Clanka.io
A 1-bit ink-on-paper FPS where clanker assassins (clankas) hunt each other…
Games written directly against the Canvas API with no engine at all. Tiny bundles, fast loads, total control.
Across 54 games, the biggest category is Action with 19, then Puzzle with 9. Counted from the listings on this page, not estimated.
Vanilla Canvas rarely turns up alone. The tools it appears alongside most often here are Claude Code and Cursor, which is roughly what you would expect from a rendering layer that still needs the rest of a project around it.
Every one of them is free to play. All of them run in a browser tab with nothing to install.
What people ask before they pick a tool, or before they trust a listing that credits one.
For a small game with one mechanic, nothing beats it. Tiny bundles, instant loads, complete control, and you will write your own collision detection at two in the morning.
Makers pick their tools from a list when they submit, and that is what this page filters on. It is self-reported and nobody audits it, so treat it as a credit rather than a certificate. Where a game links its source, you can go and look.
No. Vanilla Canvas is what the maker built with; the game ships as a page you open in a browser. Nothing on this list needs a plugin, a launcher or a download.
Open the source link on any game here that has one, then read the official documentation at developer.mozilla.org. Reading one finished small game teaches more than a tutorial series, and a good number of makers on this site publish their repositories.
Across the 54 games on this page, the most common categories are action, puzzle and strategy. That is what makers actually shipped, counted from the listings themselves rather than estimated.
Every tool with a page here, with a live count of what has shipped on it. Most games credit two or three, so these lists overlap by design.
A 1-bit ink-on-paper FPS where clanker assassins (clankas) hunt each other…
fighting game with robots guns and laser swords and bunch of cool stuff.
Pilot a fragile lunar lander across a miniature moon, mastering orbital…
Restaurant sim with Silksong combat
A solo developer's love letter to Heroes of Might and Magic 3 — turn-based…
Survive and heal in a mystical forest.
Top-down PvP Medieval Slasher and Souls-like Hybrid
Run the real stock market as a 3D plushie runner- pick any ticker, trade the…
Multiplayer dogfighter where the plane you draw is the plane you fly.
Anomaly Arcade is a reality-warping retro fever dream where a single run…
A minimalist medieval puzzle game about placing blocks in the right order to…
Find the right combination for your color
Weird IKEA product names make perfect death metal lyrics.
Death matters Extraction MMO
Play Pong with your real hand — webcam computer vision tracks your actual hand…
"A rhythm-based survivors game where your attacks pulse to the beat and the…
Chess from Hell — Summon armies, transform the battlefield, curse your enemies
Jugar al arquitecto bajo presión: ¡piezas cayendo del cielo mientras tu…
A simple platformer about holding onto everything—until the only way forward…
A cozy 7-night sim where you inherit your late grandmother's mountain soba…
Single player 2d party auto battler with character development, diablo style…
NeonSnake is a fast, no-login arcade snake shooter where you hunt enemy snakes…
Shoot balls at the thing stressing you out and watch it explode letter by…
just deliever the Q3 report to your boss before the deadline.
Ranked by recommendations on their Vanilla Canvas games only.