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91 topics · 1,306 sites
Every topic in the Detour directory, grouped into eight families — play, make, learn, wander, unwind, laugh, weird and retro. Pick a subject and get the best of it.
Games that load instantly and want nothing from you.
One round, then back to work. Allegedly.
16 sites
Cognitive exercise disguised as a game.
15 sites
Letters, arranged under pressure.
16 sites
Find out what you actually know.
17 sites
Barely science. Extremely readable.
17 sites
Massive, multiplayer, immediate.
14 sites
Send the room code, wait for chaos.
16 sites
Plan, expand, lose to a teenager.
15 sites
Click button, number goes up, universe ends.
15 sites
The graphics are in your head, and they're excellent.
17 sites
Loot, levels, and a worrying amount of time.
11 sites
Slide, match, snap, repeat.
16 sites
Fast, unfair, one more go.
15 sites
Go fast, crash, no paperwork.
14 sites
All the glory, none of the cardio.
17 sites
Point, click, delete pixels.
13 sites
Build the maze, watch it hold.
15 sites
Digital decks, zero shuffling.
16 sites
Tabletop, no cleanup, no lost pieces.
14 sites
Locked in a tab, on purpose.
12 sites
Thousands of games behind one door.
20 sites
Guess where you are from a hedge.
14 sites
Find out how fast you actually are.
14 sites
Build an empire, ruin an economy.
15 sites
Small worlds that keep running without you.
13 sites
Character creator, no game attached.
15 sites
Drag, type or click and something appears.
Art you make by moving the mouse.
10 sites
Instruments that need no lessons.
15 sites
Constraints that make you better.
14 sites
Set the rules, let them run.
11 sites
Break the file, keep the result.
14 sites
Colours, type and shapes, no brief.
17 sites
Test whether your eye is as good as you think.
14 sites
Reference shelves for interface work.
15 sites
Mixers, faces and copy-paste ammunition.
14 sites
Do unreasonable things to letters.
14 sites
Upload an image, get something better.
10 sites
Hard things, made suddenly obvious.
Hard things, made suddenly obvious.
14 sites
Things you will repeat at dinner.
18 sites
Numbers that finally mean something.
15 sites
Zoom out until you feel small.
17 sites
Poke a law of physics and watch.
15 sites
The past, browsable.
17 sites
Where words came from, and how to get more.
17 sites
More reading than one life allows.
18 sites
Enter for one fact, leave two hours later.
15 sites
Something is wrong here. Find out what.
16 sites
Machine learning you can poke at.
14 sites
Find out what the internet knows about you.
14 sites
Free tools that feel like cheating.
14 sites
Finding things the big index cannot.
13 sites
Cook what is actually in the fridge.
14 sites
End the scrolling, start the film.
14 sites
Databases, trackers and scene search.
14 sites
Charts, horoscopes, no judgement.
14 sites
How to actually do the thing.
14 sites
The planet, live, from a chair.
What the planet is doing, right now.
14 sites
Somewhere else, without the airport.
13 sites
Live animals, doing nothing, beautifully.
13 sites
Atmosphere as a visual medium.
14 sites
Spin the globe, hear a stranger's morning.
12 sites
Beat the recommendation engine.
13 sites
Every vessel, plotted, in real time.
15 sites
Cartography with an agenda.
14 sites
Somewhere to put your shoulders down.
Rain, cafés and distant weather.
14 sites
Sixty seconds to reset.
15 sites
Loops and fidgets that soothe.
14 sites
Move slowly, or not at all.
14 sites
For when the feed has been too much.
15 sites
Evidence that things also go right.
14 sites
Reliable laughs, low commitment.
No purpose whatsoever, and that's the point.
19 sites
Quick laughs, low commitment.
16 sites
Archives deep enough to lose a weekend in.
16 sites
Headlines that are not real, and know it.
15 sites
Corporate camouflage, full screen.
13 sites
Harmless mischief, sendable as a link.
15 sites
Pop culture, unfiltered.
14 sites
The internet at its least explicable.
Creepy corners and digital dread.
13 sites
Empty rooms that feel like something.
13 sites
Thousands of strangers, one canvas.
13 sites
Products that should not exist.
13 sites
Proof your eyes are guessing.
13 sites
One person, one subject, twenty years.
13 sites
We're not sure either.
13 sites
Footage the algorithm buried.
12 sites
Other people's collections of the good stuff.
12 sites
Old software, running again, in a tab.
Television and interfaces from before.
14 sites
Made before the web got tidy.
12 sites
Software that should not still run.
12 sites
Footage nobody was supposed to keep.
12 sites
The internet's own memory, still browsable.
12 sites