There are lots of runner games available in the hundreds (maybe thousands, or millions?) of Flash-based browser games portals. Picking one from the stack is a difficult task especially considering that most of these games are utter crap. Sorry for the bluntness, but we need honesty sometimes.

Armor Games probably is the biggest Flash game studio that creates its own game. The right term is “sponsor” but let’s get over the semantics and push forward to the very game that is featured in this post. Railbot is a runner game that is a must play in your browser. In fact, this game is already been available in both Android and iOS ecosystems.

This is your typical runner game, but certainly, not an ugly one. Railbot is so polished, it shines. Here you control a robot riding on rails (so let us not call it runner anymore, but rider?) Some of these rails are unstable, others collapse almost immediately upon touch. There are coins to collect, robots to evade, and shop and upgrade system. In a sense, this is not your typical Canabalt clone, this is new.

The upgrade system is for cosmetics only, not bad, and you shouldn’t care. You probably spent thousands of minutes playing classic runner games and didn’t ever had the need of augmenting your characters’ “stats”. Runner games are all about  mad skillz, you be glad that Railbot considers yours before everything else.