A pelican on a bicycle riding a 3D coastline towards the sunset. Swap lanes, jump the crates, duck the barriers and collect fish to build a tailwind. There is a relaxed cruise mode and a racing one.
PELICAN PEDAL (鹈鹕踏浪) is a three-lane endless ride down a 3D coastline on a bicycle, with a pelican doing the pedalling. You change lanes, jump the crates, duck under the barriers and collect fish, and the coast keeps changing around you as the distance counter climbs towards a sunset harbour.
The fish are not just points. Collect enough and you bank a tailwind you can spend on a burst of speed, which is the one decision the game asks you to make. There are three hearts, a personal best, and no network required.
How to play PELICAN PEDAL
- Press space to start. Left and right change lane — A and D work too.
- Space or up to jump over crates and barriers, down or S to duck under the ones you cannot clear.
- Collect fish to fill the tailwind meter, then press shift to spend it on a burst of speed.
- You have three hearts. The distance and score counters run along the top, with your personal best beside them.
- There are two modes: a relaxed coastal cruise and a faster racing one.
Controls: Left and right to change lane, space or up to jump, down to duck, shift to spend the tailwind you have collected.
Click Fullscreen above the game for the largest play area. If the game does not load, use Open in new tab to play it directly from our copy.
Why it's worth your time
The tone is the point. Endless runners are usually about panic; this one is signposted "no hurry, just good vibes" and the failure state is a rest stop that tells you the sea breeze will wait. It is a genre exercise built to feel calm, which is a harder brief than it sounds.
It is a single file of under 100 KB, hosted on a Cloudflare Workers page and playable with the network off. The interface mixes Chinese and English; the controls are shown on screen either way. It needs a keyboard.
How it was made and where it lives
Hosted on a Cloudflare Workers page. The author publishes as zecoba. Original: https://pelican-pedal.zecoba.workers.dev/. The Play button above runs our own unmodified copy, so the game keeps working here if that page goes down — which on free hosting usually has nothing to do with the author. Nothing about the game itself is changed, and the original stays linked from every page.
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For the same one-more-go rhythm with one button instead of four, Mosswing is a tap-to-flap game. SUNBREAK and OVERDRIVE are the racing side of the collection.
Frequently asked questions
- Does it need an internet connection?
- No. Once the page has loaded it runs offline — it says so on the title screen.
- Is there more than one mode?
- Two: a relaxed coastal cruise and a racing one.
- Is it in English?
- Partly. The headings are in English, the body text is in Chinese, and the controls are drawn on screen.
- Can I play it on a phone?
- It is built for a keyboard.
- Is PELICAN PEDAL free to play?
- Yes. Everything on Floating Arcade is free, with no account, ads or downloads.
- Can I embed this game on my own website?
- Yes — copy the snippet below. The embedded player links back here, which is how we ask to be credited.
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