Cliff Flip

Cliff Flip is a free cliff diving game you can play online, right in your browser. Your diver stands on the edge of a sandstone cliff above a turquoise sea at sunset. One tap sends them flying, holding down tucks them into a tight ball that spins fast, and letting go stretches them out so the spin slows down. The goal of every dive is the same as in real high diving: count your flips in the air and hit the water dead straight, head first or feet first, for a clean rip entry with barely a splash. Get the angle wrong and it is a belly flop or a back slap.

Each dive starts with the power arrow. It pulses from a short, steep hop to a long, flat leap, and the moment you tap decides where you land. The deep water is marked by a ring of red and white buoys: tap too early and you come down on the rocks at the foot of the cliff, too late and you sail onto the coral reef beyond. Then the dive itself takes over. Hold to tuck and watch the big flip counter beside your diver tick up as it happens, half a flip at a time, then let go a moment before you are upright or upside down, because a stretched body still turns a little on the way down. Enter the water still tucked and it is a cannonball, not a rip.

Every dive is a little harder than the last. The spots climb from a 9 metre ledge to 30 metre towers, and they change as you go: bouncy springboards, a plank swinging from a timber crane, kicker ramps that throw you into a faster spin, back dives where your diver faces the cliff and every flip is a back flip, and boats that motor across the pool just when you want to land there. The power arrow speeds up and the ring of buoys gets narrower, so the take-off becomes a timing challenge of its own.

Scoring rewards ambition. More flips are worth much more: a plain dive is 50 points, one and a half flips 300, three flips 1,050. A rip multiplies the dive by one and a half, a clean entry keeps it, and a splash halves it. Land in the middle of the buoys for a bullseye bonus, and chain clean entries for a combo multiplier that climbs all the way to triple points. A belly flop, the rocks, the reef or a boat costs one of your three lives. Endless mode keeps the dives coming until the lives are gone, and a 90-second version of the same cliffs is one of the games The Daily can deal you. Every run is verified by replaying your inputs, so the leaderboards are fair.

Cliff Flip is a true one button game: tap or hold anywhere on a phone or tablet, use the left mouse button, or press and hold Space, Enter or the arrow keys on a keyboard (P pauses). It plays just as well on mobile as on PC, with nothing to install, like all of our free online games with no download. If you like it, try our other sports games, one-button games, timing games and jumping games; a run takes a few minutes, which also makes it one of our quick games and a good fit for our keyboard games on a laptop.