Web Games - TV Tropes
- ️Sat Jan 23 2010
Web games, also known as browser games, are games played over the web. Not to be confused with Freeware Games, which are distributed for free and act like regular computer programs. Web games are played directly through the web browser, often (but not always) with the help of a plugin. These games usually are made in Adobe Flash, Unity, or HTML5.
Keep in mind that with Adobe Flash's EOL
making Flash unable to run on most browsers, you will need something else to play the games made with Adobe Flash, such as Flashpoint or Ruffle.
Please only list games here which do not belong to a specific web game-based genre or engine. As a rule of thumb, if the work's description says that it is a "Flash game" or something similar, it should go to the appropriate subindex and not here. This page should mostly list standard HTML-based games.
Web Game Engines
Genres which almost exclusively consist of web games
- .io Game
- Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
- Multiplayer Online Battle Arena
- Multi-User Dungeon
Individual Web Games
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4X Games
Action Games
Action Adventure
Adventure Games
- 1916 - Der Unbekannte Krieg (war, horror)
- Ayiti: The Cost of Life
- BackDoor
- Billy's Big Adventure (Gamebooks)
- A Blob's Tale
- Choice of Games (Gamebooks)
- Detective Grimoire
- Die Anstalt
- Fallen London
- Find the Cure! (2016)
- Frank's Adventure
- Halloween Hide & Seek
- Kingdom Hearts χ aka Kingdom Hearts χ [chi]
- Lakeview Cabin
- Lost In Vegas
- Nightmare Doors
- Peasant's Quest
- Reincarnation (2008)
- Rubber Dinghy
- Samorost
- Steppenwolf: The X-Creatures Project
- Story of the Blanks (horror fan-game of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
- Til Cows Tear Us Apart
- Godlimations
- The Trapped Trilogy (Adventure Game with animation and voice acting, distinct from the above series)
- Vorago
- Triachnid
- Trick or Treat Beat!
- Trisphere
- The Several Journeys of Reemus
- The Splitting
- The Trader of Stories
- w0rd 0N 7h3 S7R337
- Zero Summer
Point-and-Click Adventure Games
- The 99 Rooms (horror)
- Ambridge Mansion (horror)
- Belial
- Covert Front
- Crazy Hangover
- Dangeresque Roomisode 1: Behind the Dangerdesque
- Darkness (horror)
- Daymare Town
- The Dead Case (horror)
- Deep Sleep Trilogy (horror)
- Fancy Island (horror)
- Hewitt
- Investigator Series (mystery)
- Jack French
- The Last Door
- Little Wheel
- Pound the Puss
- The Sagittarian
- Trapped Series (with escape-the-room, puzzle and Jigsaw Puzzle Plot elements)
- Tube Adventures
Card Games
Detective Games
Endless Running Games
Escape the Room
Fighting Games
Beat 'em Up
Hidden Object Games
Idle Games
- Antimatter Dimensions
- The Ascension Tree
- Clicker Heroes
- Cookie Clicker
- Crusaders of the Lost Idols
- A Dark Room
- Escape from Vantablack
- Factory idle
- FE000000
- Grind Craft
- Idle Mine Remix
- Kittens Game
- Planet Life
- Prestige Tree Classic
- The Prestige Tree: Alternate
- Progress Quest
- Reactor Idle
- Realm Grinder
- Religious Idle
- Sandcastle Builder
- Slurpy Derpy
- Squid Ink
- Stimulation Clicker
- Swarm Simulator
- Synergism
- Tangerine Tycoon
- Time Clickers
- Trimps
- Universal Paperclips
- World Idle
Interactive Fiction
Long Jump Games
Multiplayer Online Battle Arena
Platforming Games
Ordinary Platformers
- Elephant Quest
- The End (2012)
- Everybody Edits (has some sandbox elements)
- Fancy Pants Adventures
- Fireboy and Watergirl
- Fresh Minty Adventure
- Gyossait (horror)
- Heir
- Icycle
- Jiggly Zone (with Metroidvania elements)
- Little Runmo - The Game
- Meat Boy
- Me (2017)
- Mibibli's Quest (also a shooter)
- Mind Your Manors
- Minty Fresh Adventure!
- Mission in Snowdriftland
- Persist
- Plazma Burst Series (has heavy 2d shooter elements).
