Games Like Flappy Bird: Six One-Button Games on This Site Worth Your Next Break

Flappy Bird's whole design is one input and a rhythm. Plenty of games since have borrowed that, and several of them are on this site. These are the ones that scratch the same itch, in roughly the order a Flappy Bird player will take to them.

Lava Bird

The closest thing to a sequel here: a bird, columns of rock, tap to flap. The difference is a slowly rising speed and a two-player mode on one keyboard, which turns it into a race to see who hits a wall first.

Stickman Hook

One click throws a rope, one release lets go. The swing has its own rhythm the way flapping does, and the levels are short enough that a bad release costs seconds, not a whole run.

Jetpack Joyride

Hold instead of tap: the jetpack fires while the button is down and Barry falls when it is up. The lab is full of zappers at every height, so the skill is the same — find the flight path early and commit to it.

Helix Jump

A drag instead of a tap. You spin the tower and the ball does the falling; every gap you drop through is a pipe you cleared, and every coloured segment is a top pipe you did not.

Learn to Fly

A penguin, a ramp and a steady upgrade loop. Each flight is short and the controls are just the arrows, but it is the same feeling of getting a little further each time and immediately wanting one more go.

Chrome Dinosaur Game

One button, endless cacti, a score that only goes up while you survive — the offline T-Rex is the Flappy Bird of desktop browsers, and here it runs whether or not the Wi-Fi is down.

All six are on the games page, each on its own page with controls and a short guide. And if none of them stick, the original is one tab back.