Jungle Trail: a close look, tips and whether it is worth your time

If you enjoy short sessions that are hard to walk away from, give this one a look. Below is everything you need before the first launch: the gist, the controls and some working techniques.

What this game is

Jungle Trail is a meditative first-person walk through a fully procedural jungle. There is not a single photograph, model file or recording in it: a valley 180 by 492 metres, a hundred thousand plants, 536 eroded stone blocks and sixty synthesised sounds — all of it recomputed by your browser the moment the page loads. You step onto a trail under a closed canopy and head for a clearing where a waterfall drops from the cliffs among the ruins.

How to play, in short

1. Jungle Trail is a meditative first-person walk through a fully procedural jungle.

2. There is not a single photograph, model file or recording in it: a valley 180 by 492 metres, a hundred thousand plants, 536 eroded stone blocks and sixty synthesised sounds — all of it recomputed by your browser the moment the page loads.

3. You step onto a trail under a closed canopy and head for a clearing where a waterfall drops from the cliffs among the ruins.

A few final tips

• Check out the demo mode on the game page — the AI shows how it is played, and repeating it yourself gets much easier.
• Play in short sessions: the best results come with a warmed-up head.

A perfect way to kill ten minutes — and suddenly an hour is gone. Ready to try? "Jungle Trail"