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.
Please only list games here which do not belong to a specific web game-based genre or engine. As a rule of thumb, if the work's description says that it is a "Flash game" or something similar, it should go to the appropriate subindex and not here. This page should mostly list standard HTML-based games.
Web Game Engines
Genres which almost exclusively consist of web games
- .io Game
- Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
- Multiplayer Online Battle Arena
- Multi-User Dungeon
Individual Web Games
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4X Games
Action Games
Action Adventure
Adventure Games
- 1916 - Der Unbekannte Krieg (war, horror)
- A Small Favor
- Ayiti: The Cost of Life
- BackDoor
- Billy's Big Adventure (Gamebooks)
- Cartoon Cartoon Summer Resort
- Creep TV
- Choice of Games (Gamebooks)
- Colour My Series
- Detective Grimoire
- Die Anstalt
- Divine Intervention
- A Duck Has An Adventure
- The Envelopes, Please!
- Fallen London
- Find the Cure!
- Frank's Adventure
- Five Minutes To Kill Yourself
- Halloween Hide & Seek
- How to Raise a Dragon
- Jinx
- 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
- Puffy Treasure Island
- Reincarnation (2008)
- 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)
- Submachine
- 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
- w0rd 0N 7h3 S7R337
- Zero Summer
Point-and-Click Adventure Games
- The 99 Rooms (horror)
- Ambridge Mansion (horror)
- Arcane – Online Mystery Serial (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
- Pound The Puss
- The Sagittarian
- Trapped Series (with escape-the-room, puzzle and Jigsaw Puzzle Plot elements)
- Tube Adventures
- Which Way Adventure
Card Games
Detective Games
Endless Running Games
Escape the Room
Fighting Games
Beat 'em Up
Hidden Object Games
Idle Games
- Antimatter Dimensions
- The Ascension Tree
- Clicker Heroes
- Cookie Clicker
- Crusaders of the Lost Idols
- A Dark Room
- Escape from Vantablack
- Factory idle
- FE000000
- Grind Craft
- Idle Mine Remix
- Kittens Game
- Planet Life
- Prestige Tree Classic
- The Prestige Tree: Alternate
- 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
Interactive Fiction
Multiplayer Online Battle Arena
Platforming Games
Ordinary Platformers
- Elephant Quest
- The End (2012)
- Everybody Edits (has some sandbox elements)
- Fancy Pants Adventures
- Fresh Minty Adventure
- 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)
- Vector
- Depict1
- Enough Plumbers
- I Don't Even Game
- Loved
- Swords and Claws (has some casual puzzle-like elements)
- Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death
- Tower of Heaven
- You Have to Burn the Rope
- Verge
Exploration Platformers
Survival Horror Platformers
Puzzle Games
- 2048
- Alpha Bounce
- Ball Revamped
- Criminal Case
- Doodle God
- Exit/Corners
- 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.
- Pixelo
- Planetarium
- Portal:The Flash Version
- Pretentious Game
- Puzzle Clubhouse
- Retardo and the Iron Golem
- Save Toshi (only the first 40 levels though)
- Squaredle
- Sushi Cat
- Windosill
- Wordle
Quiz Games
Racing Games
Roguelikes
Role-Playing Games
Action RPGs
- Adventure Kingdom
- Monster Legends
- Super Press Space to Win Action RPG 2009 (parody)
- Swords & Souls
- The Haunted Ruins
Eastern RPGs
- Crystal Story
- The Enchanted Cave and The Enchanted Cave 2
- Fantasy Online (Affectionate Parody)
- Flawed Crystals (Steven Universe fangame, also Interactive Fiction)
- Granblue Fantasy
- Knights of the Crystals
- MARDEK
- Mega Man RPG Prototype
- Outernauts
- Pokémon Black and Blue (parody of Pokémon)
- TCT RPG (also known as The Color Tuesday)
- Turn Based Battle (parody)
Tactical RPGs
- Genesis 2009 (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
- War Metal
Simulation Games
- Amateur Surgeon (Meat Grinder Surgery)
- Avatar High (life sim)
- Big Al Game (life sim)
- Burger Restaurant (cooking)
- Blaseball (baseball sim)
- Cafe Rouge (dating sim/visual novel)
- candypink (cooking)
- Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals (cooking)
- Cyber Nations (nation sim)
- Death Row (prison sim)
- flOw (life sim)
- NationStates (nation sim)
- Fisher-Diver (fishing sim)
- Globetrotter XL (general knowledge game)
- Gragyriss, Captor of Princesses
- Life: the Game (simulates a man's entire life)
- Memory Days (Dating Sim)
- Millsberry (life sim)
- Monster Breeder
- 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)
Shooting Games
First-Person Shooters
Horizontal Side-Scrolling Shooters
- Alien Hominid
- 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
Sports Games
Strategy Games
Turn-based
- Bungo to Alchemist
- Go Cross Campus
- Graphwar
- KanColle
- Len'en Cafe ~ Book of the Cafe
- 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
- Pandemic
- Mud 'n' Blood 2
- Paladog
- Scrap Metal Heroes
- Stick War
- Stop the Darkness
- Takeover
- Town of Salem
- Warfare 1917
- Warfare 1944
Time Management Games
General
Digital Pet Games
Tower Defense
Virtual World Games
Multiple
- 8Realms (Multiplayer, real-time strategy, idle game)
- Bear Stearns Bravo (Story Branching 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.
- The Breach (Platform Game / sidescrolling Third-Person Shooter, with RPG Elements, and a Survival Horror feeling)
- 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: (2008)
- 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
- 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)
- Osmosis Jones Mystery Of The Rash Outbreak
- OviPets (MMORPG/, pet-raising sim)
- 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 2011: (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)
Genre-Defying
- 625 Sandwich Stacker
- Akinator
- An Other A Game For Social Change
- Mush The Dawn
- Babies Dream Of Dead Worlds
- Battle Master
- Battle Stations
- Brawl Royale
- But That Was Yesterday
- Can Your Pet?
- Cold and Flu Invasion
- Covetous
- Darfur Is Dying
- Defend Your Castle
- 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
- The Exhausting Adventures Of Gentle Sod
- Feed the Cat
- Gobtron
- Happy Wheels
- Hatfall
- Hot Dog Bush
- Icarus Needs
- Immor Tall
- The Impossible Quiz
- Incredibox
- 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
- CrazyGames
- NuMuKi
- Run 3
- Wwe Games Online
- Spiderman Games Online
- Scrabble Online Free
- 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.
