Obby Ultimate Parkour

The pitch

Run a giant obby course above the ocean! Five worlds (Rainbow Meadow, Lava Volcano, Candy Land, Ice Peaks and the Sky Tower) and 50 stages of jumps, lava, spinners, trampolines, conveyors, vanishing blocks and moving platforms. Every stage ends with a checkpoint flag, so a fall sends you back only to the last one. The big challenge is the Color Floor: a color lights up over the field, and a few seconds later every tile of another color drops into the water. Swinging hammers, blinking lasers, falling platforms, boost pads and wind fans keep every zone different, and secret coin chests hide off the path. Bot runners race next to you: they fall, cheer at checkpoints and chat. Collect coins and unlock mythic brainrot skins, the 67 skin, hats, wings, pets and trails. Claim a daily gift and spin the fortune wheel every day.

Controls & how it runs

Goal: climb through all 50 stages and reach the finish on top of the Sky Tower. Desktop: WASD or arrow keys to run, Space to jump, hold a mouse button and drag to turn the camera, mouse wheel to zoom, P or Esc to pause. Mobile: the left side of the screen is the joystick, swipe on the right side to turn the camera, tap the button to jump. Lava, water, hammers and lasers send you back to your last checkpoint flag. On the Color Floor, stand on the color shown at the top of the screen before the other tiles fall.

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.

Obby Ultimate Parkour — quick-fire questions

Does Obby Ultimate Parkour 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 Obby Ultimate Parkour?

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 Obby Ultimate Parkour 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. Obby Ultimate Parkour 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.