Right Jump — Play Free Online

Right Jump is a 3D platformer built around timing and precision. You guide a stickman along a course that hangs in open space, and the whole job is to reach the end without dropping off. Each stage is a short, self-contained puzzle of jumps, so a single attempt takes a minute or two and a failed one costs you almost nothing.

If you came to Doodle Jump for the "one more try" pull of climbing without falling, this scratches the same itch from a different angle. Doodle Jump asks you to bounce upward forever; Right Jump hands you a fixed route and asks you to solve it cleanly. The obstacles include trampolines and zip lines alongside ordinary platforms, so the route is not just a row of identical hops.

It runs in the browser with nothing to install, and the game lists Poki as its publisher.

How to play

Move with the arrow keys or WASD, and use the mouse to aim and to pick menu options. On a phone or tablet, tap and swipe instead. The aim of every stage is to reach the end of the course.

A typical attempt goes like this: look at the next platform, work out whether it needs a plain jump, a bounce off a trampoline or a ride on a zip line, commit, and then adjust for the next gap. Because the course is in 3D, depth is the hard part: a platform can look close and still be a step too far, so judge distance by the shadow and the angle of the camera rather than by how big it looks.

Tips

• Move in small, deliberate taps. Holding a direction down tends to carry you past the edge of narrow platforms.
• Learn what each special surface does on a safe stretch before you need it in a tricky one.
• When a section keeps beating you, stop and look at the whole gap first; the failure is usually a misjudged distance, not slow reactions.
• Use the fullscreen button if depth is hard to read in a small window.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

Helix Jump also trades on timing, but you rotate a tower instead of steering a character. Ovo 2 is a precision platformer with a fast, momentum-heavy feel, and Bird Jumper keeps the simple one-button hopping closer to the original Doodle Jump. Fireboy and Watergirl suits you better if you want a puzzle platformer to share with a friend.

Right Jump suits short sessions on a keyboard or a touch screen, when you want a handful of quick attempts rather than a long commitment.