Archery Game — Stickman Bow and Arrow Battle

Stickman Archery is a free archery game with floppy ragdoll physics. You are a stickman with a bow on a wooden platform, and enemy archers keep appearing across the field to shoot back. Hold to draw your bow, aim the arc and knock them out level by level: five archers to a level, with a giant at the end. Shoot the floating apples to heal, grab a golden apple for triple shots and see how far you can get. It runs in your browser with no download and no signup.

How to Play

Aim: press and hold. Behind your archer it works like pulling the bowstring back; in front of them the bow points straight at your finger or cursor. A short dotted line shows which way the arrow sets off.
Power: keep holding to draw the bow further. The ring around your finger fills up and turns gold at a full draw. A full draw shoots hard and flat; a short draw lobs the arrow.
Shoot: let go. A quick tap does not fire, so you never waste an arrow by accident. There is no limit on how often you can shoot.
Survive: each enemy archer draws, aims and fires back. The first archer of a run holds fire until you take your first shot. Your run ends when your health bar is empty, and the next run starts again from level 1.

Damage and Headshots

Head — one headshot knocks out a regular archer.
Body — a regular archer goes down after two body hits.
Arms and legs — it takes four hits.

The fifth archer of every level is a giant with twice the health who hits harder: a giant takes two headshots or four body hits. Enemy arrows hurt you most when they hit your head.

Levels

Each level has five archers, and the fifth is a giant. Level 1 is easy: the archers draw slowly, miss a lot and stand close on low platforms. Every level after that is a little harder: they draw faster, aim better and hit harder, and up to level 12 they also stand farther away and higher up. The giants hit a little harder each level too.

Level clear — knock out the giant to clear the level: +2 skulls, +25 health and a full Helmet if you have one, then the next level starts a moment later.
Start over — knocked out? Your skulls are saved and PLAY AGAIN starts a new run from level 1. The game remembers the best level you have reached, so every run is a shot at beating it.

Skulls and Finishers

Every knockout earns a skull, a giant earns three, and clearing a level adds two more. Knock an archer out with a full draw and the body goes flying. For a moment after a knockout the falling body can still be hit: land a follow-up arrow on it for a finisher bonus of +1 skull, or +2 if it hits the head. Each archer pays one bonus at most.

Apples

One apple at a time floats between you and the enemy. Only your arrows pick it up; enemy arrows fly straight through. An apple fades away after about nine seconds, and a new one shows up a few seconds later.

Red apple — heals 35 health.
Golden apple — heals 50 health, and your next 3 shots are triple shots: three arrows in a tight spread.

Upgrades

Spend your skulls in Upgrades. Upgrades stay for every run.

Health — +20 max health per rank, five ranks.
Helmet — three ranks. Each rank blocks one enemy headshot: the arrow bounces off and does no damage. The helmet refills after every giant you knock out, at the end of each level, and your archer wears a steel cap while it has blocks left.

Tips

Go for the head. One headshot drops a regular archer; a giant needs two.
Take your time with the first shot. The first archer of each run holds fire until you shoot, so line it up carefully.
Learn from a miss. Arrows stay where they land for a few seconds, so use the last one to correct your next shot.
Chase the golden apple. Three arrows per shot make a headshot much easier to land, which helps most against a giant.
Finish them off. Right after a knockout, put one more arrow into the falling body for a bonus skull.
Get the Helmet. Enemy headshots hurt the most, and each Helmet rank stops one.
Heal before the giant. The fifth archer of every level is a giant, so pick up an apple first if you are low.
Upgrade, then go again. Knocked out? Your skulls are already banked: open UPGRADES, spend them, then press BACK and PLAY AGAIN to start a fresh run from level 1.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you aim in the archery game?

Press and hold. Hold behind your archer to pull the string back and shoot the opposite way, or hold in front of them to point the bow straight at that spot. The longer you hold, the harder the shot, up to a full draw in under a second. A short dotted line shows which way the arrow sets off; let go to shoot.

How do headshots work?

One headshot knocks out a regular archer. A body hit takes half its health and an arm or leg hit a quarter, so it takes two body hits. Giants have twice the health and need two headshots or four body hits. Enemy archers can headshot you too, and the Helmet upgrade blocks those.

What do the apples do?

One apple at a time floats between you and the enemy, and only your arrows can pick it up. A red apple heals 35 health. A golden apple heals 50 health and turns your next 3 shots into triple shots. An apple fades away after about nine seconds.

What does the Helmet upgrade do?

Each Helmet rank blocks one enemy headshot: the arrow bounces off your steel cap and does no damage. The blocks refill after every giant you knock out, at the end of each level. The Helmet has three ranks that cost 10, 30 and 70 skulls.

How do you earn skulls?

Every knockout earns a skull and a giant earns three, and clearing a level adds two more. Right after a knockout, hit the falling body with another arrow for a finisher bonus: +1 skull, or +2 for a headshot. Spend skulls on Health and Helmet upgrades.

How do levels work?

Each level has five archers, and the fifth is a giant. Level 1 is easy and every level after it is a little harder: the archers draw faster, aim better and hit harder, and up to level 12 they also stand farther away and higher up. Knock out the giant to clear the level: you get +2 skulls and +25 health, and your Helmet refills if you have one.

What happens when you get knocked out?

The run is over and the next one starts again from level 1. The skulls from your run are saved, so you can buy upgrades before you play again, and the game remembers the best level you have reached.