Stilt Fella

Stilt Fella commits entirely to one absurd premise: keeping a wobbling human upright on a pair of stilts while terrain, wind, springs and gravity conspire against him. Each leg has its own input, and putting one stilt in front of the other while not toppling sideways is harder than it sounds.

Sixty levels ratchet the difficulty from flat ground tutorials to platforms over chasms, narrow walkways, swinging obstacles and entire gauntlets where any misplaced stilt sends the Fella sprawling. Cosmetic customization lets you pick hats, glasses, shoes and stilt designs, mostly for the post-fall screenshot value.

Online leaderboards rank speed runs on each course, and a local hotseat multiplayer mode passes the controller between friends for fastest-clear challenges. The developer recommends a gamepad, since the analog triggers map cleanly to each stilt, though mouse and keyboard work for the determined.