Collection
Worth an evening
67 free browser games that already found their players — jam winners, sleeper Show HNs, small itch hits. Not undiscovered like the daily pick, but the bar it’s chasing: games people kept playing. Every link opens the game itself. Lines describe the loop and where others vouched for it; they aren’t reviews.
Puzzles, several of them dailyRun-based: roguelikes and roguelitesArcade and actionStrategy and simsIdle and incrementalPlay with other peoplePlatformers and scares
Puzzles, several of them daily
- enclose.horse
Daily fence-placing puzzle: wall in the biggest meadow for your horses, bonus fruit to chase; one short, shareable optimisation puzzle a day. (Show HN (1,217 pts, via HN Arcade) + a top r/WebGames post this year) - Figure
Daily tile-clearing logic puzzle with a move limit; per the thread it plays like a short, tight Wordle-style daily. (Show HN (417 pts, via HN Arcade)) - Gerrymandle
Daily puzzle where you redraw district lines to win more seats than the other side; a clever partition puzzle with a satirical hook. (Show HN (244 pts) + a top r/WebGames post this year) - Spectra
Daily deduction puzzle: work out the hidden metric the items are sorted by. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Daily Unfold
Daily spatial-reasoning puzzle: paper is folded and hole-punched, predict where the holes land when unfolded; 3 puzzles a day. (a top r/WebGames post this year (also hit HN front page)) - Unflip
Flip 2x2-or-larger squares to invert colours until the board is white; a crisp XOR logic puzzle. (Show HN (184 pts)) - Knight Ride · Rakhim Davletkaliyev
Puzzle about a rogue chess knight hopping around a board; short levels built on knight-move logic. (Show HN (155 pts)) - Mvidia · jaso1024
Build a GPU from logic gates up, level by level; HN's biggest game post of 2026, a Nand2Tetris-style puzzle climb. (Show HN (964 pts)) - Blipp · vidarn
Mouse-only hand-drawn puzzle about guiding creatures home; 39 ratings at 4.9. (a top r/WebGames post this year (itch, Ludum Dare 59)) - ROCKets.com · Ivan Pensionerov, Capreola
Deduction mystery: a rocket launch went wrong, piece together what happened and who is to blame (27 ratings, 4.8). (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Scale Mail · legoliomanikas et al.
Dragon inventory-management puzzle: fit loot onto your scales (94 ratings, 4.8). (GMTK Game Jam 2024 (#2 Enjoyment)) - Infinite Energy · LightPotato
Puzzle game with 'irl mechanics'; 266 ratings at 4.8. (GMTK Game Jam 2025 (#13 Enjoyment, #10 Creativity)) - Cut to Pieces · Sheepolution, Shores
Art forgery out of old newspaper cut-outs; a tactile collage puzzle (80 ratings, 4.8). (Ludum Dare 58 (top overall)) - Gemwright · Jimbly (Dashing Strike)
Turn-based crafting: extract high-quality gems from ore; self-hosted jam build from a veteran LD dev. (Ludum Dare 58 compo (top overall)) - Caddie Cards · Ross McCormick
Tiny golf courses played with a hand of shot cards; card-driven mini golf puzzle. (LOWREZJAM 2025 (#6 overall)) - Catculus · Antti Haavikko
Cat-themed puzzle from a three-time js13k top-10 dev (Casual Crusade, Coup Ahoo). (js13kGames 2025 (#6 overall))
Run-based: roguelikes and roguelites
- Dropforge · unikhorne
Pachinko-style roguelite: drop balls, rebuild the board with pick-1-of-3 drafts between drops, beat exponentially rising thresholds; 4-6 min runs. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Dice Hard
Roguelike dice-building: roll dice to fight, draft upgrades, push through escalating stages. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - KeyCrawl
Typing roguelike where your WPM is your damage; typing-test skill turned into boss fights. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Die for the Rat King · Pixlas
Hand-drawn dice-deckbuilding dungeon crawler: build dice and rings, find combos. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Blackjack Ascension · Antoine L.
