How to Play Rope Swing Games · Beginner Guide

One-button swinging plus drag-to-pump. Learn the basics in 3 minutes, then unlock all 11 physics tricks.

Basic Controls

Hold (anywhere on screen / Space): fire your rope at the best lantern and latch on.
Drag sideways: pump momentum while swinging — the faster you go, the higher you swing.
Drag up / down: reel the rope in to climb and store energy, or let it out to soften a fall.
Release: launch into a parabolic flight. Letting go near the top of the arc flies farthest.
R restart, Esc home, M toggles ambient music.

Release timing: let go as you swing up-and-forward near the peak. Too early and you slap a building; too late and you swing back.
Pump rhythm: drag forward from the bottom of each swing — two or three passes and you'll swing over the anchor.
Reel to store energy: drag up at the top to shorten the rope and turn swing height into speed, then let it back out down low. This is the core distance technique.
Dive rescue: when falling fast, holding relaxes the grab rules so you can catch a lower lantern and save the run.

Trick	How to trigger	Points
Near miss	Graze a rooftop edge at high speed	35
Gainer flip	Rotate your velocity 270° in free flight	60
Glide	Fly a stretch without grabbing	40
Orbit	Full circle around an anchor on a short rope	90
Big loop	Full circle on a long rope	200
Pendulum	8 clean half-swings back and forth	80
Double kill	Smash two drones within 0.7s	100
Stratosphere	Release the rope at high altitude	60
Ground rush	Sustain high speed near the ground for 0.7s	90
Dodge / close call	Skim past a hazard	20–40
Style full	Chain tricks to fill the style meter — 4s coin-vacuum boost	—

In Trick Rush mode, chaining tricks within 5 seconds multiplies score ×2–×4; big tricks trigger a slow-mo highlight.

Endless: the classic full-system run — distance is score.
Daily: one seeded map worldwide plus a mutator of the day (jetstream / heavy / barrage / jungle).
Trick Rush: 60s of low gravity and dense anchors with chain multipliers.
Pure Distance: a pursuit missile shadows you the whole run — keep your speed or die; loop back to shake it.
Coin Rush: 60s coin fever with streak multipliers up to ×5.

Missiles: red screen-edge warnings — keep speed and loop to shake them.
Laser fences: dashed lines are the warning; be gone before the beam turns solid.
Spinners & lightning: stay clear of dashed circles and red strike columns in storm zones.
Interceptor boss: ram its red core at speed (>520) three times for +200m. It telegraphs a horizontal sweep with a dashed line — move up or down after it locks to dodge.
Lantern variants: red spring lanterns launch you on grab; fading lanterns force a release after 2.5s.

Daily missions: three worldwide missions a day (coins / tricks / distance), progress carries across runs, +30 coins each.
Ghost racing: beat your best and a translucent ghost of that run races beside you next time.
Share cards: every run exports an S/A/B/C ranked card with a challenge link — friends enter your exact map.