Rolling In Gears

The pitch

Rolling In Gears is an engaging puzzle physics platformer game where you control a ball navigating through a series of mechanical challenges. The game’s main mechanic revolves around rotating gears and moving platforms to guide the ball towards its target destination. Players need to carefully maneuver through the levels, using precision and timing to overcome obstacles and reach the end of each stage.

Controls & how it runs

Desktop: Use A/D or Left/Right arrow keys to rotate the gears Mobile: Use the buttons to Rotate Left/Right

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 physics cabinets

• Let go earlier than feels right. Physics cabinets punish the held input: most arcs improve the moment you stop steering and let momentum finish your sentence.
• Use the scenery as a teammate. Walls, ramps and swinging wreckage are free aim correction — a bounce you planned beats a straight line you forced.
• Fail upward on purpose. Drop things, tip things, collapse things: in a physics sandbox the wreckage shows you the rules faster than the tutorial ever will.

Rolling In Gears — quick-fire questions

Does Rolling In Gears 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 Rolling In Gears?

It stands on our Physics 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 Rolling In Gears 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. Rolling In Gears 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 Physics row is powered on and waiting — Gravity is the house rule here: 112 cabinets built on bounce, tilt, swing and collapse. Physics games reward the player who experiments first and aims second.