Bank Heist Defender
Shoot the robbers. Don't shoot the civilians.
A fast 2D shooting gallery that plays on any screen: phones and tablets held upright or sideways, laptops and PCs. You're the guard on duty at the First National Bank: robbers and civilians pop up from behind the counters, desks, sofas, doorways and the open vault, and you have a split second to decide who to shoot.
Can you beat the dev's high score of 91,050?
How to play
| Who | What to do |
|---|
| 🔴 | Robber: dark clothes, red ski mask, red outline, money bag | Shoot! |
| 🟠 | Bomber: orange jumpsuit, lit bomb, glowing orange outline | Shoot him twice before the fuse runs out |
| 🟢 | Civilian: bright clothes, tie or briefcase, green outline | Hold fire! One shot and it's game over |
They pop up from the office door, the vault and the exit at the back, two teller counters, and two desks. On a screen held upright there are also two waiting-room sofas right in front of you.
The game ends when you shoot a civilian or when the clock runs out.
Scoring
- +100 per robber, +50 bonus for a headshot (top of the body)
- Combo multiplier from x1 up to x5: it goes up one step every 3 hits in a row. A miss resets it.
- Your high score is saved in your browser.
The clock
- You start with 25 seconds, and the clock can hold up to 45.
- Every robber you hit adds +1s (headshot +1.75s).
- Under 10 seconds the timer turns red, pulses and starts ticking.
Ammo
- Your gun holds 5 bullets. Every shot uses one, hit or miss.
- Headshots are free: the bullet is refunded (+AMMO).
- When the magazine is empty the gun reloads automatically (1.2 seconds). You can't shoot while reloading, and the clock keeps running.
The Bomber
A rare special robber that gets more common as you level up (2% at level 1, up to 15%). Only one shows up at a time.
- He stays up for 5 seconds with a countdown above his head, and his bomb beeps faster as the fuse burns down.
- It takes 2 hits to take him down.
- Defuse it: +500 points (times your combo) and +3 seconds.
- Too slow: the bomb explodes. You lose 600 points and 5 seconds, and your combo resets.
Berserk Mode
Hit 15 robbers in a row without missing to go BERSERK for 5 seconds:
- Your pistol becomes a minigun. Hold your finger down (or the mouse button) to fire about 15 rounds a second, and drag to sweep across the bank.
- Unlimited ammo, and misses don't count against you.
- Only robbers appear, and lots of them. Each kill is worth +200 and +0.5s.
- When it ends you get a full magazine back, and the streak starts again from zero.
Levels
You go up a level every 4 robbers. Each level makes the bank a little more dangerous:
- Characters pop up and duck faster and stay visible for less time.
- More of them appear at once (up to 5), and civilians show up more often.
- From level 2 they start appearing in quick bursts, and every few levels a wave of 3–4 pops up within half a second.
End of game stats
Final score, high score, robbers caught, accuracy, highest level, longest kill streak, bombs defused, bombs exploded, and how many times you went berserk.
Controls
| Action | Phone / tablet | Computer |
|---|
| Shoot | Tap the target | Click |
| Minigun (Berserk) | Hold your finger down and drag | Hold the mouse button |
| Pause | Pause button | P or Esc |
| Mute | Speaker button | M |
| Start / play again | Tap PLAY | Enter or Space |
Any screen, any way up
- Held upright (phones, tablets): a tall bank with 9 pop-up spots stacked down the screen.
- Sideways or on a computer (PCs, laptops, tablets and phones turned sideways): a wide bank with 7 spots.
- The bank always fills the whole screen. Taller, wider or squarer screens just show more wall and floor around it, with no black bars.
- Turning your device mid-game switches the view and pauses, so you can settle in and tap RESUME.
- On Android, tapping PLAY switches to fullscreen.
- On iPhone, use Share → Add to Home Screen to play full screen without the browser bars.
Run it yourself
The whole game is a single file, index.html, with no images, libraries or build step. Everything is drawn in code and every sound is generated live.
- Download
index.html.
- Open it in any modern browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari) on your phone, tablet or computer.
That's it. To host it, put index.html on any static host (the live version runs on Vercel).
Built with
- HTML5 Canvas for all the graphics: the bank, the characters, the guns, explosions and effects
- Web Audio API for every sound: gunshots, the minigun, reloads, bomb beeps and explosions
- Plain JavaScript, with no frameworks or dependencies
localStorage for the high score and sound setting
