Tail Swing is a one-button swinging game with a monkey as the star. Instead of a rope thrown from a hand, the monkey hangs on by its tail, and your job is to carry it from ring to ring across each level without dropping to the ground. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, and a level takes well under a minute, so it suits a quick break.
If you came to this site for Stickman Hook, the appeal will be familiar. The whole game is about timing one input: grab, swing, release at the right moment, grab the next anchor. There is no inventory or upgrade tree to manage. You either hold the momentum or you lose it, and the level restarts straight away when you fall.
Hold the mouse button, press and hold Space, or touch and hold the screen to grab on and swing. Release to let go. Then grab again when the next ring is within reach.
The rule that matters most is where you release. Swing forward and let go on the way up, while the monkey is still rising, so the momentum carries it toward the next ring. Letting go at the bottom of the arc wastes the swing. Letting go too late sends you back toward where you started. Falling to the ground restarts the level.
Swing Monkey is the closest match if you like the animal-and-swing idea. Grapple Grip and Roper also build on hooking onto anchors and using momentum. Stickman Hook itself is the one to try if you want the original version of this kind of swing-and-release play, with a stick figure instead of a monkey.
Tail Swing works with a mouse, the keyboard or touch, and only needs one hand. That makes it an easy pick on a laptop, a Chromebook or a phone.
Hold the mouse button, Space or a finger to grab on, and release to let go. Release on the way up so momentum carries you to the next ring. The level restarts if you fall.
Yes. It is free to play in your browser on stickman-hook.io, with no download or account.
It is an HTML5 game that runs in a modern browser. It only needs one input, so a mouse, the Space bar or a touchscreen all work.
