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.

• 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.