Arcade games

Arcade games you can play straight away in your browser: quick to learn, hard to put down, and built to work with a keyboard, a mouse or touch controls on a phone. No signup, no download, and every one keeps your best score so you have something to beat next time.

What is in this section

Six original games, each built around one idea done well. Four are retro games in the style of 80s arcades: one screen, one idea and a score to beat.

• Squash is a brick breaker over five levels. Where the ball meets the paddle decides its bounce, and that is all the aim you get.
• Meteorites puts you in a ship with no brakes in an asteroid field. Every rock you hit splits into smaller, faster pieces.
• Malaga is a vertical shooter. Enemy formations drop in from above and fire back, and every wave cleared adds more of them.
• Alien Fall is a fixed shooter. A formation steps down towards your base, speeding up as it thins out, while you shelter behind bunkers.
• Space Game is an endless runner through a tube that keeps getting faster. The game itself is in English.
• Trekking is a platformer in levels, climbing a mountain from the valley floor to the summit past snakes, scorpions and falling boulders.

Which one to pick

For a few minutes of pure reflexes, try Space Game or Meteorites. If you like aiming and patience, Squash and Alien Fall reward a steady hand more than speed. Malaga sits in between. Trekking is the one with a journey to finish, level after level, with a boss at the end of each.

Short sessions, long records

Arcade games were designed so that one game took a few minutes and you always wanted another. The same holds here. Every game page explains the controls, how the score works, and the tips that help you last longer, so a new record is always within reach.