GunForce — Play Free Online

GunForce is a shooter you control with the keyboard and the mouse together: one hand moves your character, the other aims and fires. It runs straight in the browser tab, so a session can be thirty seconds or half an hour, depending on how long you survive.

The catalogue files it under puzzle and brain games, but the controls point to something more action-led. Moving with the arrow keys or WASD while pointing with the mouse is the setup of an aim-and-shoot game, and that is how it plays. If you came to Doodle Jump for quick reflex games where one mistake ends the run, this scratches the same itch with a gun in hand instead of a platform underfoot.

It is a good fit when you want a few minutes of something more active than a pure jumper. Nothing needs installing, and there is no account to create.

How to play

On a computer, move with the arrow keys or WASD, aim with the mouse, and use the mouse to select options in the menus. On a phone or tablet, you tap and swipe instead. Press Play above and wait for the frame to load before you touch the controls, so the first input is not lost.

Take a moment on the first screen to see how far the character moves per key press and how closely the crosshair follows your mouse. Most of your early mistakes in a game like this come from not knowing those two things.

Tips

• Keep your movement hand and your aiming hand separate in your head. Reposition first, then aim, instead of doing both in a panic.
• Lower your mouse sensitivity if the crosshair overshoots. A small, steady aim beats a fast, wild one.
• Learn from each run. Notice what ended it, then change one thing in the next attempt.
• On touch screens, play in landscape and keep your thumbs clear of the part of the screen you need to watch.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

If you want to stay with the site's classic style, Doodle Jump itself is a one-button-feel climber with no shooting at all, while Helix Jump is a one-finger game about timing a descent. For a different pace, Bloons Tower Defense 2 trades twitch aiming for planning and placement, and Fireboy and Watergirl swaps the mouse for two characters sharing a keyboard and a puzzle.

GunForce suits a short break at a desktop with a mouse, though the touch controls mean a phone works for a quick go.