This game is a single-player arcade style game where the player must navigate a maze-like circle, which is the inside of a watch or clock, to fall into the centre. The game is divided into levels, each representing a different style of a mechanical clock; these range from pendulum clocks, to verge-and-foliot clocks, to co-axial and lever escapement watches. Each level explores one of these and is divided into five or more sub-levels, with each sub-level taking place in a different part of the inside of the clock. The sub-levels are supposed to be quick and can be completed in a matter of minutes, accounting for the player retrying multiple times, so a full level takes around twenty minutes.

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The main gameplay mechanic is freefalling to the centre of a spinning circle by moving the player character left and right to avoid platforms. If the player lands on a platform then they will lose a life, of which they have three per level and running out of these forces the player to restart the whole level. When landing on a platform, the player is slowed down drastically and can only move left and right very slowly until they are in freefall again. The circle is constantly spinning clockwise and anti-clockwise, changing direction every six seconds; whenever the circle changes direction there is a brief moment where the player is thrown outwards a little from the centre of the circle and, if they were on a platform, this would bring them back into freefall above the platform. The Pygame prototype (below) demonstrates this, as you can see whenever the player lands on a platform they are later forced upwards.