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A rotate-only precision platformer about a 2000s brick phone flipping its way back to its owner, solo or in online co-op.

Flipping Is Hard is a difficult rotate-only precision platformer about Flippy, a 2000s brick phone climbing back to its owner. Master physics-based flips and push through every fall, solo or in online co-op with up to 16 players.

Flipping Is Hard is a 3D precision platformer starring Flippy, an indestructible 2000s brick phone lost down a storm drain. With no legs and no walking, players rotate Flippy and launch him with a vibration jump, climbing ten areas of the Trashlands, a world built from forgotten 90s and 2000s objects, to get back to his boy Jeff. One bad flip can undo minutes of progress. A voiced narrator comments on every climb and fall, quirky NPCs offer optional challenges, and up to 16 friends can suffer together in online co-op. Developed by Elegant Horse Studios, the team behind Driving Is Hard.

Flipping Is Hard is a difficult 3D precision platformer in the tradition of Getting Over It and Jump King, from Lithuanian indie studio Elegant Horse Studios. Players control Flippy, an indestructible 2000s brick phone who was accidentally hurled into a storm drain by his owner, Jeff. Flippy wakes up in the Trashlands, a vertical world built from everything the 90s and 2000s threw away, and the only way home is up.

Flippy has no legs. Players rotate him relative to the camera and launch him with a vibration jump: a high jump for height, a long jump for distance. The controls take a minute to learn and much longer to master, and a single mistimed flip can send Flippy tumbling down a long way. Ten hand-built areas, from a cardboard army camp and a wooden playground to Candyland, a neon grid and a freezing fridge, introduce new hazards like ziplines, cannons, magnets, conveyor belts and reverse gravity.

Along the way, a warm, theatrical narrator, voiced by Sir Captain, keeps Flippy company, while eighteen oddball NPCs offer optional challenges that unlock covers, charms and stickers. Pressing Tab opens Flippy's own phone, with retro mini-games, stats and incoming calls. Players can go it alone or climb with up to 16 friends in online co-op, using the Help Beam to pull fallen friends up. Flipping Is Hard launches October 16, 2026 on Steam.

Elegant Horse Studios is a three-person indie studio from Vilnius, Lithuania, making cozy rage games: games that look colorful and safe on the outside, but leave you one mistake away from losing your sanity. Founded in 2024 by Liudas Spangelevičius, Tautvydas Kalėda and Laurynas Jatužis, the studio is behind Driving Is Hard (2025), a physics climbing game played in a bathtub on wheels, and Flipping Is Hard (2026).