- Remnants of Skystone (also an MMORPG and a Metroidvania)
- Toast Of War
- Vector
- Enough Plumbers
- I Don't Even Game
- Loved
- Swords and Claws (has some casual puzzle-like elements)
- Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death
- Tower of Heaven
- You Have to Burn the Rope
- Verge
Exploration Platformers
Survival Horror Platformers
Puzzle Games
- 2048
- AlphaBounce
- Ball Revamped
- Cowaboom
- Criminal Case
- Crush the Castle
- Doodle God
- Exit/Corners
- Factory Idle Missions
- Freecell
- Gardens of Time
- Grow
- Guardian Rock
- Hoshi Saga
- Help The Hero
- Lab of the Dead
- Little Alchemy 2
- Mental Series
- Pixelo
- Planetarium
- Portal: The Flash Version
- Pretentious Game
- Puzzle Clubhouse
- Retardo and the Iron Golem
- Save Toshi (only the first 40 levels though)
- Squaredle
- Sushi Cat
- Take Something Literally
- Windosill
- Wordle
Quiz Games
Racing Games
Rhythm Games
Roguelikes
Role-Playing Games
Action RPGs
- Adventure Kingdom
- Hands of War
- Monster Legends
- Super Press Space to Win Action RPG 2009 (parody)
- Swords & Souls
- The Haunted Ruins
Eastern RPGs
- Crystal Story
- The Enchanted Cave and The Enchanted Cave 2
- Epic Battle Fantasy
- Fantasy Online (Affectionate Parody)
- Flawed Crystals (Steven Universe fangame, also Interactive Fiction)
- Granblue Fantasy
- Knights of the Crystals
- MARDEK
- Mega Man RPG Prototype
- Namara-chan's Fantastic Adventure (Vocaloid fangame)
- Outernauts
- Pokémon Black and Blue (parody of Pokémon)
- TCT RPG (also known as The Color Tuesday)
- Vocaloid Story (Vocaloid fangame, web port: original version released for Windows)
Tactical RPGs
- Genesis 2009 (also an Eastern RPG)
- Wings Of Genesis, its spinoff, which is actually a Horizontal Scrolling Shooter.
- Telepath RPG (also a Western RPG)
Western RPGs
- AdventureQuest
- Agroundnote
- Arfenhouse
- Caravaneer
- DragonFable, its prequel.
- MechQuest, DragonFable's prequel.
- WarpForce, expansion to AdventureQuest
- Book of Mages: The Dark Times
- Candy box!
- Castle Age
- Dragon Age Journeys
- Dragon Tavern
- Dream World
- Ghost Tales
- Gravity Falls: PinesQuest 2Dimensions
- Improbable Island
- Mafia Wars
- Marvel: Avengers Alliance
- Marvel Avengers Alliance Tactics, its spinoff (also a Tactical RPG)
- NeoQuest
- Poptropica
- Sonny
- Sryth (a text RPG)
- Stick RPG
- Superhero City
- Telepath RPG (also a Tactical RPG)
- Twilight Heroes
- U Realms Live
- War Metal
Simulation Games
- Amateur Surgeon (Meat Grinder Surgery)
- Avatar High (life sim)
- Awesome Happy Heroes (superhero/business sim)
- Big Al Game (life sim)
- Blaseball (baseball sim)
- Cafe Rouge (dating sim/visual novel)
- candypink (cooking)
- Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals (cooking)
- Cyber Nations (nation sim)
- Death Row (2008) (prison sim)
- flOw (life sim)
- NationStates (nation sim)
- Globetrotter XL (general knowledge game)
- Gragyriss, Captor of Princesses
- THE iDOLM@STER: Shiny Colors (stat raising sim)
- Life: the Game (simulates a man's entire life)
- Memory Days (Dating Sim)
- Millsberry (life sim)
- Monster Breeder
- Namco High (Dating Sim)
- Politics And War (nation sim)
- Star Stable (horse-raising simulation game)
- Super Sized Family (parenting sim)
- The Urinal Game (a sim of, of all things, using a urinal)
- The Wild Thornberrys: Australia Wildlife Rescue (raising sim)
Shooting Games
Sports Games
Strategy Games
Turn-based
- Bungo to Alchemist
- Go Cross Campus
- Graphwar
- KanColle
- Len'en Cafe ~ Book of the Cafe
- Mud And Blood
- Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-
- Picture Wars
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Rebuild
- Spybot: The Nightfall Incident
- Steambirds
- Touken Ranbu
Real Time
- Armor Blitz
- Castle Quest 2
- Celestus
- Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances
- Hexagor.io
- I Am an Insane Rogue A.I.
