Games tagged “browser game”

304 hand-picked web games, playable right here — no downloads, no accounts, no ads. Most work on a phone; the ones marked Desktop want a keyboard and mouse. Everything older than the touchscreen lives in the Flash archive.

Show: All 304 · Plays on a phone (273) · Needs a keyboard (31)

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A Astroblast by Frank Force

Birodalmak (Empires) A 3D hex-map 4X you can actually drive with two fingers: pan, pinch to zoom, twist to rotate.

Boxed In Wall off empty sections of the board to trap bouncing balls before an unfinished wall gets struck — a from-scratch rebuild of a classic 90s area-denial puzzle, with dedicated touch controls.

Canvasnake A snake-vs-snake clone with a genuine neuroevolution-trained AI opponent, local 2-3 player modes, and a touch d-pad confirmed working in all four directions.

Cat Survivors A Vampire Survivors-style bullet heaven squeezed into 13 kilobytes: drag your cat around a flower field for ten minutes while auto-firing weapons and level-up cards do the rest.

CheaterMind A Mastermind variant where the computer never actually commits to a secret code until it has to — an adversarial twist confirmed working cleanly through a tap-native color-picker UI.

Chess A clean, fully-featured chess implementation from the LittleJS engine's own author — AI opponent, local pass-and-play, and tap-to-move touch controls confirmed working end to end.

Chitinous Crooks A seven-day roguelike jam entry about lobsterfolk, a stolen jewel, and a randomised deck of one-shot blessings instead of the usual inventory — built with a genuinely well-designed touch control scheme.

Civis Build cities, research technology, and manage diplomacy on a hex grid against up to three AI opponents, in this open-source Civilization-style 4X.

D Dragon Tax Return SimulatorDesktop by Matt Walsh

Dragonsweeper Minesweeper, except the numbers are monster hit points and clicking one starts a fight. A viral, critically loved twist on a 35-year-old genre.

Eat Apples Quick A charming, instantly-readable Pac-Man homage built in Rust and WebAssembly — eat every apple in the maze while dodging a ghost, faster clears score more — confirmed to control flawlessly on both touch and desktop with no bugs anywhere.

Euphrosine Wants Ten Dots A short ladybug platformer with a genuine multi-touch control scheme — drag to run, drag up to climb, and tap a second finger while holding to jump.

Four in a Row Drop coloured pieces into a seven-column grid and line up four before your opponent does — offline vs a friend, vs AI, or watch two AIs play.

F FOURFOLD by Mohammed Saud

Get sword, kill dragon, save princess A one-room Bitsy puzzle jam game whose title is also its entire plot — except the level keeps repeating, and the real puzzle is figuring out why.

Glitch Buster Jump on bugs and throw breakpoints to fix a crashing codebase before the clock runs out — a js13k 2016 runner-up with real, working touch controls.

Hexahedral Tap an adjacent cube to slide it and reach the goal tile before you run out of moves — 30 levels across three difficulties.

Idle Merchant Guild A 13th-century trading-guild idle game built entirely from plain buttons, dropdowns and text fields — confirmed fully playable via real touch, from founding a base to queuing up a lumbermill.

Jewelsback A traditional match-3 puzzle whose drag-to-swap mechanic runs through the identical code for a finger as for a mouse — confirmed by triggering a real match through the exact functions a touch gesture invokes.

Kittens United Guide a mother cat back to her scattered kittens on a move-limited grid, dodging obstacles and grabbing yarn balls along the way — built for js13k's 13-kilobyte competition.

Lander A physics-based lunar lander with a numbered daily challenge and a self-verifying control checklist — every touch claim it makes, including real simultaneous multi-touch, was tested and confirmed working.

MineSweepear Island A Ludum Dare 32 hex-grid twist on Minesweeper — drag a finger across the board to draw a scoring path against a 60-second clock, with spatialised audio hinting at nearby mines.

Missile Defense A Missile Command-style city defense game -- tap or click to launch interceptors, timed to meet incoming missiles (including juking 'smart' missiles and splitting MIRVs) before they reach your cities. Confirmed real physics-timed interceptions on both touch and mouse.

