Cinderhaul
Haul · Build · Overrun
The game loads when you press play.
- Free
- No ads
- No account needed
- No install — plays in your browser
About the game
Unfold your Rig, work the cinder crystal, and drive a rival company out of the basin.
Cinderhaul is a complete real-time strategy game that runs from a single offline file. Unfold your Rig into a Depot, raise a Generator and a Smelter, and put Haulers on the cinder crystal — each full trip is worth 700 credits. Spend it on a Foundry, roll out Ironback tanks, and clear the rival company out of the basin. Credits are drawn down as a building rises, so you can start a job short and let it wait; hold a card to pause it and hold again for a full refund. A built-in Map Editor lets you paint your own basin — terrain, crystal fields, both start positions — and fight on it, with a Rules tab for starting credits, crystal regrowth, fog, rival behaviour and game speed.
How to play
- Tap your blue Rig, then tap it again. It unfolds into your Depot, and build cards appear at the bottom.
- Build a Generator for power, then a Smelter. The Smelter comes with a Hauler that mines the orange crystal on its own. Every full load pays 700 credits.
- Tap a card to start building; credits are spent as it builds. When the card says 'Ready to place', tap it again, then tap open ground. Hold a card to pause; hold again to cancel and get your credits back.
- Build a Foundry, then Ironback tanks. Tap All to select every tank, then tap a red enemy to attack. Tap empty ground to move. Lose everything and the basin is lost.
Controls
| Touch | Drag the map to look around, or tap the minimap. Box: drag to select a group. Repair or Sell, then tap a building. |
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| Mouse | The mouse works like touch: click to select and give orders, and drag the ground to pan the map. |
| Keyboard | Arrow keys pan the map; Esc or P pauses and M mutes; R repairs, S sells, B box-selects, A selects every combat unit; Ctrl+0–9 saves a group, 0–9 recalls it. |
| Gamepad | Gamepad: the left stick moves a cursor, A taps, B cancels, Y selects every tank. |
