Fly deep through a scrolling cavern, bombing bases and dodging rockets before your fuel gives out.
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How to play
Pilot a ship through a tight, scrolling cave. Shoot the rockets that launch at you, bomb the bases and fuel depots on the ground, and grab fuel to keep flying as the cavern narrows around you.
Fly through the cave without hitting the walls
Shoot incoming rockets and air threats
Bomb ground bases and targets
Refuel by hitting fuel depots before you run dry
Controls
Desktop: arrows or WASD to fly, Space to fire and bomb
Phone & tablet: on-screen controls supported on touch devices
Game modes
Daily challenge run
Practice mode
Tips & strategy
Always destroy fuel depots, you need them to keep flying, not just for points
Take rockets out the moment they lift off the ground
Hug the center of tight passages so a wave doesn't pin you to a wall
Origins
Cavern Run recreates the scrolling cave shooter of 1981, thread a fighter through a winding cavern, bombing ground bases and shooting rockets while topping up a draining fuel gauge. One of the first horizontally-scrolling shoot-'em-ups.
About Cavern Run
Cavern Run is an original free browser revival of the classic cave-flying side-scrolling shooter, with daily and practice modes. Play instantly, no install.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
