No Problamas

Why We Picked No Problamas

No Problamas is the sort of arcade game you lose before you have worked out what the score rewards. The kind of game that ends before you have decided to take it seriously. It is keeping the run alive at heart, and everything else — art, sound, screen shake — is there to make that loop feel better than it is. It ranks 457 of 500 in arcade, and the gap between it and the top is mostly luck of the thumbnail. By the numbers: 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings.

How to Play

The page documents very little, so these are the things worth knowing before you spend time on it:

• If the cursor will not reach the game, click inside the frame once first.
• A run ends when you are caught, and the score is the only thing that survives it.
• Aim for the gap you can reach, not the one that looks best.

Editor’s Note

Best on a keyboard; a phone works, though the smaller screen makes the later speed harder than intended. It asks for one clean input and punishes a sloppy one, which is the whole contract.

Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.