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Vortex Racer drops you inside a glowing tube and asks one thing of you: stay alive while the speed keeps rising. It sits in the tunnel runner family, the same corner of the web as Tunnel Rush, where the whole game is reading what is coming at you and nudging your position in time.

Sessions are short and tense. You steer around the inside wall of the tunnel, avoid the blocks in your path and pick up boosts where you can. Nothing slows down to give you a breather, so a run ends the moment your reactions fall behind the pace. If you like the "just one more try" loop of Tunnel Rush, this scratches the same itch with a sci-fi look.

It is an HTML5 game, so it loads in the browser with nothing to install, and a restart is one click away.

How to play

Use Left and Right, or A and D, to steer or rotate around the tunnel. Up, W or Space jumps in the places where the game offers a jump. The speed only ever goes up, so the controls matter less than your timing: small, early corrections are safer than big, late ones.

A round is simple. Look ahead, pick a lane or wall position that is clear, move there early and look ahead again. Boosts are worth collecting when they sit on a line you were already taking, but not worth a risky swerve.

Tips

• Watch the far end of the tunnel rather than the obstacle right in front of you. By the time a block is close, it is too late for anything but a panic move.
• Tap the keys instead of holding them. Short taps give fine control, and holding a direction tends to overshoot into the next obstacle.
• Use the opening seconds, while the pace is gentle, to get a feel for how far one tap moves you.
• Switch to fullscreen using the button under the game if the obstacles are hard to make out in the small window.

Similar games on Tunnel Rush

Super Tunnel Rush and Color Tunnel stay closest to the headline game, with the same inside-the-tube view. Rolly Vortex is a different take on the vortex idea, and Run and Run 2 trade the glowing tube for a gap-filled space corridor where falling is the main danger.

Vortex Racer suits quick sessions on a keyboard, when you want a fast run and a score to beat rather than a long campaign.