Games Like Crossy Road: Road Crossing Games Online
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Games like Crossy Road are road crossing games: you move a character one hop at a time across lanes of traffic, rivers and tracks, and see how far you get before something hits you. Crossy Road is a 2014 game by the Australian studio Hipster Whale, often described as an endless version of the arcade classic Frogger. Below are original games by independent studios that play the same way, plus a few that put you behind the wheel instead.
How Crossy Road plays
In Crossy Road you start as a chicken and keep moving forward through an endless path of busy roads, rivers and train tracks. You hop forward with a tap and swipe to step sideways or back. There is no finish line: the run ends when you hit a hazard, and your score is how far you got. Along the way you collect coins and earn other characters, and some of them change the world around you.
So the skill is timing and reading lanes: wait on a safe strip, spot the gap, and hop through before it closes. Here is where the games below ask for the same.
| What you do in Crossy Road | Games that ask the same |
|---|---|
| Hop a chicken across roads and rivers | Chicken Crosser, Chicken Road |
| Dodge cars while collecting coins | Road Crosser, Highway Rush |
| Time each move for a gap in traffic | Crosswalk Chaos, Chicken Road |
| Collect new characters or skins | Chicken Crosser, Road Crosser, Hop Masters |
Closest to Crossy Road
- Chicken Crosser is the nearest match. Help a plucky little chicken dodge oncoming cars and other obstacles as it crosses busy roads, rivers and hazardous fields. You can play as other animals too, such as a speedy dog or a nimble cat, each with its own abilities. It is in 3D and plays with a mouse click or a tap.
- Road Crosser is a 3D casual game where you steer a character to eat coins while avoiding cars. Spend the coins on new skins. It plays on the keyboard.
- Chicken Road asks the old question in its description: why did the chickens cross the road? The controls are simple: tap to stop walking and swipe to run.
Crossing games with a twist
- Crosswalk Chaos turns one chicken into a crowd. You guide a group across lanes of fast traffic, sending one person at a time with a tap or click. More people and more lanes appear as you go, traffic speeds up, and power-ups can slow the cars or make a safer crossing. Get everyone across to finish the level.
- Hop Masters keeps the hopping and drops the cars. Tap left or right to reach the next platform before it moves, breaks or disappears. Chests and piñatas along the way hold costumes for your character and items to decorate your home.
- Froggy Hop launches a frog across lily pads. Click to launch the frog, then dive onto lily pads, turtles and other things at the right time to bounce. Avoid stones, tree logs and mud. There are daily missions and frog skins with their own perks.
Traffic from the driver's seat
Crossy Road is about dodging cars. These games flip it, so you are the car dodging everyone else.
- Don't Brake - Highway Traffic is the closest to a crossing game: you drive through busy city intersections with cars crossing in front of you. Tap to accelerate and release to brake, and get across as many crossroads as you can for a high score.
- Highway Rush has you drive down a busy highway, dodge oncoming traffic, collect coins and survive as long as you can. Steer with A and D, the arrow keys, or the mouse or touch.
- Race Through Traffic is a single-player run along a busy road where you overtake cars and survive as long as possible. The riskier your moves, the higher your score. Coins buy new cars and upgrades.
More games behind the wheel are in car games and racing games.
Tips for road crossing games
- Look two lanes ahead, not one. A gap in the next lane is only useful if the lane after it lets you keep going.
- Use the safe strips. Pavements and grass between roads are where you stop and read the traffic.
- Do not chase every coin. A coin in the middle of a busy lane is rarely worth the run.
- Move sideways when the way ahead is blocked. A step to the side often lines you up with a better gap.
- Keep a steady rhythm. Panicked taps are what put you in front of a car; a calm hop, wait, hop gets you further.
Games like Crossy Road FAQ
What kind of game is Crossy Road?
It is an endless arcade game. Wikipedia describes it as an endless runner version of Frogger: you cross roads, rivers and train tracks one hop at a time, and the run goes on until you are hit. Games like it are usually called road crossing or hopping games.
Can I play a game like Crossy Road on a computer?
Yes. Road Crosser plays on the keyboard, Chicken Crosser and Crosswalk Chaos work with a mouse click, and Highway Rush takes A and D or the arrow keys. Chicken Crosser, Crosswalk Chaos and Highway Rush also take taps or touch, so they work in the browser of a phone or a tablet.
Are these games free?
Yes. They play free in the browser, with no install and no registration.
If you like the endless-run part most, games like Temple Run has runners where you switch lanes and jump, and hypercasual games has more quick one-tap games.
