Skyscraper run

Skyscraper Run puts a helmet, a cape and a city in trouble together, then never lets the running stop. Your hero moves along the side of one building after another, and the only thing you decide is when to jump across to the next one.

What keeps it interesting is that the villains are not all the same. Some go down without slowing you, others are built to take more than one pass, and they arrive mixed in with the obstacles rather than politely spaced out. Two modes sit on top of that: a normal run for learning the rhythm of the rooftops, and an extreme one for when the normal gaps have stopped feeling like gaps at all.

How to play

Your hero runs on his own, so everything comes down to timing a jump. Touch the screen to leap from one skyscraper to the one facing it, and use those jumps to slip past obstacles and enemies rather than meeting them head on. Some villains are hardier than others, so learn which ones you can pass and which need room. Pick the normal mode until the gaps read easily, then move up to extreme.

Controls

A touch is the only input. Tap the screen to send the hero from the wall he is running on to the building facing it; there is nothing to steer and no way to slow down. On a computer, a mouse click stands in for the tap.