Tightrope — free browser game

Your goal is to walk a tightrope walker, balance pole in hand, as far as possible across a rope stretched out at sunset without making them fall. You don't move the walker directly — instead you control the lean of their body: holding the left arrow or A (or tapping the left half of the screen on mobile) tilts the walker to the left, while the right arrow / D or the right half tilts them right. Each time you press a key a small 'nudge' impulse is applied, and if you keep holding it a continuous force builds up, so you can make both fine adjustments and strong corrections. Your opponent is an unstable torque that behaves like gravity: the more the walker is tilted, the faster they keep tilting, so you must correct small leans early. At random intervals gusts of wind arrive; the arrow in the HUD (← or →) and the breeze lines on screen show their direction, they change omega (the angular velocity) instantly, and they hit lightly early on but ever more harshly in later rounds. The horizontal bar at the top is the tilt gauge: the white line in the middle is zero tilt, you're safe while the gauge is green, and you're about to topple once it enters the red zone. If the tilt exceeds ±62° the walker falls and the round ends; the metres you walked up to that moment are your score, and your new record is saved automatically. The R key, the Restart button, or any direction key while on the game-over screen drops you into a new round. Strategy tip: don't try to hold the walker perfectly straight — keep your weight leaning in the OPPOSITE direction of the wind with constant micro-corrections, because over-correcting makes your own force create a new topple; when the wind hits, counter it without panic with a single short tap, neutralise it with two or three light taps if needed, and never hold a key down for long.