- Illyriad
- Imperium Nova
- Pandemic
- Mud 'n' Blood 2
- Paladog
- Scrap Metal Heroes
- Stick War
- Stop the Darkness
- Takeover
- Town of Salem
- Warfare 1917
- Warfare 1944
Time Management Games
General
Digital Pet Games
Tower Defense
Virtual World Games
Multiple
- 8Realms (Multiplayer, real-time strategy, idle game)
- Bear Stearns Bravo (Story Branching and Interactive Movie)
- Big Fat Awesome House Party (MMO-like, sim and minigame based)
- bit Dungeon (Roguelike/Action RPG)
- Black Market (Big Block Games). Part SimulationGame, part resource management, part RPG.
- Deadly 30 (RPG, survival game, Tower Defense and a Shoot 'em Up)
- Deeeep.io (Multiplayer, eco-system simulation)
- Devast.io (multiplayer, survival game, RPG elements)
- Dikembe Mutombo's 4½ Weeks to Save the World (part Shoot 'em Up, part platformer)
- Echoes: Operation Stranglehold (side-scrolling action-strategy)
- Escape from the Spirit World (puzzle/narrative)
- FlyOrDie.io (Multiplayer, flight, eco-system simulation)
- :the game: (2008)
- Karnage.io (Multiplayer, Top-down shooter)
- Kings and Legends (MMORPG/CCG)
- Krunker.io (Multiplayer, First-Person Shooter)
- Lucky Tower
- Legacy of Heroes (MMORPG/CCG)
- Marapets (MMORPG/, pet-raising sim)
- Mario Mario Ace Attorney
- Monster Arena (2011) (WesternRPG/SimulationGame)
- MooMoo.io (multiplayer, survival game)
- Mope.io (Multiplayer, eco-system simulation)
- Osmosis Jones Mystery Of The Rash Outbreak
- OviPets (MMORPG/, pet-raising sim)
- Planet That Have Many Creatures (MMORPG/, pet-raising sim)
- Ravenwood Fair
- Realm of the Mad God: (Roguelike/Bullet Hell/MMORPG)
- Rock Band World: Rhythm Game (companion app to one, at least)/genre-defying
- Sort the Court! (RPG, Interactive Fiction and Resource Management)
- Starve.io (multiplayer, survival game, RPG elements)
- Survivor: Fire (Action/Escape the Room/Simulation)
- Time Clickers: Idle Game / First-Person Shooter
- Tyrant 2011: (MMORPG/CCG)
- Valthirian Arc 1 (Action RPG/Time Management)
- Valthirian Arc 2 (Action RPG/School Simulation)
- Vertix.io (Multiplayer, Top-down shooter)
- War Brokers (Multiplayer, First-Person Shooter)
- Webkinz
- World Builder (Puzzle/Adventure/Strategy)
- Xolga and Mr. Toko (Puzzle/Adventure)
Genre-Defying
- Akinator
- Antigone Will Take the Stairs Today (Though it is intended to be downloaded and played offline)
- Mush The Dawn
- Babies Dream of Dead Worlds
- Battle Master
- Battle Stations
- Brawl Royale
- But That Was Yesterday
- Can Your Pet?
- Cold and Flu Invasion
- Covetous
- Darfur Is Dying
- Defend Your Castle
- Demon Thesis (Half webcomic, half Final Fantasy Tactics style game where 4 modern day college students suddenly find themselves gifted with magic powers thanks to an Eldritch Abomination and fighting off hordes of monsters)
- Die2Nite
- Don't Shit Your Pants
- Don't Wet Your Pants
- Doodle God
- Drawful
- ERepublik
- The Exhausting Adventures Of Gentle Sod
- Feed the Cat
- Gobtron
- Happy Wheels
- Hatfall
- Hot Dog Bush
- ImmorTall
- Incredibox
- Infinite Craft
- Kongai
- The Majesty of Colors
- Oppressive Games
- Osada
- Orange Roulette
- The Password Game
- poupéegirl
- Say When!!
- The Scary Maze Game
- Sonic Inflation Adventure
- Today I Die
- War of Omens
- We Become What We Behold
- The Wiki Game
- xkcd Hoverboard
- Zap Dramatic
Web Game Developers
- [adult swim] Games
- Armor Games: along with hosting a number of games, they also produce many popular ones, including Crush the Castle and Achievement Unlocked .
- Bigpoint: Developer of DarkOrbit, Drakensang Online and Battlestar Galactica Online. Known for pushing the technological boundaries (especially in graphics as of late) of browser-based games.
- Carmel Games
- Fig Hunter - The website of Pseudolonewolf, the creator of the MARDEK series and Clarence's Big Chance.
- jmtb02
- Minoto
- Molleindustria
- Nerdook - notably a fellow troper.
- Nicky Case
- Nitrome
- Orisinal
- Pastel Games
- scriptwelder
- Square Enix (Chocobo's Crystal Tower and Knights of the Crystals)