Why do I bounce off the walls in Helmet Hero?

Your helmet is too small. Each wall has a size threshold, so bouncing means you did not collect enough hard hats before reaching it.

What is the crowd at the end for?

It is where your helmet size turns into score. You plough through the plaza and the live hit count converts into stars.

Can I play it on a phone?

Yes - drag left and right to steer.

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Grow your helmet, smash the walls, plow the crowd.

Swipe down a construction runway collecting hard hats that grow the helmet on your head. Get big enough and you smash clean through the brick walls blocking your path. At the finish the runway opens into a plaza packed with a crowd: plow through with your now-giant helmet for a live hit count and cash it in for stars.

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How to play Helmet Hero

You run down a construction runway collecting hard hats, and each one makes the helmet on your head bigger. Steer by dragging or with left and right. Brick walls block the runway at intervals, and whether you go through one or bounce off it is decided purely by how big your helmet is when you arrive - so the first half of the run is about arriving at each wall with enough. At the end the runway opens into a plaza full of people and you plough through them with whatever helmet you have built, racking up a live hit count that converts into stars. The run therefore has two distinct halves: accumulate, then cash in.

Tips

Every wall is a threshold with a number behind it. If you bounced, you needed more hats, not better steering.
The plaza is where the score is. Reaching it with a slightly smaller helmet but reaching it is far better than failing a wall.
Hats often sit in arcs. Follow the curve rather than cutting across, and you collect the whole line.
Do not brake or hesitate at a wall. Arriving at full speed is part of getting through it.

About Helmet Hero

Helmet Hero is a grow-then-spend runner with an unusually clear structure: the walls turn the accumulation phase into a series of pass/fail checkpoints, so you always know whether you are on pace rather than finding out at the end. That is a small design decision that makes the game much more readable than the genre norm, where players usually cannot tell a good run from a bad one until it is over. The plaza finale exists to make the accumulated size visible - a number on screen is abstract, a crowd scattering is not - and the live hit count during it is the actual score. Construction site, hard hats, comically large helmet: the joke is the mechanic.

What you need

Graphics: WebGL, which every browser from the last decade has switched on already
Controls: Keyboard or touchscreen
On a phone: Yes
Install: Nothing. It runs in this tab.

Questions

Why do I bounce off the walls in Helmet Hero?: Your helmet is too small. Each wall has a size threshold, so bouncing means you did not collect enough hard hats before reaching it.
What is the crowd at the end for?: It is where your helmet size turns into score. You plough through the plaza and the live hit count converts into stars.
Can I play it on a phone?: Yes - drag left and right to steer.