Nitrome News

Introducing the Nitrome Classics range!

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:15:16 GMT

The good ol' days of carefree gaming are back! We are bringing back beloved games of old re-equipped for modern gamers. The Nitrome Classics range features select titles from our past lovingly ported from the ground up to modern formats like the Switch, Steam and Mobile with potentially more platforms to follow.

All of the games are not just meticulously restored but improved with higher frame rates, full screen aspect ratios and with higher quality music. Many of the games will be packaged as mini collections within a franchise and include additional content not found in the original release.

Twin Shot Deluxe

Inspired by classic single screen arcade games like Bubble Bobble and Snow Bros players must fight through a series of arenas using their bows and arrows which double as a way to help scale walls.

Silly Sausage

Meet our adorable pooch Silly Sausage, the gaming world's most stretchy dog! Navigate this surreal platformer using unique elastic controls to traverse the environment. Stretch and weave your way through this doggy dream trilogy of edible delights and deadly meat grinding hazards.

Skywire

One of Nitrome’s earliest hit games! Control a cable car as it makes its way along the track to get the passengers safely through the levels of an out of control theme park.

The first release will be Twin Shot Deluxe coming early next year to Steam, Switch and mobile.

Look out for more Nitrome Classics games in the near future. Re-live your childhood and complete your collection.

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3618520/Twin_Shot_Deluxe/

Yolk Plush Toys!

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:02:21 GMT

Yolk Plush Toys (from our Leap Day games) are now available to order for a limited time! Don't miss out because when the campaign ends they will be gone forever!

You can order them at the following link: https://shop.makeship.com/32CWtCf

A huge thank you to all that buy one and we hope you love it!

Playing Nitrome flash games!

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 23:51:18 GMT

Hi Nitromians,

We have now launched a solution to let our users play all 130+ Nitrome Flash games on the site. The games are still technically running in Flash so they will run exactly as they did in the past. Hurray.

We are doing this with the aid of a downloadable player called Supernova. Once downloaded clicking on the games will run them as before with one small difference in that they will now appear in a new window. Roughly speaking Supernova contains it's own browser that has a Flash Player built into it and it is this that allows the games to run.

You can download it by clicking on any of the Flash games and following the download buttons.

Currently the player is Windows only (Their site says a Mac version will come and if it does we will support it) and works on Edge and Chrome browsers.

Nitrome are still committed to converting our back catalogue to run in HTML5. We believe the Supernova player offers an important extra way to immediately preserve our Flash games for players who want them. However HTML5 is the future, offering the only true way to keep them embedded in browsers and playable across more devices.

We hope you are as excited as we were to dig into some of the games that have been out of action for the last few months!

Team Nitrome :)

Important Information

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 01:31:31 BST

Hello Nitromians,

It has been a long time since we made a post here and this probably will serve as the final post on the current website.

This post is to tell you about some important changes we are making largely in reaction to a new European law called GDPR that has came into effect (we will get to that). More importantly Nitrome has changed a lot in the last few years as we have shifted our focus from browser games to mobile and now also PC and console (I hope you guys saw that Bomb Chicken was coming to Nintendo Switch). It was about time we changed the website to reflect that and so the upshot is that there is a new more modern site in development (we will get to that too).

So what is GDPR?

Well in a nutshell it’s a law to help protect European citizens from companies keeping and using data collected about a user without their consent. Though it’s aimed at Europeans it is not a requirement that they live in Europe, so in effect any site that has a global audience (like Nitrome.com) needs to react to this change.

It is a well intentioned law which is hard to argue is bad for people but it does have a lot of impact on existing infrastructure that could not have foreseen needing these permissions. You can read all about GDPR and get more information here https://www.eugdpr.org

How does it affect Nitrome.com?

The big and regretful change you probably already noticed is that accounts are no longer a thing. This includes all of your collected avatars, your friend’s lists and comments.

The accounts sadly used information that we could not realistically and retrospectively get permissions for and to keep them active or even keep storing them would mean leaving Nitrome open to a law suit. It may seem drastic, but the effects of such a suit if it were ever brought would likely collapse Nitrome overnight so this was clearly the lesser evil. To be clear we had to do this and there is no way back. We will never be able to bring peoples accounts back because they have been intentionally deleted so please don’t ask.

