Smart Looter

Why We Picked Smart Looter

Smart Looter is keeping the run alive in a browser tab, with no story and no reason to stop at one attempt. Every run starts from zero; the only thing carried between attempts is what you learned about the pattern. The whole design is one sentence long, which is why it loads in a second. It kept its slot by never asking you to learn anything that dying once would not teach. The page's own numbers: 1,550 plays, 3.9 out of 5 from 27 ratings, and 333 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:

• Give it the full screen if the controls feel cramped; the fullscreen button sits beside the game.
• A run ends when you are caught; the score carries over and nothing else does.
• Learn the restart key first, because you will use it more than any other.

Editor’s Note

One more go is the entire retention design, and it works about as well as it ever did. There is nothing to unlock and nothing to lose, which is why the restart button gets used so often.

Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.