Custard Surfer

Custard Surfer starts with a bowl of custard tipped over on the kitchen floor. The custard is delighted about this and becomes a wave, and Keith, a banana in red trainers, surfs it on Wendy, a pink wafer. You see them from behind as they race down a three-lane road of custard: swipe or use the arrow keys to change lanes, tap or swipe up to jump, and swipe down to come back down quickly. Sprinkles are worth points and build up combos; wobbly jellies, giant spoons and rubber ducks are worth avoiding. A bump is a comedy flip and a wobble, and three wobbles mean Keith has a little lie down.

The wave, meanwhile, keeps growing. Four centimetres becomes three metres, and Keith is surfing down the street past parked cars bobbing in custard. Then it is eighty metres high and carrying the whole town, whose houses float along and wave. Then it is two kilometres high on the open sea, where whales surf alongside, and then it is nine thousand kilometres high in space, where a sprinkle is worth more than most countries. The points are written down regardless.

Every run that gets that far ends the same way: the wave arrives at the Earth, and when the custard settles the Earth is a trifle in a glass bowl, with Keith on top where the cherry would go. A run takes about two minutes, so it is a quick game to have another go at, and your high score is saved in your browser. Every run that gets past the kitchen floor also gives Keith something new to wear, until he has all eight. It plays with a finger, a mouse or a keyboard. P pauses and M mutes.