In addition to the accounts we have completely overhauled our privacy policy. This explains everything we collect and use your data for. We encourage you to read it and have tried to make it as easy to read as possible but apologies in advance that it’s not really a page turner.

So with the bad news out of the way we can move towards the more positive news of a brand new site! We started making it a few weeks back when the extent of GDPR became apparent and it is now well underway. It is modern and should finally work as great on your mobile device as it does your desktop.

Speaking of mobile, the site is more aimed towards the games we make now so it is less of a browser games portal than it was in the past. As part of this it is mostly ad free with the exception of pages you can play games in the browser on. There will not be an accounts system on the new site, although we may consider making one later.

With regards to the browser games, they will still be there! We are fully aware of the increasingly diminished support for Flash games in browsers and its impending shutdown in a couple of year’s time. We also however don’t like the idea of killing games we poured countless hours into making and wiping them from existence. So there is still going to be a dedicated area of the site to access them for as long as Flash games are viable. In addition we have brought a couple of the games to mobile now and we have more on the way. We intend to keep looking at ways we can keep as much of our back catalogue alive as is financially viable to do so going forward.

Anyone who is interested in seeing all the latest news on our upcoming games or new site should follow us on our twitter account (this is where we are our most active). We are very excited about what is in store for Nitrome in the future and we hope as many of you as possible will continue to support our team on our crazy game making adventure.

The Nitrome team. =)

Leap Day: FREE Stickers on iOS!?!

Tue, 20 Sep 2016 20:55:48 BST

Hey Nitromians,

To coincide with the release of iOS10 and the brand new iMessage Appstore. We have created a cool bunch of brand new stickers for our favourite platformer Leap Day!

If you have an iOS device (ipod, iPad or iPhone with iOS10 you can now dowload our FREE Leap Day stickers for free to use in your messages.

Included are

-Cool animated pixelart Yolks to express your emotions. Dancing, angry, thumbs up, rage and more!

-A dress up Yolk avatar with costumes themed around events and holidays throughout the year. Halloween, Birthdays, Super bowl anyone?

-Be creative. Overlap multiple stickers to create hilarious outcomes. Why not mix them with your own photos and gifs too?

-A selection of in-game monsters are in there too, just for fun!

We hope you enjoy our stickers. Please feel free to tweet us with anything you manage to create, we would love to see them. =)

New traps coming to LeapDay TOMORROW!

Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:33:47 BST

Hey Nitromians,

Leap Days first MAJOR update (featuring tons of new traps!) is being released TOMORROW!

So hover your thumbs over the update button, as things are going to get a whole lot more interensting.

- Huge swinging logs!
- Sticky slime coated platforms!
- Super sharp Guillotines!
- Big bad bullets!
- Yolk cannons
- Rolling deadly barrels!
- Fireballs!
- Crazy twisting platforms!
- Timed magical switches!
- Walls of death lasers!

Download on the Appstore: http://apple.co/2bBE9ft
Download on Google Playstore: http://bit.ly/2ceadr7

Thanks for playing Leap Day. =)

Be sure to follow us on Twitter for the latest news!

https://twitter.com/Nitrome

Magic Mansion: OUT NOW!

Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:59:58 BST

Enjoy our latest 1-Bit retro treat Magic Mansion.
Cute as a kitten but hard as nails!

Download on iOS: http://tinyurl.com/z42abcz
Donload on Android: http://tinyurl.com/h8quvo3

Our Latest Published game by sets and settings is OUT NOW!

LeapDay OUT NOW!

Wed, 11 May 2016 21:16:29 BST

Hey Nitromians,

HURRAY! We have just released our lastest game Leapday on mobile.
There is a brand new level unloked EVERY DAY for you all to enjoy.

It was a real team effort to get this one how we wanted it. There is so much content that hopefully that each day should feel different from the last.

Download on the Appstore!

Download on Google Play store!

Happy gaming, let us know what you think in the comments below.

p.s If you like the game then please feel free to leave us a nice review and help spread the word with your friends and followers. =)

Happy Christmas!

Fri, 25 Dec 2015 17:07:47 GMT

Happy Christmas Nitromains,

With the holidays in full swing it feels appropriate to write a little post wishing you all a great time, to act as a round up for the year and set the sights for the year to come.

So this year you may have noticed we took a decidedly mobile turn. Some people think this is great but we recognise that for others they wish we would just drop all this mobile nonsense and go back to the good old days of browser games.

