Highway Pursuit Unblocked
Twin guns, oil slicks and a smoke screen, on a road full of drivers who want you gone.
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What is Highway Pursuit?
Highway Pursuit is an overhead car-combat game on a road that keeps winding forever. You steer an armed sports car, shoot hostile vehicles and avoid hitting civilian traffic, while collecting oil slicks and smoke screens as rewards. The goal is the highest score possible before you lose all of your lives.
- Category
- Racing Games
- Players
- 1 player
- Plays on
- Best on desktop, playable on touch
- Input
- Keyboard, Mouse, Touch, Gamepad
- Made by
- Frank Force
- Checked
Highway Pursuit mixes driving and shooting in the style of the old arcade spy-car games. You pilot a blue coupe with two guns built into the nose along a road that bends forever. Some drivers want to run you off the asphalt, others are just commuters in the wrong place, and your trigger finger has to know the difference. Kills earn you oil slicks and smoke screens to deal with anyone glued to your tail. Frank Force built it in LittleJS, and you can play it unblocked here with keys, mouse, controller or touch.
Know Your Traffic
The road is generated as you drive, so the curves never repeat. Traffic comes in five flavors:
| Car | Side | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Red with side blades | Hostile | 200 points, three hits |
| Yellow with roof gun | Hostile | 300 points, three hits, fires back |
| Chunky light blue | Hostile | 500 points, bulletproof |
| Blue sedan | Civilian | Hitting it costs 750 points |
| Brown wagon | Civilian | Same penalty |
Enemies tend to sit in traffic before lunging at you with sudden bursts of speed. Distance makes things nastier: more of the road fills with hostiles, and gunners and armored brutes show up more often.
Score, Multiplier and Lives
Distance alone slowly earns points; kills bring the big numbers. Your third hostile kill bumps the multiplier to x2, and the seventh pushes it to x3. Destroying a civilian drops it straight back to x1.
You have three lives to start and can bank up to five, gaining one every 10,000 points. Any collision except with the armored car, or any enemy bullet, takes one away. Once your car reaches cruising speed it never drops below a minimum pace, so there’s no stopping to think.
Highway Pursuit controls
| To do this | Keyboard | Mouse | Touch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turn left or right | Left and Right arrows, or A and D | Move the pointer sideways | Push the on-screen stick sideways |
| Go faster or ease off | Up and Down arrows, or W and S | — | Hold the bottom button to accelerate or the far-right button to slow |
| Shoot the forward guns | Hold Space | Hold the left button | Hold the leftmost of the four right-side buttons |
| Leave an oil slick behind you | Z | — | — |
| Pop a smoke screen | X | — | — |
| Start the run over | R | — | Open the menu, then Restart |
| Open the pause menu | Escape | Menu icon in the corner | Menu icon in the corner |
Combat Tactics
- Short bursts in busy lanes. Your guns only fire forward. If a civilian drifts in front of a target, stop shooting until it clears.
- Oil is for chasers. A slick lands right behind you and lasts eight seconds, wrecking anything that drives through it. It’s ideal against cars sprinting up from behind.
- Smoke when surrounded. Cars inside the cloud swerve randomly and stop pursuing, and gunners firing through it mostly miss.
- Bully the armored car. Shoving builds up the longer you stay in contact, so keep leaning on its flank until it leaves the asphalt.
- Guard the x3. At x3 each kill is worth three times as much, so one stray bullet into a sedan can cost far more than the 750-point penalty itself.
For Fans of Arcade Action
This is one of the more action-heavy picks in our racing section: less about clean lines and more about choosing targets at speed. Runs are short when you’re learning and long once you master the weapons. If you want straight racing instead, Speedway Sprint is all about pace, and the racing games page has more options.
Highway Pursuit: questions players ask
How do I tell enemies from civilians in Highway Pursuit?
Bladed red cars and yellow cars carrying a roof gun are the enemies and need three hits each. Ordinary blue sedans and brown wagons are bystanders. Wrecking one of those costs 750 points and resets your multiplier to x1.
How do I destroy the armored light blue car?
Bullets just ricochet off it. Ram its side and keep pushing until it is shoved off the road, or lead it over one of your oil slicks. It is the most valuable kill at 500 points.
Where do oil slicks and smoke screens come from?
You earn them by fighting. Every fourth enemy you wreck grants an oil slick, and every sixth grants smoke, to a maximum of five apiece. You can check your stock on the right side of the bar along the bottom.
How do I get extra lives?
Runs start with three, and each 10,000 points awards another, capped at five. Colliding with traffic (the armored car excepted) or catching an enemy round each takes one away.
Can I play the full game on a phone?
Mostly. The touch stick and buttons cover steering, speed and the guns, but oil slicks and smoke screens have no touch button. A keyboard or controller unlocks the whole arsenal.
Credits and license
Highway Pursuit was created by Frank Force and released as open source. FreezeNova hosts a lightly adapted copy on its own server, together with the original license file.
- Source code: github.com/KilledByAPixel (original project)
- Code license: MIT
- Art & audio: MIT (cars, road and scenery drawn in code, sounds generated at runtime)
- Our changes: We renamed the game for FreezeNova, gave the enemy vehicles generic names, and placed the game with its LittleJS helper scripts in a single folder. The gameplay is the same.