$14.99Flipping is Hard No Legs, Just Flips
Flippy is a smartphone with no legs, and the only way to move is by flipping. Climb ten areas of punishing physics platforming to reunite with Jeff, alone or with up to 16 friends in co-op, while a very funny narrator watches you fall. Hard, absurd and weirdly heartwarming.
Is Flipping is Hard worth it?
Flipping is Hard is worth it if…
- you enjoy difficult games where falling is part of the fun, not a failure
- you want a co-op night that turns into yelling, laughing and starting over
- you like mastering movement systems with a very high skill ceiling
- you have a soft spot for absurd humor and a phone named Flippy
- you want speedruns with quick restarts, built-in splits and routes to shave down
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Struggling together, loudly
Online co-op takes up to 16 friends, and the game seems designed to break those friendships in the funniest way possible. You help each other with beams and microwaves, which sounds wholesome until someone's rescue sends you both off the edge. Proximity chat means you hear every yell as it happens, and with this much falling there is a lot to yell about.
The chaos is the point. Plans fall apart, someone grabs someone at the wrong moment, and the whole lobby ends up back at the bottom laughing. Sessions are easy to set up: join a lobby, coordinate for about thirty seconds, then watch it all go wrong together. Bring three friends and it becomes a comedy you all star in.
A movement system with no legs
Flippy cannot walk, run or jump in any normal sense. The only tools are rotation and a vibration-powered jump, so every bit of progress comes from spinning, bouncing and landing on something narrow. A small mistake means a big drop, and the game knows it.
It feels clumsy for the first hour, then it clicks. The mechanics are simple but leave room for creativity: once you understand how rotation carries momentum, you start seeing routes and skips that were invisible before. That depth is why the movement is hard to master and why mastering it feels so good. Falling is part of the challenge, not a bug in it.
The climb back to Jeff
The story is simple and completely committed: little Jeff slipped on a strategically placed banana peel and launched Flippy into a storm drain. Now the phone has to climb back up. Ten different areas stand between them, and the goal is the happy ending this pair deserves.
What carries it is the narrator, who is genuinely funny and lands well-timed jokes without ever talking down to you. There is even a Chill Mode with checkpoints if you want the story with less suffering.
Can you play it solo?
Can you play it solo?
Yes, and the singleplayer is a full experience on its own: you master the flip, struggle up all ten areas and follow the story alone. Hard mode is the traditional no-checkpoints climb, while Chill Mode adds checkpoints if you would rather enjoy the ride. Solo is where you learn the movement properly, which pays off later if you bring friends along.
What is there to do besides climbing?
Quite a lot. Sixteen NPCs offer side quest challenges that test your movement skills and reward only those who finish them. You can customize Flippy with phone cases, charms and stickers, because even a phone wants to look its best.
Is it good for speedrunning?
It is built for it. Quick restarts and built-in splits come standard, and the movement has a deep skill curve with normal routes, hard skips and saves to discover. A casual run is fun on its own, but optimizing a run to the second is a whole game in itself, and the mechanics reward experimentation the more you learn them.
