The scales are crooked and nobody is allowed to touch the blocks. Good thing you brought a magnifying glass that works in both directions.

Counterweight is a physics puzzle about the word "scale" you scale blocks up and down to balance the scales they sit on. Grow a block and it gets heavier. Shrink it and it gets lighter, the beams do the rest.

How to plays

Scroll up on a block to grow it. Scroll down to shrink it. That is the whole interface: no dragging, no throwing, mouse only. Every level shows its target above each beam (hold it level, or tip it left or right), and you win by holding every beam on target for two steady seconds. On screen buttons cover reset and menu; R and Esc do the same if you prefer keys.

The catch

Each level hands you a budget of size steps. Growing spends them, shrinking refunds them, and the later puzzles will not let you max everything. Materials change the math: stone outweighs wood at the same size, metal outweighs both, glass refuses to grow past medium and shatters under too much load, explosives detonate when overloaded, and the aliens are guests. Guests cannot be resized. Balance around them.

Ten levels, three medals

Every level times you from your first scroll and grades the solve: Gold for beating the time par and the budget par, Silver for one of the two, Bronze for getting there at all. Bests are saved per level, and the level select shows your medal shelf. The finale is one giant contraption with three beams that all have to settle at once.

Made in the Kenney Jam 2026 window

Built during the Kenney Jam 2026 weekend (theme: SCALE) under the jam's constraints: every sprite, font, and sound is by Kenney, and the game is mouse only.

Credits

• Art, fonts, and audio: Kenney (Physics Assets, Kenney Fonts, Interface Sounds, Impact Sounds, Music Loops), licensed CC0. Kenney Jam splash and logo art by Kenney.
• Design and code: N00bKoder.
• Engine: Godot 4.7 (MIT license).