“Move some chairs” and change the course of history in this alt history simulator.
Think of a character, answer some questions, and Akinator will probably guess who you’re thinking of.
Guess which of a pair of AO3 fic tags has more associated fanfics in a higher-lower game-esque style.
Learn about common disinformation tactics by becoming the owner of your very own fake news outlet or by spreading chaos in the small town of Harmony Square!
Guess Wikipedia pages from nothing but their list of categories.
Guess what year each photo was taken. Also has a multiplayer mode for some reason.
Pick a part of the world and guess as many village, town, and city names in that area as you can. I’ve had a game of the US quiz running for several months now, and sometimes I watch the weather channel with my parents just to catch some new place names.
An incremental clicker game about building a civilization.
Use your noodle to identify who’s a criminal and who’s innocent in this little daily logic puzzle.
A very avant-garde adventure game by Corru Works about researching alien artifacts and exploring memories. One of those things I’ll never quite be able to describe the vibes of. Maybe kind of ENA-ish but more mysterious and sci-fi? (Note: EYE. STRAIN. The rest of the CWs are on the main page.)
Have you memorized your Minecraft crafting recipes? Use the items in your inventory to craft the shown item as quickly as possible. Be warned, the time limits are extremely short.
Another Corru Works game, this one’s a simple creature collector where you build (yes, build) critters and fight to get more parts for more critters.
A handful of games, including the text adventure A Dark Room and the match-3 survival game Gridland.
The puzzle games made by Belgian dev Bart Bonte were always a favorite of mine as a kid. If you bounced around Coolmath Games (which is a bit too ad-riddled now for me to link here) a lot as a kid, you probably ran into a particular series of theirs: Factory Balls. The older Factory Balls are probably still playable around the internet, but this is the 25 level demo for Factory Balls Forever. Use silly tools and paints to match your ball to the image on the box.
A text-based RPG by Failbetter Games about London. Well, a Victorian-Gothic London that’s been dragged underground and… changed.
Good ol creature collecting and battling fun!
Play Wordle with autocompleted Google search results.
Welcome to the 3D tour of 8800 Blue Lick Rd, a perfectly normal house. Your objective is simple: find the house’s single bathtub. Good luck.
A hotter-colder style game where you find an invisible image of an animal using audio clues. (Note: Audio is pretty much required, but it can and will get annoying after a little bit. You have been warned.)
Play Pacman. BECOME THE PACMAN.
A bunch of video game-related guessing games.
Started in 1989, Genesis is one of the oldest still-running MMOs on the internet. I do have to warn you though, it’s entirely text-based.
It’s Family Feud with Google autocomplete search results. Choose a category, and try to guess the top autocompletes for random Google searches.
Get to the end of the map. Way harder (and gorier) than it sounds. (Note: As previously mentioned, this game is pretty gory.)
It’s wordle but horse
Here’s a bunch of fairly simplistic escape room games. The site is natively in Japanese though, so you may need to turn on a translator to navigate the site.
A cooking simulator where you can cook anything (and I mean anything.)
A hand drawn classic-style point and click adventure. Explore the different scenes and hopefully not die. Try to find all 300 scenes!
Click the colored circle that matches the color on the screen. Trust me, it sounds easy, but the difficulty ramps up fast.
Ok this one is pretty darn weird. This is a fantranslated web version of the 1998 Playstation game, Serial Experiments Lain. It’s pretty weird to play since it’s mostly exploring files, but if you’re interested, I’ve linked directly to the guide where it’s explained better than I can explain here.
Have you ever wanted to play the entirety of the 1997 CD-ROM hit Lego Island in your browser? Look no further than isle.pizza (it even works on mobile!)
A mostly text-based sci-fi game about surviving in an abandoned city.
Link 2 random words together by creating chains of words with similar meanings.
Mix together elements to discover new elements. Mix those elements together to discover even more elements!
The sequel to the previous game, now with more…something!
Some games by Lucas Pope, creator of my favorite puzzle game of all time, “Return of the Obra Dinn.” A couple of these are paid, but the form filling sim “Unsolicited,” the airplane wreck finding game “The Sea Has No Claim,” the saboteur-catching game “6 Degrees of Sabotage,” and the bootlicking newspaper-making sim “The Republia Times” are all free and playable in-browser.
A relatively short ARG about link decay and dying websites. Can you find the Fish?
Bounce around a taxonomic tree while trying to guess the animal or plant of the day. Each guess will fill in more specific ranks on the tree, and the closer the rank of your answer is to the mystery organism’s, the more will be revealed about them.
Learn how to money in this retro-web-themed money simulator.
