Bladestep

Bladestep is a free browser dungeon platformer built around one idea: your only sword is also your only ladder. Throw it and it flies straight until it hits a wall, then sticks there, humming. Now it is a step - jump onto the blade and stand on it to reach the ledge you could not reach before. Call it back and it flies home to your hand, cutting through every goblin, bat and arrow on its way. There is nothing to install and no account.

That one sword turns every room into a small decision. While it is stuck in a wall your hands are empty, so a goblin walking up to you is a problem until you call the blade back - but calling it back after stepping off also takes away your route upward. Standing on it, press again to climb one step higher instead. The best moments in the game come from using both halves at once: throw the sword above a pit, jump onto it, then recall it through the archer standing behind you as you drop to the far side. Stomping on enemies works too, and the first rooms teach the throw, the stand and the recall with a short two-step prompt before getting out of your way.

The dungeon is built as floors of three rooms, and new things arrive in a set order as you play rather than in bigger numbers. The first six rooms form a fixed opening: a safe wall step, a single returning slice, a quiet chimney, a double-slice gallery, a room with an optional high chest, then the Stone Warden. New rooms arrive when you complete the previous one, with retries staying in the same room. After that, archers join the room pools, and a thrown sword knocks their arrows out of the air. In vertical shafts: stand on your lodged sword and press throw again, and the knight hops up while the blade comes back and sticks in the wall a step higher - a chain of your own steps, one press each. Spike floors and cracked bridges that fall once you step on them, shield knights that block a throw from the front but not a recall through their backs, lava halls where hot rock melts your sword out of the wall after three seconds, mimic chests, dark vaults lit only by your knight and your blade, and wizards that yank your sword out of the wall and throw it somewhere else.

Three bosses guard the way down. The Stone Warden charges across the room, so step up onto one of the low ledges, let it thunder underneath and stun itself on the wall - that is the moment to put your sword in its mossy back and rip it out again. The Bat Queen cannot be hit in the air and marks her dive with a red target, but she likes to land on a lodged sword, and recalling it drops her to the floor. The Iron King turns slowly behind his shield, then charges, then calls goblins in a fury, mixing everything the earlier floors taught. After him the depths keep going, with the old bosses returning every few floors.

At the end of every floor you pick one of three cards with the gold you found: Iron Heart adds a heart, Long Throw sends the sword farther, Quick Recall brings it back faster, Keen Edge makes a recall hit harder, Gold Magnet pulls coins from a distance, Deep Pockets raises the value of every coin and Last Stand shrugs off one final blow per floor. Falling into spikes or lava costs a heart and puts you back at the last safe spot; losing the last heart restarts the room. Nothing is ever bought with real money, and your floor, gold and cards are stored on your own device.

On a desktop you run with A/D or the arrow keys, jump with Space, throw or recall with J and lob the sword upward with K; the mouse aims a throw wherever you click. On a phone, the stick at the bottom left runs, the stick at the bottom right aims (a dotted line from your hand shows where the sword will go), the sword button throws, recalls or climbs, and the jump button sits in the corner; tapping the screen also throws toward that spot. P pauses. Here the sword shapes your route as much as it fights your enemies.