Streamer Simulator: Phone Challenge!

The pitch

«Streamer Simulator: Phone Challenge!» – a thrilling arcade experience! Perform kick-flips, spin your phone 360°, and chain insane combos to wow your audience. Follow the live chat and see your fans react in real-time! Rack up likes to unlock new phones, from vintage bricks to the latest foldables. Master your reflexes, agility, and rhythm. Battle your friends and claim the crown as the ultimate hype master!

Controls & how it runs

Flick the phone with your foot by dragging and holding the left mouse button or your finger across the screen. Each successful trick earns you likes, the number of which depends on your viewers. Your combo adds one like per trick. If the player hits the phone without completing a combo, the combo counter resets. To change your name, tap the pencil icon on the in-game phone screen next to your nickname. To open the settings, select "Settings" or pull down the panel.

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 portrait (upright) screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. This cabinet stands tall: it was built for portrait screens, so a phone held upright gives it the frame it wants — though it will squeeze politely into any window. 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.

Streamer Simulator: Phone Challenge! — quick-fire questions

Does Streamer Simulator: Phone Challenge! 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 Streamer Simulator: Phone Challenge!?

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 Streamer Simulator: Phone Challenge! on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. This cabinet stands tall: it was built for portrait screens, so a phone held upright gives it the frame it wants — though it will squeeze politely into any window.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Streamer Simulator: Phone Challenge! 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.