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Best free retro games
Pixel art, chiptunes, ASCII and games that feel like they came out of an old console or a 90s PC, plus remakes of the classics, running in your browser.
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HALDANE-4
by Denis Bondare · built with Cursor
Make a solo descent beneath the Antarctic ice shelf in a short horror story drawn in ASCII.
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56k.rip
by u/Scholeristical
The full 1996 dial-up experience: the handshake, the wait, someone picking up the phone. Sound on.
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Windows 93
by jankenpopp & Zombectro
A fake operating system full of cursed programs and toys.
weirdretro0 4 players -
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NO CARRIER
by u/ElComandantePrimer
Connect to a forgotten 90s research server through a terminal and piece together why the facility went dark. No quest log, just files.
narrativeretrohorror0 4 players -
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8DRIFT
by u/MOUVAL
Drift a pixel-art city with real people. Free multiplayer drift game, no download. Buy cars, tune them, hang out at a car meet that never closes.
racing0 4 players -
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World Sweeper
by u/Lucky_Head8075
Minesweeper on a map of Earth. Dig through more than 100 million land tiles, flag mines, and survive with skills, loot, and starter builds.
educational0 3 players -
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Clumsy Bird
by Ellison Leão · built with MelonJS
A Flappy Bird clone built on MelonJS. Tap, flap, pipe, cry.
arcaderetro0 2 players -
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Minesweeper Online
by Minesweeper.Online
Classic minesweeper with ranked play and daily quests.
puzzleretro0 2 players -
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GridCity
by u/fabianolecce
Build your city in the style of classic SimCity (1989), entirely in the browser: zones, power, water, traffic, disasters, isometric 3D view. Free, no install required.
strategy3dsandbox0 2 players -
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DODGE
by u/davemeggett
Avoid the red. Survive. A free browser-based arcade game with powerups, coin chains, shields, and chiptune music. Play instantly — no download needed.
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Quakelike
by u/lee337reilly · built with GitHub Copilot
Quakelike - infinite, random, procedurally generated Quake levels in your browser
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One Gets Through
by u/Maxion
The other side of Missile Command. Launch missiles, outwit interceptors and clear five levels. Play free in your browser.
shooter0 1 player -
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yup.gr
by u/Mparigas
A playful personal website built like a 1995 desktop, with interactive experiments, a pool and a guestbook.
arcadesports0 1 player -
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OpenTTD 15.3 Online
by u/gerk20
Play OpenTTD instantly in your browser! Import saves, access Online Content, and experience the full Transport Tycoon game without installing anything.
strategysports0 1 player -
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Windage
by u/cuckovic
Windage is Scorched Earth online — free in your browser. Destructible terrain, wind, nukes, an arms shop, CPU tanks and 2–6 player battles. No download, no sign-up.
shooter0 0 players -
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Frontier
by Filip Zrnzevic
Shoot down descending waves of enemies in a 3D take on Space Invaders while the creator's own music plays from a jukebox.
3dshooter0 0 players -
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Fly By
by Michael Teter · built with Gemini Flash
You fly an 8-bit biplane, popping balloons, diving past barns, dodging airliners and pulling stunts.
retroarcade0 0 players -
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Lofi Cities
by safaelmali
You pick a pixel-art city at night and let the browser compose endless lofi music over it.
toy0 0 players -
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Bored Spreadsheet
by kevinclelland
You play Minesweeper and other quick games dressed up to look like a dull office spreadsheet.
weirdpuzzle0 0 players -
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cssQuake
by rofko
You play Quake in a version where every wall and monster is drawn with HTML and CSS 3D instead of WebGL.
shooterretro0 0 players -
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Turn Left!
by -dtb · built with Fable 5
You race a stock car around an oval with one button: hold to dive to the inside, release to drift wide.
racingretro0 0 players -
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Retro 1984
by Smart_Confusion3665
You drive a neon wireframe tank across a synthwave grid and shoot enemy tanks, Battlezone style.
shooterretro0 0 players -
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Pico Night Punkin'
by CarsonK
You press the arrow keys in time with the music to win rap battles, in a PICO-8 demake of Friday Night Funkin'.
rhythmretro0 0 players -
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Cricket Slime
by Quin Pendragon & Daniel Wedge
You bat and bowl as a slime in a limited-overs cricket match, choosing your team and innings length.
sportsretro0 0 players -
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Slime Volleyball
by Quin Pendragon & Daniel Wedge
You play volleyball as a half-circle slime, jumping to knock the ball over the net against the computer or a friend on the same keyboard.
