River's spider mission: catch buggies, repair the web, and face the queen. The original adventure stays playable.
Compact Help · focused keyboard controls
Instructions now live in a reopenable Help panel, keeping more of the web visible during play. Full instructions remain on start and retry. Movement and R restart keep working with focused Help; Space toggles the button without triggering the game's Space action.
Desktop Chromium checks cover focused-key controls, input recovery, natural victory/loss and restart. Startup and expanded instructions fit at 390×844, 844×390, 667×375 and 1280×800 in checked browser contexts. Expanded Help intentionally covers some scenery. Native-touch gameplay acceptance is not renewed by these checks; physical-device, native focus switching and family play-feel remain unverified. River's game rules are unchanged.
Published input recovery · September 29, 2026
Play September 29 input recovery — the complete preserved release, including its original history pages. Use Browser Back once to return here from the game, or Browser Back twice after visiting its own history.
The following input-recovery notes describe earlier checks, not renewed touch acceptance for Compact Help.
Input recovery · earlier verification notes
Fresh starts without leftover steering: held keys and stale pointer targets clear on restart and window blur. Held repair input clears too; move or press again to take control.
The bug goal, silk economy, web damage and queen rules are unchanged.
Automated Chromium checks on the byte-identical game pages cover keyboard and pointer recovery, repair cancellation, natural desktop victory/loss and terminal restart. Separate native browser touch routes at 390×844 portrait and 844×390 landscape verified natural capture, repair, queen victory and tap replay for latest and original. The original retains its legacy release-click replay quirks. Separate mouse and Space checks verified direct queen-wrap cancellation across synthetic blur and keyboard restart, followed by fresh-input recovery. These are distinct checks, not native window-switch or physical-device proof. Visual help overlays remain; input passes through on latest, but scenery and instructions can still be obscured. Native focus switching, hidden-document behavior, physical-device play and family play-feel remain unverified. These checked routes do not establish all-device or unobstructed mobile layout acceptance.
Original River adventure
The preserved original, before input-recovery changes. Its original controls and quirks remain intact.