Retro-styled browser games: pixel art platformers, demakes, chiptune shooters and everything that looks like it belongs on a CRT.
The questions that come up most about playing retro games in a browser.
4 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 upvotes and comments 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 upvotes, and Discussed is comment count. One account, one vote per game.
Going by the tags makers picked themselves, the most common right now are instant play, free to play, ai built and retro. Each of those is its own page, so you can narrow down from here rather than scrolling.
No. Everything here is new work made to look old, built in a deliberately restricted palette, resolution or sound chip. This site does not host ROMs or emulators and never will.
Constraints are a design tool. Four colours and a tiny canvas remove a hundred decisions and force the interesting ones. It is also a great deal less art to draw when you are shipping on your own.
Most bake in their own scanlines and bloom, and several let you switch it off. On a modern display the pixel-perfect option often looks sharper than the effect, so it is worth trying both.
Eleven more ways into the catalogue. Every game on the site lives in exactly one of these, so between them they cover everything.
Teenager Leon fights through Daemon-filled mindscapes to wake up from his coma.
Survive waves of monster playing your favourite Class and Race creating your…
Relentless waves of enemies—from slow-drifting asteroid clusters that shatter…
Land your lunar module on a jagged moonscape using thrusters and tilt—touch…
Ranked by upvotes across their retro games only, not their whole profile.
