Daily Descent

About Daily Descent

Daily Descent, by Graze Games, is a short arcade game played with a single drag. Your orb falls down a vertical shaft and you steer it left and right between blocks and narrow gaps. Touching anything ends the run, and runs last somewhere between half a minute and a minute and a half.

The daily run is the heart of it. The shaft is generated from the day's number, counted in UTC, so every player sees the same layout until midnight UTC. You have three attempts at it, and your best one is posted to a global daily leaderboard under one name per player. After the run the game builds a result card to paste into a chat.

Scoring rewards risk. Your score is depth times a multiplier, and the multiplier rises only when you graze an obstacle, passing within a hair of it without contact. The streak decays quickly, so a safe run scores at x1 while a run that shaves past blocks can reach x5. Your personal best is drawn in the shaft as a line you watch coming.

The shaft passes through five zones, Shallow, The Thicket, Ember Field, Crimson and The Void, each with its own colours. Ten cosmetic orbs unlock as you play and never change how a run plays. A practice mode gives a different shaft each time, as often as you like, without using an attempt. There is no account and no download, and it works offline once loaded.

How to play Daily Descent

1. Open the itch.io page and press Run game.
2. Choose Play Daily Run, or Practice to warm up on a random shaft.
3. Drag anywhere on the screen to steer the falling orb left and right.
4. Pass close to blocks without touching them to graze and raise your multiplier.
5. Use up to three attempts on the day's shaft; your best goes on the daily leaderboard.

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Tips

• Warm up in Practice first: it costs no attempts and the controls are the same.
• The multiplier decays fast, so chain grazes close together rather than taking one big risk and then playing safe.
• The shaft is the same on all three daily attempts, so use the first one to learn where the tight gaps are.
• Your personal best line in the shaft shows when you are on pace to beat it.

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