sportsretro0 0 players -
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PICO-BALL
by Munchkin
You play a mashup of tennis, volleyball and squash where two bounces on your side loses the point, solo, versus or co-op.
sportsretro0 0 players -
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Mot's Grand Prix
by Mot
You race pseudo-3D Formula 1 cars around six classic circuits, in single races or a full championship.
racingretro0 0 players -
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SkiFree.js
by Dan Hough
You ski down an endless slope, steering around trees and other skiers until the yeti catches you.
sportsretro0 0 players -
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Pico World Race
by PAK-9
You drive a supercar around circuits set in cities across the world, racing rivals to the line.
racingretro0 0 players -
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Red//Black
by matthias
You play through two short horror stories in PICO-8 pixel art.
horrornarrative0 0 players -
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The Harvest
by Sibwara
You walk home through dark woods after a long day and try to stay calm as things start watching you.
horrorretro0 0 players -
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The Artist Is Present
by Pippin Barr
You queue in real time at a pixel-art MoMA to sit across from Marina Abramović.
narrativeweird0 0 players -
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Silent Space Marine (Doom)
by Cloudflare
You play shareware Doom, on your own or in multiplayer deathmatch with other people online.
shooterretro0 0 players -
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Celeste Classic
by Maddy Thorson & Noel Berry
You climb a mountain one screen at a time, jumping, dashing and wall-climbing past spikes.
platformerretro0 0 players -
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Celeste Classic 2: Lani's Trek
by Maddy Thorson, Noel Berry & Lena Raine
You climb a mountain with a grappling hook, swinging and pulling yourself across gaps.
platformerretro0 0 players -
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NetQuake.io
You play the original Quake shareware episode in the browser, alone or in online multiplayer.
shooterretro0 0 players -
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Minesweepdle
You get one attempt at the same Minesweeper board everyone else plays today.
dailypuzzleretro0 0 players -
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Darklaga Cannonball Symphony
by Victor Nicollet
You fly up a vertical shoot-'em-up, blasting waves of enemies in a 2024 browser remake of a 2004 PDA game.
shooterretro0 0 players -
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The Magical Ferry
You ferry passengers and their belongings across the water without leaving the wrong ones alone together on a bank.
dailypuzzleretro0 0 players -
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DayBrix
by vole.wtf
You play one daily round of falling-blocks, clearing rows with the same piece order everyone else gets.
dailyarcaderetro0 0 players -
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Minigolfle
You putt through three randomly generated retro mini-golf holes each day.
dailysportsretro0 0 players -
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Rogule
by Chris McCormick
You get one try each day at a tiny emoji dungeon crawler, where everyone faces the same dungeon.
dailyretrostrategy0 0 players -
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Oyster Arcade
built with Claude Code
You pick from a CRT-style arcade cabinet of small games, like a rocket star collector and an Invaders clone, and chase shared high scores.
arcaderetro0 0 players -
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Necrotic Dungeon
by @barrio08001 · built with Lovable
You crawl a green-on-black 80s-style dungeon, choosing paths, solving puzzles and fighting what you find.
retropuzzle0 0 players -
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Hired Swords
by @Titanztommy · built with Claude Code
You recruit a team of pixel mercenaries, arrange them for synergies and watch them auto-battle ghost teams of other players.
strategyretro0 0 players -
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Lonely Dove
by @AlexanderSvozil · built with Pi Mono
You walk a small 2D western town, talk to its residents and settle petty grievances in quick-draw duels.
narrativeretro0 0 players -
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Earth Command
by @krynsky · built with Claude Code
You defend a spinning Earth from incoming missiles and asteroids by firing from silos in every direction, Missile Command-style.
arcaderetro0 0 players -
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New Arrivals
by @clarklab · built with Claude Code
You work a shift at a 90s video rental store, sorting returned VHS tapes onto the right genre shelves, with a new shift each day.
dailypuzzleretro0 0 players -
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Mindsweeper
by adeleke
You play Minesweeper where the mines shift a step toward one corner after every safe reveal, so the numbers keep changing.
puzzle0 0 players -
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Brick Platformer
built with Codex (GPT)
You jump up brick rooftops in a side-scrolling night city, climbing as high as you can.
platformerretro0 0 players -
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Andromeda Invaders
by Susam Pal
You slide a cannon along the bottom of the screen and shoot down waves of alien ships in an early-80s-style arcade game.
shooterretro0 0 players -
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Infectors
by Wil Alvarez
You push and infect creatures in Sokoban-style levels to convert every one of them.
