56 browser games & playful websites

Things to lose an evening to. Every games & play site in the directory, each one checked by a person.

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3D Aim Trainer

Shooting-range drills in the browser to train flicks, tracking and reaction time, with stats to see whether you're improving.
- Games & Play
- Freemium
- app.3daimtrainer.com
BuildGuides

Minecraft blueprints shown layer by layer in 3D, so you can rebuild houses, castles and farms block by block.
- Games & Play
- Free
- buildguides.net
Chunk Base

Enter a Minecraft seed and see where every biome, village, stronghold and slime chunk is before you start digging.
- Games & Play
- Free
- chunkbase.com
donjon

A huge set of random generators for D&D and other tabletop games: dungeons, towns, treasure, names and whole worlds.
- Games & Play
- Free
- donjon.bin.sh
Glenn

An open-world driving game set in real cities, playable in the browser. Customise a car and cruise around with friends.
- Games & Play
- Free
- playglenn.com
Hammy Home

Design a cosy hamster home, fill it with tunnels and wheels, and look after the little residents.
- Games & Play
- Free
- hammyhome.com
Hero Forge

Build your tabletop character as a 3D miniature, from pose and armour to the shape of the nose. Designing is free; ordering a print isn't.
- Games & Play
- Freemium
- heroforge.com
Hordes.io

A full 3D MMORPG that runs in a browser tab. Pick a class, party up and fight in huge faction battles.
- Games & Play
- Free
- hordes.io
Jigidi

Thousands of jigsaw puzzles uploaded by the community, from a dozen pieces to a few thousand, playable in the browser.
- Games & Play
- Free
- jigidi.com
Magnitudle

Daily estimation games: guess how big, how far or how many, and see how close your gut feeling gets to the real number.
- Games & Play
- Free
- magnitudle.com
Tough Love Arena

A proper 2D fighting game in a browser tab, with rollback netcode, so online matches against friends actually feel good.
- Games & Play
- Free
- toughlovearena.com
Diablo Web App

The original Diablo in a browser tab. The shareware demo plays straight away, and loading your own DIABDAT.MPQ unlocks the full game.
- Games & Play
- Free
- johnimril.github.io
Halo CE Web

The Halo: Combat Evolved decompilation running in a browser, with online play for up to 128 people. Load an image of your own Xbox disc and go.
- Games & Play
- Free
- mitchellhynes.com
Quake III Online

Real Quake III deathmatch in a browser tab, with a live scoreboard and strangers already playing. Sister servers run Quake, Quake II, RTCW and Urban Terror.
- Games & Play
- Free
- q3.pieter.com
Surfd

Counter-Strike-style surfing in a browser tab: fifteen classic maps, proper Source air-strafing and global leaderboards for every run.
- Games & Play
- Free
- surfd.net
zone-vm

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. running in a browser tab on the open-source OpenXRay engine. Point it at your own game folder and walk into the Zone.
- Games & Play
- Open source
- zonevm.btr.pm
Messenger

Deliver letters around a tiny, hand-crafted 3D planet and chat with whoever you bump into. A small, gentle web game.
- Games & Play
- Free
- messenger.abeto.co
Arnis

Pick any place on a map and get a Minecraft world of it, with real streets, buildings and terrain from OpenStreetMap.
- Games & Play
- Open source
- arnismc.com
Board Game Arena

Over a thousand real board games, from Carcassonne to obscure Euro titles, playable in the browser with rules enforced for you.
- Games & Play
- Freemium
- en.boardgamearena.com
Flash Museum

Thousands of Flash games and animations rescued after Flash died, playable again in the browser with no plugin.
- Games & Play
- Free
- flashmuseum.net
Freerice

Answer vocabulary and trivia questions; each correct one donates rice through the UN World Food Programme.
- Games & Play
- Free
- freerice.com
GeoFS

Fly anything from a Cessna to an airliner over real satellite imagery of the whole planet, in a browser tab, alongside other pilots online.
- Games & Play
- Freemium
- geo-fs.com
Human Benchmark

Measure your reaction time, visual memory and number recall in short tests, then see where you land against everyone else.
- Games & Play
- Free
- humanbenchmark.com
Lostgamer

A guessing game inside video game worlds: you're dropped somewhere in a game map and have to find where.
- Games & Play
- Free
- lostgamer.io
OpenGuessr

Dropped somewhere on Street View, guess where you are. A free GeoGuessr with unlimited rounds and multiplayer.
- Games & Play
- Free
- openguessr.com
Quenq

An interactive museum of internet culture: Flash games, old software and digital curiosities, all running in the browser.
- Games & Play
- Free
- quenq.com
VibeSail

A 3D sailing simulator where trimming the sails actually matters. Daily races, real coastlines and short tutorials on how wind works.
- Games & Play
- Free
- vibesail.com
Murdoku

