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Red Square widget for Windows

Move the red square, avoid the blue ones, survive as long as you can. Adjust the enemy count and difficulty to set how long that actually is. A sixty-second distraction that lives on your dashboard rather than in a browser tab you will forget to close.

Free · Windows 10 and 11 · No account required

Red Square
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Best 31.2s
Avoid the blue squares

The real Red Square widget, running live. Drag it around.

What it’s for

What Red Square is good for

The everyday jobs this widget was built to handle.

Take a genuine sixty-second break

Chase a high score between tasks

Tune the difficulty from gentle to unfair

Settings

Every Red Square setting

6 options, set per widget - so two copies of Red Square on the same dashboard can behave completely differently. Highlighted values are the defaults.

Show high score

OnOff

Show timer

OnOff

Show history

OnOff

History count

51015

Enemy count

468

Difficulty

easynormalhard
Setup

Getting Red Square on your desktop

  1. 01

    Install

    Download and run the installer. No account, no sign-in.

  2. 02

    Add the widget

    Hit Add Widget, or press Ctrl+K and search for it by name.

  3. 03

    Make it yours

    Drag it where you want, resize it, and set the options below.

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