- 16 players online
- 10 levels
- 2 difficulty modes
- 17 Oct release in Australia
In Flipping Is Hard, you play Flippy, a brick phone that’s been thrown out with the rubbish. Your owner Jeff is somewhere at the top of the Trashlands, a mountain of forgotten toys and gadgets, and you can’t walk, so you flip end over end through storm drains, candy hills, neon grids and refrigerators to get back to him. It comes from the Lithuanian studios Elegant Horse Studios and Dawn Wood Games and launches on Steam on 17 October, Australian time.
What’s in It
There are 10 levels and two ways to play them. Flipping Is Chill takes around five hours, and Flipping Is Hard takes eight or more, assuming it doesn’t break you first. The developers say one bad flip can cost you an hour, which is very much the point of a rage game. The demo has already been played by more than 100,000 people.
Side Quest What Was the Original Brick Phone?
The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, released in 1983, was the first handheld mobile phone sold commercially. It was nicknamed “the brick”, weighed about 800 grams and cost US$3,995 at launch. You can read more about the DynaTAC.
The Trashlands are full of odd locals, including a foul-mouthed Tamagotchi, an anarchist gummy bear and a gingerbread man who DJs raves. Flippy also has his own retro mini-games, including Fnake and Flippy Bird. Any resemblance to old favourites is, apparently, purely coincidental.
Fall Together
Up to 16 players can climb together online, with proximity voice chat and a few deliberately chaotic ways to help. A Help Beam pulls a fallen friend back up while flinging whoever’s using it around, microwaves zap the whole group to one spot, and pings help you find each other after the inevitable fall. A friendly narrator cheers Flippy on the whole way, although the higher you climb, the more the Trashlands start to feel like a trap, which might explain why players have tagged it as psychological horror.
Accessibility Snapshot
Accessibility Snapshot
Accessibility checked: 1 October 2026
This comes from the announcement and the Flipping Is Hard Steam page, not hands-on time. I’ll update this if more info becomes available.
Visual
Not confirmed
No details yet on text size, colour options or flashing. Some levels are set on bright neon grids.
Audio
Not confirmed
A narrator guides you through the climb. No word yet on subtitles.
Communication
Reported
You can play solo or online with up to 15 others, using proximity voice chat and pings to find each other.
Input/Controls
Not confirmed
Steam doesn’t list controller support or remapping yet.
Cognitive
Reported
There are two modes: Flipping Is Chill (around five hours) and Flipping Is Hard (eight or more). It’s a rage game by design, and one bad flip can cost a lot of progress.
Motion/Sensory
Heads-up
It’s constant end-over-end flipping with big falls, so anyone prone to motion sickness should go carefully.
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Somewhere at the top of the Trashlands, Jeff has a lot of explaining to do.
- Chill Rage
- Solo climb Chaos lobby
Stay unruly.
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