Place the suspects on the crime scene and reveal the killer. Play free online, print puzzles, or get the best-selling Murdoku books.
- Games & Play
- Free
- murdoku.com
Agar.io

Be a cell, eat smaller cells, avoid bigger ones. The game that started the whole .io genre is still running.
- Games & Play
- Free
- agar.io
AirConsole

Open it on a laptop or TV and everyone's phone becomes a controller. Instant local multiplayer for a room full of people, nothing to install.
- Games & Play
- Freemium
- airconsole.com
Draw a Stickman

Draw your own stick figure hero, then draw keys, fire and boats to get them through the adventure.
- Games & Play
- Free
- drawastickman.com
generals.io

Fast real-time strategy on a grid hidden in fog. Grow your army, take cities, and find the enemy general before they find yours.
- Games & Play
- Free
- generals.io
JKLM.FUN

Fast party games for friends or strangers. In Bomb Party, type a word containing the given letters before the bomb goes off.
- Games & Play
- Free
- jklm.fun
Little Alchemy 2

Start with air, earth, fire and water and combine them into hundreds of things, one discovery at a time. A calm puzzle you keep coming back to.
- Games & Play
- Free
- littlealchemy2.com
2048

Slide numbered tiles and merge them until you reach 2048. The original, by the developer who made the game that ate 2014.
- Games & Play
- Open source
- play2048.co
Quick, Draw!

You have twenty seconds to draw a prompt while a neural network guesses out loud. Then see how millions of others drew the same thing.
- Games & Play
- Free
- quickdraw.withgoogle.com
Slow Roads

Drive an endless, procedurally generated road through forests, deserts and coastlines. No goal, no score, just the road and some music.
- Games & Play
- Free
- slowroads.io
Sporcle

Timed quizzes on everything, from naming every country to every Best Picture winner, mostly made by players. One more quiz is always there.
- Games & Play
- Freemium
- sporcle.com
TETR.IO

A slick, competitive block-stacking game with ranked matches, 40-line sprints and a calm zen mode. Plays like a native app in a tab.
- Games & Play
- Free
- tetr.io
TypeLit.io

Practise typing by retyping classic novels chapter by chapter. Your speed improves and you finish Alice in Wonderland along the way.
- Games & Play
- Freemium
- typelit.io
ZType

A space shooter where every enemy is a word and typing it is how you fire. Gets frantic fast, and it quietly makes you a better typist.
- Games & Play
- Free
- zty.pe
Cookie Clicker

The idle game that started the whole genre. Click a cookie, buy a grandma, and discover several hours later that the grandmas have gone somewhere very dark.
- Games & Play
- Free
- orteil.dashnet.org
skribbl.io

Free multiplayer Pictionary with no account and no install. Make a private room, send the link, and everyone is drawing badly within about fifteen seconds.
- Games & Play
- Free
- skribbl.io
Gartic Phone

Telephone played with drawings: you write a sentence, someone draws it, someone else describes the drawing. The album it plays back at the end is the whole point.
- Games & Play
- Free
- garticphone.com
DOS Zone

Ultimate collection of free dos games to play online in browser. No registration needed, no advertisment, just play!
- Games & Play
- Free
- dos.zone
A Dark Room

A text game that opens with a single button — stoke the fire — and slowly becomes something much larger and stranger. Play it before reading anything about it.
- Games & Play
- Free
- adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com
Regex Crossword

Crossword puzzles whose clues are regular expressions, starting gentle and ending somewhere near cruel. The most painless way to actually learn the syntax.
- Games & Play
- Free
- regexcrossword.com
Airport Simulator

A browser-based air-traffic game inspired by Flight Control: drag planes to runways and keep the airport moving without collisions.
- Games & Play
- Free
- airport.apunen.com
TimeGuessr

Read a historical image for its time and place, then pin your best guess on the map in a daily geography challenge.
- Games & Play
- Free
- timeguessr.com
GeoGuessr

Dropped somewhere in Street View, guess where on earth you are. Bollards become important.
- Games & Play
- Paid
- geoguessr.com
Monkeytype

A minimal, deeply customisable typing test with beautiful themes and obsessive statistics.
- Games & Play
- Open source
- monkeytype.com
Internet Arcade

Thousands of real arcade cabinets emulated in the browser, preserved by the Internet Archive.
- Games & Play
- Free
- archive.org
Lichess

Completely free, ad-free, open source chess with analysis, puzzles and every variant you could want.
- Games & Play
- Open source
- lichess.org
itch.io

An enormous, weird, wonderful marketplace for indie games, many of them free and playable in-browser.
- Games & Play
- Freemium
- itch.io
The Wiki Game

Race other people from one Wikipedia article to another using only links. Surprisingly tense.
- Games & Play
- Free
- thewikigame.com
Line Rider

Draw a track, watch a sledder ride it. Twenty years on, people still make music videos with it.
- Games & Play
- Free
- linerider.com

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