This is a selected list of single-player browser games, playable in either internet browsers or software such as Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...

. See List of multiplayer browser games for games which have more than one player.

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!style="background: #ececec;"| Aether

Aether (video game)

Aether is a video game designed by Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel and published by Armor Games. Released on September 3, 2008, it can be played for free online or downloaded for offline play. Players control a lonely boy and an octopus-like monster that the boy encounters, solving puzzles on...

| Tyler Glaiel, Edmund McMillen

Edmund McMillen

Edmund McMillen is an American video game designer who is known for his unique visual style and innovative gameplay design, as well as his emphasis on the importance of careful level design and rewarding difficulty curves.-Early life:...

| 2008
| Puzzle
| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| The Room

The Room (video game)

The Room Tribute or The Room is an unofficial video game released on September 9, 2010, based on the film of the same name. It was programmed by Tom Fulp and the game's artwork was provided by staff member Jeff "JohnnyUtah" Bandelin, with music by animator Chris O'Neill...

| Tom Fulp

Tom Fulp

Thomas Michael "Tom" Fulp is the co-owner of video game company The Behemoth, and the creator and administrator of Newgrounds, a popular website for sharing Flash files...

| 2010
| Point-and-click game, RPG

Role-playing video game

Role-playing video games are a video game genre with origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, using much of the same terminology, settings and game mechanics. The player in RPGs controls one character, or several adventuring party members, fulfilling one or many quests...

| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Adventure Games Live

Adventure Games Live

Adventure Games Live is a suite of online adventure games on the entertainment website RinkWorks. It features single-player turn-based games run in CGI on an engine written by Samuel Stoddard, who runs RinkWorks and wrote five of the ten games currently available...

| Heather Billings, C. Patrick, Ryan Menezes, Samuel Stoddard and Andrew Walters
| 1998
| Adventure

Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

| Smash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Bloody Fun Day

Bloody Fun Day

Bloody Fun Day is a puzzle Flash game developed by Urban Squall and published by Kongregate on March 12, 2009. Players control one of a family of three grim reapers and are tasked with moving around an island of hexagonal tiles, killing creatures called Cuties in order to replenish their own life...

| Urban Squall
| 2009
| Puzzle
| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Castle of Heroes

Castle of Heroes

Castle of Heroes is a massively multiplayer online fantasy browser-based strategy game developed by the Chinese developer Suzhou Snail Electronic Co., Ltd. and published in the United States by its U.S. publishing division, Snail Games USA...

| Snail Game
| 2009
| Real-time strategy

Real-time strategy

Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....

| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Chronotron

Chronotron

Chronotron is a flash video game developed by Scarybug Games.Chronotron launched on the Kongregate website in May 2008.It is notable for having been selected as one of ten games in the PAX 10 2008 out of over eighty entries....

| Scarybug Games
| 2008
| Platform

Platform game

A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...

, Puzzle
| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Closure

Closure (video game)

Closure is an independent video game currently being developed by programmer Tyler Glaiel and artist Jon Schubbe with music and sound by Chris Rhyne...

| Tyler Glaiel, Jon Schubbe
| 2009
| Puzzle
| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Corpse Craft: Incident at Weardd Academy

Corpse Craft: Incident at Weardd Academy

Corpse Craft: Incident at Weardd Academy is a Flash and web browser game developed by Three Rings Design and released on their game portal Whirled in 2008. A version for the iPad was released in December, 2010. -Gameplay:...

| Three Rings Design

Three Rings Design

Three Rings Design, Inc. is an online game developer that was founded on March 30, 2001 by Daniel James and Michael Bayne. The company is named after the Three Rings of the Elves in Tolkien mythology, and the names of the Three Rings show up in various places throughout Puzzle Pirates such as in...

| 2008
| Real-time strategy

Real-time strategy

Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....

| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Desktop Tower Defense

Desktop Tower Defense

Desktop Tower Defense is a Flash-based browser game of the tower defense game genre created by first-time game designer Paul Preece in March 2007. The game had been played over 15.7 million times as of July 2007, and was one of Webware 100's top ten entertainment web applications of 2007. DTD is...

| Paul Preece
| 2007
| Tower defense

Tower defense

Tower defense is a subgenre of real-time strategy computer games.The goal of tower defense games is to try to stop enemies from crossing a map by building towers which shoot at them as they pass. Enemies and towers usually have varied abilities, costs, and ability costs...

| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Don't Look Back

Don't Look Back (video game)

Don't Look Back is a retro styled platform game playable through Adobe Flash and designed by Terry Cavanagh. The game is a modern interpretation of the Orpheus and Eurydice Greek legend....

| Terry Cavanagh
| 2009
| Platform
| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Fancy Pants Adventures

Fancy Pants Adventures

Fancy Pants Adventures is a series of free side-scrolling Flash games created by Brad Borne. Two worlds have been released so far, World 1 on 14 March 2006 and World 2 on 9 January 2008. Borne had announced that after the 2009 Comic Con, he would officially start working on World 3...

