Photon Tap

Catch the light before it fades. Don't touch the red ones. It gets fast.

SCORE 0 ●●● COMBO ×1 BEST 0

PHOTON TAP

Violet photons appear on the grid and fade fast — tap them before they're gone. Red decoys cost a life if you touch them, and a missed photon does too. Three lives. No mercy.

Tap or click the pads · works great on phones

Tip: rest your eyes on the center of the grid — peripheral vision catches photons faster than searching does.

How to play

Photon Tap is pure reflex. Photons light up on a 4×4 grid and fade in about a second. Tap them in time and your score — and combo — climbs. Miss one, or tap a red decoy, and you lose one of your three lives. The grid speeds up the longer you last, and at higher scores two photons burn at once.

  • Phone / tablet: tap the pads. The grid is sized for thumbs.
  • Desktop: click the pads.
  • The white bar at the bottom of a lit pad is its fuse — that's how long you have.

Scoring & combos

  • Each photon is worth 10 × your combo. Every catch raises the combo (×1, ×2, ×3… up to ×9); any miss or decoy resets it.
  • Faster catches matter: a photon caught in its first instant pays a small speed bonus on top.
  • Your best score is saved on your device (nowhere else — see our privacy policy).

Tips from the team

  • Don't chase — ambush. Fix your gaze at the grid's center and let the flashes come to you.
  • Red means freeze. Most lost lives aren't slow fingers, they're fast fingers on the wrong pad.
  • Protect the combo late. At ×9, one photon pays more than nine photons at ×1.

About this game

Photon Tap joins Sky Runner, Neon Breaker, Tile Fuse, Nova Strike, Circuit Serpent and Star Hopper in our arcade. One HTML file, vanilla JavaScript, no engine, nothing to download.

We're Webmaster & More, a small web studio in Los Angeles. The arcade is our playground and our portfolio. Read the build notes on the dev log.