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Exploration

Yarn Planet

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Carry a spool across a small planet and connect your thread to restore color.

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166 games
Yarn Planet screenshot
Browser play
Exploration

Carry a spool across a small planet and connect your thread to restore color.

On GitHub since Oct 2026

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Snack Hole official artwork
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Action & shooters

Steer a growing hole through a low-poly city and swallow larger objects as you progress.

On GitHub since Oct 2026

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Cla-Go official artwork
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Action & shooters

Fight bot opponents in a tactical browser shooter with sliding and weapon handling.

On GitHub since Oct 2026

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WarbirdOpen-source game
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Racing & flying

Fly a light helicopter over mountainous terrain with separate flight controls and cockpit views.

On GitHub since Oct 2026

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Grandma GTA official artwork
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Sandbox

Roam a Taiwanese village as a grandmother in a small open-world browser game.

On GitHub since Oct 2026

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Stardust Isles official artwork
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Exploration

Travel between procedural islands, collect resources, and fight enemies along the way.

On GitHub since Oct 2026

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ARPG-CX official artwork
Role-playing

Build a hero, gather loot, and fight through a pixel action RPG manually or in idle mode.

On GitHub since Oct 2026

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Sakura Fantasy official artwork
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Exploration

Steer a boat through a Japanese river valley as the seasons and light change.

On GitHub since Oct 2026

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Oubliettes official artwork
Puzzle

Deduce dungeon walls from row and column clues while leaving every monster in a dead end.

On GitHub since Oct 2026

Android + AndroidSingle-player
Hearthlight screenshot
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Role-playing

Settle into a seaside village, choose a hero, and follow a pixel-art adventure alone or in Party Mode.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

BrowserLocal multiplayer
Ocean Drive screenshot
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Sandbox

Wander a sunrise-lit beach, borrow a car, and explore a peaceful coastal sandbox.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

BrowserSingle-player
Voxel Musou screenshot
Browser play
Action & shooters

Cut through crowds of voxel soldiers in a browser action game with officers, campaigns, and trials.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

BrowserSingle-player
Nova Lancer official artwork
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Action & shooters

Pilot a ship through a three-dimensional rail-shooter course and fight a mechanical sea-dragon boss.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

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OsirisOpen-source source port
Original game needed
Simulation

Play Pharaoh and Cleopatra campaigns with a new engine written in Rust.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

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Summer Cycle screenshot
Browser play
Exploration

Ride a bicycle past rice paddies and wooden shops as a Japanese summer afternoon turns to dusk.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

BrowserSingle-player
boxctlOpen-source game
Run locally
Puzzle

Push crates onto goals across a collection of terminal Sokoban puzzles.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

TerminalSingle-player
Settlement Village official artwork
Browser play
Strategy

Set village objectives and watch residents gather, construct, recruit, and fight.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

BrowserSingle-player
Vackrooms official artwork
Browser play
Exploration

Wander an endless first-person maze presented through a damaged videotape aesthetic.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

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Townies screenshot
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Simulation

Move into a shared town, deliver newspapers, tidy gardens, and build a neighborhood with other players.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

BrowserOnline multiplayer
Little Flock screenshot
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Simulation

Tend a small sheep farm together in a shared browser world.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

BrowserOnline multiplayer
Play nowAI-assisted
CISO Simulator screenshot
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Strategy

Lay out firewalls and security tools to stop malware waves while handling board meetings.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

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Crystal Clicker official artwork
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Strategy

Build up a crystal core and balance idle progress against incoming waves in a tower-defense hybrid.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

BrowserSingle-player
CityMaker official artwork
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Puzzle

Merge tiles to grow a three-dimensional skyline across twelve architectural city themes.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

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P(DOOM) official artwork
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Action & shooters

Fight through an AI research lab in a satirical first-person shooter.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

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Apex FormulaOpen-source game
Browser play
Racing & flying

Drive an open-wheel car through practice, qualifying, and a race against computer opponents.

On GitHub since Sep 2026

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ScribOpen-source game
Browser play
Puzzle

Race other players to find words in a shared dice-letter grid.

On GitHub since Aug 2026

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Celadon screenshot
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Simulation

Shape a pot on the wheel, mix a glaze, and see how it survives the kiln.

On GitHub since Aug 2026

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AeroFlapOpen-source game
Browser play
Racing & flying

Fly a paper aircraft through gates while avoiding the ground and ceiling.

On GitHub since Aug 2026

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KindergrimmOpen-source game
Browser play
Sandbox

Explore a world populated by procedurally drawn doodle characters.

On GitHub since Aug 2026

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Regolith screenshot
Browser play
Exploration

Take a six-wheeled survey rover across a lonely lunar basin and investigate a silent outpost.

On GitHub since Aug 2026

BrowserSingle-player

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