Are you dissatisfied with the presidential elections of the past? Well, let’s see if you can do any better. Pick your election year, candidate, and running mate, then campaign around the country while answering questions about your stance on issues. Can you successfully become president? (Note: the questions will be about real American issues during whatever election year you choose. If this makes you uncomfortable, then I recommend picking older dates or just skipping this one.)
Notpr0n is often considered “the hardest riddle on the internet” and is a puzzle game about computer stuff. Do you have what it takes to solve all 138 levels and join the ranks of the currently 100-ish people who’ve beaten the game…?
Get dropped in a random location on Earth and figure out where you are. It’s the same thing as Geoguessr, but trust me, just use this one.
A collection of old super chill flash games by Ferry Halim.
Some games made by Dominic Szablewski, including the typing shooter Ztype, and an in-browser version of the 1995 racing game wipEout.
It’s sudoku, but with Pokémon.
Play a very normal game of chess. Yes, the chess pieces do have Pokémon types, and yes, your attacks do work on type advantage rules. But other than that, it’s perfectly normal chess… until you crit. Or miss.
Go on, name every Pokémon. You can also do quizzes based on generations or types, and there are lots of other settings to play around with, too.
It’s Pokémon minus everything but the battles! Make a team and battle some Pokemon.
Make a team and battle Pokemon with roguelike mechanics.
An MMORPG about ponies building a town.
Power scaling certainly is something, isn’t it? Why not see how good your power scaling is? Pick which of these two characters would beat each other in a fight (according to power scalers, of course.)
Sandboxels, Sandspiel, Orb.Farm
Some 2D sandbox games where you can play around with different elements. Orb.farm specifically lets you create an aquatic ecosystem!
A 3D sandbox game where you can play around with different elements. Some of these elements get pretty experimental.
Get shown two photos of scran (food from sports games) and guess which one people think looks tastier. You can also try Mensa Mode, which is the same game but with food from colleges and universities, or turn on Evil Mode to apply horrible filters to every image.
A simple text-based game about finding a new planet for the last of humanity to colonize.
It’s Pictionary, but free and online!
Another Bart Bonte puzzle game. Solve image puzzles and type out words to finish each sentence.
Guess which pokémon the game is thinking of based on generation, first and/or second type, height, and weight. You get six tries.
You are presented with an image of Barney the Dinosaur and a selection of weapons. Go on, you know you want to.
So this is actually a Pokemon fan site, and you can definitely check out all the other things to do on the site, but I don’t know much about Pokemon so I’m just linking to their very unique fun page. Check out such wonders as the Notpr0n adjacent “Clue Game”, the entirely Scyther-based in-browser dating sim “Sutoraiku High”, or the endurance test of a text scroll that is “The Marquee of Doom.”
Two Google search topics are set before you. It’s up to you to guess if topic B has a higher or lower number of monthly searches than topic A.
Pack up your wagon and head out west in this emulation of the computer classic (which is hosted on the state of Oregon’s real travel website of all places.)
Do you think you know anything about Pokemon? Prove it by tackling Serebii.net’s 415 clue G-MAX crossword!
Get dropped on a random Wikipedia page and race from one page to another to reach the target article in the least amount of link clicks.
A preserved version of the MMORPG, Toontown Online, run by fans and given a few quality-of-life changes. If you want to experience Toontown close to how you remember it, Rewritten is your game! (Note: does require a launcher download)
Another fan revival of Toontown Online, except this time the game has been expanded on! With new characters, stories, quests, and more, Corporate Clash feels like a version of Toontown that never shut down at all. There are even some webcomics on the website itself! (Note: does require a launcher download)
A text-based MMORPG set in the crime-ridden Torn City. Do pretty much whatever you want within the bounds of the game. Just go absolutely nuts with it.
A Pokémon parody themed around fanfics, playable entirely within AO3.
Make paperclips. Sell paperclips. Buy wire. Make paperclips. (Note: Does not work on mobile.)
A simple game of snake that runs entirely within your browser’s address bar
A web version of the board game Boggle. Find as many words as you can in a 4x4 grid of letters. The catch? You can only make words out of letters in adjacent tiles.
JND stands for “Just Noticeable Difference,” which, according to Wikipedia, is how much something needs to be changed to be noticeable at least 50% of the time. This particular game can tell you your JND for the difference between two colors. All you’ve got to do is pick the point on the screen that separates two colors for about forty short rounds.
All the solitaire you could ever dream of!
Just what it says on the tin: pick your preferred option and see what others picked.
A fan-made sequel to arguably the best original YDKJ: The Ride. Answer confusing trivia questions and listen to the host's ramblings in the show where high culture and pop culture collide!
Look, I don’t know anything about sports. But if you like sports management for basketball, football, baseball, or hockey, then you’ll probably like these sims.