Leap Tower
About Leap Tower
Leap Tower is a climbing game about one simple move: the charged jump. Your little knight cannot jump the normal way: hold the jump button to crouch and charge, then let go to leap, higher the longer you held. Hold left or right as you let go to jump sideways. Once you are in the air there is no steering at all: walls bounce you back, ceilings knock you down, and if you miss a ledge you keep falling until something catches you, sometimes several screens below, wiping out minutes of careful climbing. That is what makes the climb so tense and reaching the top feel earned. The tower is nine screens tall and changes as you rise, from a gloomy dungeon through mossy halls, a sandy keep, blue sky walls, a frosty spire with slippery ice ledges and a glowing ember tower to the clouds and the golden crown at the very top. Every step of the way up has been checked by a search program that tries real jumps, so the route always exists, but the narrow ledges and tempting dead ends get harder the higher you go. Your climb is saved automatically so you can stop and come back later, and your fastest climb to the crown goes on the leaderboard together with how many times you fell. Leap Tower plays free in your browser with the keyboard or on-screen buttons.
How to play
Hold Space, Up or the JUMP button to charge a jump and let go to leap: a longer hold means a higher jump. Hold left or right while you let go to jump in that direction; with no direction you jump straight up. On the ground you can walk with the arrow keys or A and D. You cannot steer in the air, so line up every jump before you let go. Reach the golden crown at the top of the tower.
Questions
Why can't I control the knight in the air?īŧ
That is the challenge. Each jump is decided when you let go: where you stand, how long you charged and which way you held. Practise the feel of the charge and you will start landing the hard ones.
Is my climb saved?īŧ
Yes. Your position, time and number of falls are saved while you play, so you can close the game and continue where you stopped.
Is the top really reachable?īŧ
Yes. Every ledge on the way up was placed only after a test program found a real jump that lands on it, and the whole climb is checked again before every release.
What do the ice ledges do?īŧ
Ice is slippery: you slide when you land and when you walk, so give yourself room before charging a jump.
