You Have to Burn the Rope is a platform game for Adobe Flash developed by Swedish designer Kian Bashiri under the moniker "Mazapán".

At the end, there is a short section of credits which includes the original song "Now You're A Hero", composed by Henrik Nåmark.

As of January 2023[update], the current speedrun world record is held by user Saradoc, with a completion time of 26s 466ms.

Nevertheless, Justin Davis of IGN noted that there were a surprising number of people who did not realize they had to burn the rope to win and complained that their axes did too little damage.

Many months later, the MMORPG World of Warcraft added a quest titled "You Have to Burn the Ropes" in an update for the Mists of Pandaria expansion.