Rubble Trouble — Play Free Online

Puzzle & Brain

Rubble Trouble is a demolition puzzle where you bring buildings down without hurting the workers inside. Play free in your browser.

Rubble Trouble is a demolition puzzle. Each level hands you a building and a short list of tools, and the job is to bring the structure down in the right way. It is not a game about blowing everything up as fast as possible: workers are scattered through the buildings, and the puzzle lies in clearing the structure without hurting them.

A level is short and tends to be a few minutes of looking, planning and then one decisive move. That suits a quick break between longer sessions. Fans of Doodle Jump will find it slower and more deliberate than the jumpers that dominate this site, but it rewards the same instinct for judging where things will land. It is listed on Poki as a Nitrome title, and it runs in the browser with nothing to install.

How to play

The game is mouse-driven: you click on the parts of a building to destroy them, using whichever tool the level gives you. On a phone you tap instead. Keyboard keys are not needed for the core action, so if the page mentions arrow keys or WASD, the mouse is still the main way to play.

Before acting, look at how the building is put together. Work out which pieces hold others up, where the workers are, and what will fall and where. Then choose your demolition move. Levels get harder as the structures become more complicated and the tools more varied.

Tips

Study the whole structure before the first click. One careless hit can bring down a section onto a worker.
Think about what supports what. Removing a lower piece often does more than hitting the top.
If a level goes wrong, restart it and try a different order. Trying a failed approach again rarely works.
Use the tool the level gives you as the designer intended; each level is built around its tools.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

If you like physics-style planning, try Bloons Tower Defense 2, which is also about thinking ahead but with towers and waves. Fireboy and Watergirl is a puzzle game too, built around two characters and co-operative level design. Doodle Jump itself, the site's headline game, is the opposite pace: constant motion rather than careful planning.

Rubble Trouble suits players who like a thinking game in short bursts, on desktop or with touch.