❄ FROST LOUNGE ❄

Smash the wall before the fuse blows — then fight what's left of it in the air. Catch what falls; most of it helps.

drag or ◀▶ / mouse to move · tap or SPACE to serve, hold to fire · ESC to exit

• MOVE — drag a thumb, steer with ◀▶, or just point the mouse. Tap or SPACE serves the ball.
• THE FUSE — a wall only stands for ten seconds. When the clock breaks, whatever bricks survive rupture into a squadron and fly at you — every level is those two waves, and every wall is shaped differently.
• CAPSULES — catch them on the paddle. A capsule keeps its effect across the rupture but changes its name: the grey arrow is what it means once you're flying.
  • W wide paddle → twin cannon
  • M multiball
  • S slow ball → swarm slowed
  • C catch & aim
  • + extra ball → extra ship
  • N narrow paddle → hull clipped
  • F speed up → swarm frenzy
• THE SQUADRON — the paddle becomes a ship: hold tap or SPACE to fire, and dodge the bombs, the aimed bolts and the divers themselves. Same lives cover both halves.
  • ◆ grunt — the wall, flying
  • ▲ darter — dives fast
  • ■ gunner — shoots from the rank
  • ▮ hulk — three hits
  • ★ flagship — five, and it aims
• THE BOARD — points pay out ❄ at the end, and the top eight keep their initials.

The lounge's own checkerboard, and a snake in ice. Eat, grow, and don't touch anything — including yourself.

swipe or ▲▼◀▶ / WASD to steer · tap or SPACE to start · ESC to exit

• STEER — flick a thumb in the direction you mean, or use ▲▼◀▶ / WASD. One continuous drag can chain turns; the only illegal move is straight back into yourself.
• EAT — every snowflake grows you a segment and pays 10 × level points.
• THE PACE — every five segments the level ticks up and the board steps faster.
• THE END — the walls are real and so is your own tail. Points pay out ❄, and the top eight keep their initials.

Bumpers, missions and black-hole jackpots on the lounge's own ice. Keep the ball alive and spell F‑R‑O‑S‑T.

◀▶ / A & L / tap the screen's halves to flip · hold SPACE, release to launch · ▲ / W to nudge · ESC to exit

• FLIP — ◀▶, A & L, or tap the screen's left and right halves. Tapping a flipper also lane-changes which of F-R-O-S-T is lit up top.
• LAUNCH — hold SPACE (or press in the lane) and release: every plunge rides the habitrail orbit over the crown, and harder means faster round and deeper into the table.
• MISSIONS — the console names one; clear it before its clock runs out and you're promoted, FLURRY up to DEEP FREEZE — each rank raises the bonus multiplier.
• THE TABLE — the black hole is hyperspace, and jackpots in multiball. The rest of what you're aiming at:
  • ● jet bumpers — the core
  • ▬ drop bank — the ice wall
  • F top lanes — spell F-R-O-S-T
  • ⇆ spinner — in the left orbit
  • ◉ wormholes — in one, out the other
  • ◎ black hole — hyperspace & jackpots
• STAYING ALIVE — three balls a run: the lit kickback saves one left drain, and a nudge (▲ / W) saves the rest. Shove three times too fast and the table TILTS.

One man, Heli Attack 2's own valley, and something in the snow overhead that has already found you. Climb the rock, and keep the trigger down.

the pad runs and jumps · press the sky to shoot at it · or ◀▶ / AD, SPACE and hold the mouse · ESC to exit

• RUN AND JUMP — ◀▶ or A/D along the valley floor, ▲ / W / SPACE to jump. The rock is solid on every side: one jump climbs a step, two climb a mesa, and only the boost reaches the pillar at the far end. ▼ ducks.
• AIM — the gun points where the pointer is, so move the mouse and hold the button to fire. On a phone press anywhere off the pad and the shots go there.
• ONE THUMB ON A PHONE — hold ◀ or ▶ at the bottom left and slide the same thumb up into JUMP: you leave the ground still running that way. Slide back down and up again for the second jump. LIFT and TIME are the two small buttons in the other corner.
• EIGHT GUNS — 1–8, Q/E, or tap the strip along the top. The machine gun never runs dry; everything else comes out of a crate.
• THE CRATES — every third wreck leaves one, and a boss always does. Green is armour, the rest are a full load of whatever is written on the lid. They keep for a few seconds and then blink out.
• ONE AT A TIME — there is always exactly one machine in the sky, and the next is in the air before the last one hits the ground. You are counted in helis downed and in how long you lasted.
• IT TIGHTENS ON SCORE — every LEVEL is twice as far along as the one before it, and each one buys the sky a faster barrel, a quicker trigger and a worse thing to send. The boss is a rare event, not a schedule. Points pay out ❄, and the top eight keep their initials.

You, three penguins, four toboggans and a groomed run falling away into the dark. Be first past the gantry at the bottom — and stay on the sled.

◀▶ / AD to steer · SPACE to tuck · W to slow · ESC to exit

• STEER — ◀▶ or A/D across the run. You can only steer as fast as you are travelling, and a hard carve scrubs speed — so pick your line early rather than hauling the sled across the hill late.
• TUCK — hold ▼ / S / SPACE. Faster everywhere, and harder to place. Sit up with ▲ / W before a tight gate if you have to; it costs you less than a pine does.
• THE HILL IS THE ENGINE — the steeper the ground under you the harder it pushes, so the drops are where a race is won. Off the edge of the groom is powder, and powder is slow.
• WHAT IS ON THE RUN — kickers throw you into the air (land straight or you wash out), snowflakes pay points and a nudge of speed, ice takes half your steering, and rocks, logs, snowmen and pines all hurt in that order.
• THE OTHER THREE — PIP, TUX and BOOTS read the hill the same way you do and get it wrong about as often as their nerve allows. The bar down the right edge is who is where. Finishing position is most of your score; beating par, airtime and flakes are the rest.

Drive a taxi across downtown Austin. The clock is the whole game: every fare you land pays more of it back than the drive costs you — if you drive it well.

wheel and pedals on a phone · W A S D or the arrows · hold S to reverse · SPACE handbrake · P map · ESC to exit

• DRIVE — W A S D or the arrow keys, SPACE for the handbrake. To REVERSE, hold the brake — S or the down arrow: it stops you, and once you are stopped it backs you out. (SHIFT is the gear lever if you want it held down the old way.) On a phone the wheel and the pedals come up by themselves. R puts you back on the road if you end up somewhere you can't drive out of.
• THE FARE — a pillar of light stands over whoever wants picking up, and the arrow on the road points at them. Collect them, then drive them to the drop-off. Landing a leg pays time back onto the clock, and the money onto the night's total.
• THE CLOCK — it only ever runs down. Beat the pace a leg was priced at and you keep the difference; run it out and the night is added up wherever you happen to be standing. Then it is your call: CONTINUE starts another shift from that exact spot, or take FREE ROAM and keep the city with the meter off. Either way the takings are already banked.
• THE MAP — P or M opens the whole city, and that is also the pause. Every place on it can be travelled to, and the price is exactly the seconds the drive would have taken — so travelling breaks even and driving well is the only thing that profits.
• THE STREET — stop signs and mast arms come down when you hit them and stay down for the night. Drifts, jumps and wreckage all pay into the same stunt bank on top of the fare.
• GRIP AID — how much the car saves you from yourself. G cycles it mid-drive, and it is also in SETTINGS.

a shift ends when the clock runs out — or when you CASH OUT