Masked Forces — Play Free Online

Masked Forces is a Unity-built game that loads straight into the browser tab, with nothing to install. The controls tell you most of what you need to know about its style: you move with the arrow keys or WASD and use the mouse to aim and to pick things from menus. That is the control scheme of an aim-and-shoot game rather than a pure side-on runner, even though the catalogue files it under Endless Runners.

On Doodle Jump, most of the catalogue is built around one-button reflexes: bounce, time a jump, repeat. Masked Forces asks for something a bit different. You steer with the keyboard and point with the mouse at the same time, so it suits a session at a desktop or laptop where both hands are free. It is a good change of pace if you have spent a while on the jumpers and want a game where aiming matters as much as timing.

How to play

Move with the arrow keys or WASD. Move the mouse to aim, and use it to click through the menus before a round begins. On a phone or tablet the game accepts taps and swipes instead, though aiming with a finger is looser than aiming with a mouse.

The game is a large Unity build, so the first load takes a little longer than a typical small HTML5 game. Wait for the progress bar to finish and click once inside the game window so it receives your keyboard input.

Tips

• Click inside the game frame before you start, otherwise the keys may scroll the page instead of moving your character.
• Keep one hand on the movement keys and make small, steady mouse adjustments rather than big swings, which makes aim easier to control.
• If the game runs slowly, close other heavy tabs. Unity builds are more demanding than most browser games.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

If you want something closer to the headline game, Doodle Trump and Bird Jumper keep to the one-axis jumping idea. Helix Jump is a quick one-finger reflex game. Bloons Tower Defense 2 is another mouse-driven title, but it is about planning placement rather than moving and aiming in real time.

Masked Forces suits players who prefer a keyboard-and-mouse setup and sessions of a few minutes at a time.