Steer a small red square through a churning grid of moving blocks, collect every coin and reach the exit, but one brush with a hazard ends the run.
Each stage is a corridor full of hazards sliding back and forth in real time. Guide your square through the gaps, scoop up the coins, and slip out the exit. There's no health bar, touching any hazard or wall sends you back to the start of the attempt, so it's all about timing and steady nerves.
Nervepath draws on the punishing precision game that flourished on the web in the late 2000s, the kind that announces your death count on screen. The World's Hardest Game in 2007 is the one most people remember, and the style was widely imitated.
The design is deliberately spare: a square you move, hazards on fixed and perfectly predictable paths, and instant death on contact. Nothing is random, which is the point — every failure is yours, and every level is solvable by someone patient enough to learn the rhythm. Collectibles are placed exactly where the safe route does not go, so the game and the completionist version of the game are different problems.
Nervepath is an original free browser game in the precision maze-dodging tradition, where patience and timing beat reflexes alone. No install required.