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Best of 2009:

Canabalt

Best of 2009 award

Tags: action, adamatomic, arcade, browser, egp, flash, flixel, free, game, jumpandrun, macwinlinux, rating-g, simpleidea

Adam Atomic's "minimalist" action/arcade side-scrolling game about a man fleeing the destruction of his city is both remarkably well presented, and fiendishly addictive. Vault over the obstacles in your path as you try to stay alive and get the high score. Those giant robots rampaging in the background? They're not there to play patty-cake, so we'd keep moving, if we were you.

Your votes (top 10):

Canabalt	31.74%
Music Catch 2	14.64%
Icycle	10.94%
Tiny Game	10.25%
Broken Picture Telephone	9.24%
Higher!	6.47%
Evacuation	5.70%
Drifting Afternoon	3.54%
Kissma	3.39%
Crossblock	2.08%

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4 Comments

1

Canabalt is stupidly addictive. Love it.

Tiny Game would have been nice without the hackers...

Posted by:

Shudog | January 20, 2010 9:34 PM

Am so glad Icycle was high on the list although imho I preferred it to Canabalt but brilliant all the same.

Posted by:

jim le fevre | January 21, 2010 8:16 AM

Icycle is probably my favourite game of the year actually. Although I love Canabalt as well!

Posted by:

jimbog | January 21, 2010 9:04 AM

Music Catch was incredible. I really didn't get the appeal of Canabalt... (maybe b/c I wasn't very good at it?)

Posted by: A | January 25, 2010 1:40 AM

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