One tap. Learned in seconds.

Pick a game with one control, short rounds and nothing to remember between sessions: a one-tap runner, a daily word game or a simple puzzle. Most people who say "I'm not a gamer" are not bad at games. They are bad at controllers, menus and forty-minute tutorials, and nobody should feel bad about that.

We make Fluxo, a one-touch arcade runner, so count us as biased. Here is how it works and when it is the wrong pick.

1. Tap to flip. Your little pixel robot runs along the floor of a neon tunnel. Tap anywhere and it falls up to the ceiling. Your first run shows a TAP TO FLIP prompt.
2. Dodge. Spikes, walls, pistons and laser gates come at you. Flip again, even mid-air, to slip past.
3. Play again. When you crash, PLAY AGAIN restarts at once. No menu trip.

The whole game is one tap; everything else is timing.

Usually it is not the challenge. It is the amount you have to hold in your head at once:

• Two thumbs doing different jobs, one to move and one to aim.
• A camera you have to steer yourself.
• Menus inside menus: inventory, upgrades, quests.
• A story you lose track of if you skip a week.

Drag the slider above. That left side is a fair sketch of a lot of modern games. A one-tap game removes all of it, which is the design decision behind Fluxo: one input, and the difficulty comes only from timing.

You open it and the first run coaches you with a TAP TO FLIP prompt. You will crash early, and that is normal; everyone does. Play Again puts you straight back in. Once runs feel familiar, try the Daily Challenge: one fixed course per day, the same for every player on the same version, so you can compare scores with a friend who also says they are not a gamer.

It can be. That is why Fluxo has three modes. Classic is the core run. Hyper is faster with double gold, for later. Zen is relaxed practice with no wipeouts, which is where we would start a nervous beginner.

There are comfort settings too: screen shake off, reduced effects, music, sound and haptics toggles, and it honors the iPhone's Reduce Motion setting.

If one-tap action is not your thing, try these:

• Wordle: one five-letter word a day, in a browser.
• Solitaire: the card game you already know, on a screen.
• A calm number puzzle, such as our own Sumthread: one path, no clock. It is linked at the bottom of this page.

• Ads. The free game has house-ad breaks and optional watch-an-ad buttons for a revive or double gold.
• Purchases. All optional and one-time: Premium ($4.99: 2x gold, free revives, no house-ad breaks, the Golden Fluxo pilot), Remove Ads ($2.99), and gold packs ($0.99 and $2.99). No subscription.
• Speed. It is a fast game in a flashing tunnel. If moving screens make you queasy, choose a still puzzle.
• iPhone only. We do not make an Android version.