Mad Skills Rallycross — Play Free Online

Mad Skills Rallycross is a side-on racing game where the car is a physics object rather than a sticker sliding along a track. You drive across bumpy dirt courses, and what the car does depends on how you handle the throttle, the brakes and the angle of the body in the air. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, and a single attempt is short enough to fit between other things.

It sits a little apart from the rest of the Doodle Jump catalogue, but the appeal is related. Doodle Jump is about reading momentum and landing where you meant to; a rally course asks the same question at speed. You are always judging the next bump, the next drop and whether you are about to come down on the nose.

How to play

Use the arrow keys or WASD to drive. On a phone or tablet, tap and swipe instead; the mouse is also used to select menu options. Accelerate to build speed, ease off or brake before a rough section, and use the tilt controls in the air to line the wheels up for the landing.

Each run is a race against the clock and the other cars, so a clean line matters more than raw speed. A car that lands flat keeps its pace. One that lands badly loses time sorting itself out.

Tips

1. Drive the first course slowly. You are learning how the car carries weight over bumps, which transfers to every later track.
2. Lift the throttle just before a crest instead of holding it down. A calmer take-off usually gives a flatter landing.
3. Use the air time to correct your angle. Waiting until the wheels are about to touch is too late.
4. If a run goes wrong early, restart rather than finishing it. You will not catch up from a bad first few seconds.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

If you like the momentum side, Helix Jump is a calmer one-finger game about timing a descent. Bouncy Basketball also leans on physics, with a ball that never behaves quite the way you expect. For a different kind of challenge, Ovo 2 is a precision platformer where speed and jump timing decide everything.

Mad Skills Rallycross suits short sessions on a keyboard, and it works with touch as well when you have a phone to hand.