Comet Sling

How to play

You're a comet crossing a galaxy, and the only way forward is to swing from star to star. Hold to shoot a gravity beam at the nearest star in reach (it's marked with a dashed circle), and you'll swing around it on the beam. Let go to fly off in whatever direction you're moving. Your score is how far you get, plus bonus points.

There's always gravity pulling you down. Below everything is the void, and falling into it ends the flight. A long beam reels itself in quickly, and swinging on a shorter beam makes you go faster, so grabbing early is usually safer than grabbing late.

Slings, rings and combos

• SLING: let go while you're flying up and forward and you get a burst of extra speed and a combo point. It's the most important skill in the game.
• Golden rings: fly through one for a big bonus and a moment of slow motion.
• Stardust: the small glowing dots are pulled toward you when you get close. Each one is worth more the higher your combo.
• Combo: slings, rings and grazes all add to your combo, and each one is worth more than the last. Go about three seconds without one and it resets.

Black holes

After the first stretch, black holes appear between the stars. They pull you toward them, harder the closer you get, and touching the dark center ends the flight. Pass close to one without getting caught and you score a GRAZE, which is worth a lot of points and adds to your combo. Black holes become more common the further you fly.

Tips

• Let go a little before the top of your swing, while you're still rising, for a SLING.
• Don't wait until you're low to grab. The lower you are, the more a swing dips toward the void.
• Pass black holes fast. The quicker you go by, the less time their pull has to drag you in, so a high-speed GRAZE is the safe kind.
• On phones the view zooms out so you can see the next stars coming. Look ahead, not at the comet.