Log Flyer: Grandpa Takes Off

The pitch

Build a flying log and send Grandpa soaring across a snowy mountain valley! Launch from a ramp, balance your flight, and earn coins to upgrade the nose cone, wings, engine, fuel tank, and ramp. Complete permanent missions, unlock colorful paint jobs and pilot titles, meet a startled eagle, and reach the village to earn a cheerful piglet copilot. The village is not the finish line: keep flying and chase your best single-flight distance on the SCORE leaderboard. Includes English and Russian text and voice acting.

Controls & how it runs

Press Let's Fly to launch. On desktop, hold W or Up Arrow to raise the nose, S or Down Arrow to lower it, and Space to run the installed engine. Release Space to glide and save fuel. On mobile, hold the round up and down buttons on the left to steer, and hold the engine button on the right for thrust. Earn coins after each flight, buy and equip upgrades in the workshop, and fly farther. Reach the village at 6 km, then continue toward a new distance record. An optional video reward in the workshop grants 300 coins only after a completed ad. Open Settings for sound, language, and control instructions.

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 flexible screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture. 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.

Log Flyer: Grandpa Takes Off — quick-fire questions

Does Log Flyer: Grandpa Takes Off 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 Log Flyer: Grandpa Takes Off?

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 Log Flyer: Grandpa Takes Off on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Log Flyer: Grandpa Takes Off 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.