Stories & worlds

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)

Stories & worlds:

Wanderer: Lanternbound The valley's route lanterns have gone dark. Carry Wren's strange lantern through six regions and five dungeons, gather companions and relight the valley.

Adventures With Anxiety! A tap-to-read, tap-to-choose visual novel where you play as someone's anxiety — with real psychology research folded into the jokes.

All Things Devours 4:17 am. You have a bomb, a key card, and a time machine you are about to test on yourself.

Beneath a Steel SkyDesktop Revolution Software's celebrated 1994 freeware adventure, with hand-painted art by Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons, running via a real self-hosted ScummVM engine compiled to WebAssembly - confirmed genuinely working with real mouse-driven movement and contextual dialogue.

Coming Out Simulator 2014 A semi-autobiographical dialogue game about coming out to your parents, where dozens of small remembered choices quietly reshape a genuinely different final act.

Counterfeit Monkey Remove one letter and a pear becomes a pea. You are two spies sharing one body, on the run with a letter-remover.

Dante A little red devil delivers thirteen lost souls to the eighth circle of hell, through a campy, procedurally-shaded 3D underworld built to fit in 13 kilobytes.

Drascula: The Vampire Strikes BackDesktop A comedy-horror point-and-click adventure from 1996, freely distributed by its developer and confirmed genuinely working via a self-hosted ScummVM engine, with real mouse-driven walking across a genuinely elaborate, multi-scene opening.

ENDLESS SCROLL A short narrative game with a genuine branching dialogue-choice mechanic and a striking dual visual identity - retro computer windows giving way to dithered atmospheric landscapes - confirmed genuinely working with keyboard and touch controls on desktop and phone.

Flight of the Amazon QueenDesktop A cheerful, pulp-serial pastiche point-and-click adventure from 1995, freely distributed by its developer and confirmed genuinely working via a self-hosted ScummVM engine, with real walk-to-click movement and a live contextual verb bar.

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.

Lure of the TemptressDesktop Revolution Software's very first point-and-click adventure, the 1992 game that established the template later refined in Beneath a Steel Sky - confirmed genuinely working via a self-hosted ScummVM engine, with real walking and live contextual object labels.

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.

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.

Nippon Safes IncDesktop An Italian buddy-cop comedy adventure from 1992 with a distinctive comic-book presentation, freely distributed by its developer and confirmed genuinely working via a self-hosted ScummVM engine, with live contextual object labels and working menus.

novena A short, exceptionally well-received Bitsy narrative game about grief and memory (4.8/5 from 1,463 itch.io ratings) - confirmed genuinely working via real directional movement on both desktop and phone.

P Pageant A sharp piece of interactive fiction about a Chinese-American teenager entering a beauty pageant she never wanted, and about the one thing this reads better on than a desktop.

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.

SfinxDesktop A colourful 1997 Polish comedy adventure, spiritual successor to Soltys, freely distributed by its developer - confirmed genuinely working via a self-hosted ScummVM engine, with two separate live, accurate contextual object labels.

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.

SoltysDesktop A charming 1995 Polish farmyard comedy adventure, originally built as a tech demo for its own engine and freely distributed by its developer - confirmed unambiguously working via a self-hosted ScummVM engine, with real movement and a genuine character-voiced dialogue response.

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.

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.

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 Sunshine Policy The fields are dying, the rain mill has stopped, and the minister has excellent weather. Something doesn't add up.

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.

We Become What We BeholdDesktop Photograph the crowd and publish what you choose - your choices literally reshape the population around you.

whoami Dying of radiation sickness in a bunker under a burning world, a quantum-computing researcher has one terminal session to copy her mind into a simulation.

WitchcatDesktop The seasons are in chaos and your black cats are gone. Bend winter, summer, fall and spring to your will and bring them home.

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.

Zork I You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.