Firefly Drift

About the game

Firefly Drift is a one-button arcade game set in an endless pixel forest at night. You are a small firefly drifting through the dark. Hold to glow and rise, let go to glide back down, and weave between branches, vines, spider webs, owls and puddles.

Your glow is also your only light. The forest stays dark beyond it, so you see branches and webs only when you get close. Glowing burns energy, and a low battery shrinks your light. Catch the little blue fireflies to refill it, and chain them quickly for a combo of up to x5.

Runs are short and easy to start again, so it suits a quick break as well as a long chase for a high score. It plays with a mouse, a keyboard or a touch screen, in landscape or portrait, and every course is built so there is always a way through.

How to play

1. Press Play, then hold the mouse button, a finger or Space to start.
2. Hold to glow and rise. Let go to glide down. Short taps keep you level.
3. Catch blue fireflies to refill your light and add to your score.
4. Catch them one after another to build a combo, up to x5.
5. Avoid branches, vines, webs, owls and puddles. One touch ends the run.
6. Collect fireflies across runs to unlock new glow colors on the title screen.

Controls

Glowing burns light. Catch blue fireflies to refill it.

What’s inside

• An endless night forest that gets faster and busier the longer you fly.
• A light and dark twist: your glow is your only light, and it shrinks when your energy runs low.
• Hanging vines, branches from above and below, drifting spider webs, blinking owls and puddles that reflect your light.
• Combo chains up to x5 for catching blue fireflies in a row.
• Five glow colors to unlock: Amber, Lime, Rose, Violet and Prism.
• Every course is generated so it is always passable, in landscape or portrait.
• Calm synthesized music and sound effects, with a mute button.
• A top 5 of your best runs, lifetime stats and eight achievements, including every glow unlock.

Achievements

8 achievements to unlock. They are saved in your browser and also count toward your badges on the My arcade page.

• First flightFly 100 m in one run.Locked
• Running on emptyCatch a firefly while your light bar blinks red.Locked
• Full comboReach a x5 combo.Locked
• Moonlit gliderScore 2,500 points in one run.Locked
• Lime glowCollect 50 fireflies in total.Locked
• Rose glowCollect 150 fireflies in total.Locked
• Violet glowCollect 400 fireflies in total.Locked
• Prism glowCollect 800 fireflies in total.Locked

Tips

• Short taps keep you level and save light. Long holds climb fast but burn energy.
• Fly through trails of blue fireflies to keep your light big and your combo going.
• An owl's yellow eyes glow in the dark, so you can spot it early even when your light is small.
• The forest floor is safe to skim, but puddles are not. Lift off before the water.
• When the light bar blinks red, go after the nearest fireflies.

Questions