Blackjack with a Balatro-style upgrade climb from $1,000 to a billion (62 ratings, 4.4). (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Cardmare: Descent · hugin
Tiny push-your-luck roguelike deckbuilder built for a coffee break (41 ratings, 4.7). (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Scrongly · Silver Dubloons
Poker-hand roguelite deckbuilder in the Balatro mould, with a daily mode. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Dice of Dusk · Kultisti
Endless dice deckbuilder from the lose95/Curseball dev; 244 ratings at 4.8. (itch top-rated HTML5 / roguelike feed) - 13 Bones · Sol, Fscibe, A Critter Collective
Fast card battler: blackjack with monsters and violence (415 ratings, 4.6). (itch top-rated HTML5 / roguelike feed) - TINY PACK · xk
Dice + cute animals + scary forest deckbuilder; 502 ratings at 4.8. (itch top-rated HTML5 / roguelike feed (Ludum Dare 56)) - Forward (Game Jam version) · Twotinydice
Minimalist roguelike card dungeon crawl (723 ratings, 4.6). (itch top-rated HTML5 / roguelike feed (7DRL)) - BOOTLOOP · Tetraminose et al.
'Shocking' roguelike where you loop a circuit board (98 ratings, 4.8). (GMTK Game Jam 2025 (#8 Enjoyment, Mark's favourite)) - The Archmage Trials · Keep Flying Games
Turn-based tactical roguelike where you mix spells to beat rival wizards. (7DRL 2025 (#4 overall, #5 Fun)) - The Stomping Grounds · redxaxder, zsarver
Turn-based motorcycle gun combat against giant monsters stomping Tokyo. (7DRL 2026 (#6 overall, #5 Fun)) - Casual Crusade · Antti Haavikko
Tile-laying roguelite: build the road your crusader walks, card-draft style. (js13kGames 2023 (#3 overall)) - Coup Ahoo · Antti Haavikko
Pirate dice roguelite: your cargo dice are both HP and firepower as you take down 13 captains; its itch page drew ~475 comments. (js13kGames 2024 (#2 overall))
Arcade and action
- putt.day
One hole of mini golf a day, same hole for everyone; a tiny skill shot you retry for the lowest score and compare. (Show HN (320 pts)) - Dialed.gg
Memory mini-games (color recall, tempo, shape, pattern) with daily challenges and head-to-head; the color-recall mode is what went viral. (r/WebGames #1 post of the year) - One Gets Through
Reverse Missile Command: you launch the missiles and try to outwit the interceptors across five arcade levels. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Highrise
One-tap tower stacker: drop each swinging floor, wind gets worse, and every height you pass is labelled with a real building. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Bubbles! · Edwin Morris
Vanilla-JS bubble-popping arcade toy with very polished feel; HN liked it for the game-feel. (Show HN (201 pts)) - Freefall '95 · sbendgamesau
Flash-era loop: fall from an exploding plane, chain trick combos and dodge debris, spend earnings on upgrades, fall again. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - SnekromancY · SlightlyMadman
Snake crossed with bullet-heaven: your tail is summoned undead in a maze. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - BASES LOADED · kindanice
'Baseball survivors': Vampire Survivors loop with a bat; 695 ratings at 4.7. (itch top-rated HTML5 / roguelike feed) - driftr · kindanice
Roguelike drifting shooter: drift a car to aim, pick upgrades (327 ratings, 4.6). (itch top-rated HTML5 / roguelike feed) - KILLOVER · Quentin Delvallet
Arcade loop shooter where you have to shoot your own past selves replaying earlier runs (144 ratings, 4.8). (GMTK Game Jam 2025 (#10 Enjoyment)) - Blissfully Unaware · bitno
Reverse platformer: you frantically clear hazards so a clueless new player stumbling through the level never dies. (Brackeys Game Jam 2025.1 (#4 overall, #2 Gameplay)) - Pizza Delivery "Simulator" · Silvereagle8
Crazy-Taxi-style voxel pizza delivery: crash through cars, jump buildings, buy upgrades. (Brackeys Game Jam 2025.2 (#1 Enjoyment)) - DR1V3N WILD · Frank Force
