Goal

One crown, everyone chasing it. Steal it, hold onto it, rack up hold-time. Whoever (or whichever team) holds it longest when time runs out wins.

Controls

Drag the joystick (bottom-left) to move. On desktop, use arrow keys or WASD. A game controller also works — plug one in (or connect via Bluetooth) and use the left stick or D-pad to move, and A/Cross to Pass Crown when it's available. A Pass button appears on-screen too when you're allowed to hand the crown off voluntarily. Tap emotes on the right to react.

Game Modes

Standard — steal the crown, hold it as long as you can.
Freeze Tag — get tagged by the holder and you freeze in place until a teammate thaws you.
Hot Potato — (Teams only) the crown burns out on a timer and must be passed along before it does.
King of the Hill — stand in the marked zone while holding the crown to actually score hold-time.
Juggernaut — always played on a bigger Open arena. The crown holder grows and slows the longer they hold it, resetting the moment it's stolen — a bigger, easier-to-tag target, but everyone else has more room to actually create distance.

Power-ups

Pickups in the arena go into your 🎒 bag (button at the top-right of the arena, or press B). Power-ups you buy in the 🛒 Shop are in there too. Tap Deploy any time — you can have several active at once. Earn coins from the Daily Reward and from every match.

⚡ Speed — temporary burst of speed.
🛡 Shield — blocks the next tag against you.
👻 Ghost — pass through obstacles briefly.
❄ Freeze — freezes whoever you tag next.
👑 Decoy — (teams) plants a fake crown icon to bait the enemy.
🧭 Compass — arrow points you toward the real crown holder.
⭐ Double Hold — your hold-time counts 2x for a few seconds.
🔍 Reveal — (teams) shows your whole team exactly where the holder is, even through fog/obstacles.
👹 Jumpscare — (teams) spooks the whole opposing team's screens. Pure chaos, no gameplay effect.

Maps

Each map changes the feel: Bunker and Pillars add obstacles to juke around, Hazard has zones that hurt you, Night limits your vision, Moving has walls that shift, Warp Zone has teleporters. Graveyard (Halloween) has tombstones, portals and roaming wisps. Random picks one for you.

Random Events

On longer rounds (1:30+), chaos can strike mid-match: speed surges, blackouts, or a place swap that teleports everyone around.

Teams

Flip Teams mode on to play Red vs Blue — unlocks Decoy, Reveal, and Jumpscare, plus team-based hold-time scoring.

Joining Late

If you join a room after the match already started, you'll drop into 👀 Spectator mode automatically — a live read-only view of the game with full visibility, no fog or blackouts. You'll join in as a real player once the room's back in its lobby.