Wheat Stack

Wheat Stack is a tactile sorting arcade set entirely on the working floor of a wooden grain elevator. Sheaves of wheat tumble from the loft conveyor and you decide their fate before they hit the boards. Drag a clean, ripe sheaf into the right-hand Kernel Silo, drag a chaffed, husk-tangled sheaf into the left-hand Chaff Vault, and keep the threshline moving. A live Throughput gauge climbs back up between rounds and dips with each miscarriage of a sheaf, so a careless drop slows the cascade until you earn the speed back through accuracy. A 60-second harvest round folds into a Stormgust bonus segment every third level. During Stormgust the sheaves drift sideways on the wind, the spawn rate doubles and every correct route pays triple, but the timer shortens so panic is part of the choreography. The Cogworth Upgrade Bay lets you spend kernel coins on four mechanical improvements that change how the round actually behaves: Sortspeed Hone softens the throughput penalty for slip-ups, Auto Sweep installs a mechanical broom that auto-routes the lowest sheaf for you on a cooldown, Bunker Maw widens the bunker mouths so drops land truer, and Twine Twist introduces golden-bound sheaves that are worth double when sorted correctly. Sprites and stage art lean into the Wheat Stack aesthetic with a warm palette of kernel gold, ripe amber, burned honey and saddle husk. The storm overlay is painted on the fly with drifting dust streaks rather than a video loop, so every gust looks slightly different. The interface adapts to any screen: phones get a stacked single-column layout, wider tablets get a two-column lobby and a three-column upgrade grid, landscape arenas trim the HUD and bin heights so the falling field stays generous. All input is pointer-driven drag and drop, with no virtual joystick or menu chains in the way of the wheat.