Dead Weight: Don't Drop

How long can you last?

Both weights are falling. You can only hold one.

Dead Weight is a one-touch survival game about an impossible choice you make a hundred times a second. Two iron weights hang from a single rope over your hand. Gravity pulls them both. Hold the LEFT or the RIGHT to haul that weight back up — but every save flings the OTHER one down harder.

You can never hold both. Saving one dooms the other. Keep them both off the floor for as long as your nerve lasts.

— HOW IT PLAYS — • One thumb, two thumbs, or arrow keys. That's the whole control scheme. • Hold a side to lift. Let go to switch. There is no pause in gravity. • The longer you survive, the faster your score climbs — peaking after 18 seconds, when the rope turns vicious. • A flawless run tops out around 35 seconds. Almost nobody gets there.

— WHY IT GETS UNDER YOUR SKIN — • Calm on the surface, merciless underneath. Quiet weight, sudden drops. • Pure reflex. No upgrades, no menus to grind, no second chances. • Every run is a clean fight between your reaction time and physics. • "One more try" is engineered into your hands.

— WHAT'S INSIDE — • Crisp haptics that let you FEEL each weight pull against the rope. • Game Center leaderboards — climb the global ladder, hunt your friends' scores. • Share your run in one tap and dare someone to beat it. • Plays fully offline. On a plane, in a tunnel, anywhere. • Portrait. One hand. Pick up and play in seconds.

— HONEST AND FREE — Dead Weight is completely free. No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts, no sign-ups, no tracking. We collect zero personal data — the only thing that leaves your phone is an optional high score you choose to post to Game Center, which Apple manages under its own privacy policy.

Just the rope, the weights, and how long you can hold on.

Both are falling. Choose.