Skyward: Jump Higher

Climb as high as your nerve holds. No ads, no interruptions - just you, the platforms and a weekly leaderboard that starts fresh every week.

Skyward is a vertical jumper with a roguelite heart: every run climbs higher, and every run builds differently.

Slide your thumb, jump, climb. The platforms never stop coming, the gaps never stop widening, and the only thing between you and a new record is your own nerve.

CHOOSE A PATH, THEN LIVE WITH IT At 800 points the climb pauses and asks you to commit to one of four skill trees. The one you pick stays open for the rest of the run. The other three close.

• Ascent — height and jump. Power jumps, slower falls, crosswinds, spring boots.
• Flow — orbs and time. Freeze the platforms, slow the world, make every effect last longer.
• Fortune — gold. Magnets, coin charges, Martian veins, the Midas touch.
• Aegis — survival. Wards, iron hearts, extra checkpoints, insurance against a fall.

Twenty-eight skills across the four trees, four levels each. Every level up deals you a random hand from the tree you chose, so no two climbs stack the same way. Gold buys the first three levels of a skill in the shop; the fourth is only ever earned inside a run.

Fall and the run is over. But the gold stays with you, and it makes the next run start stronger. Lose, learn, come back harder.

NO ADS. NO INTERRUPTIONS. Skyward never shows an ad, never pauses your run, and never asks you to wait. You play, that's it.

THE CLIMB FIGHTS BACK

• Fragile platforms crack on the first landing and break on the second
• Moving platforms slide faster the higher you go
• Spikes appear from 5,000 points, falling rocks from 10,000
• Three hearts, and a ward will take the hit before a heart does
• Checkpoints save you once, if you can reach them

TEN SKIES The climb runs from dawn through day, sunset and night, then out past the star sea, the aurora, a ringed sky, a nebula, a giant and the horizon. Hard mode has its own ladder, and it climbs the other way.

SIXTEEN CHARACTERS Every character starts with a built-in ability that opens one tree from your very first jump, so who you pick decides where your run begins. Twelve unlock as your high score grows. Four more live in the Premium Shop and start with two abilities instead of one.

FIVE POWER ORBS Red for a huge boost upward, blue to freeze the moving platforms, black to slow everything down, yellow to double your gold, green to make every platform wider. Each one counts down on screen so you always know how long you have.

THE MARS PORTAL Every 10,000 points a portal opens. Step through into a low-gravity room full of gold, including red coins worth double.

NORMAL AND HARD Hard mode is genuinely hard: moving platforms are fast from the first jump, flat resting platforms almost disappear, and checkpoints become ten times rarer. It has its own leaderboard, so your hard-earned scores never get mixed in with the easy ones.

WEEKLY LEADERBOARD Every week starts fresh. Climb into the table under your own username, on your own terms, with separate boards for Normal and Hard.

TWO WAYS TO PLAY Swipe anywhere on the screen, or use classic on-screen arrows. Pick whichever feels right.

TWO LOOKS Line art, a clean hand-drawn pencil style, or Classic, bold and colourful. Switch any time.

PLAY WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Tap "Play as guest" and start immediately. Your score stays on your device. Create an account whenever you want to join the leaderboard and carry your progress between devices.

SEVEN LANGUAGES English, Turkish, Spanish, French, Catalan, Dutch and German.

Optional in-app purchases unlock the Premium Shop and let you tip the developer a coffee. Everything else - the whole game, both difficulty modes, all four skill trees, the leaderboard - is free.