YOVNOK

Armed cars, six arenas, a live broadcast — twelve cars, one survivor.

YOVNOK is a vehicle-combat battle royale that runs in the browser, on a computer or a phone. You drive and shoot at the same time: twin machine guns in the headlights, an RPG on a roof turret, a closing ring of danger, and eleven other cars that want you gone. Every match is broadcast live.

Play now: play.yovnok.com

It is free software (GPL-3.0-or-later) and every third-party asset in it is free to share — see Assets and licences.

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Playing

A browser with WebGL 2 (current Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari), played with a keyboard and mouse, a gamepad, or touch on a phone or tablet (held sideways; add it to the home screen for full screen).

Press PLAY, then:

• SOLO — twelve armed cars, every car for itself.
• DUOS — six cars, each a driver and a gunner leaning out of the window.
• SQUADS — three SUVs, each a driver and three window gunners. The SUV carries 1.6× the armour but pulls and turns slower.

Every mode is a battle royale: the ring closes, the last car standing wins. Bots fill whatever seats players do not (people are seated together). Alone on the server, a match starts in seconds; when others are online, it waits up to a minute so people pressing PLAY around the same time share it.

In duos and squads the driver only drives and the gunners only shoot. Every car carries its people — a driver at the wheel and, in team modes, gunners who sit tucked inside and climb out to aim, sitting up on the door frame with their upper body above the roof (the duos car's gunner stands up through a roof hatch), gun at the shoulder, with an over-the-shoulder view — all the way round: aiming across the car they turn and shoot over the roof. Tucked in they cannot shoot or be shot; out they can do both. A gunner holds a gun and a grenade launcher and swaps between them, can move to another window (not the wheel), and when shot down is knocked back inside for 8 seconds. The car is out when its hull is.

• PRIVATE ROOM — create a room and send friends its five-letter code or invite link. 2–12 players, no bots; the host picks the mode and the map and starts, and everyone picks their car and seat.

When the server is at capacity, PLAY shows a waiting card and goes in as soon as a seat frees up.

	Keyboard + mouse	Gamepad	Touch
Throttle · brake / reverse	W · S	RT · LT	left thumb: stick up · down
Steer	A / D	left stick	left thumb: stick sideways
Aim	mouse	right stick	right thumb: drag (with aim assist)
Twin machine guns	left click	RB	MG (slide to aim)
Roof RPG	right click	LB	RPG
Handbrake	Space	X	DRIFT
Boost	Shift	B or L3	BOOST
Reload	R	Y	↻
Lean out and aim (gunner)	hold right click	hold LT	thumb on the right
Fire (gunner)	left click	RT or RB	FIRE
Swap gun / launcher (gunner)	Q or the wheel	LB	SWAP
Change window (gunner)	F	D-pad left/right	SEAT
Menu	Esc	Start (D-pad + A/B to choose)	☰
Performance overlay	F3 or `	—	—

The arenas (public matches rotate between them after every match):

Arena
The Stadium	floodlit night; container cover, a mesa, a two-deck crowd that cheers the kills
Dusk Canyon	sunset; sandstone mesas, a dry wash, a rock shelf
Rainy Dockyard	night and rain; a maze of container lanes, warehouses, gantry cranes
Snowbound Base	overcast; runways, hangars, banked bunkers, frozen ponds with no grip
Quarry	clear day; an open pit on three levels joined by haul roads
Pine Forest	misty morning; trees to weave through, tracks, a logging camp, a bog

In a match

• The guns swing ±20° off the nose — aim them mostly by aiming the car. The roof RPG turns much further and hits hard, but reloads slowly.
• The ring closes in stages. Outside it, you burn.
• Damage shows: smoke, then black smoke and flames, then a car on fire. Repair crates and wreck salvage patch you up if you sit still on them.
• Close or reload the tab mid-match and a bot keeps your car going for 30 seconds — come back in time and REJOIN puts you back behind the wheel.

The garage. Paint, a pattern (stripes, hazard, camo, tiger, checker) in a colour of your choice, rim colour, a body kit (bull bar, light bar, rear wing, side armour, side exhausts), a door decal with your race number, underglow, and your crew's look (Raider in tactical kit, Drifter in a t-shirt and trousers, or a shirtless Bruiser; their team kit takes your paint colour) — some unlocked by playing (matches, kills, wins). And your guns, all open from the start:

Bumper guns		Roof weapon
Twin .50	a steady stream, all-rounder	RPG	one heavy rocket, big splash
Scattergun	seven pellets a shot, deadly up close, nothing past 70 m	Swarm	four rockets at once, fanned out
Lancer	slow, heavy, pin-point rail shots at long range

Window guns (team modes)
Rifle	the all-rounder
Burst rifle	three-round bursts, accurate at range
Marksman	slow, precise, long range
Shotgun	six pellets, close passes
SMG	very fast, short range, quick reload
LMG	a 100-round box for long chases, slow reload
Revolver	six heavy, accurate shots

Every gunner also carries a grenade launcher.

Your callsign, look and loadout live in your browser; there are no accounts yet.

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Running it locally

Requires Node.js 24 (or newer) and npm.

npm install
MODE=solo npm run dev

Then open http://localhost:5173. That starts two processes:

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