Web games, also known as browser games, are games played over the web. Not to be confused with Freeware Games, which are distributed for free and act like regular computer programs. Web games are played directly through the web browser, often (but not always) with the help of a plugin. These games usually are made in Adobe Flash, Unity, or HTML5.
Keep in mind that with Adobe Flash's EOL making Flash unable to run on most browsers, you will need something else to play the games made with Adobe Flash, such as Flashpoint
or Ruffle
.
Individual Web Games
- Games By 53xy83457
- Agar.io
- Amorphous+
- Arcane
- Arkandian Legends
- Armed With Wings
- Aqua Rhapsody
- Biters.io
- Boss Rush Apocalypse
- BowMaster
- Brawlin' Sailor
- Candy Mountain Massacre (First-Person Shooter/Third-Person Shooter games)
- Commando 2 (Run-and-Gun similar to Metal Slug)
- Coinbox Hero
- Cyber Chaser
- DadGame
- Decision
- Elfland Glider (Web VR)
- FacePunch.io
- Forbidden Arms
- Garden Gnome Carnage
- Get Off My Lawn (2009)
- Gun Bros
- IndestructoTank
- Intrusion
- KoopaTV series
- Thelast.io
- Lazerman
- Lesbian Spider Queens of Mars
- Man of Steel
- Miami Shark
- Mike Shadow: I Paid for It!
- My Friend Pedro (original version)
- Narwhale.io
- Pikes.io
- Road of the Dead
- ROM Check Fail
- Shooters.io
- Sky Serpents
- Slay.one
- Slither.io
- Smashers.io
- Spewer
- splix.io
- TagPro
- Tanki Online
- Versus Umbra
- Viva Caligula
- Whack Your...
- Wtf The Worst Game Ever
- Zlap.io
- Alice In Spaceland Series
- Amea
- Cyborg
- Dungeon Blitz (also a MMORPG)
- Emogame
- Escape from Puppy Death Factory (also a Metroidvania)
- Evoland
- The Flowering Nose
- Free Icecream
- Kit and the Octopod
- Legend Of Kalevala (also a Metroidvania)
- The Legends Of Hiro
- Legends Of Kong
- Legos In Space
- No Time to Explain
- Phoenotopia
- Seedling
- Snailiad (also a Metroidvania)
- 1916 - Der Unbekannte Krieg (war, horror)
- A Small Favor
- Ayiti: The Cost of Life
- Backdoor
- Billy's Big Adventure (Gamebooks)
- Cartoon Cartoon Summer Resort
- Choice of Games (Gamebooks)
- Colour My Series
- Detective Grimoire
- Die Anstalt
- Divine Intervention
- Dont Look Back 2014
- A Duck Has An Adventure
- Fallen London
- Find the Cure!!
- Frank's Adventure
- Five Minutes To Kill Yourself
- How to Raise a Dragon
- Kingdom Hearts χ aka Kingdom Hearts χ [chi]
- Lakeview Cabin
- Looming
- Lost In Vegas
- Morningstar
- Mystery of Time and Space
- Nightmare Doors
- Peasant's Quest
- Reincarnation
- Rubber Dinghy
- Samorost
- The Room: The Game
- Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure
- Steppenwolf: The X-Creatures Project
- Story of the Blanks (horror fan-game of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
- Skrillex Quest
- Submachine
- Soul Void
- Thy Dungeonman
- Til Cows Tear Us Apart
- The Trapped Trilogy (Adventure Game with animation and voice acting, distinct from the above series)
- Triachnid
- Trick or Treat Beat
- Trisphere
- The Several Journeys of Reemus
- The Splitting
- The Trader of Stories
- The Visitor
- Wasted Youth
- Zero Summer
- The 99 Rooms (horror)
- Alice Is Dead (horror)
- Ambridge Mansion (horror)
- Arcane Online Mystery Serial (horror)
- Arrival In Hell (horror)
- Belial
- Covert Front
- Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque
- Darkness (horror)
- Daymare Town
- The Dead Case (horror)
- Deep Sleep Trilogy (horror)
- Exmortis
- Fancy Island (horror)
- Goliath The Soothsayer
- Gretel and Hansel
- Hewitt
- Jack French
- Johnny Rocketfingers
- The Last Door
- Medieval Cop (made using RPG Maker)
- Myosotis
- Pound The Puss
- Reisen
- The Sagittarian
- Trapped Series (with escape-the-room, puzzle and Jigsaw Puzzle Plot elements)
- Tube Adventures
- Which Way Adventure
- Criminal Case
- Gardens of Time
- Trauma (also has a downloadable version on Steam)
- Ad Venture Capitalist
- Anti-Idle: The Game
- Antimatter Dimensions
- Clicker Heroes
- Cookie Clicker
- Crusaders of the Lost Idols
- Crush Crush
- A Dark Room
- Factory idle
- Grind Craft
- Idle Mine
- Idle Recruit
- Kittens Game
- Progress Quest
- Reactor Idle
- Realm Grinder
- Religious Idle
- Sandcastle Builder
- Slurpy Derpy
- Squid Ink
- Swarm Simulator
- Synergism
- Tangerine Tycoon
- Time Clickers
- Trimps
- Universal Paperclips
- World Idle
- Zombidle
- Adventures With Anxiety
- Cyberqueen
- Final Girl
- Flawed Crystals (Steven Universe fangame, also an Eastern RPG)
- Acorn Story
- A Koopa's Revenge
- Adventure Ponies!
- Adventure Story (a Epic Battle Fantasy series spinoff.)
- The Bright in the Screen (horror)
- Cactus McCoy (also a BeatEmUp)
- The Caverns Of Hammerfest
- Clarence's Big Chance (also a borderline Metroidvania)
- Diamond Hollow II
- Dino Run
- Diseviled
- Elephant Quest
- The End
- Everybody Edits (has some sandbox elements)
- Exit Path
- Fancy Pants Adventures
- Fluunix
- Gun Bot
- Gyossait (horror)
- Heir
- Icycle
- Jiggly Zone (with Metroidvania elements)
- King's Ascent
- Level Up (also a Metroidvania)
- Meat Boy
- Me (2017)
- Mibibli's Quest (also a shooter)
- Mind Your Manors
- Minty Fresh Adventure!
- Mission In Snowdriftland
- N
- Perdition
- Persist
- Plazma Burst Series (has heavy 2d shooter elements).
- Raze 2 (has heavy 2d shooter elements).
- Remnants of Skystone (also an MMORPG and a Metroidvania)
- Robot Wants series (also a Metroidvania)
- Rokko Chan
- Sint Nicolaas
- Stinkoman 20X6
- STREEMERZ
- Strike Force Heroes (has 2D Shooter Elements.)
- Summit
- Super Chick Sisters
- Super Mario 63
- Super Mario Bros. Crossover
- Super Treadmill
- Tails' Nightmare (horror)
- Thing Thing
- This Is the Only Level (parody)
- Vector
- The Visit
- You Only Live Once (parody)
- Achievement Unlocked
- Closure
- The Company of Myself
- Continuity
- Depict1
- Enough Plumbers
- Fractured
- Frizzle Fraz
- I Don't Even Game
- The I of It
- Iridescent
- I Saw Her Standing There
- Karoshi
- K.O.L.M.
- Loved
- Night Lights
- Paul And Percy
- Pause Ahead
- Primary
- Prior
- [REVIVE]
- Sequester
- Shift
- Skinny
- Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death
- Time Fcuk
- Tower Of Heaven
- You Have to Burn the Rope
- Verge
Exploration Platformers
Survival Horror Platformers
- 2048
- 400 Years
- Alpha Bounce
- Ball Revamped
- Bloons
- Clone Bloxx
- Criminal Case
- Doodle God
- Factory Idle Missions
- Flaming Zombooka
- Freecell
- Gardens of Time
- Garfield's Scary Scavenger Hunt
- Grow
- Guardian Rock
- Haunt The House
- Hoshi Saga
- Help The Hero
- Immortal Souls
- Lab of the Dead
- Mental Series
- no-one has to die.
