Lava Jump

Controls

The game pauses automatically if you switch tabs. Sound effects are generated in your browser and can be muted with the speaker button.

How to Play

The lava starts rising the moment the run begins, so the first jumps matter.

1. Press Space, Enter or the Start Game button.
2. Move with ArrowLeft/A and ArrowRight/D or the arrow buttons. Jump with Space, ArrowUp or W, the jump button, or a tap on the game.
3. Press jump again in mid-air for a double jump. It recharges whenever you land.
4. Climb the gray rock ledges and the blue moving ledges. You can jump up through them from below, and moving ledges carry you while you stand on them.
5. Keep an eye on the timer next to the score and on the HOT! warning at the top, which counts the meters between you and the lava once it gets close.

Game Objective

Survive and climb. Your score is the highest point you have reached in meters plus 2 points for every full second you stay alive, so even a cautious climb keeps earning.

Touching the lava ends the run instantly. The lava always stays close below the screen, so falling off the bottom means falling into it.

Tips

1. The lava is never allowed to drop far below the bottom of the screen. If you climb quickly, it catches up to stay just out of view, so a fast climb doesn't buy a big safety margin. Don't take reckless jumps just to get ahead.
2. It starts slowly and speeds up every second, reaching top speed after about 69 seconds. The first minute is when you can best afford to wait for moving ledges to line up.
3. The HOT! warning appears once the lava is within 16 meters of your feet. When you see it, stop waiting for an ideal ledge and take the nearest one you can reach.
4. Keep the double jump as insurance. It refills on every landing, so a missed ledge can often be saved with the air jump, but only if you haven't already spent it on the way up.
5. Standing still is not wasted time: every full second survived adds 2 points. Riding a moving ledge until it lines up with the next one is often safer than jumping into a wide gap.

Difficulty

Difficulty: Difficulty: Hard

Lava Jump is rated Hard because the pressure never lets up and keeps growing. The lava starts at a gentle pace and speeds up every second until, after about 69 seconds, it climbs more than five times faster than at the start. The course tightens at the same time over roughly the first 900 meters: ledges shrink from about 80–120 units wide to 54–80, gaps grow, and the share of moving ledges rises from about one in five to three in five, with faster movement.