward upright while the imbalance keeps trying to pull you over.

• Start the round already listing to one side
• Load cargo onto the high side to counter the lean
• Clear lines to keep the hold workable
• Recover toward level, let the list grow and you capsize

• Desktop: Left/Right arrows move, Up rotates, Down soft-drops, Space hard-drops
• Phone & tablet: swipe to move, tap to rotate, swipe down to drop

• Deliberately overload the raised side early to fight the lean
• Don't over-correct, flipping the list the other way is just as deadly
• Keep clearing on the heavy side to shed weight as you straighten up

A Keel variant that starts where the others end badly: the ship is already heeled over, and the job is to load it back to level.

That inverts the family's usual shape. The other modes are about preserving a good state; this one is about recovering from a bad one, using the same cargo that caused the problem.

It also flips the instinct. Loading more onto a listing ship feels wrong, and is exactly the solution — correcting a list means adding weight to the high side, which no amount of caution will suggest to you.

Keel: Listing is an original arcade puzzle that turns the falling-block balance mechanic into a comeback challenge, a free browser game in the Keel series.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.