Bit Runner

Bit Runner is a high-speed arcade runner where the ground you run on IS the market.

Every stage is a real cryptocurrency — you start at the #100 coin by market cap and fight your way up, one rank at a time, until you reach Bitcoin at stage 100. The terrain under your feet is that coin's actual price history, from its listing day to today, drawn as green and red candles. Climb a bull run. Fall through a crash. Learn a coin's story with your feet.

■ A HARDWARE WALLET WITH LEGS

You play as a hexagonal hardware wallet in a Bitcoin cap and a golden cape. Every coin you collect changes the light on your shell. Beat a stage boss and that coin is stored inside you — broadcast, confirmed, received.

■ AUTO-ATTACK, MANUAL MAYHEM

Your SHA-256 Hash Blast fires on its own when enemies close in, so your hands stay on movement. Save the big stuff for when it counts:

- Block Forge — a giant block that crushes everything ahead

- Node Pulse — a network shockwave that clears the screen

- Lightning Sprint — invincible hyper-dash

- Mempool Burst — a storm of homing transactions

- Mining Drill, Halving (x2 damage), Difficulty Shift (slow time), UTXO Split (clones)

- Genesis Block — the ultimate: block #0 falls from orbit

■ 100 PLANETS, 100 BOSSES

Each stage gets its own planet theme and its own hazards — sharks, solar flares, UFO beams, Jupiter lightning, Neptune storms. At the end of the chart waits that coin's Core, with seven attack patterns and a rage phase. When it appears, the Miner's Pickaxe descends into your hands and swings on its own when you close the distance.

■ BITCOIN RAINBOW RUN

Beat a boss and blast into the bonus stage: a first-person sprint down the Blockchain Rainbow Bridge through deep space at thousands of km/h, over hills and hard curves, off rainbow ramps, grabbing coins for boost. A random premium item waits at the rainbow's end.

■ BUILT FOR ONE HAND

Two buttons. Jump and dash. Steer with the left half of the screen, tap your item bar at the bottom. Portrait or landscape, both work.

■ NO ACCOUNT, NO NONSENSE

No sign-up, no personal data collected. Your progress is saved on your device and survives app updates. Six difficulty levels from Very Easy to MAD MAX. English and Korean.

Bit Runner is a game. It does not provide financial or investment advice, and in-game coins have no monetary value.