Balloon Games Online: Pop, Fly and Protect Balloons

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Balloon games online come in three main kinds: you pop balloons, you fly one, or you protect one. Popping games use taps, matching pins or arrows, flying games keep a balloon in the air past obstacles, and protecting games guard a balloon with a shield. Each kind below has games from the catalog, described from their own pages.

Kinds of balloon games

KindWhat you doStart with
PopTap, match a pin color or shoot arrowsBalloon Boom
FlyKeep a balloon rising past obstaclesBalloon Escape
ProtectBlock what threatens your balloonRise Up Balloon
Two players and odd onesRace to collect balloons or inflate themCollect Balloons

Games where you pop balloons

  • Balloon Boom: use your colored pin to pop only the balloons that match. One wrong tap ends the game, and the speed increases as you go.
  • Burst It Right: guide drifting balloons into position and pop them with matching-colored pins. Only a correct match bursts a balloon, mismatches count as failures, and your chances are limited.
  • Balloon Pop Master: pop colorful balloons before they fly away. Inflatable characters such as the Squirrel Pilot and the Happy Hedgehog show up. Tap or click.
  • Balloons Park: pop as many colorful balloons as you can before time runs out. Touch on mobile, mouse on PC.
  • Balloon Buddies Flat Edition: tap or click balloons before they escape the screen. Speed and frequency increase over time, and the balloon characters show moods such as happy, naughty, angry and laughing.
  • Balloon: lots of balloons are set free in the play area. Smash them before they get away, and do not let more than four go. One click to play.
  • Balloon Shooter Archery Game: use a bow and arrows to pop floating balloons across increasingly challenging levels. Mouse click or tap.
  • Up Shoot 3D: swipe left and right to shoot balloons. Aim for the multiplier areas to raise your bullet count and avoid the minus areas, which cost you balloons.
  • Blade Toss Clown: throw blades at balloons without hitting the rotating clown. Tilt your device to aim and tap to throw, or use the mouse or touch.
  • Balloon Slicer Game: balloons sit among obstacles. Click the blade and drag, release, and the blade flies the opposite way and bounces off obstacles to slice every balloon.

Quick one-tap games like these are explained in hypercasual games, more are in the clicker games category, and speed-tapping ones are in reaction time games.

Games where you fly a balloon

  • Balloon Escape: an endless arcade adventure with a hot air balloon. Fly higher while avoiding obstacles, collect coins and gems for balloon skins, and survive as long as you can. The higher you fly, the harder it gets. Hold the left mouse button on desktop, or touch and drag on mobile.
  • Skybound Adventure: tap the left mouse button to make the balloon rise, and it descends on its own when you stop tapping. Avoid the mountain-like obstacles and collect red flags for 10 points each.
  • Ballon Race 3D: race other players in a world where collecting balloons makes you fly. The more balloons you collect, the higher and faster you soar, and coins get you new skins.
  • Balloon Heroes Run and Rise: collect balloons to power high jumps, avoid falling into the water and race to the finish line ahead of rivals. Coins get you new skins.
  • Ballon Pop: dodge cactus to avoid exploding, and watch out, because the heat of the sun makes the balloon bigger. Mouse or touch.
  • Nightmare Float: guide a creepy balloon character through a haunted forest, floating up past shurikens, storm clouds and spikes, and collect potions to get new characters. Click or tap.
  • Gravix: push a balloon along paths until it reaches the final place of a level, across 20 levels. You push it with the balls that appear when you click around it.

More one-tap flyers are in one button games.

Games where you protect a balloon

  • Rise Up Balloon: move your shield with one finger to protect your balloon while you rise higher. It plays with the mouse.
  • Balloon Defense: protect your balloon from dangers across difficult levels, and rise through each level to reach the next one. Mouse and left click.
  • Stick Up!: protect the stickman and his balloon from swords, saws, razors and shurikens with your shield, and collect diamonds. Mouse or touch.
  • Velopter: an engineer flies in a machine called Velopter, and rivals launch explosive balloons at it. Tap the bombs to destroy them before impact, because every miss brings you closer to defeat.

Two players and other balloon games

  • Collect Balloons: a two-player game where speed wins rather than weapons. Gather balloons and bring them to the balloon machine, and the first to collect 20 wins. The red player uses WASD and the blue player uses the arrow keys.
  • Blow Balloon: tap fast to inflate balloons of different colors and shapes. If a balloon gets too big it explodes, and if it is too small the balloon hero cannot sell it. Perfect sizes and shapes earn coins.

Tips for balloon games

  1. In matching games such as Balloon Boom, check the pin color before every tap, because one wrong tap ends the run.
  2. In Skybound Adventure, tap in short bursts: each tap is a gentle boost, and the balloon sinks on its own.
  3. In Rise Up Balloon and Stick Up!, keep the shield between the balloon and whatever is coming.
  4. In Blow Balloon, let go before the balloon bursts, because a balloon that grows too big explodes.

Balloon games FAQ

Are there balloon shooting games online?

Yes. Balloon Shooter Archery Game uses a bow and arrows, Up Shoot 3D shoots balloons by swiping, and Blade Toss Clown throws blades at them.

Is there a hot air balloon game online?

Balloon Escape has you steer a hot air balloon higher past obstacles, and Skybound Adventure has you tap to make a balloon rise past mountains.

Can two people play a balloon game together?

Collect Balloons is a two-player game, with the red player on WASD and the blue player on the arrow keys. Ballon Race 3D and Balloon Heroes Run and Rise race you against other players.

Do balloon games need a download?

No. They play free, right in the browser, with no install and no registration, on a phone, a tablet or a computer.

Pick the kind you want from the table and open the first game in its list.

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