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Wave 1

KolobokForest Rush

Nice guys hit back.

Kolobok rolled into the forest. This one does not sing. He rolls. Then wave after wave, each fiercer than the last.

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About

Get up to speed — or become lunch.

Kolobok, the little bread ball, rolled away from Grandma and Grandpa straight into a forest where the old tale is still warm: hares, wolves and bears are hungry, and the fox is already waiting. But this Kolobok does not sing. He rolls.

Build speed and smash into the animals: at full tilt a bread ball knocks anything flying, while a slow one is lunch. Eat the crumbs they drop, grow, and pick a new crust at every level — heavy, buttery, spiked, steaming or poppy-seeded. Rare cards change the rules themselves.

The waves never stop, and each is fiercer than the last. The daily run gives everyone the same forest, and the weekly and daily leaderboards are waiting for anyone who types a name.

Every sprite, map tile and sound is generated at runtime: the game ships no images and no audio files at all.

How to play

Drag anywhere on the screen: Kolobok rolls where you lead, with momentum. A second finger taps to dash. On a computer roll with WASD or the arrows and dash with Space.

Watch the speed gauge at the bottom. Until it lights up you are slow and the animals bite. Get up to speed and hit them: the animal tumbles away and drops crumbs.

Water bogs you down, fire burns but also dries a soaked Kolobok. The house in the forest heals and burns venom out — but the smell of fresh bread pulls the whole forest after you.

  • Any modern browser on a computer, phone or tablet — no install. The game needs only Canvas and Web Audio: no WebGL, no graphics card.
  • Controls: keyboard, one-finger touch, or a gamepad with the standard mapping.
  • Tested on iPhone SE 2022 through 15 Pro Max, Pixel 8, Galaxy S23 and S24 Ultra, iPad.
  • Weight: every sprite and sound is generated on the device — nothing to download, the game starts at once.

Bosses and seasons

The Fox — wave ten

Lurks at the screen edge, lays snares and pounces when you are slow. Comes back on waves 30 and 50, stronger each time.

Not singing.
Winter — from wave fifteen

Snow takes the forest, puddles freeze, grip goes. Bears sleep in the snow, and waking one is a choice. Eight waves later, the thaw.

Winter is coming. The night is dark and full of wolves.
Baba Yaga — wave twenty

Flies in her mortar: a rolling loaf cannot reach what is in the air. Throws the pestle, sweeps with the broom and whistles for magpies. The fight is the seconds she spends on the ground.

A mortar? Seriously?
The Danger ladder — after the boss

Beat the boss in the Forest or the Thicket and Danger 1 opens: the same ten waves, but faster, angrier animals, tougher bosses and a shorter window to ram. Five rungs, each with its own achievement.

Thirty in a row. Fox, did you see that?

The animals

Under each, a line from the end-of-run screen. There are two or three per animal, and you get the one you earned.

  • Hare

    Light and erratic: a smash sends it flying, and a rabbit rush triples their number.

    Hares. Many hares. Too many hares.
  • Wolf

    Runs in packs, flanks and lunges. One howl and the pack is on you.

    The pack had dinner. You were the table.
  • Bear

    Walks straight through you and bounces you back — unless you have the mass. Sleeps in the snow in winter.

    You hugged a bear. It hugged back.
  • Fox

    Lurks at the edge, lays snares and pounces on the slow. The first boss.

    The Fox asked for a song. You sang.
  • Hedgehog

    Curls into a spiky ball: smash it curled and you get pricked.

    The hedgehog curled up. You didn't.
  • Boar

    Charges, and crashes straight through the trees.

    The boar doesn't brake. Neither did you.
  • Magpie

    The thief: quick, light, barely bites — but takes.

    No crumbs, no strength, no magpie.
  • Viper

    Hardly moves, but the venom works long after the bite. The only cure is the stove at the house.

    The viper was quiet. You weren't.
  • Baba Yaga

    Flies in a mortar, throws the pestle, sweeps with the broom. The second boss.

