Ashline

ASHLINE

The town burned. The water mains did not.

Lay fire hose from a queue of random pieces, open the hydrant, and route the water through every burning home's front door before it reaches an open end. Each house your water reaches rises from the ashes: colour sweeps up its walls, grass grows back along the hose, and the family walks back outside.

A revival of a forgotten DOS-era genre: the 1989 "lay the pipe before the water comes" puzzle (Pipe Mania / Pipe Dream), which was everywhere for a few years and then went quiet.

HOW IT WORKS

- Click a square to lay the NEXT piece. You can't pick or rotate pieces.

- When the timer hits zero the water follows your hose. Reach every glowing doorway.

- Water puts out fire next to it. On later streets fire spreads and burns dry hose.

- Click a dry piece to swap it (it costs points). Six streets, and you can retry any street.

CONTROLS

Mouse: click to lay hose · Right-click or F: open the hydrant early, then rush the water

Keyboard: arrows/WASD + Space · R restart street · P pause · M mute

Made for Revival Jam 2026 (theme: "Rise from the ashes"; modifier: "The Embers Remember", reviving a 1989 genre).

CREDITS

Made by Clovrr Studios

Art: Modern Exteriors by LimeZu (https://limezu.itch.io/modernexteriors)

Fonts: Bungee (David Jonathan Ross) and VT323 (Peter Hull), Google Fonts, OFL

Inspired by Pipe Mania / Pipe Dream (The Assembly Line, 1989)