Hammer Reload — Play Free Online

Hammer Reload is an action shooter that drops you into a city overrun by criminals and hands you the job of cleaning it up. You play a lone vigilante, and the game is organised as a run of missions: pick one up, fight your way through the streets, clear out the bad guys and move on to the next. The mirror this page loads from is titled Hammer 2: Reloaded, so you may see that name inside the game itself.

It is a very different kind of session from the one most visitors to Doodle Jump arrive for. Instead of tapping left and right to climb a single endless column, you are moving freely, aiming with the mouse and deciding which enemy to deal with first. Missions give each sitting a clear start and finish, which suits a ten-minute break better than an open-ended survival mode would.

One thing the game advertises is vehicles: you can hijack heavy tanks during the missions, which changes how a fight plays out compared with doing everything on foot. The game is a Unity build with a fairly large download for a browser title, so give it a moment to load the first time; after that it runs in the browser with nothing to install.

How to play

Move with the arrow keys or WASD and aim with the mouse. The mouse is also what you use to select options in the menus. On a phone or tablet the game uses taps and swipes instead, though a keyboard and mouse give you far more precise aim.

A typical mission goes like this: start from the menu, move into the area, shoot the criminals who spot you, and keep going until the objective is complete. There are 30 missions in total, so the game is a progression rather than a single arena.

Tips

• Keep moving while you aim. Standing still to line up a shot is the easiest way to lose health in a crowded street.
• Check the screen before you commit to a fight so you know where enemies are coming from, and pull back to a spot where you only face one direction.
• If a tank is on offer, it is worth taking: it is built to take far more punishment than your character.
• Use the mouse for aiming only and keep your movement hand on WASD or the arrows, so you never have to stop moving to change targets.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

Most of this site is built around jumping and platforming, so Hammer Reload is one of the few places where you shoot your way through a level. If you want to stay with reflex-driven play but swap guns for precision platforming, try Ovo 2 or OvO game. For something with a two-player option, Fireboy and Watergirl is a puzzle-platformer, and Day D Tower Rush and Bloons Tower Defense 2 give you a strategy take on defeating waves of enemies.

It suits players who like short, goal-driven action sessions on a desktop with a mouse, and who want a break from endless jumpers.