| Borne Games
| 2006
| Platform
| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Flash Element TD

Flash Element TD

Flash Element TD is a Flash-based browser game of the tower defense game genre created by first-time game designer David Scott in January 2007. The game had been played over 140 million times as of March 2009.-Gameplay:...

| David Scott
| 2007
| Tower defense
| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Flow
| ThatGameCompany

Thatgamecompany

Thatgamecompany, stylized as thatgamecompany, is an American independent video game developer co-founded by University of Southern California students Kellee Santiago and Jenova Chen. The studio is currently a second-party developer for Sony Computer Entertainment, and is under contract to create...

| 2006
| Life simulation

Life simulation game

Life simulation games is a sub-genre of simulation video games in which the player lives or controls one or more virtual lifeforms...

| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Hunted Forever

Hunted Forever

Hunted Forever is a flash-based platform game released in 2008. It was single–handedly created by Evan Miller, who was a college student at the time he developed the game. Actual development of the game itself was accomplished in six weeks. Miller first published the game on the social gaming...

| Evan Miller
| 2008
| Platform
| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Line Rider

Line Rider

Line Rider is an internet game. Versions are available for Microsoft Silverlight and for Flash. It was originally created in September 2006 by Boštjan Čadež , a Slovenian student...

| Boštjan Čadež
| 2006
| Non-game

Non-game

Non-games define a class of software that lies on the border between video games, toys and applications. The original term non-game game was coined by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. The main difference between non-games and traditional video games is the apparent lack of goals, objectives and...

| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Monster Milktruck

Monster Milktruck

Monster Milktruck is a freeware video game played through the Internet using the Google Earth engine. This program can be played on certain operating systems and/or on certain browsers. The Google Earth plug-in is required for proper use of the software. However, the plug-in can be installed...

| Google Earth
| 2008
| Racing
| Google Earth

Google Earth

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency funded company acquired by Google in 2004 . It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite...

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!style="background: #ececec;"| Off-Road Velociraptor Safari

Off-Road Velociraptor Safari

Off-Road Velociraptor Safari is a free downloadable vehicle combat video game released on January 29, 2008 by Flashbang Studios. The game requires the Unity plug-in to run, and can be downloaded from the developers' website...

| Flashbang Studios
| 2008
| Vehicular combat
| Unity
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Robot Unicorn Attack

Robot Unicorn Attack

Robot Unicorn Attack is an online video game featured on the Adult Swim and Flashline Games website. The game was produced by Spiritonin Media Games and was released in February 4, 2010...

| Spiritonin Media Games
| 2010
| Platform

Platform game

A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...

| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Samorost

Samorost

Samorost is a puzzle point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design. The first game of the Samorost series, it was released in 2003 for free at the Amanita Design website.-Development:...

| Amanita Design
| 2003
| Adventure

Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

, Puzzle
| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Several Journeys of Reemus

The Several Journeys of Reemus

The Several Journeys of Reemus is a point-and-click adventure game series by game developer Jay "Zeebarf" Ziebarth, published by Newgrounds starting in 2008. Like Zeebarf's other point-and-click games, The Several Journeys of Reemus involves the use of logic and the cause-and-effect of selected...

| Zeebarf
| 2008
| Adventure

Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Spewer

Spewer

Spewer is a browser-based platform video game. It uses liquid physics through regurgitation as its core mechanic. Taking the role of a mysterious test subject, code named "Spewer", the player must vomit their way through over 60 levels while learning new abilities, changing forms and piecing...

| Edmund McMillen

Edmund McMillen

Edmund McMillen is an American video game designer who is known for his unique visual style and innovative gameplay design, as well as his emphasis on the importance of careful level design and rewarding difficulty curves.-Early life:...

, Eli Piilonen
| 2009
| Platform, Puzzle
| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Tanki Online

Tanki Online

Tanki Online is a massively multiplayer online game based on Adobe Flash technology.The game was created in mid-2008 by the AlternativaPlatform company, located in Perm, Russia. Alternativa's team participated in creation of projects for many eminent brands...

| AlternativaPlatform
| 2009
| 3D Action, Shooter
| Flash, AlternativaPlatform
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!style="background: #ececec;"| You Have to Burn the Rope

You Have to Burn the Rope

You Have to Burn the Rope is a 2008 online Flash game developed by Kian Bashiri under the nom de plume Mazapán.-Gameplay:You Have to Burn the Rope is a platform game in which the player must guide the character through a short level through which text on how to beat the game is clearly visible. At...

| Mazapan
| 2008
| Platform
| Flash
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!style="background: #ececec;"| Quake Live

Quake Live

Quake Live is a first-person shooter video game by id Software designed to run on x86-based computers running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X or Linux that is downloaded and launched via a web browser plugin. It is a variant of its predecessor, Quake III Arena .Quake Live is free to download and play...

| id Software

Id Software

Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...

| 2007
| First-person shooter

First-person shooter

First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...

| id Tech 3
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In addition to this list, there are many web sites with many other browser games such as the hundreds listed at the DMOZ listing.