Spikes Tend to Kill You 2 is a flash skill platformer. You are a steaming square with a dot in the middle, and you must navigate a series of screens. Each screen is filled with spikes or turrets that shoot yellow pixel bullets.
The bulk of the gameplay is…well what I described in the previous paragraph. It hearkens back to other skill jumping games like of maddening insanity like I Wanna Be the Guy or the nightmarish disappearing blocks from Mega Man. The major difference though, is that with I Wanna Be the Guy it had bits of old Nintendo games and nostalgic graphics. It was pretty much a self-aware parody of the platformer genre. With the Mega Man series, the invisible blocks were only part of Dr. Wily’s nefarious plan. You still get to fight robots and earn different weapons.