About Viking Runner
Viking Runner is an endless runner set on a snowy northern shore. Your little horned-helmet viking sprints past pine forests, longhouses and a fjord where a longship drifts by, while the sky slowly turns from dusk to a starry night with northern lights, then to dawn and bright day.
It is a one-button game with a lot of feel: how long you hold the button decides how high you jump, and a second press in mid-air turns into a spinning flip that carries you further. The run keeps speeding up, the obstacle patterns get trickier the further you go, and a single stumble ends it.
How to play
- The viking runs by himself. Jump over rocks, logs and barrels.
- Ravens appear after the first couple of hundred meters. Jump over the low ones and stay on the ground under the high ones. A golden warning marker at the right edge shows the height each raven is coming in at.
- Collect gold runes. Each rune is worth 10 points on top of the distance you have run.
- Every 500 meters a banner marks the milestone and the pace picks up.
- Touch any obstacle or raven and the run is over. Your score is the meters you ran plus your rune bonus.
Controls
- Keyboard
- Space, Up arrow or W to jump. Hold for a higher jump and press again in the air for a flip. Enter starts a new run.
- Touch
- Tap to jump, hold your finger down for a higher jump, and tap again in the air for a flip.
Tips
- A short tap gives a low hop, which is exactly what you need to clear a rock while a raven flies high overhead.
- Save the mid-air flip. It is your rescue when a second obstacle shows up behind the first.
- Two obstacles close together are meant to be cleared with one long, held jump rather than two rushed ones.
- Rune arcs trace the ideal jump. Follow them and you will usually land safely.
- Jumps are buffered, so pressing a fraction early still works. Pressing late does not.
