Canabalt

Infinite runners are a dime a dozen today, but [b]Canabalt[/b] is still special, with those grayscale graphics - so simple and “elegant” - and that music that never gets tiring as you try and make the little guy or girl jump, and jump, and jump, escaping those War of the Worlds style titans for as long as possible before the inevitable doom. It’s a game you can’t define by “duration”, just by interest in picking it up and trying to beat your record time once, twice, maybe even ten tries before moving on until the next day. The 3D mode is not bad, as it is still quite simple and doesn’t add useless details that would have ruined the overall style, but I still prefer to stick with 2D. Much better are the additions of other music tracks and several modes that change up the original mix-and-match of obstacles, with runs focused on only one: boxes, giant robot legs, bombs, even none of the above, or “Leap of Faith”, which features invisible buildings whose presence is only signaled by the birds.

addictive, fun, atmospheric