puzzleretro0 0 players -
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Survivor
by Scott Schiller
You fly a ship around a scrolling space map, blasting fortresses in a remake of a 1982 Commodore 64 shooter.
shooterretro0 0 players -
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Kingdom Architect
by trymnilsen
You gather resources, build houses and farms, and grow a small medieval settlement tile by tile.
strategyretro0 0 players -
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WandereRL
by red-kangaroo
You explore procedurally generated worlds in a small classic roguelike, looking for a distant castle.
retrostrategy0 0 players -
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The King's Missing Page
by Lance Ewing
You explore a castle and solve item puzzles in a small point-and-click adventure.
narrativeretro0 0 players -
60
Lexy's Labyrinth
by Eevee
You guide Lexy the fox through tile-based Chip's Challenge-style mazes, collecting chips and keys while dodging monsters.
puzzleretro0 0 players -
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BrowserHack
by Lu Wang
You play the classic roguelike NetHack, compiled to run in the browser, descending the Dungeons of Doom in ASCII.
retrostrategy0 0 players -
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Lost Pig
by Admiral Jota
You type commands as Grunk the orc, who has lost a pig and must get it back.
narrativeretro0 0 players -
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Winterbells
by Ferry Halim (Orisinal)
You guide a rabbit leaping up an endless column of bells, jumping from one to the next to see how high you can climb.
arcaderetro0 0 players -
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Biolab Disaster
by Dominic Szablewski
You run and gun through a lab overrun by escaped creatures in a pixel-art side-scroller.
platformershooter0 0 players -
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Sleeping Beauty
by Ondřej Žára
You explore a castle dungeon in a text-mode roguelike made in seven days, fighting through rooms toward the sleeping princess.
retrostrategy0 0 players -
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Thirteen Terrible Stunts
by João Lopes
You play a 1920s Hollywood assistant pulling off 13 increasingly dangerous stunt jobs ordered by four awful bosses.
arcaderetro0 0 players -
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They Took My Cat
by megagrump
You ride elevators and duck through doors in an Elevator Action-style headquarters, shooting animal thieves on your way to rescue your cat.
platformerretro0 0 players -
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Glowbugs
by Eoin McGrath
You steer a unicorn around a gray maze eating cupcakes that turn into glowbugs, then escape while avoiding the nasties.
arcaderetro0 0 players -
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Sleepy on Rainbow Road
by Csaba Csecskedi
You hit four lane keys in time with the music in an 8-bit arcade rhythm game.
rhythmretro0 0 players -
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Porklike
by Krystman
You lead a pig down randomly generated dungeon floors in a turn-based roguelike, bumping into monsters and using curses and relics.
strategyretro0 0 players -
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Dank Tomb
by krajzeg
You explore a dark tomb with a light source, fighting monsters and lighting braziers as you work deeper down.
retro0 0 players -
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Goldfish
by Ondřej Žára
You explore colorful underwater maps full of hostile sea creatures in a short, winnable ASCII roguelike.
strategyretro0 0 players -
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Ashes of Ulthar
by Elliot Nelson
You bend a village of pixel-art villagers to your will, gathering resources on the keyboard before time runs out as ash falls from the sky.
strategyhorror0 0 players -
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Just One Boss
by bridgs
You dodge a magician boss's attack patterns on a grid while collecting glowing tiles to damage him, phase after phase.
arcaderetro0 0 players -
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Combo Pool
by NuSan
You sink colored balls on a pool table, chaining same-color pots for combo points across endless and difficulty modes.
sportsretro0 0 players -
76
Bounce Back
by Frank Force
You throw a boomerang to fight monsters and explore an overworld in a small Zelda-style action adventure.
arcaderetro0 0 players -
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Reach the Relay
by @nomadhothouse · built with Claude Code
You escort a VIP through the ruins of an AI apocalypse in a turn-based, SNES-style RPG, picking a route and surviving the fights.
strategyretro0 0 players -
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Dr. Frogsworth and the Stolen Formulas
by @AIMemeCreator · built with Claude Code
You hop and blast through five pixel-art levels as a frog scientist in a Mario-meets-Mega-Man platformer.
platformerretro0 0 players -
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Beakdown
by Snapfill Studios · built with Claude Opus 5
You flap a bird around the screen Joust-style, landing on enemy riders from above to knock them out.
arcaderetro0 0 players
Every game here is free and runs in your browser with nothing to install. The order comes from players on Joystumble: thumbs up and down (weighted so a few votes don't outrank many), then how many people played. Made one that belongs here? Submit it.