If you're in the later group we are sorry, but our current future seems to be firmly in the mobile market for the moment. Following a huge decline in the browser side of things over the last few years we had our most profitable year to date! That's some turn around, i'm sure you will agree and it is all due to our new focus on mobile.

That said we are very sad to have let the web side slip as we have. Our intention from the beginning has been to produce web versions of the games and release them alongside the mobile counterparts. That has not happened. We will endevor to correct this in the new year starting with releases for Beneath the Lighthouse , GoPogo and Rust Bucket in January!

Also in January if all goes to plan we should see the launch of 'Ultimate Briefcase' and content updates for both 'Go Pogo' and 'Rust Bucket'.

We have 3 games in the works that we are not talking about yet at Nitrome. That is not counting 'Ultimate Briefcase' or 'Project Jump' which we have talked about in the past that is still ongoing. We will start to reveal more about these projects in January.

Have a great Christmas everyone and we will see you all again in the New Year. =D

PARTY!

Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:33:54 GMT

Hey nitromians,

We are all nursing some rather sore heads this morning after an early festive chrismas party last night. Check out the group mugshot of the Nitrome crew (and partners).

=)

Friday!

Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:04:04 GMT

Hey nitromians,

Phew! it's Friday again after another extremely busy week. Time to fill you in with some details of what’s been happening this week here at Nitrome towers.

First off our next game Gopogo is out soon, in-fact it's going to be hitting the stores NEXT WEEK and we couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out.

Rust bucket is coming along leaps and bounds and we are wrapping up the finished product into a pretty bow to submit to the stores fairly soon. We are aiming for and Xmas release on this one.

Codename jump is finally being picked up again after a long break finishing off other projects. We will fill you in on some of the details of this as development progresses within the coming weeks. It's so far looking and feeling rather special.

We have also got another two projects in early development and the Go pogo team is going to be starting a third within a week. This means there should be a glut of exciting games for you in the New Year.

Happy gaming Nitromian’s have a great weekend.

p.s sorry for the lack of posts AGAIN. we'll try and improve a little and give you all some more juicy gaming dev news soon.

FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY!

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:01:26 GMT

Hey Nitromians,

It's been a while since we have posted... we'll anything really. The good news is that it's not because we have been slacking off. In-fact, we are working harder than ever on a whole bunch of brand new exciting games.

You already know about Rustbucket and Gopogo, But we also have another two games in the early stages of development. We are as ever remaining tight lipped about them for now, but stay tuned to hear more about these in the coming weeks.

Now back to the games you already know are coming!

Beneath The Lighthouse - We were really pleased with the response on this game. We really do love and appreciate all of our fans and try our best to update and get it working on as many devices as possible. This was quite a large intensive title, so thank you for your feedback, kind words and patience. The web build is undergoing some testing at the moment so with any luck (fingers and toes crossed) you all shouldn't have to wait too much longer.

Gopogo - is our next upcoming game. And you might be surprised to hear that it's ALREADY finished, submitted and awaiting review on the stores. We are really happy with the way it has turned out and will fill you in with some snippets of info and teasers soon, #Hypetrain!

Rustbucket - Our spiritual successor to Turnament is coming along v-nicely. We've been working hard on a super fun procedurally generated dungeon so it’s different every time you play.
It will have some sort of level based challenge structure that sits alongside this mode to ease the turnbased newbie’s into the carnage of the endless mode.
We are also planning a series of updates in which more levels with new themes and challenges are introduced. For anyone who remotely enjoyed the original, its going to be epic!

More news on our upcoming titles coming next week. Stay tuned and have a great weekend. =3

Beneath the Lighthouse on AppleTV!

Fri, 30 Oct 2015 22:05:39 GMT

Hey Nitromains.

WAHOO! After much hard work, Beneath the Lighthouse is available on the brand new Apple TV. It even has snazzy controls in which you spin the world with your thumb, neat!

More news on other games next week. =)

Icebreaker on sale!

Fri, 02 Oct 2015 19:50:50 BST

As part of Apples Gorgeous games promotion our game Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage is on SALE! It is 79p in the UK and whatever is the bottom price in other territorys too. If you havn't picked it up yet this is probably your best chance to get it cheap so go quick and get it now!

Friday updates are BACK!

Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:56:29 BST

Hey Nitromians,

We heard a few of you mention the fact that they missed Friday updates and we realised that it has been AGES since we posted one so... Time for a weekly roundup!

