Free browser web games

Easy to access and low-commitment, the best free web browser games are the perfect thing to pass a little time and share with friends. With that in mind, keep reading to see our recommendations of some fantastic browser-based games that you have to try at least once. Some of these games are a little older so do be aware that you might have to enable Flash in your browser to play.

Can your browser run Doom? Of course it can! Step into the boots of the Doom Slayer and mow down countless deadly demons in one of the most influential first-person shooters of all time. Make your way through rooms full of snarling enemies, find explosive new weapons to even the odds, and restore order to the space station on Mars. Play here: Doom. You control the calves and thighs yes, you read that right of a hapless track runner.

Play here: QWOP. You can either move left, right, up or down, and the goal is to get adjacent and identically-numbered cards to stack on top of one another. New tiles are introduced with every turn, so you need to keep stacking tiles or risk running out of room.

Threes-y peasy. And the competition can be brutal—it's especially good if you want a challenging experience. For more deathmatches, there's also Raid. If you've ever played the party game Mafia or Werewolf, Town of Salem should feel familiar. This roleplaying game challenges you to be a conniving liar and mislead other players. Depending on who you are randomly cast as, you might be a townsperson good , the mafia bad or neutrals.

If you're a townsperson, you need to track down mafia members and stop them before they kill everyone in your town. There are many different roles for each category of player. Each of these different roles will give you a unique ability that you can use in the night phase of the game.

At night, players plan out their moves and make notes in their will. If they die in the night, the remaining players can use their wills to, hopefully, achieve the goals you were meant to do! Town of Salem is quite complex to explain, but you'll get the hang of it soon enough. There are a bunch of different game modes but the most popular is Ruins, the default when you run the game.

Ruins gives you the chance to explore an area as a member of one of three teams. You can kill other players on different teams, break boxes, and find loot. Armor, potions, and new weapons will help you survive longer in this desert wasteland. Your main objective is to gain bones which appear when people die. If you get enough bones you become the king of the ruins.

There are a bunch of other modes, some with shorter times and easier objectives, including soccer. Yes, soccer. If battling trainers is the part of Pokemon games you enjoy, Pokemon Showdown is for you. You can jump straight into matches against other players without having to level up or care for your pokemon beforehand. You can then quickly go through a match, selecting moves and countering the other trainer.

This fast-paced game takes all of the work out of raising pokemon, leaving just gratuitous pokemon takedowns. An isometric shooter in which you can battle with your friends against an opposing team, or fight in a free-for-all with everyone.

Power-up stations placed in the arena grant different weapons. There are a couple characters to choose from off the bat, and plenty more to unlock as you bump off your enemies. The main goal of the game is simply to stay alive and earn enough points to reach the top of the scoreboard. The more points you earn the more you level up and the more weapons you can unlock.

It's very quick to get into, perfect if you are looking for fast-paced matches. Neptune's Pride, our webgame of the year back in , is the epitome of backstabbing, two-faced, genuine human nastiness. It's a real time strategy game in the same way that glaciers move in real time, set in space and all about galactic expansion. Up to eight players start with a few star systems, and then expand outwards, until they meet someone else, and either decide to not kill each other immediately, or have at it.

Because the fleets take hours, and sometimes days, to get from star to star, that leaves you with a good deal of time to play the diplomacy game, trying to cement alliances and crumble the foundations of those of your enemies.

The game is easy to learn, and everyone will be keen to deceive one another again and again. This site offers you a chance to try out the Inhumane Conditions role-playing game. Inhumane Conditions provides a very different experience to the usual challenging co-op dynamic found in other two-player experiences.

Instead, it is a battle of wits, attempting to disarm and fool your partner into giving away their secret identity. In Inhumane Conditions, one player takes on the role of the interviewer, while the other is the suspect. The suspect might be a human, or they might be a robot. It is down to the suspect to convince the interviewer that they are, in fact, human. This is done by having a series of tests and conversations to give away subtle hints and clues to the interviewer.

This game is a unique, intimate experience that is worth trying out. Longwave is the online equivalent of the Wave Length party game. This is a team-based game in which you need to try to make sure your friends agree on specific opinions.

