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40 free browser games you can play right now

Free games that run straight in a browser tab, with nothing to install and usually no sign-up. They play just as well on a school or work laptop.

Multiplayer party games, chill puzzles, arcade classics and whole retro shooters.

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  1. 1. 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.

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  2. 2. Agar.io

    Be a cell, eat smaller cells, avoid bigger ones. The game that started the whole .io genre is still running.

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  3. 3. 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.

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  4. 4. 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.

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  5. 5. 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.

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  6. 6. Lichess

    Completely free, ad-free, open source chess with analysis, puzzles and every variant you could want.

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  7. 7. Slow Roads

    Drive an endless, procedurally generated road through forests, deserts and coastlines. No goal, no score, just the road and some music.

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  8. 8. Line Rider

    Draw a track, watch a sledder ride it. Twenty years on, people still make music videos with it.

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  9. 9. 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.

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  10. 10. 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.

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  11. 11. 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.

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  12. 12. 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.

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  13. 13. OpenGuessr

    Dropped somewhere on Street View, guess where you are. A free GeoGuessr with unlimited rounds and multiplayer.

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  14. 14. TimeGuessr

    Read a historical image for its time and place, then pin your best guess on the map in a daily geography challenge.

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  15. 15. The Wiki Game

    Race other people from one Wikipedia article to another using only links. Surprisingly tense.

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  16. 16. JKLM.FUN

    Fast party games for friends or strangers. In Bomb Party, type a word containing the given letters before the bomb goes off.

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  17. 17. 2048

    Slide numbered tiles and merge them until you reach 2048. The original, by the developer who made the game that ate 2014.

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  18. 18. 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.

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  19. 19. 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.

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  20. 20. Internet Arcade

    Thousands of real arcade cabinets emulated in the browser, preserved by the Internet Archive.

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  21. 21. DOS Zone

    Ultimate collection of free dos games to play online in browser. No registration needed, no advertisment, just play!

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  22. 22. 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.

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  23. 23. Hordes.io

    A full 3D MMORPG that runs in a browser tab. Pick a class, party up and fight in huge faction battles.

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  24. 24. BuildGuides

    Minecraft blueprints shown layer by layer in 3D, so you can rebuild houses, castles and farms block by block.

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  25. 25. Chunk Base

    Enter a Minecraft seed and see where every biome, village, stronghold and slime chunk is before you start digging.

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  26. 26. donjon

    A huge set of random generators for D&D and other tabletop games: dungeons, towns, treasure, names and whole worlds.

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  27. 27. Glenn

    An open-world driving game set in real cities, playable in the browser. Customise a car and cruise around with friends.

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  28. 28. Hammy Home

    Design a cosy hamster home, fill it with tunnels and wheels, and look after the little residents.

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  29. 29. Jigidi

    Thousands of jigsaw puzzles uploaded by the community, from a dozen pieces to a few thousand, playable in the browser.

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  30. 30. Kick Ass

    Turn any web page into an Asteroids level and shoot the text, images and buttons to pieces.

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  31. 31. Magnitudle

    Daily estimation games: guess how big, how far or how many, and see how close your gut feeling gets to the real number.

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  32. 32. Tough Love Arena

    A proper 2D fighting game in a browser tab, with rollback netcode, so online matches against friends actually feel good.

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  33. 33. Surfd

    Counter-Strike-style surfing in a browser tab: fifteen classic maps, proper Source air-strafing and global leaderboards for every run.

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  34. 34. 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.

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  35. 35. Messenger

    Deliver letters around a tiny, hand-crafted 3D planet and chat with whoever you bump into. A small, gentle web game.

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  36. 36. Arnis

    Pick any place on a map and get a Minecraft world of it, with real streets, buildings and terrain from OpenStreetMap.

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  37. 37. Flash Museum

    Thousands of Flash games and animations rescued after Flash died, playable again in the browser with no plugin.

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  38. 38. Freerice

    Answer vocabulary and trivia questions; each correct one donates rice through the UN World Food Programme.

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  39. 39. Human Benchmark

    Measure your reaction time, visual memory and number recall in short tests, then see where you land against everyone else.

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  40. 40. Lostgamer

    A guessing game inside video game worlds: you're dropped somewhere in a game map and have to find where.

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Questions

What are good free multiplayer browser games?

Skribbl.io and Gartic Phone for drawing with friends, TETR.IO for competitive Tetris, Lichess for chess and Agar.io for chaos.

Do these games need a download?

No. They all run in a browser tab.

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