Word duel
Wordstrike
Race to 25 points from a shared rack. Find a word your rival is hiding and it is yours.
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The competitive arcade
Neon Cabinet
Race, rally, solve puzzles, or knock your rival off the stage. Play live against another person or practice free with WordBot.
Played with a deck or on a board: Triad Tactics, Cold Deck and Stepdown deal in Night Deck; Dropline sits with the board tables.
Words
Puzzle
Versus puzzle
Stillwell
A cooper's duel: drop wooden staves into the cask, hoop full rows, and send the offcuts to your rival as scrap. Four rows with one stave is a full cask.
High scores
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Versus puzzle
Glyphrite
A letterpress duel: set type in pairs, lift four sorts of one sigil, and let each press run send wooden quoins into your rival's case. Bigger lifts send more quoins.
High scores
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Versus puzzle
Orbarrage
Bank gachapon capsules into clusters of three before the ceiling descends. Capsules cut loose count double against your rival.
High scores
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Area puzzle
Wallwright
Draw walls across the floor and fence the roamers into a corner.
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Sorting puzzle
Thermal Gate
Work the gate: fast motes to the right chamber, slow motes to the left.
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Tile maze
Circuit Crawl
Take every chip, find the key and enter the socket. Race your rival through the same three floors.
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Deduction race
Emerald Sweep
Read the counts, flag the faults and clear the same seam before your rival does.
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Speed puzzle
Flowworks
Lay pipe ahead of the flood and keep the ooze running as long as you can.
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Push puzzle
Mouse Siege
Shove the blocks, box the cats in, and take the cheese while they sulk.
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Edge-match puzzle
Marquetry
Seat every tile so the numbers that touch agree.
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Sliding puzzle
Strongbox
Shoulder the crates aside and walk the strongbox out the door.
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Party & trivia
3D party sumo
Bumper Balls
Knock your rival off a shrinking floating disc. Two players, first to two rounds.
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3D party hot potato
Bomb Pass
Touch your rival to pass the ticking bomb before it explodes. Two players and one fuse.
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Party reflex
Flag Frenzy
Red up, white down: follow the same calls as your rival. Three lives each, and the calls get faster.
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Action
Platform action
Lanternbright
Throw paper lanterns to catch glow-worms and moths, then run into a lantern to pop it for orchard fruit. Clear five orchards on five lives before dusk sends the lantern-spirit after you.
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Rail space shooter
Skywing Squadron
You and your rival each fly the same eight missions from the same seed. The higher final score wins.
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First-person deathmatch
Crossfire Club
Deathmatch a human rival while computer players fill the other seats. First to fifteen kills, or the leader when eight minutes run out. Bomb defuse and king of the hill are on the host's setup screen; the rated result is between the two humans.
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Ladders & traps
Vault Runner
Pocket the gold across five vaults of ladders, hand bars and brick, and dig a trap under a pursuing guard. Every cleared vault quickens the chase.
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Gravity & cargo
Orbit Salvage
Guide a tug between rock towers, lift stranded cargo and bring it to the depot. A loaded ship needs more room to brake.
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Adventure · Solo platformer
Borto Run
Bortochi, a striped baby boar, charges down the Chestnut Trail. Seven stages of rolls, vines and burr staircases, ending in Chef Bonvivant's kitchen.
Game Boy Color homebrew · Solo
Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe
Her cat floated off on a balloon, so she is going up after it: bounce off the birds, dash between them, and climb before the clock runs out.
Game Boy homebrew · Solo
Shock Lobster
A lowly lobster with magical powers swims at whatever stands in its way. Spend the pearls you collect on new skills and push the high score higher.
First-person shooter · Solo
Freedoom: Phase 1
Four episodes of corridors, keycards and things that want you dead, made from scratch by volunteers to run on the classic Doom engine.
Fighting
Adventure · Couch co-op
INKFIST: Radical Brothers
Two brothers, one long road. Brawl through ink-drawn streets, paint a stroke of brush magic when a fight turns, and tag your brother in when you are cornered.
NES homebrew · 2 players
Super Tilt Bro
The platform fighter the NES never had. Two fighters on one stage, and the way to win is to send the other off the screen.
Racing
3D kart racing
Neon City Racing
Race a human rival and two computer racers over three laps. Drift through bends for a turbo and crack a gachapon capsule for an item.
High scores
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Time trial
Obstacle Dash
Race the same course as your rival over spikes, springs and moving platforms. Emeralds cut time from your finish.
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Downhill chase
Powder Run
Carve through gates and reach the lodge. Slow down and the thing behind you catches up.
