Going Right
Why We Picked Going Right
The rule in Going Right is one sentence long — sliding tiles into the gap — and the rest of the game is working out what that costs. Difficulty arrives as a smaller margin rather than a faster clock, which makes a loss easy to trace. That sounds thin, and it is — until the board is half full. It earns its place by being the sort of puzzle you can leave and return to without a manual. For reference: 18.7K plays, 4.1 out of 5 from 407 ratings, and 89 of 500 on the arcade shelf.
How to Play
Three rules cover almost everything this game asks of you:
- Move the tiles one at a time into the gap and the picture rebuilds itself.
- There is no fail state beyond an unusable board, and an unusable board is usually your own doing.
- Count the empty cells before you place anything large.
Editor’s Note
It runs in the tab you already have open, on desktop or phone, and keeps its instructions on the screen. Leaving mid-session costs you the board here rather than a saved run, which makes a short visit reasonable.
Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.
Publisher Description
Supplied by the game’s publisher; reproduced as-is.
Going Right is a one-touch arcade game about guiding a small bird safely back to its nest. The premise could not be simpler: the bird keeps moving, obstacles fill the air between it and home, and a single touch is all you have to steer. Getting clipped by anything on the way ends the attempt, so every flight becomes a tense little puzzle of timing.
Controls are as minimal as they come. Tap or click to make the bird climb, release to let it fall, and thread the gaps in the obstacles that slide into your path. Along the way you can collect coins, which feed into the game's shop where you buy new skins and different colors to customize your bird. There is also a pleasant twist in the name: the journey is always about getting back to the nest, so each level ends with a satisfying landing rather than an endless run.
What gives the game real depth is its five modes. Normal mode offers twenty genuinely hard levels, and you can restart from any level you have already cleared. Death mode gives you only ten attempts to finish everything, which turns each mistake into a real loss. Time Attack challenges you to beat your own best times, and Infinite Run drops the nest entirely, asking you to fly as far as possible while grabbing coins. Between the shop and the modes, there is plenty to chase beyond simply finishing.
A few tips go a long way here. Use small, rhythmic taps instead of big corrections, since oversteering into a ceiling obstacle is the most common death. Learn each level's obstacle rhythm before going for coins, and treat Death mode as a reward for mastering Normal mode rather than a starting point. In Infinite Run, altitude discipline matters more than speed.
This one is built for players who love precision tap games with a high skill ceiling. It plays free in any modern browser, on your phone or your computer.
