Caticus is a unique platformer/side-scroller that randomly generates it's levels. Caticus is in the style of "dodge the obstacles as long as you can" games (much like copter, jet pack joy-ride, doodle jump, temple run etc). However there is one important distinction with Caticus. Traditionally these games take longer to play the better you get. This is not ideal when you can only give a game a certain amount of time while waiting in line, for example. Caticus addresses this issue. Caticus is broken down into levels. This means the main goal (unlike the other games in it's genre) is no longer get as far as possible in one game. Instead each level generated is more difficult than the last. The goal of the game becomes collecting as many coins as possible and more difficult levels have more coins. Each level's length is roughly static. As the players speed increases the level's length increases as well. The only exception is the occasional special challenges that keep things interesting
Start of one of the special challenges. In this special challenge you play as a blue fly. Control your flight by tapping to fly up or letting gravity drop you down. Tilt the phone to move left and right. The spikes move up and down making controlling your flight challenging. Collect yellow squares until you win.
Defeating this challenge for the first time will unlock a powerup that turns you into a fly. Defeating it the 2nd-4th times will unlock upgrades to your powerups.
At higher difficulty levels the spikes can move closer to the center, leaving little room for error.