Weekly picks
Five games. Five very different weekends.
A shared skatepark, a dragon quest, a noir mystery, alien worlds and a kart race. Five browser games to explore this weekend.
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Afterlap
Switch between two orbits to collect diamonds, then dodge the shadows those same rewards leave behind on your next lap.
By Covered Stream ↗ Arcade
Alpine Apex: Winter Sunset GP
Race a 12-car field over wet alpine roads at sunset, with three laps, assisted handling and snowy mountain scenery.
By Luckey Systems ↗ Racing
ANATOMIST II: GRAFT
Borrow body parts from defeated monsters to change your abilities in a four-floor Game Boy roguelike demo.
By CSAF — Core Systems Asset Factory ↗ Roguelike
APEX - Racing Career
Rise from club karting to the World Grand Prix, earning contracts and managing a racing career across four series.
By gerdlenhardt ↗ Racing
Argon Orchard
Grow a glass garden over twenty turns, reach crystal blooms and claim territory from an amber rival.
By estona815 ↗ Strategy
BlackHole
Feed a growing black hole from tiny particles to galaxies, unlocking upgrades and new cosmic eras in an incremental game.
By kronfeld ↗ Simulation
Car Racing Revisited
Race thirty circuits across six championships, tackle changing surfaces and weather, or build your own track.
By Revisited ↗ Racing
Closer
Play a black hole drawing an inhabited planet closer, changing the pace of its history and your relationship with its people.
By Benmuse01 ↗ Adventure
Commuter Carnage
Race a contractor's van through eight chaotic detours, dodge police and upgrade your ride in a satirical arcade driver.
By PowersDigitalStudios ↗ Racing
CopyCat
Mix unusual weapons and abilities in arena duels against a computer opponent designed to adapt to your fighting habits.
By Tremesiano ↗ Action
Warm Little Room
Warm a rainy room one click at a time, adding candles, blankets, plants and a sleepy cat as your cosy collection grows.
By raxeris ↗ Simulation
DOOM HOUSE XIII
Survive thirteen strange rooms with thirteen health points and one shotgun in a compact retro horror shooter.
By Roman Irhin ↗ Shooter
Extreme Racing: World Tour
Tour twenty-two cities in an open-wheel arcade racer, chaining near misses and grabbing nitro to blast through traffic.
By ashishdevelop ↗ Racing
IT'S JUST MINESWEEPER
Play six fair Minesweeper boards whose rules gradually go wrong, with two endings and an increasingly unsettling smiley.
By raxeris ↗ Puzzle
Mushroom Kingdoms
Build a forest kingdom, gather resources and command armies against bots or a friend in an early real-time strategy game.
By Dasryel ↗ Strategy
Night Dashcam
Drive a night-time highway through a dashcam view in a quiet first-person browser driving game.
By MRISFox ↗ Racing
数字落块 | Number Drop
Drop pairs of numbered blocks, merge connected groups of three and plan chain reactions on a compact board.
By NightShang ↗ Puzzle
O Ajudante do Sniper
Prepare equipment, investigate a betrayal and solve hands-on puzzles across nine chapters of a pixel-art sniper thriller.
By Cogulezo Games ↗ Adventure
O Último Faroleiro
Sweep a lighthouse beam over sea creatures, arm the coastal guns with a siren and upgrade your defences between nights.
By Cogulezo Games ↗ Tower defence
Opelia Rift
Chart a procedural galaxy of 1,200 systems, jump between stars and deep-scan worlds through an observatory-style interface.
By Luckey Systems ↗ Exploration
Pastel Nuketown
Trade colourful fire in pastel arenas, with online deathmatch and kill-confirmed modes, or warm up against bots.
By Luckey Systems ↗ Shooter
图案落块 | Pattern Drop
Rotate falling pieces to match symbols, then use gravity, bombs and chain reactions to clear the board.
By NightShang ↗ PuzzleShowing 24 of 876 games
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