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Beat the Ads

A fast-paced typing game where a pop-up ads are destroying your PC. Enter the right key combination to delete them! Do it quickly or your PC will die! and... don't fall for the ads.

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mirukulab
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mirukulab
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About the Game

Something’s wrong with your computer.

Your browser is flooded with ads. Type the combinations to close them fast, before your system crashes. But this OS has more going on than a busted browser. There are files you didn’t put there. Folders that are corrupted. A presence that seems to know how long you’ve been playing.

Beat the Ads is a fast-paced typing arcade game built inside a fake desktop OS. The gameplay is reactive and skill-based — combos of 1 to 5 keys, escalating pressure, ads that glitch position, bounce around the screen, or fall in waves. But the OS around the game is its own thing. Explore it between runs. Restore what’s corrupted. Read what’s left behind.

Something left it behind on purpose.

Features:

  • Skill-based typing gameplay with escalating combo patterns and pressure

  • Ads that glitch, bounce, and fall

  • A full fake OS to explore: browser, file manager, settings, leaderboard

  • Corrupted files that can be restored and a folder you probably shouldn’t have found

  • A narrative told entirely through the system itself

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