Slashfruit

Fruit is tossed up from below in arcs and you slice by sweeping the pointer through it — the line between where your pointer was and where it is now is the blade. Catching several pieces in one sweep scores a combo. Bombs are mixed in, and the real tool is the ability to stop the whole field while you decide.

• Time Freeze is the signature move: spend a charge and everything hangs motionless in the air.
• While frozen you trace one long path through as many fruit as you like, then release it as a single executed swipe.
• Charges are rationed, so freezing is a decision rather than a habit.
• Classic mode gives you three strikes for fruit that falls unsliced, and a sliced bomb ends the run outright.
• Arcade mode has no miss penalty and runs on a timer instead, where a bomb costs points and time rather than the game.
• Special fruit changes the field briefly — slowing the toss rate, doubling score, or flooding the screen with extra fruit.

• Classic, a measured run where misses and bombs cost you
• Arcade, a fast, frantic score chase

• Desktop: click-drag the mouse across fruit to slice
• Phone & tablet: swipe across the fruit with your finger

• Save freezes for the crowded moments. A frozen field lets you plan a path through eight pieces that no live swipe could reach.
• Plan the frozen path around the bombs, not just through the fruit. The planned cut executes exactly as drawn, including through anything you traced across.
• In Classic, a dropped fruit costs a strike but a sliced bomb costs everything — so when the two overlap, let the fruit go.
• Frenzy is the moment to freeze. A burst of extra fruit is precisely the situation one long planned path is built for.
• In Arcade the clock is the enemy rather than the bombs, so take riskier sweeps than you would in Classic.

Slashfruit recreates Fruit Ninja, released by Halfbrick in 2010 and one of the games that taught the industry what a touchscreen was actually for.

A swipe is not a button press: its path matters, and a single long stroke through several airborne fruit scores far more than three tidy ones. That is the whole design — it rewards a gesture rather than a reaction. Bombs are mixed into the throws and end the run instantly, so the combo you want and the swipe you can safely make are usually not the same, and greed is punished immediately.

Slashfruit is an original free browser game in the swipe-to-slice arcade tradition, with combo scoring, hazard bombs and two modes. Just open and play.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.