Subway Surfers Beijing — Play Free Online

Subway Surfers Beijing is the China-themed edition of SYBO Games' endless runner. You play a graffiti kid sprinting down railway tracks while a security guard and his dog chase you, and the run only ends when you hit something you can't dodge. There is no finish line. The goal is a longer run and a bigger coin total than last time.

The track has three lanes, and everything in the game comes down to choosing the right one. Trains roll toward you in the lanes, low barriers and overhead bars sit between them, and coins line the safe path. Speed climbs the longer you survive, so the first minute is relaxed and the later stretch is all reflexes. Fans of Doodle Jump who like a one-more-try loop will find the same hook here, with sideways dodging instead of upward bouncing.

How to play

Use the arrow keys or WASD to move. Left and right switch lanes, up jumps, and down rolls under obstacles. Move the mouse to select menu items. On a phone or tablet the same moves are swipes: left, right, up and down on the screen.

A round goes like this. You start running, grab coins as you go, and watch for the next obstacle rather than the one in front of you. Jump to clear low barriers or hop onto a train roof, where the coins are often richer. Roll to slide under overhead bars. A single mistake like clipping a barrier usually stumbles you, and a second mistake right after ends the run.

Tips

• Look one or two obstacles ahead. By the time a train is large on screen it is too late to choose a lane.
• Stay off the lane that has a train in it unless you are deliberately jumping onto its roof. Trains cannot be driven through, and the side of one is a crash.
• Jumping followed by an immediate roll lets you drop quickly back to the ground, which helps when a low barrier follows a high one.
• Collect any power-ups you see. Boosts such as a jetpack or a coin magnet get you past hard sections and fatten your score.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

If you like the reflex-driven pace, Bird Jumper and Hoppenhelm on this site are also about timing movement against hazards, though they are platform jumpers rather than lane runners. Helix Jump swaps the side dodge for a falling ball and rotating tower. Fireboy and Watergirl is the slower choice, built on puzzles and two characters instead of speed.

It suits short sessions well: a run takes a few minutes, it plays in the browser with nothing to install, and touch or keyboard both work.