It is a short, lighthearted game that also lets you get to know your friends a little better. You simply need to create a new lobby on the site and select which game mode to try. The standard mode works best for a big group.

Each turn, one of you will be given two opposing statements. They will see a target between these two points and will need to come up with a clue that will guide the team to that marker. The game is quick to learn and will get the entire party talking.

This site allows three to eight friends to play Dixit. You simply need to create a new private lobby and send the link to the others to get started. Once in, you will all have a selection of abstract pieces of art. You will get the chance to choose one of these cards and then write a phrase to define it. The aim of the game is to get most of your friends to guess your card, but not all of them.

You only receive the points if it isn't too obvious which card is yours. Your friends will pick one of their own cards that they feel best represents the phrase as well to add to the confusion.

The game requires a lot of deduction but is also a pretty chilled, relaxing party game to play. Out Of Context is a small website with an excellent selection of party games to try out. The highlight of the site has to be Raconteur. In this game mode, you have to write a story collaboratively.

The catch? You only have one or two lines of context. Probably not. The game has you swipe numbered tiles around a four-by-four grid, merging pairs to increase their numbers. You might say that sounds an awful lot like , but is in fact a rubbish clone of Threes! Play Threes! Much of the joy in Townscaper is in figuring out its rules. How do you create a lighthouse? What nets you a garden rather than concrete?

Note that mobile support is limited as is the space on which to build — so if you like this but want more, buy the full version. Play Townscaper. This superb word game subverts crosswords, having you drag columns of letters about to colour tiles. And although one puzzle per day might not seem like much, some of them are tricky enough to demand an entire lunch hour. Play TypeShift. Once you set off, you click to switch direction, always aiming to avoid obstacles in your path.

This fast-paced platformer is a smart time-attack challenge that has you sprint and fly through 33 levels, grabbing as many trophies as you can along the way. Play Wave Run. You know all that time you spend blindly clicking links on Wikipedia? Put that to good use in this Wiki-based speedrunner. And, hey, you can even convince yourself that all this Wiki faffing is in fact work — training for your next research session. Play The Wiki Game. Wizard Of Wor appears to be a browser-based remake of a C64 conversion of an ancient arcade game!

Which is a bit weird. Play Wizard of Wor. First, the two wraparound tunnels are replaced by four doorways, one at each screen edge, enabling you to escape to another maze.

Secondly, the creators enabled anyone to submit mazes. Within a week, there were over 10, Now there are hundreds of thousands — enough to last even the most ardent dot-muncher several lifetimes. Skip to content. Search for: Clear search query Show results. Boulder Dash This official online remake of a s 8-bit classic finds Rockford digging through dirt, grabbing diamonds, and trying to avoid getting crushed by the titular boulders or blown up by explosive underground wildlife.

Candy Box 2 The beginning of Candy Box 2 is as minimal as can be. Combo Pool Sort of what might happen if you knocked Threes! Play Cookie Clicker Spuds we like: Spaceplan Another food-oriented clicker, Spaceplan mashes up potatoes and absurdism. Escape Goat This platform game feels like a love letter to s gaming, with its retro-infused visuals and decidedly strange backstory that happens to feature a goat.

Man, s games were weird. Economical A single-screen platformer where you leap about, avoid hazards and head for an exit? Game of Bombs Game of Bombs transforms Bomberman into a massively multiplayer online retro arcade experience. Play Game of Bombs.

Good Impression This one simulates the sheer panic clean-up that occurs when your mother shows up unannounced, and your flat appears to have had an unfortunate incident involving garbage, laundry and high explosives. Gridland Gridland resembles a typical match-three puzzler, but is really something else entirely. Impossible Mission Another visitor!

Play Impossible Mission Spec chum: Manic Miner While less sophisticated than Impossible Mission , Manic Miner is at least as iconic, and finds Miner Willy attempting to collect objects across 20 increasingly tough single-screen stages. Jump Doper Seemingly depicting extreme skipping combined with surrealist torture, one-thumb acton game Jump Doper finds various objects tasked with endlessly leaping over a deadly swinging rope.

Obvious, when you think about it… Play Little Alchemy 2.