Arrow Digger Online
- Plays on
- Desktop · Phone · Tablet
- Price
- Free · no download · no sign-up
Arrow Digger is a 3D block puzzle. A figure is built out of small cubes, and each cube carries a single arrow. Tap it and the cube shoots out of the figure in that direction — but only if the whole line ahead of it is empty. If you have played Tap Away 3D, Block Away or Cube Away, the rule reads in one tap. What is different is where the arrow lives: it is painted on the side of the cube, not on top, and only one side of six carries it. The arrow you need is often facing away from you, or buried under a neighbour that has not been dug out yet.
The figure is a solid built from cubes, and the arrow on each one points straight out of one of its faces. Removing is unforgiving in a good way: the cube travels in a straight line until it leaves the shape, and anything on that line stops it — a neighbour, or a wall of the figure ten cells further on. Nothing is random about which cube is stuck; the answer is always visible, if you look from the right side.
There is exactly one arrow per cube, and it is never duplicated onto the other faces. That single choice is what makes the game about turning the figure rather than scanning it once: an arrow can be pressed flat against a neighbour and stay invisible until that neighbour is gone. The layouts are built so that every arrow does become visible before its cube is needed — usually just a move or two before, so the shape has to be re-read after each tap.
Three hundred levels, and every one of them is a different figure — blocks, stairs, pyramids, frames, tubes, rings, a Menger sponge, a gyroid, and procedurally grown lumps that are mirrored across one, two or three axes so they read as designed rather than random. They run from eight cubes to three hundred and fifty, and the arrows are laid out so that only a handful of cubes are ever free at once: this is a game about finding the one that can move, not about picking from twenty that can.
Every fifth level drops the colours and goes monochrome — white with black arrows, then black with white, alternating. On the colour levels the tint of a cube tells you its direction, which is a real hint; on the monochrome ones there is no hint at all and only the arrow itself will tell you.
How to play Arrow Digger
Take the figure apart, one cube at a time:
- Drag to spin the figure — the arrow you want is often on the far side.
- Tap a cube to send it out along its arrow. It leaves the figure and is gone.
- If it bumps back, something is on its path; the blocking cube flashes.
- Clear that one first, then come back. Empty the figure and the level is done.
- Three misses and the level restarts, so look before you tap.
Tips for Arrow Digger
- Spin first, tap second. A figure opens on the side facing you, but the cube that can actually move is often behind it.
- A cube with no arrow in sight is not broken — its arrow is pressed against a neighbour. Dig the neighbour out and the arrow appears.
- The arrow points out of the face it is drawn beside, not along it. Look at which side of the cube it sits on.
- On colour levels the tint gives the direction away: red is one axis, blue another. On the monochrome levels every fifth level, that crutch is gone.
- When several cubes look free, prefer the one whose path crosses the most of the figure — it opens the most for the moves after it.
Who made Arrow Digger?
Arrow Digger was built by crokocat game studio in 2026 — a from-scratch browser take on the tap-away family, with one arrow per cube, three hundred generated figures that never repeat a shape, and a daily puzzle rebuilt from the date so everyone gets the same one.
About this game
- Controls
- Drag anywhere to spin the figure, pinch or scroll to zoom. Tap a cube to send it flying along the arrow drawn on its side. If anything stands on that line — even one cube, even far away — it will not move and bumps back instead, and the cube that blocked it lights up so you can see why. Every miss costs one of your three lives.
- Supported devices
- desktop, phone, tablet
- Developer
- crokocat
- Genre
- Puzzle
- Release date
- August 2026
- Latest update
- August 2026
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Frequently asked questions
Is Arrow Digger free to play?
Yes. Arrow Digger is free on crokocat with no download and no sign-up — it runs entirely in your browser, on desktop, phone or tablet.
How is it different from Tap Away 3D or Block Away?
The family is the same: tap a block, it slides out along its arrow if the path is clear. What is different here is that each cube carries exactly one arrow, on one of its four side faces, and the level is built so that arrow only becomes visible shortly before you need it. That turns the game from scanning a static picture into re-reading the figure after every move.
How is it different from Arrow Cube?
Arrow Cube paints arrows across the surface and they travel along the faces. In Arrow Digger the arrow points straight out of the figure and the whole cube leaves. Same portal, different puzzle.
How many levels are there?
Three hundred, and every one is a different figure — from an eight-cube block to a three-hundred-and-fifty-cube lump. Past the last level the campaign keeps going: it laps onto its final hundred with the arrows laid out afresh each lap.
What is the Daily Puzzle?
One figure a day, built from the date, so everyone in the world gets the same one and a new one tomorrow. The strip under the button keeps a record of the days you solved this week.
Do I lose progress if I do not sign in?
No. Progress is saved in this browser either way. Signing in keeps it across devices — the campaign level you reached and whether today's daily is done.
Guides & tips
- Arrow escape puzzle games explained: one rule, endless boards
- Arrow Cube: finding the order that clears the whole cube
- Tap away puzzles: how to read a 3D block figure before you tap
- Best 3D block and color puzzle games you can play free
- Bus Jam guide: how to clear levels without jamming the queue
- Digging games like Core Drill: where to go after the core
- Go Arrows: how to clear the board and reveal the picture
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