After Swing Monkey: The Rope, Hook and One-Button Games on This Site

Same rope, different setting

Stickman Hook is the closest relative: one tap to hook, release to fly, and a hundred short levels of bumpers and springs. Spider Swing Manhattan moves the idea to a skyline, with webs instead of ropes. Noob Hook and Roper are the compact versions, and Grapple Grip and Tail Swing put a hook or a tail on the end of the line instead of a rope. If you like one of them, you will get on with all of them.

One button, different timing

Drift Boss comes from the same studio as Swing Monkey and uses the same hold-and-release idea to drift a car around corners. Rolling Jump and Jump Only give you only the jump; Flappy Bird gives you only the flap; Ping Pong Go! gives you only the return. They are all short-round games where the score comes from rhythm rather than reflexes.

When you want to steer

Tunnel Rush and Slope Tunnel are the first-person tunnel runs; Cat Mario and OvO 2 are precision platformers with instant restarts; Doodle Jump is the endless climb. None of them need more than the arrow keys.

For a quiet few minutes

The puzzle shelf has Bloxorz, One Line Draw and Water Color Sort for logic, Jelly Fruit Merge and Watermelon Drop for drop-and-merge, and Forgotten Hill: The Wardrobe 4 if you want something creepier. Monkey Mart and Rock Paper Clicker tick along by themselves while you decide what to play next.