HILLBOUND

A hill-climb driving game. Nine maps, 24 cars, ghost races. No ads, no accounts, no purchases.
Play in the browser Android APK Leaderboards
A car driving over the Green Monster at Fenway Park
Fenway Park: over the Green Monster, across the infield in front of a full house, out over the bleachers.
A car on the ice at Boston Garden under the jumbotron
Boston Garden: through the Zamboni doors, across the ice past the crowd, up the escalator to the rafters.
The countryside map with the on-screen pedals
Two pedals, a nitro button and a dashboard. Gas tips the nose up in the air, brake tips it down.
The garage with upgrade meters and the map grid
The garage: six upgrade tracks, twelve bolt-on mods, maps opened with tokens.

What it is

Endless procedural hills, a garage of vehicles rendered from Kenney's CC0 car kit, upgrades and mods, nitro, ranks earned through achievements, and cup races against ghosts of real runs. Coins come from driving. The game never asks for money, an account, or your attention between runs.

Nine maps, each its own place

Countryside, Desert, Forest, Beach, Mountains, Arctic, Moon, Boston and Jupiter, opened in order with map tokens. Every map has its own set pieces: a barn, a pyramid passage, ski jumps, lunar landers, a suspension bridge with a drivable cable.

Ghost races

Seven or eight tracks per map, from a 240 m sprint to a 760 m haul and one track around each set piece. Every finish is recorded, and you race the runs closest to your own time: other people's first, then your own past selves.

Your data stays yours

Saves live on the device. Optional sync goes through your own Nextcloud. Sharing race history sends only a display name, the car, the time and the path; the browser version shares with this site by default, the Android and desktop builds only when you switch it on.

Why Sisyphus?

The hill never ends and the car keeps going up it. The top rank in the game is Sisyphus, which is what the hill makes of you.

Free software

GPL-3.0-or-later. The vehicles are Kenney's models; everything else on screen is drawn by code. Translations, maps and vehicles are welcome.

Maps

CountrysideDesertForestBeachMountainsArcticMoonBostonJupiter

Leaderboards

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Times come from players who switched on "Share race history" in the game's settings. Runs are kept per game version.

Get it

Browser

Play here. Keyboard: arrows or WASD, Shift for nitro, Ctrl for jump. Saves stay in this browser; Nextcloud sync is not available in the browser build.

Android

Download the APK and allow installs from this source. Built for tablets; phones work too.

Linux

Linux binary (arm64). For other machines, export from source with Godot 4.7.