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Goober World is a small, colourful platformer built around a single idea: get a round little character from one side of a stage to the other without falling short. The levels are made of bright pink blocks, the character is a goober, and each stage is a compact run-and-jump problem rather than a long expedition.

It suits a quick break. Stages are short, so a failed attempt costs you seconds, and the game loads straight into this page with nothing to install and no account to make. If you came to Red Ball for precise, momentum-driven movement, this is a lighter take on the same skill: read the gap, time the jump, land on the block.

How to play

Move with the arrow keys or with A and D. Jump with Up, W or Space. The start screen names any other key the game uses, so read it once before your first stage. Click inside the game window a single time when it loads, so the keyboard input goes to the game rather than the page.

A round is simple in shape: you run along the blocks, jump the gaps and obstacles, and push on to the end of the stage, then move to the next one. Because the controls are just left, right and jump, the challenge comes from timing and judging distance, not from memorising a button layout.

Tips

• Tap the direction keys rather than holding them down when you are lining up a short hop; small steps give you more control near an edge.
• Jump from the very end of a block when a gap looks wide. Running off the last moment gives you the most room to land.
• Keep Space or W under one finger and A and D under another. Using the left hand for everything is comfortable on a laptop keyboard and leaves the arrow keys free if you prefer them.
• If a stage keeps beating you, stop and watch the layout for a moment. The next jump is usually easier to plan than to react to.

Similar games on Red Ball

Red Ball and Red Ball 4 are the closest neighbours if you want the same kind of physics-led platforming with a bigger sense of a journey. Level Devil takes the opposite approach, with a platformer that likes to surprise you, while Big Tower Tiny Square 2 asks for tight, repeated jumps as you climb. Blumgi Slime is another compact character platformer if you want more of this pace.

Goober World is best when you have a few minutes and a keyboard. It also runs in a phone browser, but the jump-and-move keys make it noticeably easier to control on a laptop or Chromebook.