Cool browser based games

Load it up, head to Mars, kill some demons, and see what the big deal with Doom is all about. Browser games can be more than just tests of your skill and puzzle-solving ability. Games like GeoGuessr also can help you learn about the world around you. In this game you are placed in a random location on the globe using Google street view or Mapillary and, just through observing what you can see around you, have to guess where in the world you were placed.

Looking for vegetation, road signs, and landmarks are key to determining where you are. When you think you have it, you select that location on a map as close to where you think you are as possible, and once you place that marker the game will reveal where you actually were. Depending on how far away your guess was from the real location, you are given a score and move on to the second of five rounds.

Way back in the early s, RuneScape showed the world how we could not only play a complete MMO on our browser, but also that they could be just as good as the rest of them. Unfortunately, RuneScape now requires a dedicated download to play, but it passed on its lessons to plenty of new browser MMOs to take up the mantel.

This title thrusts you into the world of Anderworld, where you can explore the nine main regions as either a spellweaver, dragonkight, or ranger. The 3D graphics are fantastic for a game running on your browser, bringing the world to life. Join up with other players to do all the traditional MMO activities like questing, leveling up, buying and trading gear, and wondering where the last couple hours went. This is the perfect way to get that MMO fix without plunking down a heavy subscription.

If you ever played the original Trials game back when it was a browser game way back in the year , or any of the console and PC sequels, then playing Sunset Bike Racer will be just like riding a bike.

That is to say a tough-as-nails, physics-based obstacle course across dozens of tracks. This game sets itself apart from its inspiration with a striking artstyle, where your character and the foreground track are in shadow contrasting against the yellow, orange, and red lit backgrounds.

Perform stunts to build boost, compete for time on the leaderboards, and go for a three-star rating on all the courses in this easy to start but hard to master motocross sim.

Thanks to modern technology, we have games that can spawn infinite levels, worlds, and even galaxies. However, there are very few that use that technology to generate an infinite number of stories. AI Dungeon 2 may just be a text adventure, but that allows it to be a truly endless and unique experience every time, right in your browser.

As the name implies, this game uses OpenAI to tailor-make fresh adventures that can adapt to anything you can think to do or say. Unlike classic text adventures, AI Dungeon 2 lets you do just about anything you type in and the AI will react and change the game appropriately. No one ever really outgrows mini-golf, but at a certain point the courses do lose some of their magic. You play this game with just your mouse, aiming your putt and determining the strength of the hit just like any other mini-golf game.

What makes this game great is the combination of creative and fun levels to master, and the smooth music that really puts you in a relaxed state. There are 18 holes to putt through, making this a very low commitment game. After entering your name, picking a skin, and either free-for-all or teams, you are dropped into a map overrun with zombies.

You can choose the types of skills you want to train in: Combat, Artisan, Gathering, Support and Elite. As you level up, your skills will become more advanced which will ultimately help you complete your quests. Sounds simple, right? So you need to be ready for anything! You can play this multiplayer browser game on your PC or as a mobile game in the Apple or Android app stores.

This browser game invites you to explore a digital world from your — you guessed it — browser. Step into the shoes of a young warrior in search of friends, adventure and treasure. Whether you defeat enemies alone or as a party is up to you.

It will take you far in BrowserQuest. Play BrowserQuest. Entrepreneur and developer Chris Benjaminsen created this real-time, multiplayer platform game.

But the players are the ones who can build levels for others to try and complete. AdventureQuest is a single-player RPG wherein you create a character, pick a class, and fight against hordes of monsters. Depending on your personality, you can choose to be a ninja, wizard, fighter, rogue, or paladin to name just a few. The AdventureQuest world is filled with magical powers, hundreds of items and over monsters. Take part in dozens of quests! The more you win, the stronger your character gets and the more you progress.

Children and grown-ups alike love this online battle simulator. No waiting to rest or level up — you just jump straight into battle. In November , game designers Adam and Donna Powell released arguably one of the best browser games: Neopets.

Neopets is a virtual pet website where players can own virtual pets and care for them using neocash. Remember playing pictionary or Draw Something? Similar to those games, you can sum up Gartic. In this online drawing game, up to 10 people can play. At the start of every round one person will randomly draw a word and draw it, while everyone else has to try and guess the word correctly.

Jump into Slither. As you probably know, the goal is to become the longest snake of the day. All you have to do to grow is get other slitherers to run into your body. Strathford is where you can form a party of your own, learn how to level up and explore different islands. Take a trip around the world, visiting faraway places with GeoGuessr. When ready to guess, you place a location marker on a map.

Based on the accuracy of your guess, GeoGuessr will give you points on a scale from zero direct opposite of where you actually are to within meters of your actual location. This classic arcade game goes back to If you log into an account, there are tons of little missions and rewards you can claim for playing. 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.

You try to get them alone, when you know one party is out, and just start to gently wear away at their trust, until they're a human shaped receptacle for suspicion, and before you know it you've got galactic civil war on your hands, and you can mop up the pieces. Or, I suppose, you could play it like an honourable, decent human being. But where's the fun in that? A classic boardgame brought into your browser. Catan helped usher in the golden age of boardgames as it grew more and more popular outside of Europe.

If you've never played Catan, here's a free opportunity to hate your friends because they won't give you any fucking grain. Okay so it's not exactly a browser game in the way everything else on this list is, but it does run in your browser. Instead of fighting for control of the on-screen characters against the rest of chat, an AI controls all of the tactical battles.

As a chatter, you place bets on which side you think will win and can spend your channel Gil to name a character after yourself with a chosen class and skill. It may sound hands-off but it's every bit as engaging as watching Marbles on Stream.