Cliff Leap

Arrow keys to move, z to jump, x to dash. Wall-jump by pressing jump while adjacent to a wall. Mid-air dash is one-per-jump and resets on ground contact. Avoid spikes; touch any spike and the level restarts.

Cliff Leap is a precision platformer in the Celeste lineage with frame-perfect inputs and unforgiving spike geometry. Forty levels across four mountain themes. Speedrun-friendly with ghost trails. The format is competitive precision and Cliff Leap is one of the best at it I have played in a browser.

What works is the input responsiveness. Jump button has zero input lag. Wall-jump has a forgiving but precise coyote-time window. Mid-air dash is one-per-jump but resets on ground contact. Every input is what skilled platformer players expect, and the level design assumes that fluency.

Forty levels across four mountain themes (snow, jungle, desert, peak). Each theme introduces a single new mechanic and reuses it across the theme. The progression is paced for skilled players; casual players will struggle past the first theme.

Tested with keyboard and gamepad. Keyboard arrow keys plus z/x for jump/dash is the precision configuration. Gamepad d-pad works too. Touch input is supported but loses precision in the frame-perfect sections.

Where the design earns its high rating is the speedrun support. Ghost trails of your best times show on each level. The optional frame-counter overlay lets advanced players time inputs, and a per-level speedrun leaderboard supports community competition. This is precision-platformer infrastructure done right.

Where I would push back is the difficulty curve at the very end. The final ten levels jump significantly in difficulty without clear escalation. Even skilled players hit walls here. A few intermediate levels in that range would have smoothed the curve.

Four-and-a-half stars. Strong precision platformer with speedrun infrastructure. Recommended for skilled platformer players; not the right entry for casual play.