Starfling
Ranked 2 of 48 browser games by recommenders
A simple one-tap orbital slingshot game people find fun, clean and addictive. Most common caveat: on-screen text often covers the ball.
A simple one-tap orbital slingshot game people find fun, clean and addictive. Most common caveat: on-screen text often covers the ball.
76 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 59
- criticize it
- 17
- approval share
- 78%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 59 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Simple, fun, addictive one-tap gameplay
“I cannot express to you how much fun this simple little game is!”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” “Really nice and very fast becoming addicted :D.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” “I loved the simplicity, it was fun!”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” - Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file”
- Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file”
- Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file”
Orbit and gravity feel satisfying
“i love the gravity. but sometimes the orbital speed is to fast to be able to make the next jump.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” “The dotted line starting wide and slowly shrinking to the real orbit is a great touch.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” Clean look and nice audio
“Neat, and nice audio, but I wish it were a little more forgiving.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” “I love this and it’s very clean.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” “Looks and plays quite nicely.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Popup text covers the ball
“on mobile the quick/fast/blazing/skip text often blocks vision of the ball making it harder than it should be to make combos”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” “It’s great but the animations when catching a new orbit (sparks and combo announcements) is making hard to follow the ball”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” “Fun game, though a difficulty of playing it on a phone is your primed finger gets in the way of seeing the ball!”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” - Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file”
- Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file”
Low contrast, hard-to-read text
“Fun, but dark grey text on a dark background? Bit hard to read a bunch of the text.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” “the contrast is too low for my old eyes. I can't see the orbit most of the time”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” Game speed varies by device or browser
“On a Pixel 10 Pro with Firefox it's not too bad but it's definitely a touch less responsive than on Chrome”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” “the game is much faster on desktop, looks like it's maybe not framerate independent?”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file” “Very fun! If you play it on a big monitor, the games slows down for some reason.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file”
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| TinyWind | 61 | 19 | 76% | 1 | — | — |
| StarflingThis page | 59 | 17 | 78% | 1 | — | — |
| Starcraft: Ashfall | 46 | 12 | 79% | 1 | — | — |
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| Number Gacha | 33 | 11 | 75% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
40 of the 77 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the way zoom out works is really nice. retry and abort, all there.”
“too much stability though compare to Lunar Lander”
“the physics don't really match reasonable expectations”
“Nice! For my taste you could remove the TAP OR PRESS bar after some time”
“the marketing is deceptive and through me off at first”
“This game is so fun, great job.”
“Lush, perfect to take my mind off existing for a few minutes.”
“Game is fun, sure the mechanics aren't like real transfers but this appears to be a quick reflex challenge”
“the contrast is too low for my old eyes. I can't see the orbit most of the time”
“This is an excellent and distinctly frustrating game”
“I cannot express to you how much fun this simple little game is!”
“Fun game, though a difficulty of playing it on a phone is your primed finger gets in the way of seeing the ball!”
“I like it! One complaint is that if you are going fast it starts to display a "Quick!" message on top of the middle of the screen.”
“On a Pixel 10 Pro with Firefox it's not too bad but it's definitely a touch less responsive than on Chrome”
“i love the gravity. but sometimes the orbital speed is to fast to be able to make the next jump.”
“Love this! Only request is don't display Godlike etc where you are”
“Very fun! If you play it on a big monitor, the games slows down for some reason.”
“Really low frame rate on Firefox on Android (pixel 10)”
“The text that pops up in the middle obscures the current position making it hard to immediately launch again.”
“The dotted line starting wide and slowly shrinking to the real orbit is a great touch.”
“It’s great but the animations when catching a new orbit (sparks and combo announcements) is making hard to follow the ball”
“Neat, and nice audio, but I wish it were a little more forgiving.”
“I love this and it’s very clean.”
“Looks and plays quite nicely.”
“Super cool, super addictive :-)”
“the game is much faster on desktop, looks like it's maybe not framerate independent?”
“I loved the simplicity, it was fun!”
“I actually love the idea of opening the game and then not playing resulting in a negative score.”
“the tap to release controls are unintuitive for me”
“But the text does get in the way mid-combo.”
“Really nice and very fast becoming addicted :D.”
“Right now the first 5 or so times you miss. Probably the first 5 times you try.”
“Fun concept for the format too — games are the perfect use case.”
“Fun :) Small idea for improvement: the "fast" text is often over the same space as the ball”
“Fun, but dark grey text on a dark background? Bit hard to read a bunch of the text.”
“Good fun, my highest was 30, it took a while!”
“It also makes it feel like a game happening in earths atmosphere instead of space, it impacts the possible sense of scale.”
“on mobile the quick/fast/blazing/skip text often blocks vision of the ball making it harder than it should be to make combos”
“the way they fly doesn't quite match my intuition”
“Nice job. Consider allowing the use of a key (Z, spacebar, etc) in addition to the mouse.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.