NiceBounce
The ball bounces by itself. You just steer it, land clean, and decide how far is far enough.
What it is.
NiceBounce is a one-thumb precision climber you play in the browser. The ball bounces on its own — your only job is to steer it into the glowing ring on each floor.
Land dead-centre for a PERFECT, and a miss never costs you a life, just the chain. String perfects together to fill the NICE meter, spend it on a RUSH to climb faster through shrinking sweet spots, or bank a ×4+ combo for safer, smaller rewards. Every call is yours.
Three legs and a Summit per Expedition, a perk draft at every border, and a three-character route code that hands someone else the exact same mountain. At the Summit the clear is banked first — then you choose: finish here, or keep climbing while the dark rises behind you.
① The bounce
The ball never stops moving — steering is the whole game. A PERFECT lands dead-centre; a CLOSE edge lands cost nothing but the glow.
② The chain
Every fresh-floor perfect grows the combo and fills the NICE meter. One miss or edge landing breaks it — RUSH or BANK before it does.
③ The mountain
A three-character route code (46,656 of them) generates the same floors for everyone, whatever perks they draft — Gentle, Mean or Brutal.
④ The Summit
Clear it and the run is banked — coins, streak, record, all safe. Then: stop here, or draft another perk and keep climbing until the dark catches you.
Four ways to shoot.
Expedition
A perk draft at every border, three difficulty tiers per mountain, and a choice at the top: bank the clear, or keep climbing past it.
Challenge
Daily Climb (one seeded mountain for everyone), Endless Climb (the rules change every 260 m), Sprint 60 and Coin Rush.
Champions
Eight characters with their own ability and stat spread, three upgrade levels each, paid for with coins earned by climbing.
Route codes
Three letters or digits hand anyone the exact same floors you got — race a friend's run on your own PB, not luck.
See it in motion.
Mouse and keyboard.
- Solo — no online multiplayer yet
- Installable: adds to your home screen and plays fully offline after one visit
- No account, no ads, no cookies — progress saves on your device
- Works on desktop and phone (one-thumb touch controls)
- Runs in the browser — no download
- Difficulty is generated, not scripted: every route code is the same mountain for everyone
What we learned.
We tried to out-climb a good player with a harder mountain. It didn't work.
Clearing the Summit used to be where a run ended. Now a player can keep going — and the thing that finally stops a strong run isn't a steeper floor. It's the camera.
A run that drafted 11,000 perks crashed the build before it crashed the player
The fix for a run that technically never ends usually isn't a bigger number. Sometimes it's refusing to offer the same card twice.
RUSH was free speed. We had to make it cost something.
A climbing boost that only ever helps doesn't change how you play — it just makes the run shorter. The lever that fixed it wasn't the boost itself. It was how long a floor stays underfoot.