Puzzle-Punch
1 vs 1 competitive Tetris game with abilities to hinder your opponent or help…
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.
1 vs 1 competitive Tetris game with abilities to hinder your opponent or help…
A retro Peggle-inspired puzzle game full of pegs, bumpers, portals, and…
Classic Arcade Game
Clash Label is a strategy game where players cover image tiles while trying to…
FLOCK is a neon arcade arena battler where you grow, dash, shoot and kill your…
like bloons tower defense but it's aliens and weapons
Build a Santa Fe skyline while a cowboy rides through the chaos.
Second Form Requiem is a fast-paced space shoot ’em up where you transform…
A post-apocalyptic strategy MMO.
A work experience of nothingness
Endless runner where you play as a dog who's just slipped the lead — dodge…
Prevent the zombies to reach the end road by placing towers, using powers
Your game's pitch in one sentence
Fight your opponent UNDERWATER!
Nani's house. Summer Vacation. One precious laddoo. The ants know it's there…
Fat Pac is a chaotic maze arcade game where every bite makes you fatter…
Iron Dome is a tense arcade missile-defense shooter where you protect a…
High-performance marketing, one flap at a time.
A lightning-fast western duel where you must shoot before your opponent in a…
Break through the chaos and free the cat before it’s too late.
A 2D racer that loads in two seconds and ruins your afternoon
Relentless waves of enemies—from slow-drifting asteroid clusters that shatter…
Memorize maze paths to find a way out.
Swipe through real presidential scandals, bet fake crypto on your survival…
Ranked by recommendations on their Vanilla Canvas games only.