    Mortar. Pestle. Kolobok. In that order.

Crusts

Three cards at every level. 23 crusts: three rewrite the rules, and five are evolutions of two crusts taken to the limit. Under every rule — one line of wit, the way the card shows it in the game.

  • Heavy Crustcommon

    more mass: harder hits, less knockback

    Diets are not for bread.
  • Sugar Rushcommon

    more top speed and acceleration

    Brakes not included.
  • Spiky Crustuncommon

    damage even at low speed; biters get pricked

    The hedgehog approves. The wolf does not.
  • Fireproof Glazeuncommon

    fire cannot touch you; campfires dry you faster

    The campfire is a sauna now.
  • Butter Coatingcommon

    bites slide off; water slows you less

    Slippery. Especially for teeth.
  • Second Bakingcommon

    more max health and an instant heal

    Baked twice, twice as stubborn.
  • Crumb Magnetcommon

    crumbs crawl to you on their own

    The crumbs come to you.
  • Golden Crustuncommon

    more XP from every crumb

    Shiny. The wolves do not care.
  • Bouncy Doughcommon

    keep speed after a smash; bounce harder

    Off the tree and onward.
  • Steam Burstrare

    every smash releases a scalding shockwave

    Burns everyone but you.
  • Yeast Regenerationuncommon

    regenerate while unhurt

    Dough rises even in a forest.
  • Hard Shellcommon

    every bite deals less

    Wolf teeth are not free either.
  • Poppy Seedsrare

    a chance of a critical smash

    Now and then it really hurts. Not you.
  • Rolling Pinuncommon

    more knockback; animals stay down longer

    Grandma's tool. Field-tested.
  • Loafrule-changer

    a killing blow becomes a blast and a heal

    Die? Not today.
  • Raisinrule-changer

    on a long combo every crumb flies to you

    With a twist. Literally.
  • Crustrule-changer

    launch from a standstill above the smash threshold

    Warm-up? Never heard of it.
  • Warm Snackcommon

    heals half your health

    Changes nothing but the day.
  • Blazing Trailevolution

    butter and glaze together: at speed you leave burning grease behind; animals in it burn and run

    Follow the smell of smoke.
  • Hedgehogevolution

    spikes and shell together: one bite in three meets the spines instead of you

    Hug me. I dare you.
  • Ricochetevolution

    bouncy and sugar together: after a smash you fly on to the nearest animal at full speed

    Next. And the next.
  • Rich Tableevolution

    magnet and gold together: twice the crumbs from every animal, and they all crawl to you

    Grandma would be proud.
  • Sourdoughevolution

    yeast and a second baking together: the dough heals even under bites, never pausing

    Rises even while being eaten.

The homestead

The house he rolled away from

The «Homestead» button on the title screen opens the stove, the pantry and the porch. The stove burns firewood and cools in a day; a warm stove warms the crust for the first minute of a run. It also bakes five crust colour sets — for the Fox, for Yaga, for the Danger rungs.

Grandpa, get the dough ready. Just in case.
Supplies and requests

Flour, firewood, honey, raspberries and poppy are gathered in the forest and reach the pantry only if Kolobok makes it home; a magpie picks over the one who got eaten — half arrives. Every day Grandma and Grandpa leave a request on the porch: raspberries for jam, firewood, honey, a magpie, wolves, a bear — or simply to come home alive.

Bag's full. Grandpa, meet me — or the magpie will.
The garden and the growing house

Three beds grow in real time: raspberries in eight hours, poppy in a day, a turnip in three — a good turnip gives a starting perk for the whole day. The house grows with your deeds and shows on the title screen: a fence for five homecomings, a roof for forty supplies, a cat for three requests, a well, a birdhouse, a weathervane.

Again?! I can't keep you in flour.

Heard in the forest

The song

The first animal of each kind you smash earns its line. The victory screen sings the whole couplet.

