How does slashing work in Slash Saber?

Hold the left mouse button and drag. The game turns the path your pointer took into a cutting plane and splits the obstacle along it, so the angle of your stroke is literally the angle of the cut.

Yes. It is released by its author under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence and runs here free, with no download or account.

Should I slash everything?

No. Some obstacles cannot be cut and are there to be left alone. Swinging at those wastes the stroke you needed for whatever is behind them.

Can I play Slash Saber on a Chromebook, at school, or on a phone?

Yes on a Chromebook. Slash Saber draws with WebGL, which every Chromebook has had for years, and it is built for integrated graphics rather than a dedicated card. On a school or office network there is nothing here for a filter to object to on the usual grounds: no download, no installer, no browser plugin, no account, no chat and no user-generated content. Whether your particular filter lets it through is its decision and not something any site can promise. It wants a keyboard, so a laptop or desktop rather than a phone. The controls are listed above.

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Sword slicing game: time the cut, keep the combo

Katana out. Everything in the air is a target.

An endless run down a forest path where obstacles come at you and a mouse stroke cuts them in half along the exact line you drew. Clean cuts keep the combo; a miss takes a life.

Free to play, no download, no sign-up. Hosted with ❤ by GamerX.

Slash Saber was created by honzaap and is used here under the CC BY 4.0 licence. Original project. GamerX hosts it; we did not write it.

How to play Slash Saber

You move forward automatically down a wooded path; your only job is the blade. Hold the left mouse button and drag to swing, and the sword cuts along the path your pointer actually travelled - the direction of the stroke is the direction of the cut, and the two halves fall apart along that line. Obstacles arrive as beams and boards at varying heights and angles, and each one wants a stroke that matches it: a vertical post needs a horizontal sweep, a low bar needs an upward cut. Getting the angle wrong does not slow the obstacle down, it just fails to cut it. Slicing cleanly builds a combo and the run gets faster as it goes. Hit something uncut and you lose one of your lives; lose them all and the run ends. Some obstacles are not meant to be cut at all and simply have to be ducked by doing nothing.

Tips

Cut across the obstacle, not at it. The stroke direction is the cut line, so a short sweep perpendicular to a beam beats a long swing in the same axis as it.
Not everything should be slashed. Learn which shapes to leave alone - the failed swing is what loses runs later on.
Start the stroke earlier than feels right. The cut resolves where the blade is, and at high speed the obstacle arrives before your hand finishes moving.
Small, deliberate strokes hold the combo better than big flourishes, because they let you reset for the next obstacle faster.

About Slash Saber

Slash Saber is an open-source browser game by honzaap, built with three.js, and the interesting part of it is the cutting. Most games that advertise slicing pick from a few pre-authored break-apart animations; this one computes the cut. The stroke you draw becomes a plane in 3D space, the obstacle mesh is split along it, and both halves are capped and handed to the physics simulation to fall on their own. That is why no two cuts through the same beam look quite alike, and why cutting a plank near its end sends a small piece spinning while the long half drops. Around that sits a deliberately calm endless runner - a forest path, soft light, a slow build of speed - which gives the cutting room to be the thing you are paying attention to. The project is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, which asks that the author be credited wherever it is used; that credit is below and on our credits page.

What you need

Graphics: WebGL, which every browser from the last decade has switched on already
Controls: Keyboard — a desktop or laptop
On a phone: Not really — this one wants a keyboard
Install: Nothing. It runs in this tab.

Questions

How does slashing work in Slash Saber?: Hold the left mouse button and drag. The game turns the path your pointer took into a cutting plane and splits the obstacle along it, so the angle of your stroke is literally the angle of the cut.
Is Slash Saber free?: Yes. It is released by its author under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence and runs here free, with no download or account.
Should I slash everything?: No. Some obstacles cannot be cut and are there to be left alone. Swinging at those wastes the stroke you needed for whatever is behind them.
Can I play Slash Saber on a Chromebook, at school, or on a phone?: Yes on a Chromebook. Slash Saber draws with WebGL, which every Chromebook has had for years, and it is built for integrated graphics rather than a dedicated card. On a school or office network there is nothing here for a filter to object to on the usual grounds: no download, no installer, no browser plugin, no account, no chat and no user-generated content. Whether your particular filter lets it through is its decision and not something any site can promise. It wants a keyboard, so a laptop or desktop rather than a phone. The controls are listed above.