Action games you can play in your browser

37 games right now, and the number moves most days because new games launch daily. Everything counted here is published and playable, not a store page or a wishlist entry.

Hot weighs recommendations and reviews against how long a game has been up, so a strong launch from this morning can outrank an old favourite. New is strictly by launch time, Top is lifetime recommendations, and Discussed is review count. One account, one vote per game.

Going by the tags makers picked themselves, the most common right now are free to play, ai built, instant play and three.js. Each of those is its own page, so you can narrow down from here rather than scrolling.

The frame budget is the same 16 milliseconds it is anywhere else, and most of these render straight to canvas or WebGL with nothing in the input path. Latency complaints show up in the reviews fast, which is usually why they get fixed fast.

Action is about reacting under pressure: dodging, aiming, parrying, surviving a boss pattern. Arcade is about a score you chase across short runs. Plenty of games qualify for both, and the maker picks one when they submit.

Some support it through the browser Gamepad API and say so on their page, but keyboard and mouse is the safe assumption. Games open in their own tab, so nothing on this site is competing for your keybinds.