Why We Picked Link Four
Link Four is tapping pieces into position in a browser tab, with no story and no reason to stop at one attempt. Checkpoints are rare, which sounds harsh and is, in fact, the point. Fast, legible, and unsentimental about your score, which is the genre's best mood. It stays because the restart is instant, and instant restarts are the whole economy of arcade games. The page's own numbers: 249 plays, 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 430 of 500 on the arcade shelf.
How to Play
The page documents very little, so these are the things worth knowing before you spend time on it:
- Resize the window before starting, since some embeds redraw the canvas and reset the round.
- A run ends when you are caught; the score carries over and nothing else does.
- Keep your hands loose; a hard grip makes small adjustments harder.
Editor’s Note
The keyboard is the better input here, though it works on a phone in a pinch. The shelf rewards repetition, so the page stays light: nothing to install, nothing to sign into, nothing to update.
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.
An HTML5 turn-based board game where you can tap to drop the colored disks. Get four single-colored disk in a row or diagonally to win
