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Bungee Rescue

Review

This physics-based rescue game challenges you to swing survivors to safety with a bungee cord as the water rises.


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Platform
Adobe Flash
Released
2008
Theme
Perspective
Side view
Size
663.87 KB
Rating
0 votes

About Bungee Rescue

Bungee Rescue was one of those simple, absorbing games you'd find during the Flash era. It didn't need a complicated story or fancy graphics. You were just there, with a job to do.

You control a helicopter pilot. Your view is from above, looking down on a canyon filling with water. People and animals are stranded on small patches of land. You click to lower a rescue line, hook a survivor, and swing them back to the safety of the cliffside base. The challenge comes from managing the bungee cord's physics; you have to judge the swing and avoid hitting the canyon walls. As the water rises, more survivors appear, and the safe land disappears. The pace is steady, but the water's constant creep adds a quiet tension. It feels like a race against a slow, inevitable tide.