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Play Perfect Dunk free in your browser: a quick physics-based basketball game for keyboard, mouse or touch, with no download or account needed.

Perfect Dunk is a short basketball arcade game that runs in your browser with nothing to install. The name tells you the goal: get the ball into the hoop, and do it cleanly. It is built as a quick, repeatable attempt-after-attempt game rather than a long campaign, so a session can be two minutes or twenty.

It sits a little apart from the jumpers on Doodle Jump, but the appeal is the same one. You are chasing one more clean result, a small mistake ends the attempt, and the next try starts immediately. If you like the "just one more go" rhythm of Doodle Jump or Bouncy Basketball, this is the same kind of pick-up-and-play session.

The page is listed under endless runners, and the catalogue data is fairly generic, so treat the details below as the basics rather than a full walkthrough.

How to play

On a keyboard, use the arrow keys or WASD to move and the mouse to aim and select. On a phone or tablet, tap and swipe instead. The game is built with a physics engine, so the ball behaves like a ball: how you release it matters more than how fast you click, and a shot that looks close can still rattle out.

Start with the first attempt just to see how the ball responds to your input. Once you know what a light touch and a firm one do, you can start choosing shots on purpose instead of guessing.

Tips

Change one thing at a time between attempts. If you move and change your aim together, you will not learn what fixed or broke the shot.
Do not rush the release. In physics games, a calm, repeatable motion beats a frantic one.
If your results fall apart, take a short break. Rhythm games like this reward steady hands.
On a touchscreen, keep your swipes short and deliberate so you can repeat them.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

Bouncy Basketball is the closest neighbour on this site, with a ball and a hoop and a lot of wobble. Helix Jump is another one-input game where timing is everything, and Bird Jumper keeps the endless-climb feel of Doodle Jump itself.

Perfect Dunk suits short breaks, works with either a keyboard and mouse or a touchscreen, and needs no account or download.