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224 games we have reviewed that run on Browser, best first.
224 reviews
A small, atmospheric WebGL coin-diving game built for js13k 2017 - steer a boat, dive for sunken coins, and watch shadows fall across a rippling sea, with touch controls confirmed working once you find the right side of the screen.
7.1 / 10
A clean React-built Nonogram/Picross with an elegant single-tap cycle — tap once to fill a cell, tap again to cross it out, tap again to clear it — confirmed working correctly on both phone touch and desktop mouse, undercut only by a header navigation bar that overflows a narrow phone screen once a puzzle is loaded.
7.1 / 10
A tiny, warm Bitsy game about being a ball of bread dough on a kitchen counter — confirmed working by swipe on phone (with real item pickups, not just cosmetic movement) and by keyboard on desktop.
7.1 / 10
The clicker that turned clicking optional — ascension, Hero Souls and the Ancients tree came from here, and the idle RPG genre never really left. A retrospective look at whether the game that built the template still deserves a slot in 2026.
7 / 10
2048 reimagined as a physics puzzle — drag numbered cushions around a sofa instead of sliding tiles on a grid, and let soft-body physics decide how they settle and merge. A js13k 2016 entry judges called "amazing" for exactly that twist, with a drag control confirmed here to work cleanly on touch.
7 / 10
A js13k 2019 idle-clicker about drafting dwarfs and sending them off for gold that quietly turns into a small, scripted story about ale, hubris and an orbital strike — ranked 8th out of 200 entries that year, let down on phones only by a viewport that never learned to resize itself.
7 / 10
A menu-only farming MMO that has quietly run since 2021 with no ads and a genuinely optional shop, propped up by a community wiki so thorough that half the game's actual strategy lives outside the app.
7 / 10
A free browser and Steam idler that swaps cookie-clicker simplicity for Path of Exile-style affix hunting, guild-like Syndicates and a marketplace — then leaves its own community to sell the experience as much as the systems do.
7 / 10
A free browser idler from 2014 that outgrew Kongregate, landed on Steam in 2016, and has spent over a decade turning shadow clones and god fights into one of the genre's longest and most demanding progression ladders.
7 / 10
A dodge-and-auto-fire tube shooter from the very first js13kgames competition in 2013, where a drag of the thumb on either side of the screen steers a low-poly ship through a ring of incoming obstacles — simple by any modern standard, but its touch and desktop controls both still work exactly as described thirteen years later.
7 / 10
A tap-to-conquer hex strategy game in the mould of Slay, open-sourced by its solo developer as the retired predecessor to the actively developed Konkr — genuinely playable with thumbs once two packaging bugs in the public repo are fixed, but unmaintained since 2022 and explicitly a legacy edition even by its own author's account.
7 / 10
A Ludum Dare 32 hex-grid twist on Minesweeper — instead of flagging tiles, you drag a finger across the board to draw a scoring path before a 60-second clock runs out, while spatialised audio hums from nearby mines you haven't revealed yet.
7 / 10
A perfect-score js1024 2022 winner that fits an entire live-webcam sliding puzzle — cut your own face into a classic 8-puzzle and solve it — into under 1024 bytes of HTML, with touch and mouse controls that this review confirmed work correctly at the DOM level once a real camera feed was actually available to test against.
7 / 10
A Missile Command-style city defense game -- tap or click to launch interceptors, timed to meet incoming missiles (including juking "smart" missiles and splitting MIRVs) before they reach your cities.
7 / 10
A point-and-click medieval adventure built for js13k 2023, judged 12th of the field for its graphics — genuinely beautiful flat-vector art wrapped around a short, occasionally obtuse puzzle-adventure that works properly by tap on a phone.
7 / 10
The overall winner of js13k 2023 — a beautifully polished 13th-century beat 'em up with blocking, dodging and stunning mechanics that community judges rank among the best entries the competition has ever produced — undercut, for this shelf's purposes, by a movement scheme that tested exhaustively and simply does not respond to touch at all.
7 / 10
A free browser incremental where the resource you're actually optimising is your character's lifespan — age through a job and skill web, die at seventy unless you've trained around it, and rebirth into a faster run. Small in scope next to the genre's marathons, and handed to the community as public domain, which explains why it's been forked well over a hundred times.
7 / 10
A js13k 2015 isometric tile-connection puzzler — drag road pieces from a queue to link one side of the map to the other, then unlock a free-build sandbox — still actively maintained a decade after placing 2nd out of 60 entries, with the developer's own bug tracker openly documenting where its touch controls still fall short.
7 / 10
A Flappy-Bird-style endless jumper built for js13k 2016 — hop from stump to stump ahead of a rising fire, with wind and speed actually affecting your trajectory. A single tap does everything, and this review had to go further than usual to prove that tap genuinely works on a real touchscreen.
7 / 10
A free browser incremental that turns a single click-to-catch-fish button into a full sea-life economy, an artifact-driven prestige loop and — almost uniquely for the genre — a real ending, even though its own developers insist it isn't actually an idle game.
7 / 10
A three-lane endless runner across the Solar System — swipe to change lanes, jump, shrink under space junk or boost through asteroids, collecting data tokens from moon to moon. A js13k 2018 entry with some of the clearest in-game touch instructions this shelf has seen, and swipe controls confirmed here to work exactly as they're described.
7 / 10
A minimalist turn-based survival game — you're the last black pawn, the white army closes in from every side each turn, and every move is a swipe. The touch controls are a full, confirmed parity with the keyboard; the in-game instructions screen, less so.
7 / 10
