Gravity Games
About Gravity Games
In most games gravity is simply there, pulling everything down. In gravity games it is the thing you play with. The best-known kind is the gravity flip: instead of jumping, you switch which way is down, so your runner falls up to the ceiling and back down to the floor. Other gravity games hand you a planet's pull and ask you to use it, swinging from one orbit to the next. Either way the controls are tiny, often a single tap, and all the skill is in when you press.
Upside Run is our gravity flip runner. A courier sprints along a space-station corridor on their own, one tap sends them falling up to the ceiling and another drops them back to the floor. Be on the other side when a gap or a strip of spikes passes, flip away from a striped wall before the Warden, a violet robot with a grabbing claw, catches up with you, and hop between floating ledges and short islands in the open sections. You can only flip from a surface, so every flip is a committed arc, and the run gets faster every five seconds. Orbit Hop uses gravity the other way round: your rocket circles a planet, you tap to let go, and if you timed it right the next planet's gravity catches it and swings it into a new orbit, through asteroid belts and past forks that lead to gold planets.
Both games play free in your browser with no download: tap anywhere on a phone, or click or press Space on a computer. Each run is endless, with no clock, and a 90-second version of each is one of the games The Daily can deal. For more one-tap games, see the one-button games and timing games. Upside Run is also one of our endless runner games and platform games, and Orbit Hop one of our space games.
Frequently asked questions
What is a gravity flip game?
A game where you do not jump: you reverse gravity, so your character falls up to the ceiling or back down to the floor. Upside Run is one, and its whole control is a single tap that flips gravity.
Can I flip gravity in mid-air in Upside Run?
No. You can only flip while standing on the floor, the ceiling or a ledge, or in the split second after running off an edge. If you tap in the air just before landing, the flip happens the moment you touch down.
How does Orbit Hop use gravity?
Your rocket circles a planet, and when you tap it flies off along its orbit. Time it to reach the next planet and that planet's gravity catches the rocket and swings it into a new orbit, ready for the next hop.
Can I play gravity games on my phone?
Yes. Both are one-tap games: tap anywhere on the screen. On a computer, click or press Space or Enter instead.