Lane Runner

Lane Runner is an endless runner built for the browser. You are always moving forward down a three-lane road that races towards a neon skyline, and the only thing you control is where you are and how you get past what is coming: step left, step right, jump a low barrier or drop into a slide under a high one.

The road throws everything at you. Low hurdles you clear with a jump, head-height gantries you slide under, solid walls that leave a single lane open, and long freight blocks that shut a lane down for twenty metres at a time. Coins run in lines through the safe lane and arc over the barriers, so the greedy line and the safe line are rarely the same one. Two power-ups change the maths: a magnet drags every coin in front of you into your hands for eight seconds, and a shield lets you walk away from one mistake.

Your score is the distance you covered plus ten points for every coin, and a run of coins without a break builds a small multiplier on top. The speed climbs the whole way, so every run ends the same way: one lane too late. Arrow keys or WASD on desktop, swipes or the on-screen buttons on phones and tablets, and your best score is saved in your browser. Press P to pause, M to mute.