Leap and Avoid 2

The pitch

Controls & how it runs

The new legendary adventure of the white ball! This time there are even more caves and even more laboratory levels. New mechanics, great sound and a nice visual design are all in the new "Leap and Avoid 2" game! The innovation is coins and secret passages. There are secret paths leading to coins all over the world. Collect coins to get nice bonuses in the form of an acceleration of the ball and shield for one touch with hazards! The more coins you collect, the higher your place in the leaderboard will be. Compete with your friends and find all the hidden coins! How to play: Your goal is to get through all hazards in your way to escape! To do this, move to the right, jumping on white platforms and dodging black platforms. Sometimes you will need to move to the left to jump to the exit or to the hidden paths. Desktop controls: ─ Arrows (←) (→) left and right or "A" and "D" ─ ball movement; ─ "R" button ─ restart; ─ "ESC" button ─ toggle pause; ─ "LEFT MOUSE BUTTON" ─ control buttons in the menu. Mobile controls: ─ Tap the right and left half of the screen to move the ball; ─ Tap the buttons in the menu to press them.

Getting a run going takes exactly one press: Press start, up top, and the game boots inside this page — nothing downloads in the background and no form wants your details before the first jump. The cabinet is drawn for a landscape (wide) screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. This cabinet runs wide: landscape screens flatter it, so tip a phone on its side or hand it a tablet or desktop and let it stretch out. Given a fullscreen button, use it — scores look better at full size, that's just science.

Pro tips for arcade cabinets

Treat your first run as a scouting mission. Arcade cabinets hide their cruelty in the second minute, not the first — learn where the difficulty spikes before you start chasing numbers.
Small scores compound. Grab the easy pickups on every pass instead of gambling the whole run on one heroic line; heroes respawn, banked points don't evaporate.
Watch the edges of the screen. In classic arcade design the next problem almost always enters from somewhere you weren't looking — build the habit of scanning the borders.

Leap and Avoid 2 — quick-fire questions

Does Leap and Avoid 2 cost anything to play?

Not a token. The cabinet is free from the first run to the five-hundredth — no wallet, no sign-up, no toll booth hiding three levels in. The adverts around the page are what keep the floor's lights on.

What sort of game is Leap and Avoid 2?

It stands on our Arcade row — that's the family it plays most like. The pitch above is the publisher's own rundown of what it throws at you and what it hands back.

Can I play Leap and Avoid 2 on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. This cabinet runs wide: landscape screens flatter it, so tip a phone on its side or hand it a tablet or desktop and let it stretch out.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Leap and Avoid 2 is an HTML5 game: hit the start button and it boots on this page, and shutting the tab sweeps the cabinet clean behind you.

Before you wander off

Personal best banked, or still chasing it? Either way the full Arcade row is powered on and waiting — The main floor: 415 cabinets of pure arcade stock — the quick, the loud and the gloriously unfair. If it beeps, flashes and dares you to beat a number, it lives on this row.