Moon Lander A crisp, neon-lit take on the classic rotate-and-thrust lander genre, with a real on-screen dual-stick that we confirmed lands (and crashes) the ship correctly by touch alone.

Musa's Quest A point-and-click medieval adventure with beautiful flat-vector art, judged 12th of the entire js13k 2023 field for graphics — tap to advance dialogue, tap the right character to interact.

Mykonos Island Voxels A calm, no-objective isometric builder for whitewashed Mediterranean villages, built to be played entirely with a thumb.

N n-gonDesktop by Ross Landgreen

New Year's Eve, 2019 A short, introspective interactive fiction about surviving a party you're not sure you still belong at, from the same author and engine behind three already-accepted works on this shelf.

Orbitswarm A Galcon-style real-time planet-conquest RTS -- your planets grow ships over time, drag from one to another to send a fleet, and capture neutral and enemy worlds before the AI does. Confirmed real planet captures on both touch and mouse.

Pegball A polished Peggle-style peg-clearing shooter -- aim your cannon, launch the ball, and chase escalating combo multipliers to knock out every orange peg. Confirmed a real physics-driven bounce chain on both touch and mouse.

Roomba Quest A short, deadpan-funny Bitsy game where you play a robot vacuum wandering an office, narrating the dust and debris it finds — confirmed working by swipe on phone and by keyboard on desktop.

Sleeping BeautyDesktop A tight, charming ASCII roguelike built in a week for the 7-Day Roguelike Challenge — climb a tower to rescue a sleeping princess in one focused, coffeebreak-length sitting.

SlotJS A circular emoji slot machine where your reflexes, not an RNG, decide the payout — tap to spin, tap again to stop each reel.

Social Democracy: An Alternate History Lead the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928 and try to stop the Nazi seizure of power, in a meticulously researched card-driven political strategy game.

Soyuz 404 A pocket-sized, wordless-but-witty space adventure where you explore a stricken spacecraft by pressing and holding, told entirely in flat vector silhouettes.

Space Wizard Toast Spinning Cast magic on a falling slice of toast so it lands butter-side up, dead center — a genuinely original js13k physics-flick game with a swipe-to-cast mechanic confirmed working on touch.

Swimming with Sharks A short, funny murder-mystery point-and-click adventure on a boat, judged 10th of the entire js13k 2022 field for gameplay — tap a suspect or object to investigate, confirmed working directly.

T TetrisweeperDesktop by Kertis Jones

The Archivist and the Revolution A critically acclaimed piece of interactive fiction about a chronically ill former surveillance worker in a dying, sealed city. Contains mature content warnings the game itself lets you opt into.

The Last Pawn A minimalist turn-based survival game — you're the last black pawn, the white army closes in from every side each turn, and every move is a confirmed swipe.

Tile Collector Drag from a cell to both place a tile and pick its colour by direction, in this Ludum Dare 58 tile-placement puzzle with tutorial levels, daily challenges, and a sandbox mode.

Traffic Manage traffic lights across six isometric cities before drivers get too angry — a js13kGames 2013 entry that placed 2nd in the Mobile category.

Tunnel A tiny, wittily-written endless avoider built in Rust and WebAssembly — hold to rise through a jagged, wobbling tunnel, release to fall, confirmed to work cleanly on both touch and desktop with none of the display bugs we've flagged in this author's other small games.

Under a Star Called Sun A striking, atmospheric Bitsy narrative piece about grief and light, featured by LIMINAL magazine's GLITCH series — confirmed to control correctly by touch and keyboard alike.

VidiMahjong A genuinely polished mahjong solitaire with provably solvable boards, hand-drawn tile faces, and a thoughtful mobile layout that scrolls rather than crushing tiles — confirmed to actually match tiles correctly on both phone and desktop.

Work-Life Balance Juggle a work task and a life task at the same time across a split screen — spot the typo, match the dance pose, balance the books, mow the lawn.

you are dough A tiny, warm Bitsy game about being a ball of bread dough on a kitchen counter — confirmed working by swipe on phone (with real item pickups, not just cosmetic movement) and by keyboard on desktop.