About Slipgap

Slipgap is a free, daily, one-input survival game. Everyone in the world plays the exact same field each day — last the longest and climb a server-verified global leaderboard.

The idea

Most games drown you in buttons. Slipgap gives you exactly one input: hold to rise, release to fall. That’s it. The depth comes not from complexity but from a single shared challenge — one procedurally-generated field, identical for every player, regenerated every day. There’s no luck of the draw and no pay-to-win: just you, the same gaps everyone else faces, and how long you can thread them.

Fair by design

Slipgap is built anticheat-first. Your browser never reports a score it simply claims — instead it sends the recorded trace of your inputs, and the server re-runs the exact same deterministic simulation to compute the authoritative result. The number on the leaderboard is the number the server verified. It’s a level field, literally and figuratively.

Free to play

The game is free. You can play instantly as a guest, or create an account (email or Discord) to save progress and own cosmetic skins. Cosmetics are purely visual — they never affect gameplay or your score.

The daily ritual

There’s a new field every day at midnight UTC, and it’s the same for everyone. That turns Slipgap into a small daily ritual: a fresh, shared puzzle to learn, a clean shot at the leaderboard, and a reason to come back tomorrow. You’re never grinding a private random seed — you’re competing on the exact challenge the rest of the world is playing right now.

Why one input

Stripping the controls down to a single input removes everything that usually separates players — combos, gear, menus — and leaves only timing and nerve. It’s instantly understandable for a newcomer and genuinely deep for a veteran: the skill ceiling lives in rhythm and focus, not in memorizing buttons. If you want to push further, our tips & strategy guide breaks down how to survive longer.

Who makes it

Slipgap is built by John Ward at anologiq. Want to know how a run is scored? Read how it works.