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OvO is a fast, twitchy stick-figure platformer built around momentum. You control a small runner who sprints across obstacle courses of spikes, saw blades, gaps and moving blocks, and the whole game is about keeping your speed up while you thread through them. There is no story to sit through: you drop in, run, die, respawn at the last checkpoint and run again.

Levels are short, which is what makes it addictive. A mistake costs a few seconds rather than a whole run, so it suits a quick break as well as a long streak of retries. A timer runs in the background, and shaving a course down is the real challenge once you can simply finish it.

If you came to Vex for Vex 7, the appeal will be familiar: precise, keyboard-first platforming where you learn a hazard by dying to it once. OvO leans harder on flowing movement, with slides and wall-jumps chaining together, while Vex is more about careful timing of individual obstacles.

How to play

Use the arrow keys or WASD to run and jump. Down slides, which is useful for ducking under low hazards and for keeping speed on landings. Jumping into a wall lets you kick off it to climb, and you can chain wall-jumps between two close walls to gain height. Hold the direction you want to travel through the whole move rather than tapping it.

Each section is a small puzzle in movement. Look at the whole screen before you commit, work out where the safe landing is, then try to do the section in a single unbroken motion. Touching a hazard sends you back to the most recent checkpoint, so you never lose much progress.

Tips

• Stop tapping and start planning. Most deaths come from jumping a beat too early, so wait until you are close to the edge.
• Use the slide to keep moving. Slowing down to line up a jump usually makes the next obstacle harder, not easier.
• When you fail the same spot repeatedly, change your approach angle or jump height instead of repeating the same input.
• Learn one section at a time, then link them together. Speed comes from knowing the course, not from rushing it.

Similar games on Vex

OvO 2 and OvO Dimensions continue the same style, so they are the natural next stop. Stickman Parkour 3 and Dreadhead Parkour put a different spin on running and jumping, and Vex 7 is the site's headline game if you want something more obstacle-and-timing driven.

OvO runs in the browser with nothing to install, and it is best on a keyboard. It suits short sessions, and players who like to replay a level until it is clean.