Vex Try To Fly

A launcher game with one input per attempt. A cannon fires the character, your timing on the release decides the angle, and everything after that is physics and whatever upgrades you have bought — so the run itself takes seconds and the decisions are all in the shop. The upgrade structure is where the game actually is. Launch power, glide, bounce and coin multipliers each change the flight differently, and the right purchase depends on where your current attempt is losing distance: a flight that stops on first contact needs bounce, one that never gets high enough needs power. Coins collected in flight fund the next round, which makes even a poor attempt productive. Attempts take under a minute including the shop, which makes it a game for short visits. Progress saves, the distances reach absurd numbers in the way this genre requires, and there is a visible ceiling to reach rather than an infinite tail. It plays one-handed on a phone, runs on anything, and is a clean example of a format whose whole appeal is the ratchet. The format is well worn by now, and what this version gets right is pacing the ratchet: each upgrade produces a visible improvement rather than an incremental one, so the progress never stalls into grinding for the next purchase.