You all should have noticed our big mobile release this week Vault!

GET IT HERE: http://www.nitrome.com/mobile/

We are really pleased with how it turned out and it seems that most of you did too (phew!) We would love to hear all of you High-scores and your thoughts on all the weird unlockable characters.

We have of-course been working on some other games including our level base game Plod and project Jump which are in mid development.

However next week we are going to reveal a preview of something brand new and totally awesome.

Oh and did we mention its going to be our next game to be released...

until next week ;)

Vault!

Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:44:37 BST

Hi Nitromians,

You have seen the previews and now the countdown has begun.

This Wednesday Vault! will be hitting your app store.

Are you as excited as we are?

Touchy RIP

Wed, 08 Jul 2015 15:03:40 BST

Today marks the sad day that we take Touchy offline. The app has been unavailable to download or to make payments within for three months while we wound things down. For further information as to why the service has ended you can read the original announcement post here.

All links and categories related to the Touchy app should now be inactive and games that contained the API to link to the Touchy service should now have been changed or are in the process of being changed for versions that do not contain it.

We are unsure but Touchy may still function in the Nitrome games featured at BrassMonkey.com. Please feel to try and if they do you may continue to enjoy them there for the time being. We have no immediate plans to challenge them remaining there. We also do not control that domain and are in no way associated with any remaining service that may continue to function. Please do not contact us if it does work but fails to at a later date.

Though it is always sad when some functionality goes away we hope that many of the better gameplay concepts may materialise in our future apps. We are making apps now at a greater pace and already have tapped into past projects a few times. Most noteably the Magic Touch Touchy integration was what eventually led to the new Magic Touch app.

One of the most notable losses will be the loss of the virtual joypad particularly for multiplayer games. Though touch screen is not an ideal replacement for physical keys it didn't distract from the fact that 4 player can be a blast to play.

Games will be limited to 2 player but there could be a possible solution in the longer term (note...this is not a promise). Before leaving Tom was as part of the WebGL work looking for a work around to a key input problem that existed there. The solution he produced also allowed for joypad support and they would function on both the WebGL builds and Unity. So that will hopefully come soon after or with the WebGL support! It is possible with a little more work that we could extend the function to flash games. If that were the case it could allow the multiplayer functions to exist in the future. Label it as a maybe for now!

So that concludes Touchy. We hope that people do not morn it's passing too much and remember that the time we used to spend on Touchy integration can now be used on other things!

We have hit 10,000 followers!

Tue, 07 Jul 2015 15:39:20 BST

Hey Nitromians.

Due to your amazing support we have now reached 10,000 followers on twitter. Yes 10,000

Thank you for your continued support and welcome to our new followers.

If you are new here head over to our Games section to play now.

Finally if you are not currently one of our followers (why not!) head over to @nitrome and join in the action.

Thank You Everyone!

Fri, 26 Jun 2015 20:14:12 BST

Well, today marks my last working day at Nitrome, what a fantastic time I've had!

During my time here, I've had the opportunity to get to know people that have both inspired me creatively and challenged me intellectually - fuelling my passion that keeps me doing what I love to do. I am truly grateful to everyone at Nitrome Towers for this!

I also want to wish Nitrome the very best of luck in doing what they love doing, making awesume games!

Also, thanks to all of you - the Nitromians, Wikians and fans that have all helped me track down bugs, build new features and make the Nitrome web experience what it is today.

We know that there is still much more we want to give to you in regards to the web side of things, so with that in mind, I would also like to wish the new web developer the best of luck in all future features, updates, upgrades and projects moving forward.

If you would like to keep up to date with what I'm doing, you can always follow me on twitter. Thanks again for everything!

TL;DR

Thank you everyone, I've had a blast!

Green Ninja has been submitted!

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 19:27:49 BST

Hey Nitromians,

It's been a while in the making but our super fun Kung Fu action puzzler has been submitted to the stores ready for review.

We realise that we haven't actually shown off any game play footage yet, so take a sneak peek at the title intro for now.

We'll have more on this game over the coming days and might even show off a couple of stages for those of you who enjoy spoilers.

Anyway Green ninja: year of the frogs release should be kicking off very soon (perhaps as early as next week if store approval moves quickly). We'll be bringing you more info on this as soon as we know.

Until then happy gaming. =)