Flappy Flyer is a free one tap game in the style of Flappy Bird that you can play online right in your browser. Tap to flap, fall when you stop, and squeeze your little bird through the gaps between the pipes. Each run lasts seconds, and you will want one more try straight away.
Your bird stays in the same spot on the left of the screen while pairs of pipes scroll towards you from the right. Each pair has one gap. Every tap gives the bird a quick upward flap, and between taps gravity pulls it back down. Fly through the gap and you score a point.
Touching anything ends the run at once. That means a pipe, the ground, and also the top of the screen, so you cannot escape over the pipes by flapping too high. When you crash, the bird tumbles to the ground and your score card appears. Tap again and you are flying in a second.
On a computer, press Space or Enter, or click the mouse, to flap. Press P or Escape to pause, and the same key to carry on. The game pauses itself if you switch to another tab, so a phone call or a quick chat will not cost you a good run.
On a phone or tablet, tap anywhere on the screen to flap. There is no swipe or hold. After a crash, a tap on the screen starts a fresh run.
- Space, Enter, click or tap: flap
- P or Escape: pause and resume
- Tap or Space after a crash: play again
You get one point for every pair of pipes you pass. There are no coins or bonus items, so your score is simply the number of gaps you cleared.
The difficulty rises slowly as your score climbs. The pipes scroll a bit faster with every point, until around 37 points, where they reach top speed. The gaps also get a little shorter with every point, until around 45 points, where they stop shrinking. The distance between pipe pairs stays the same, but because everything moves faster, the next gap arrives sooner.
So the first ten pipes are the gentlest stretch you will ever get. Past 40 or so, the game is at its hardest and stays there, which makes it a fair test of rhythm.
The sky changes as you score. You start in daylight, see a sunset, fly through a starry night and come back out at dawn, with a full cycle about every 70 points. Rain showers and thunderstorms can roll in, and a daytime shower may leave a rainbow behind.
All of this is just for looks. Weather and night never change the speed, the gap size or how the bird moves, so do not let a lightning flash make you panic.
Every flap gives the bird exactly the same lift, and it replaces whatever speed you had. Tapping twice very fast does not send you twice as high. It just restarts the same climb. Keep that in mind and these tips make more sense.
- Find a steady rhythm. Most players do better tapping at an even beat and adjusting slightly, rather than reacting in bursts.
- Let the bird drop before a low gap. Stop tapping early and start again just as you reach the gap, rather than diving at the last moment.
- Climb in small steps for a high gap. Several evenly spaced flaps are safer than a rush of taps that can carry you into the top pipe.
- Watch the next gap, not the bird. As soon as you are inside one gap, move your eyes to the one after it.
- Stay near the middle of the gap. The bird is round, so its edges catch the pipe lips when you hug the top or bottom.
- Expect it to get tighter after 30. Treat the first stretch as warm up and stay calm as the pace rises.
Flappy Flyer keeps your best score in your browser on this device. It shows on the start screen and on your score card, with a New best stamp when you beat it. Clearing your browser data, or playing on a different device or browser, starts the best score again from zero.
Flappy Bird was made by Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen and released in 2013. In early 2014 it became one of the most downloaded games in the world, known for being simple and very hard. Its creator removed it from the app stores in February 2014, and since then many games have carried the same one tap idea.
Flappy Flyer is our own original game in that style, with its own bird, art and weather. It is not made by or connected to the creator of Flappy Bird.