- Notpron
- Pixelo
- Planetarium
- Portal: The Flash Version
- Pretentious Game
- Puzzle Clubhouse
- Save Toshi (only the first 40 levels though)
- Sushi Cat
- Tower Bloxx
- The Very Organized Thief
- Windosill
- Adventure Kingdom
- Arcuz
- Ginormo Sword
- Monster Legends
- Super Press Space to Win Action RPG 2009 (parody)
- Swords And Souls
- The Haunted Ruins
Eastern RPGs
- Crystal Story
- The Enchanted Cave and The Enchanted Cave 2
- Epic Battle Fantasy series:
- Fantasy Online (Affectionate Parody)
- Flawed Crystals (Steven Universe fangame, also Interactive Fiction)
- Ge Ne Sis (also a Tactical RPG)
- Wings Of Genesis, its spinoff, which is actually a Horizontal Scrolling Shooter.
- Granblue Fantasy
- Knights of the Crystals
- Linear RPG (parody)
- MARDEK
- Mega Man RPG Prototype
- Outernauts
- Parameters (Deconstruction Game)
- Pokémon Black and Blue (parody of Pokémon)
- TCT RPG (also known as The Color Tuesday)
- Turn Based Battle (parody)
Tactical RPGs
- Ge Ne Sis (also an Eastern RPG)
- Wings Of Genesis, its spinoff, which is actually a Horizontal Scrolling Shooter.
- Telepath RPG (also a Western RPG)
Western RPGs
- AdventureQuest
- Agroundnote
- Arfenhouse
- Caravaneer
- DragonFable, its prequel.
- MechQuest, DragonFable's prequel.
- WarpForce, expansion to AdventureQuest
- Book of Mages: The Dark Times
- Candy box!
- Castle Age
- Dragon Age Journeys
- Dragon Tavern
- Dream World
- Ghost Tales
- Gravity Falls: PinesQuest 2Dimensions
- Improbable Island
- A Knight's Quest for Milk
- Mafia Wars
- Marvel: Avengers Alliance
- Marvel Avengers Alliance Tactics, its spinoff (also a Tactical RPG)
- NeoQuest
- Poptropica
- Sinjid
- Sonny
- Sryth (a text RPG)
- Stick RPG
- Superhero City
- Telepath RPG (also a Tactical RPG)
- Twilight Heroes
- U Realms Live
- Vulpin Adventure
- War Metal
Massively Multiplayer Online RPGs
- AdventureQuest Worlds
- AdventureQuest3D
- Alteil
- Aola Star
- Aoqi Legend
- Bit Heroes
- Cantr II
- Club Penguin
- Coven Wars
- Dark Orbit
- Dawn of the Dragons
- Dead Frontier
- Dealt in Lead
- Doom Forge
- Drakensang Online
- Dungeon Blitz (also an Action-Adventure game)
- Erenor
- Evony
- Faery Tale Online
- Forum Warz
- Fusionfall
- Gaia Online
- Game of Thrones: Ascent
- Habbo
- HoboWars
- Kingdom of Loathing
- Legacy of a Thousand Suns
- Mabinogi
- MMO Asteroids
- Monkey Quest (shut down)
- Moshi Monsters
- Muelsfell Rise Of The Golems
- Nexus War
- The Overseer Project
- Pardus
- Realm of the Mad God
- Remnants of Skystone (also a Platformer and a Metroidvania)
- Roco Kingdom
- RuneScape
- Shintolin
- Skyrates
- Star Pirates
- Torn City
- Urban Dead
- Urban Rivals
- World Of Dungeons
- Amateur Surgeon (Meat Grinder Surgery)
- Avatar High (life sim)
- Big Al Game (life sim)
- Blaseball (baseball sim)
- Cafe Rouge (dating sim/visual novel)
- Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals (cooking)
- Cyber Nations (nation sim)
- Death Row (prison sim)
- flOw (life sim)
- The Hook Up (dating sim)
- NationStates (nation sim)
- Fisher-Diver (fishing sim)
- Globetrotter XL (general knowledge game)
- Life: the Game (simulates a man's entire life)
- Memory Days (Dating Sim)
- Millsberry (life sim)
- Monster Breeder
- My Pet Protector (Raising Sim)
- Namco High (Dating Sim)
- Politics And War (nation sim)
- Relive Your Life (life sim)
- Star Stable (horse-raising simulation game)
- Super Sized Family (parenting sim)
