Fruit Ninja — Play Free Online

Fruit Ninja is a slicing game, and it sits a little apart from the climbers and platformers around it on Doodle Jump. Fruit is thrown up the screen in arcs, and your job is to cut it in half with quick swipes before it falls out of reach. There are no platforms to land on and no levels to memorise. It is all timing and a steady hand.

A session is short and easy to pick up. Fruit flies up, you drag a blade across it, and juice and fruit halves fly everywhere. It suits anyone who likes Doodle Jump's one-more-try pull but wants something where the action is in the swipe rather than in steering a character.

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How to play

The game is controlled by swiping. With a mouse, hold the button and drag across the fruit. On a phone or tablet, slide your finger across the screen. The listing for this build also mentions the arrow keys and WASD, but slicing itself is a pointer or touch action, so use the mouse or your finger for the actual cuts.

Each fruit you slice scores points. Cutting several in a single swipe is worth more than cutting them one at a time, so a long, deliberate stroke through a cluster beats frantic stabbing. Bombs are mixed in with the fruit and you should steer your blade around them, because hitting one costs you.

Tips

• Swipe in long lines that pass through several fruit instead of tapping at single ones.
• Look at where the bombs are before you commit to a swipe, and curve your stroke around them.
• Stay calm when the screen fills up. Fast, wild swiping is how stray bombs get hit.
• On a touchscreen, use one finger. It is easier to keep a clean path than with two.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

If you want to stay with quick, high-score play, Helix Jump asks you to guide a ball down a tower using only timing, and Bouncy Basketball turns bouncing into a sports duel. For a longer challenge with real levels, Ovo 2 and Fireboy and Watergirl swap the swipe for platforming and puzzle-solving.

Fruit Ninja suits short breaks, one player at a time, and works on either a mouse or a touchscreen.