SWOOP SEASON IS OPEN
Keep pedalling.
They’ve spotted you.
A free pixel-art bike game.
Dodge swooping magpies in Australian suburbia.
IOS & ANDROID AVAILABLE NOW
Browser, iOS & Android · Free to play
THE COMMUTE GOT COMPLICATED
Magpie Panic is a cycling arcade game about a suburban ride gone wrong. Steer freely, duck the swoops and slip past the chaos. Save your energy and see how far you can ride.
No fixed lanes. Weave, brake and pick your way through the street.
Four Endless difficulties, from Friendly to I Chose Violence. Choose your pace, or a swarm with obstacles still to dodge.
Beat your best score. Ride past the chalk outline of your furthest crash. This time, a little further.
A LITTLE SKILL. A LITTLE NERVE.
More points are there for the taking. Keeping them? That’s the trick.
Hold a wheelie, correct the wobble and keep the balance in the green. Release to bank your points before your luck runs out.
HOLD → BALANCE → BANK Green uses less energy. Wobbling uses more. Tip too far and you stack.
Roll onto a ramp to launch. Five different tricks keep the air interesting. Tap in the green for perfect points, or land it close for a smaller bonus.
PERFECT / CLOSE / MISS / STACK Grey earns no trick bonus. Attempt a trick in the red and you crash on landing. Tricks are optional: skip the input and land normally.
THEY’VE CALLED FOR BACKUP.
Angry heads warn you before a barrage of tracking attacks. Friendly keeps swarm attacks separate from ground hazards. Higher difficulties combine swoops with bins, boxes and cones: watch the birds and keep reading the road. Survive the whole barrage to bank the bonus.
Actual gameplay View full screenshot ONE MORE METRE.
The chalk outline shows where your furthest ride ended. Pass it next time and keep going. Best score and furthest distance are tracked separately.
YOU’LL MEET THE NEIGHBOURS
Magpies aren’t the only thing between you and a new personal best.
MAGPIE
Black. White. Absolutely convinced this is their street.
NEIGHBOURHOOD DOG
Sits. Watches. Suddenly needs to be on the other side of the road.
LOAF OF BREAD
Dodge it. Hop it. Please don’t eat it. The road is not a bakery.
ONCOMING CAR
Apparently other people use this street too. Give this one some room.
WHEELIE BIN
The only other thing doing a wheelie. Considerably less cooperative.
ROLLING BIN LID
No bin. No brakes. Just a lid with somewhere to be.
RUNAWAY SKATEBOARD
One board. Absolutely no rider. Still taking up your personal space.
TRAFFIC CONE
Bright orange. Easy to spot. Somehow still exactly where you want to ride.
POTHOLE
A little piece of road that has decided not to be road anymore.
RUNAWAY BALL
Someone wants it back. You just want to stay on the bike.
CARDBOARD BOX
Contents unknown. Inconvenient location guaranteed.
QUICK LESSON. LONG RIDE.
Learn the street first. Then add the showmanship. Steer, change pace and duck before trying a wheelie or a perfectly timed ramp trick.
One shared energy meter keeps every move a choice. Leave enough for whatever comes around the corner.
Try a practice ridePlaying in your phone’s browser? Turn sideways. Touch anywhere in the safe left half, then push and hold left or right to keep steering. Lift to stop steering. Push up to build a speed boost; push down to brake. Your thumb can rest higher instead of in a bottom corner. The game opens full-window when you ride. Pause to return to the site. Android and iOS app controls can differ as their updates arrive separately.
ONE ENERGY METER. Boosting, ducking, hopping, wheelies and tricks all use energy. Brake to replenish it faster. Stay in the green while balancing to make a wheelie last longer.
TAKE THE STREET WITH YOU
Play free on iPhone, iPad and Android. Landscape play, touch steering and dedicated stunt controls. Browser and app updates follow separate release schedules.
AVAILABLE NOW
iPhone & iPad
AVAILABLE NOW
Android
KNOW WHAT’S COMING
A good ride starts with a little know-how. Learn the timing, read each encounter and find help when you need it.
Controls, energy, wheelie balance and the timing that makes a ramp trick count.
From a barking dog to a bread truck: recognise the warning and choose your escape.
Help with mobile play, loading, sound and your saved records. Or contact the developer.
BEFORE YOU RIDE
Play free in your browser now. No download or account needed. On phones, turn sideways for full-window landscape play with touch controls. Pause reveals Return so you can come back to the site.
Yes. Download Magpie Panic free from the App Store for iPhone and iPad or Google Play for Android. Both apps use landscape touch controls. You can also play in your phone’s browser. Browser and app updates follow separate release schedules.
Your best score and furthest distance are saved separately on your device. Browser Endless records are also separated by difficulty and rules version, so an Easy ride does not replace a Hardcore best. A quick celebration marks a new record, and a chalk outline marks your previous furthest crash on the street. Practice does not update records. Cloud saves and cross-device syncing aren’t available; deleting the app or clearing game data may reset your records and settings.
Browser ads are currently disabled. If enabled, one labelled ad sits below the game, away from the controls: no pop-ups or interruptions during a ride. The Android and iOS apps can show ads between completed scored rides, not during play. You can play even if an ad doesn’t load.
Choose Friendly for a gentler Endless ride, or open Practice for unscored learning. The browser game has a repeatable street plus continuous drills for swoops, swarms, hops, wheelies and ramp tricks. Drills let you remount after a fall and keep practising. Start with steering and ducking, then add optional stunts. Boosting, ducking, hops, wheelies and tricks share energy, so brake to recover faster.
Open Challenges in the browser game to inspect each achievement, choose a Daily route or find the Practice drills. Tap or click a trophy to see its goal and your progress. Daily routes use fixed rules for repeat attempts; they are separate from Endless difficulty choices. Progress stays on your device.
In the browser game, Let’s Ride opens the four-magpie difficulty choice before an Endless run. Friendly is Easy: more recovery and no swarm obstacle combinations. Cheeky is Normal: rising pressure and occasional later combinations. Angry is Hard: advanced attacks sooner and repeated combinations as you progress. I Chose Violence is Hardcore: a hard opening, brief recovery and ground obstacles during every eligible swarm. Hard and Hardcore skip the first-play guide; it remains available in Help. Daily routes and Practice use their own fixed rules. Read the difficulty guide.
YOUR HELMET IS WAITING
One more ride. What could go wrong?
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