Out-Run-style arcade racer squeezed into 13 KB by the LittleJS author. (js13kGames 2024 (#8 overall)) - Cat Survivors · Elias Ku, Alexandra Al
Survivors-style horde loop starring a black cat, in 13 KB. (js13kGames 2025 (#2 overall))
Strategy and sims
- 1D Chess · rowan441
Chess squeezed onto a single row; small, solvable-feeling strategy puzzle against an AI. (HN (754 pts, via HN Arcade)) - Voronoi Go
Go without the grid: stones claim Voronoi regions, so territory fights happen in continuous geometry. (Show HN (158 pts)) - Sandspiel · Max Bittker
Falling-sand sandbox with interacting elements (water, fire, plant, acid) plus a community gallery of creations. (HN (1,323 pts, via HN Arcade)) - Crown Below · Kaktora
Dwarf colony builder where the hold digs itself deeper and you only decide what gets built. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Claim thy Land · ranejeB, iron_head
Hand-drawn cozy medieval autobattler (102 ratings, 4.6). (Ludum Dare 58 (top overall)) - Tiny Yurts · Burntcustard
Mini Motorways-style path-drawing: connect yurts to their animals before the steppe overflows; all in 13 KB. (js13kGames 2023 (#4 overall)) - Path to Glory · Remi Vansteelandt
Medieval hex-grid battle strategy in 13 KB; won js13k 2023. (js13kGames 2023 (#1 overall))
Idle and incremental
- Number Gacha · isabisabel
A gacha game boiled down to pulling numbers until you collect all 100; the compulsion loop, knowingly exposed. (Show HN (268 pts)) - Ricochet Simulator · Draelent
Short, relaxing stone-skipping incremental (85 ratings, 4.4); skip, upgrade, skip further. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Risk-o-matix · PIPAPOU
Minimalist 1-bit looting auto-battler about pushing your luck for better rewards. (Brackeys Game Jam 2025.2 (#4 Enjoyment)) - Idle Badger · lectvs
Point-and-click incremental about collecting badges for 'FREE MONEY'; 144 ratings at 4.8. (Ludum Dare 58 compo (top overall))
Play with other people
- ONE MILLION HP
Everyone on the internet hits the same boss with one million HP; a communal clicker where you chip at a shared bar. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Windage
Scorched Earth remake: angle and power artillery against wind on destructible terrain, arms shop, CPU tanks or 2-6 players. (a top r/WebGames post this year) - Curvytron 2
Achtung die Kurve / Tron trails online: steer, cut people off, be the last one alive; a classic party loop. (Show HN (via HN Arcade)) - WebLiero
Browser multiplayer clone of 1998 Liero: worms-style real-time deathmatch with ninja ropes and destructible dirt; has a long-running community. (HN (via HN Arcade))
Platformers and scares
- Interplanetary Postal Service · Sebastian Macke
Deliver mail between planets with orbital physics: a gravity/thrust lander-style platformer. (HN (660 pts, via HN Arcade)) - Little Slime Blows Up · Jimmy C
Puzzle-platformer about a slime that grows and shrinks to reach stars; won GMTK 2024 (237 ratings, 4.8). (GMTK Game Jam 2024 (#1 Enjoyment, jam winner)) - Nightfall · bippinbits (Dome Keeper devs) et al.
Atmospheric dark action: gather six souls to reforge your body; from the Dome Keeper studio (135 ratings, 4.8). (Ludum Dare 58 (top overall)) - Professor Lucifer · ROWAN FUTURE et al.
Game Boy-style lantern exploration through a ghostly night (55 ratings, 4.7). (GBJAM 12 (#2 overall)) - 13th Floor · Rob Louie
First-person horror in 13 KB: explore a building's cursed 13th floor. (js13kGames 2024 (#1 overall)) - CLAWSTRIKE · Remi Vansteelandt
Die-and-retry cat platformer: triple-strike every human as fast as possible, instant respawns, unlockable 9 Lives mode. (js13kGames 2025 (#1 overall))
Last checked 2026-09-28: every link loaded in a browser with no download or login wall. Games move and die — if one is gone, that’s why we also archive our daily finds in the census.