Sinking Feeling

Sinking Feeling is a quick-fire two-touch arcade game that sees you controlling a big smiley face as it plummets down an endless, neon-bright shaft.

You tap on the left of the screen to move left, and the right of the screen to move right. Gates flash up as you dive, and you need to smash through the glass in the middle of them.

Hit the solid blobs on either side and it's game over. You don't have to go through the gates, but you won't score any points if you don't.

It's essentially a knife-edge game of risk and reward. Do you swing out and hope you hit that gate, or stay put and aim for the next one?

Fall for long enough and the once static gates start to move around, making your tumble ever more dangerous.

There's a poppy compulsion loop here that makes jumping back into the game after you've crashed the obvious choice.

Get far enough in one of your headlong dives and you'll unlock tougher modes. These just speed up proceedings, but they keep things fresh and mean there's a decent challenge here for anyone willing to put the time in.

The game looks simple, and doesn't quite have the 8-bit panache of the dev's earlier title Toast Time, but it's still put together solidly enough that you won't really mind.

There's never a time when you think the controls have failed you, and your tragic endings are always because you over-stretched or stopped paying attention.

Smashed that glass

Sinking Feeling won't be to everyone's taste, but it fits neatly into the burgeoning twitchy arcade genre that has chucked up so many gems in recent months.

It's fast, it's fair, and you can easily lose yourself in it for tens, if not hundreds, of retries.

It might get a little repetitive after a while, but you'll have sucked enough fun out of it by then that it won't really matter.