- The Urinal Game (a sim of, of all things, using a urinal)
- The Wild Thornberrys: Australia Wildlife Rescue (raising sim)
- Anaksha: Female Assassin
- Combat Instinct
- Contract Wars
- Insectonator
- Sierra 7
- Sift Heads
- Sniper Assassin
Horizontal Side-Scrolling Shooters
- Alien Hominid
- Parasite Strike
- Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar
- RPG Shooter: Starwish (has heavy RPG Elements)
- Wings Of Genesis (has heavy RPG Elements)
- The Last Night
- Area Flat series
- Bubble Tanks
- Bullet Heaven series (A spinoff of the Epic Battle Fantasy main series.):
- Bloons Super Monkey
- Bullet Audyssey
- Cube Colossus
- Enigmata
- Epic Boss Fighter
- Figure Of Eight
- Frantic
- Frantic Frigates
- Wings.io
- Neverending Light (horror)
- Notebook Wars
- The Peacekeeper
- Pixelvader
- Raiders Took My Dog
- Reactance
- The Tank Builder
- Ultimate Crab Battle
- Upgrade Complete
- Viricide
Vertical Scrolling Shooters
- Bungo to Alchemist
- Go Cross Campus
- Graphwar
- KanColle
- Mud And Blood
- Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-
- Picture Wars
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Rebuild
- Relic Of War
- Spybot: The Nightfall Incident
- Steambirds
- Touken Ranbu
Real Time
- Armor Blitz
- Castle Quest 2
- Celestus
- Hexagor.io
- I Am an Insane Rogue A.I.
- Illyriad
- Imperium Nova
- Infectonator!
- The Kings League
- Pandemic
- Mud 'n' Blood 2
- Paladog
- Stick War
- Takeover
- Town of Salem
- Warfare 1917
- Warfare 1944
- Café World
- CityVille
- FarmVille
- FrontierVille
- MouseHunt
- Oiligarchy
- Papa Louie Arcade
- PetVille
- Zoo World
Digital Pet Games
- 8Realms (Multiplayer, real-time strategy, idle game)
- Abobo's Big Adventure (Beat 'em Up, Platformer, Action-Adventure, Action and a Sports Game)
- Annalynn (Platform Game/Maze Game)
- Bear Stearns Bravo (Choose Your Own Adventure and Full Motion Video)
- Big Fat Awesome House Party (MMO-like, sim and minigame based)
- bit Dungeon (Roguelike/Action RPG)
- Black Market. Part SimulationGame, part resource management, part RPG.
- Bloons Monkey City (Part Tower Defense, part Simulator Game)
- The Breach (Platform Game / sidescrolling Third-Person Shooter, with RPG Elements, and a Survival Horror feeling)
- Breakbar RPG (Breaking Out + RPG)
- Cactus McCoy (Beat 'Em Up/Platformer)
- Deadly 30 (RPG, survival game, Tower Defense and a Shoot 'em Up)
- Deeeep.io (Multiplayer, eco-system simulation)
- Devast.io (multiplayer, survival game, RPG elements)
- Dikembe Mutombo's 4½ Weeks to Save the World (part Shoot 'em Up, part platformer)
- Echoes: Operation Stranglehold (side-scrolling action-strategy)
- Escape from the Spirit World (puzzle/narrative)
- FlyOrDie.io (Multiplayer, flight, eco-system simulation)
- :the game:
- Henry Stickmin Series
- Karnage.io (Multiplayer, Top-down shooter)
- Kings and Legends (MMORPG/CCG)
- Krunker.io (Multiplayer, First-Person Shooter)
- Lucky Tower
- Legacy Of Heroes (MMORPG/CCG)
- Marapets (MMORPG/, pet-raising sim)
- Mario Mario Ace Attorney
- Mega Mash
- Monster Arena (WesternRPG/SimulationGame)
- MooMoo.io (multiplayer, survival game)
- Mope.io (Multiplayer, eco-system simulation)
- The Last Stand (RPG, survival game, and a Shoot 'em Up)
- OviPets (MMORPG/, pet-raising sim)
- Pico (The various flash games across Newgrounds starring the Series Mascot cover a wide spectrum of genres.)