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WebGL racer · Solo
HexGL
Anti-gravity racing round a city of towers. Three laps, a shield that drains on every wall, and air brakes for the corners.
Sports
Physics sport
Velvet Pool
Eight-ball: claim Emeralds or Rubies with your first pot, clear them, then sink the 8. Fouls give ball in hand; an early 8 loses.
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Physics sport
Disc Drift
Flick one of three discs a turn to knock the puck into the rival net. First to 3 goals, 30 flicks of regulation, then a golden goal.
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2v2 Arcade Hoops
Hoop Jam
Two-on-two arcade hoops, each of you with a computer partner. Drive the lane to dunk, hit threes, and catch fire.
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Arcade Ice Hockey
Steel Blades
Three-on-three arcade hockey against a rival: body checks, slapshots and the occasional fistfight.
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Arcade Baseball
Full Count
Arcade baseball against a rival, trading the mound every half-inning. Read the pitch, time the swing, bring the runners home.
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Arcade Football
Gridiron Bowl
Seven-a-side arcade football against a rival. Call a play, guess theirs, then run, throw or tackle.
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Arcade Soccer
Super Striker
Five-a-side street soccer against a rival. Slide in, cross it into the box, and finish with a bicycle kick.
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Arcade Dodgeball
Power Dodge
Squad dodgeball against a rival. Time your catches, dash into a super shot, and be the last squad standing.
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Arcade
Retro paddle
Cyber Pong
Angle your returns, add paddle spin, and reach seven points with a lead of two. Hit with the paddle's edge to bend the return.
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Maze chase
Rattlecoil
Swallow the eggs in order, grow, and keep your own tail out of the way.
High scores
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Segment shooter
Briar Barrage
Cut through a descending garden swarm. Every severed segment leaves a mushroom and another head to dodge.
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Shield assault
Prism Breach
Carve a channel through a regenerating prism shield, then time your lance to the swinging core. The refuge blocks ordinary missiles, but hunters follow you in.
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Homebrew classics
CHIP-8 ROM Vault
Four small cartridges written for the cabinet: Invaders, 1P Paddle, Brix and Maze Walker. Bring your own .ch8 cartridge and it plays that too.
Play your own cartridges
RetroCart ROM Runner
Your NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, GBA, SNES and Mega Drive cartridges, played here. Load a cartridge file from your machine — unzipped — to begin.
Solo · Vector shooter
VectorCore
Turn, thrust and fire down a drifting field of wireframe rock. Every shot leaves a trail that fades the way an old tube did.
Strategy & sim
Adventure · Solo trading RPG
Hondel
Buy goods, haul them along dangerous roads, and haggle with the customers you meet.
Real-time strategy · Solo or online
Nethweaver
Real-time strategy inside a living body. Three factions — silk-spinning predators, a self-healing immune response, and a power-hungry nanomachine swarm — fight over energy and biomass.
Sim · Solo label tycoon
HYEFYE RECORDS
London, 1976. Run a mail-order punk label from a leaky canal houseboat: build a vinyl factory, sign bands in basements from the Bowery to Glasgow, top the charts and hide your money from the Taxman.
Game Boy Color homebrew · City builder
µCity
Zone the land, lay the roads and power lines, balance the budget, and keep a growing town from burning, flooding or going broke.
Adventure
Adventure · Political noir
House of Tards
Congressman T-Bone Johnson is on trial, and the truth is somewhere in Brooklyn. Investigate, catch liars, and bribe your way through a courtroom satire that does not stay in the courtroom.
Text adventure · 1980
Zork I
West of House, beside a small mailbox. Type what you do and the Great Underground Empire answers. Mind the grue.
Text adventure · 1981
Zork II
Deeper in the empire, the Wizard of Frobozz is watching, and he is not always helpful. A barrow, a sword and a lamp to start.
Text adventure · 1982
Zork III
The last descent, to meet the Dungeon Master. Less treasure-hunting, more puzzles about what kind of adventurer you are.
Point-and-click · 1994
Beneath a Steel Sky
Robert Foster is snatched from the Gap and dropped into Union City, a vertical city run by a computer. Full speech, art by Dave Gibbons.
Point-and-click · 1995
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Joe King, pilot for hire, crash-lands his seaplane in the Amazon with a film star aboard and stumbles onto a mad scientist's plot.
Point-and-click · 1992
Lure of the Temptress
Diermot wakes in a cell in Turnvale, a town taken by a sorceress and her Skorl. The townsfolk keep their own routines, and you can give them orders.
Point-and-click · 1996
Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back
An estate agent drives into Transylvania, the girl at the inn is kidnapped, and Count Drascula is behind it. A slapstick horror comedy.