I got away from Grandma, I got away from Grandpa, and from the hare, and from the wolf, and from the hedgehog, and from the boar, and from the magpie, and from the viper, and from the bear, and from you, Fox, all the more!

The Fox asks for a song on wave ten. In the tale, Kolobok sang. Here he does not.

Over the roof

Grandma and Grandpa, at every warm-up by the stove — one of five.

  • Grandma:burrs again?
  • Grandpa:don't sing to the fox. Or anyone.
  • Grandma:cool down, then roll.
  • Grandpa:the stove is warm, the forest is not.
  • Grandma:roll off again and I stop baking.

And if Kolobok gets eaten, Grandpa asks Grandma to bake a new one: "Grandma, bake us a new kolobok!" — "Again?! I can't keep you in flour." — "Here I am! Golden as ever. Just don't mention the fox."

Kolobok himself

Per event, never more than one in twenty seconds: a bite from each animal in its own words, a bump into a tree, streaks of ten, fifteen and thirty, water, ice, the Fox, Yaga, winter, health running low.

  • Ow! That was my crust!
  • I'm bread, you know!
  • Not me. Momentum.
  • Bread and water. Bad mix.
  • Ice! Brakes are for others.
  • Not singing.
  • Winter is coming.
  • The North remembers. So do the wolves.
  • Ow! Who put a tree here?
  • Fifteen in a row! Grandma would be proud.
  • I'm not bread, I'm a natural disaster.
  • A bear. Well, at least it didn't sit on me.
  • That's not a bite, that's needlework.
  • Who let a snake into the tale?
  • A little more and I'm a rusk.

Never over a wave banner and never more than one in twenty seconds: the rule comes first.

What is in it

  • 2bosses: the Fox and Baba Yaga
  • 9kinds of animals
  • 23crust upgrades
  • 49achievements
  • 5rungs of Danger after the boss
  • 8interface languages
  • 3difficulty levels
  • ∞waves: the forest never ends
  • 0external art or audio files

Achievements

49 in all. Each gives only its name, not the task; the name is usually enough of a hint. Four are secrets: the name shows once you find the place.

  • First one down
  • The 101st doesn't count
  • Forest Terror
  • Still rolling
  • Made it to the Fox
  • Still in one piece
  • The tea went cold
  • Chain Reaction
  • Unstoppable
  • Bear took a nap
  • Outfoxed
  • The boar braked
  • Magpie Down
  • Viper in a Knot
  • The Whole Book
  • Soft Belly
  • Through the Fog
  • After the Silence
  • New Rules
  • Two Became One
  • Pack Breaker
  • Brick, not bread
  • Soggy Bread
  • Pantry raid
  • Far from home
  • Homebody
  • Crisp
  • Well risen
  • Overproofed
  • Master Baker
  • Untouchable
  • Sledgehammer
  • The Tale Rewritten
  • Quick Wit
  • Deep Forest
  • Thicket Fox
  • First Snow
  • Winter Hunt
  • Split the Mortar
  • Back home
  • Into the Danger
  • Second Rung
  • Halfway Up
  • Thin Air
  • Top of the Ladder
  • Secret
  • Secret
  • Secret
  • Secret

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News

The big changes lately. The full dated version history is on the What's new page.

  • The homestead The house Kolobok rolled away from: the stove, the pantry, a porch with a daily request from Grandma and Grandpa, a real-time garden. Supplies arrive only if you make it home; the house grows with your deeds.
  • The Danger ladder After a boss win — five rungs: the same ten waves, but faster, angrier animals and tougher bosses. Each rung has its own achievement.
  • The forest found its voice Kolobok sings his song a line per animal, Grandma and Grandpa grumble from over the roof, every card carries a line of wit under its rule, and the end of a run has two or three versions of its last words.
  • Baba Yaga, the second boss She takes every twentieth wave and fights from the air: while she is on the broom, a rolling loaf cannot reach her.
  • Winter in the forest From wave fifteen snow falls, puddles freeze and grip goes — and then the thaw comes.