- Planet That Have Many Creatures (MMORPG/, pet-raising sim)
- Ravenwood Fair
- Realm of the Mad God: (Roguelike/Bullet Hell/MMORPG)
- Riddle School (Puzzle/Adventure)
- Rock Band World: Rhythm Game (companion app to one, at least)/genre-defying
- Sort the Court (RPG, Interactive Fiction and Resource Management)
- Starve.io (multiplayer, survival game, RPG elements)
- Stormwinds
- Survivor: Fire (Action/Escape the Room/Simulation)
- Time Clickers: Idle Game / First-Person Shooter
- Tyrant: (MMORPG/CCG)
- Valthirian Arc 1 (Action RPG/Time Management)
- Valthirian Arc 2 (Action RPG/School Simulation)
- Vertix.io (Multiplayer, Top-down shooter)
- War Brokers (Multiplayer, First-Person Shooter)
- Webkinz
- World Builder (Puzzle/Adventure/Strategy)
- Xolga and Mr. Toko (Puzzle/Adventure)
- Akinator
- An Other A Game For Social Change
- Mush The Dawn
- Babies Dream Of Dead Worlds
- Battle Master
- Battle Stations
- But That Was Yesterday
- Can Your Pet?
- Cold And Flu Invasion
- Covetous
- Darfur Is Dying
- Demon Thesis (Half webcomic, half Final Fantasy Tactics style game where 4 modern day college students suddenly find themselves gifted with magic powers thanks to an Eldritch Abomination and fighting off hordes of monsters)
- Die2Nite
- Don't Shit Your Pants
- Don't Wet Your Pants
- Doodle God
- Drawful
- ERepublik
- Every Day The Same Dream
- KRFS
- The Exhausting Adventures Of Gentle Sod
- Feed The Cat
- The Game
- Glean
- Gobtron
- Grey Matter
- Happy Wheels
- Hatfall
- Hot Dog Bush
- Icarus Needs
- Immor Tall
- The Impossible Quiz
- Kongai
- The Majesty of Colors
- Motherload
- Nickelodeon Clickamajigs
- One Chance
- Oppressive Games
- Osada
- poupéegirl
- Pumkin Land
- Say When!!
- Sonic Inflation Adventure
- Steamshovel Harry
- There Is No Game
- Today I Die
- Transformice
- Treadmillasaurus Rex
- Warbears
- War of Omens
- We Become What We Behold
- The Wiki Game
- xkcd Hoverboard
- Zap Dramatic
Web Game Developers
- [adult swim] Games
- Armor Games: along with hosting a number of games, they also produce many popular ones, including Crush the Castle, Achievement Unlocked .
- io games
- Bigpoint: Developer of Dark Orbit, Drakensang Online and Battlestar Galactica Online. Known for pushing the technological boundaries (especially in graphics as of late) of browser-based games.
- Con Artist Games
- Fig Hunter - The website of Pseudolonewolf, the creator of the MARDEK series and Clarence's Big Chance.
- jmtb02
- Minoto
- Molleindustria
- Nerdook
- notably a fellow troper.
- Nicky Case
- Nitrome
- Orisinal
- Pastel Games
- scriptwelder
- Spil Games
- Square Enix (Chocobo's Crystal Tower and Knights of the Crystals)
- Zeebarf
- creator of the Adventures of Reemus, A Small Favor and A Vistor series.
- Zynga, Inc.
Gaming Sites
- Adventure Games Live
- Armor Games
- Wwe Games Online
- Spiderman Games
- Scrabble Online Free
- NuMuKi
- FunOrb - Defunct as of August 7th, 2018.
- Power Rangers Games
- Homestar Runner - A site famous for its webtoons but also contains a number of popular games.
- Kongregate - Home to an active community of developers and the gamers who provide feedback (and occasionally donations) to their works. A large part of the site is the social networking aspect of flash gaming, increased by meta-game achievements the developers and site mods help create. Recently made part of the Gamestop network.
- Neopets
- Newgrounds - Known for its flash games, but also known for flash movies. Along with Kongregate, one of the leaders in web-gaming developer sites that include social review and meta-game rewards for players.
- NMcCoy.net
- Scrabble Games
- Puppet Nightmares
- Puzzle Clubhouse - A series of crowd-designed "game episodes" that each combine an animated story and a short, quirky game.