Soup Drop
Drop & Merge
About Soup Drop
Soup Drop starts with an empty pot and a very patient grandmother. You drop vegetables in from the top, one at a time. When two of the same vegetable touch, they merge into the next one up the chain: two peas make a radish, two radishes make a carrot coin, and so on all the way to a giant pumpkin that hogs half the pot.
Everything in the pot has weight. Vegetables roll, settle, lean on each other and sometimes shuffle into a merge you never planned. That is the charm of a drop and merge game: you are half strategist, half someone nudging a pile of produce and hoping for the best.
The catch is the red rim line. If the pile stays above it for two seconds, dinner is served whether you like it or not. Grandma takes a spoonful and rates your soup with a one-liner that can land anywhere from polite concern to proud tears. “A brave little broth” is not the review you want.
How to play
- Aim the vegetable in your hand along the top of the pot. A dashed line shows exactly where it will land.
- Drop it and let it roll and settle in the soup.
- When two identical vegetables touch, they merge into the next one up the chain and you score points.
- The chain goes pea, radish, carrot coin, tomato, onion, beetroot, cabbage and finally the giant pumpkin. Two giant pumpkins make a Pumpkin feast and both vanish.
- Watch the red rim line. It pulses when the pile gets close, and if anything stays above it for two seconds, the soup is served.
- Grandma tastes your soup and gives her verdict based on your score.
Controls
| Input | What it does |
|---|---|
| Touch | Drag left or right to aim the vegetable |
| Touch | Lift your finger to drop it into the pot |
| Mouse | Move the mouse to aim the vegetable |
| Mouse | Click to drop it into the pot |
| Keyboard | Left and Right arrows, or A and D, to aim |
| Keyboard | Space or Down arrow to drop |
| Keyboard | M mutes, P or Esc pauses, F goes fullscreen |
Tips
- Keep your biggest vegetables at the bottom and to one side, so smaller ones line up next to their twins.
- Drop a new vegetable beside its match rather than on top of something bigger, where it can get stranded.
- Check the Next vegetable before you drop, and leave a gap where it will fit.
- When the rim line starts to pulse, look for one merge that frees space instead of dropping anywhere.
- Merges low in the pot shift everything above them, which can set off a chain of further merges.
FAQ
Is Soup Drop free to play?
Yes. It is free in your browser, with nothing to download and no account to make. There are occasional ads between rounds, plus one optional ad per round if you want Grandma to scoop out some vegetables and let you keep cooking.
Can I play it on my phone?
Yes. It is designed for a phone held upright. On a computer it plays in a tall frame in the middle of the page.
How is the score calculated?
Every merge scores points, and each step up the chain is worth twice the one before it. Grandma's verdict is based on your final score.
What does Grandma's ladle do?
When the soup is served, you can watch one short ad and Grandma scoops out the highest vegetables, so you keep your score and keep cooking. Once per pot.
Does it save my best score?
Your best score is kept in your browser's local storage on that device. There is no account, so a different browser or device starts from zero.
Is there a daily challenge?
No. Every pot is a fresh game, so you can cook as many rounds as you like. The leaderboard shows the best soups of today and of all time.
Design notes
We love games where physics does some of the storytelling. A merge that happens because a radish rolled the wrong way feels like a small kitchen accident, and that is funnier than a tidy grid. Soup gave us a reason for the pot, the rising pile and the ending: somebody has to eat this. Grandma's verdicts turn the game-over screen into a punchline instead of a punishment. We kept every vegetable a simple round shape so the physics stays fair and runs smoothly on phones, and we narrowed the pot during testing so that careful drops beat careless ones.
Changelog
- Released: the eight-vegetable chain, Pumpkin feasts, the rim warning and Grandma's verdicts.
- Game page published. The game is in development.
