Graze: Near Miss

Most games reward you for staying safe. Graze does the opposite.

Fly straight down the middle of a gate and you'll score 5 points. Shave the edge, close enough to make you flinch, and it pays 60. That single rule turns every gate into a decision: play it safe and watch your multiplier fall away, or go for the edge and risk everything you've built.

HOLD TO FLY. RELEASE TO FALL. That's the whole control. One thumb, no buttons, no tutorial to sit through. Easy to pick up in a queue, genuinely hard to master.

FOUR TIERS, ONE JUDGEMENT Perfect, Graze, Close, Safe. Which one you get depends on how near you passed. Every graze steps your multiplier up. Play a gate safe and it drops back down again, which is what makes a long combo worth protecting.

ONE LAYOUT A DAY, WORLDWIDE The daily challenge gives every player the same gates. Scores compare directly, and you can share your result as a colour trace: no spoilers, just the shape of your run. Come back tomorrow for a different one.

POWER-UPS THAT RESPECT THE SCORING Eight of them, and not one hands you points. Focus slows the world so you can take an edge you'd normally refuse. Pinpoint lets you fly closer than should be survivable. Shield forgives exactly one mistake. They only pay if you spend them flying closer than you'd dare.

EARN YOUR SHIP Hulls, paints and trails, bought with coins earned by flying well. The ship on your launch screen is one you built.

RECORDS THAT LAST Your best endless run and your best daily are kept forever: score, grazes, perfects and peak multiplier, long after the month's history rolls over. It all backs up to your own iCloud, so a new phone picks up exactly where you left off.

MADE WITH CARE Generated music that retunes the scoring sounds to its own key. A boost you can switch off if you keep firing it by accident. And for players the device tells us are under 13 there is nothing at all: no ads, no tracking, no analytics. They get free continues instead.

Points come from near misses. Go and get them.