Aurorahuskyden is a polar station of play that we coded and drew ourselves. Steer a growing trail across the snow, stack falling blocks in a frosty well, crack glacier walls with a snowball, match the station crew, rebuild Arctic paintings and slide scrambled tiles home. Nothing to install, and your bests stay on your device.
Kennel Trail is the game our crew reaches for when the kettle is still warming up. Steer a trail across a snowy grid, scoop up supplies, and grow longer with every bite without ever doubling back into yourself.
The movement glides rather than jerks, so turning a corner feels like leaning into a sled bend. Kibble bowls are the everyday snack, sled bells count for more, and the rare den badge is worth a proper detour. Classic mode keeps the fence up all round; the second mode lets the edges wrap you round to the far side, then scatters mammoth tusks across the snow as blockers. Every round asks the same question in a new way: how greedy can you be before your own tail boxes you in?
Each game here began as a scribble on the station whiteboard and was tuned until the whole crew stopped grumbling. Three of them keep your hands busy, three of them reward a patient eye. Read the cards, check the feel profile, and pick the one that suits tonight’s weather.
Crew favourite01Guide a trail that never stops moving across a snowy grid. Kibble bowls are worth one point, sled bells two, and the rare den badge five. Each bite stretches you longer. Stay inside the fence in Classic mode, or switch on wrap-around and weave between mammoth tusks frozen into the snow.
Deepest puzzle02Seven kinds of four-cell shapes tumble into a tall well, each block stamped with a station icon: mittens, bells, meltwater tubes, beakers and more. Rotate, slide, soft drop or slam down, keep one shape on hold, follow the ghost outline, and close rows before the pace rises every ten lines.
Twelve walls03Bounce a snowball off your paddle and chip through twelve handcrafted walls of ice bricks. Glacier heart bricks need two hits and glow after the first. Power-up bricks always release a wide paddle, twin snowballs or a slower pace. Clear a wall with lives to spare and earn up to three stars.
Family pick04The whole station crew hides face down under aurora-patterned card backs: Hank the bear lumberjack, Gus the walrus ice-fisher, Murray the moose in his bathrobe and nine more friends. Flip two at a time, remember who sat where, and climb six boards from a cosy 3×4 to a full 6×6.
Long evening05Eight Arctic paintings, from a moonlit sled run to a snow globe market, cut into 12, 24, 48 or 96 real jigsaw pieces with tabs and blanks. Drag pieces close and they click into place. Lift the edges first, hold Peek for a faint ghost of the picture, or shuffle the loose pile.
Big thinker06An Arctic painting is cut into a grid of tiles with one gap, then scrambled. Tap a tile in line with the gap, swipe, or use the arrow keys to slide it back. Choose 3×3, 4×4 or 5×5, switch tile numbers on if you like, hold Peek, and chase your fewest moves and fastest time.
Answer three quick questions about your mood and your minutes. The Doc scribbles a few notes, peers over those round spectacles, and points you to the game that fits.
We are a handful of people who make small games, and every one in the den is our own code and our own art. A short set of field rules travels with us from the first sketch to the final round of testing, and they shape how each game treats you.
What you earn depends on what you do: the corners you turn, the rows you close, the bounces you aim and the pairs you remember. Randomness only arranges the board, such as the next falling shape or a fresh shuffle of tiles. It never hands out a surprise reward. Points, stars and personal bests are the entire story here.
Best scores, unlocked levels and finished pictures are written quietly into your own browser. There is no account to create and no password to forget. Come back on the same device after a long weekend and the den remembers which glacier walls you cleared, which pictures you rebuilt and how many stars you collected.
Each game starts friendly and grows teeth slowly. The pairs boards widen one step at a time, the falling blocks speed up only every ten lines, and the slide puzzle tells you its star targets before your first move. We replay everything ourselves until tricky feels fair, never mean, and we cut anything that feels like a trick.
Aurorahuskyden is a passion project from a small crew who enjoy building tidy, cheerful games. The pages stay clean, each game loads straight onto its stage, and nothing interrupts you between rounds. We put our hours into the moment a well-aimed snowball clears a wall or a last tile slides home, and we keep the station quiet so that moment arrives without fuss.
Some nights call for quick paws, others for a slow, careful look. Here is how the den sorts itself by mood.
Kennel Trail hands you a trail that never stops moving and a field of supplies to collect. Every bite makes you longer, every corner matters more, and the wrap-around mode adds tusks to weave between.
Kennel Trail →stackerPermafrost Stack drops seven kinds of four-cell shapes into a tall, icy well. Rotate, hold one back for later, follow the ghost outline, and close full rows before the pace picks up every ten lines.
Permafrost Stack →bouncerGlacier Crack gives you a paddle, a snowball and twelve walls of ice bricks. Glacier hearts need two hits, power-up bricks always deliver, and three lives decide how many stars you take home.
Glacier Crack →recallerStation Roll Call lays the whole cast face down: a bear lumberjack, a walrus ice-fisher, a moose in a bathrobe and more. Find every pair in as few flips as you can across six growing boards.
Station Roll Call →rebuilderPolar Pieces cuts eight Arctic paintings into 12, 24, 48 or 96 curvy pieces. Lift the edges first, hold Peek for a ghost of the picture, and listen for the click as each piece settles.
Polar Pieces →plannerFrostpane Slide scrambles a painting into a grid of tiles with one gap. Push tiles back into order on a 3×3, 4×4 or 5×5 board, switch numbers on if you like, and chase the fewest moves.
Frostpane Slide →GuidePolar Pieces and Frostpane Slide use the same eight paintings, yet they exercise completely different parts of the mind. Here is how to get the most from each.
GuideThree of our games keep your hands busy. They look different, but they reward the same few habits. These are the ones our best players share.
We did, as a small studio. All six games are our own JavaScript, drawn and tuned in house, and the penguin, the huskies, the station crew and the painted Arctic scenes all belong to the den. You will notice the same faces turning up in different places, from Gus the walrus on a pairs card to the glacier hearts glowing inside the breaker walls.
Nothing at all. Every game opens right in the page and plays in a modern browser on a computer, tablet or phone. Choose a game, press the Play button on its start screen and you are off. Fullscreen and restart buttons sit above the stage whenever you want them, and the page stays put while you play.
Your bests, unlocked levels and stars live in your own browser on the device you play on. There is no sign-up. Clearing browser data, or picking up a different device, starts a fresh logbook, so think of each phone or laptop as its own notebook full of field results from the station.
Yes. Each game page has a sound toggle above the stage. With it on, the games make short, soft synthesized blips for matches, bounces, cleared rows and finished pictures. With it off, everything plays exactly the same in silence, which is how a lot of people enjoy them on a late train or beside a sleeping house.
They are built for the whole family. The characters are friendly animals in warm winter clothes, nothing here is scary, and the controls are simple. Younger players usually start with the first board of Station Roll Call or a 12-piece Polar Pieces jigsaw, then move on to the 3×3 slide puzzle once they are curious for more.
All six adapt to narrow screens. Kennel Trail and Permafrost Stack both answer to swipes, and the stack game adds big on-screen buttons for left, right, rotate, down and drop. Glacier Crack follows your finger. The 96-piece jigsaw is happiest on a larger screen, simply because the loose pieces need room to spread out.
We are always sketching new ideas on the whiteboard. For now we would rather polish these six until they shine than rush a seventh, so expect small refinements first. If you have an idea for an Arctic game, or a picture you would love to see cut into tiles, the contact page reaches us directly.
Six games, no installs, and every best score tucked safely into your own device. Choose one, press Play, and let the northern lights do the rest.