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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.
Play
391 sitesGames that load instantly and want nothing from you.
Five-Minute Games
One round, then back to work. Allegedly.
16 sites
Brain Trainers
Cognitive exercise disguised as a game.
15 sites
Word Games
Letters, arranged under pressure.
16 sites
Trivia & Quizzes
Find out what you actually know.
17 sites
Personality Tests
Barely science. Extremely readable.
17 sites
.io Arenas
Massive, multiplayer, immediate.
14 sites
Party Games
Send the room code, wait for chaos.
16 sites
Strategy & Conquest
Plan, expand, lose to a teenager.
15 sites
Idle Clickers
Click button, number goes up, universe ends.
15 sites
Text Adventures
The graphics are in your head, and they're excellent.
17 sites
RPG Grinds
Loot, levels, and a worrying amount of time.
11 sites
Grid & Tile Puzzles
Slide, match, snap, repeat.
16 sites
Reflex Runners
Fast, unfair, one more go.
15 sites
Racing & Drifting
Go fast, crash, no paperwork.
14 sites
Armchair Sports
All the glory, none of the cardio.
17 sites
Browser Shooters
Point, click, delete pixels.
13 sites
Tower Defence
Build the maze, watch it hold.
15 sites
Card Games
Digital decks, zero shuffling.
16 sites
Board Games
Tabletop, no cleanup, no lost pieces.
14 sites
Escape Rooms
Locked in a tab, on purpose.
12 sites
Arcade Hubs
Thousands of games behind one door.
19 sites
Geography Games
Guess where you are from a hedge.
14 sites
Typing Tests
Find out how fast you actually are.
14 sites
Tycoon Sims
Build an empire, ruin an economy.
15 sites
Sandboxes & Simulators
Small worlds that keep running without you.
13 sites
Dress-Up & Avatars
Character creator, no game attached.
15 sites
Make
157 sitesDrag, type or click and something appears.
Drawing Toys
Art you make by moving the mouse.
11 sites
Music Makers
Instruments that need no lessons.
14 sites
Pixel Art
Constraints that make you better.
14 sites
Generative Art
Set the rules, let them run.
11 sites
Glitch Art
Break the file, keep the result.
14 sites
Design Playgrounds
Colours, type and shapes, no brief.
20 sites
Design Challenges
Test whether your eye is as good as you think.
14 sites
UI & UX Libraries
Reference shelves for interface work.
15 sites
Emoji Toys
Mixers, faces and copy-paste ammunition.
14 sites
Text & Font Toys
Do unreasonable things to letters.
14 sites
Photo Toys
Upload an image, get something better.
16 sites
Learn
301 sitesHard things, made suddenly obvious.
Interactive Explainers
Hard things, made suddenly obvious.
15 sites
Curious Facts
Things you will repeat at dinner.
19 sites
Data Visualisation
Numbers that finally mean something.
15 sites
Space & Scale
Zoom out until you feel small.
17 sites
Science Toys
Poke a law of physics and watch.
15 sites
History & Time
The past, browsable.
16 sites
Language & Words
Where words came from, and how to get more.
18 sites
Free Libraries
More reading than one life allows.
19 sites
Wiki Rabbit Holes
Enter for one fact, leave two hours later.
15 sites
Mysteries & Riddles
Something is wrong here. Find out what.
17 sites
AI Experiments
Machine learning you can poke at.
15 sites
Privacy & Security
Find out what the internet knows about you.
18 sites
Unreasonably Useful
Free tools that feel like cheating.
15 sites
Odd Search Engines
Finding things the big index cannot.
17 sites
Food & Recipes
Cook what is actually in the fridge.
14 sites
What To Watch
End the scrolling, start the film.
14 sites
Anime Finders
Databases, trackers and scene search.
14 sites
Astrology & Vibes
Charts, horoscopes, no judgement.
14 sites
DIY & Life Hacks
How to actually do the thing.
14 sites
Wander
108 sitesThe planet, live, from a chair.
Live Earth Maps
What the planet is doing, right now.
14 sites
Armchair Travel
Somewhere else, without the airport.
13 sites
Nature & Animal Cams
Live animals, doing nothing, beautifully.
13 sites
Weather Watching
Atmosphere as a visual medium.
14 sites
World Radio
Spin the globe, hear a stranger's morning.
13 sites
Music Discovery
Beat the recommendation engine.
13 sites
Flight & Ship Tracking
Every vessel, plotted, in real time.
14 sites
Map Oddities
Cartography with an agenda.
14 sites
Unwind
84 sitesSomewhere to put your shoulders down.
Ambient Sound
Rain, cafés and distant weather.
13 sites
Focus & Breathing
Sixty seconds to reset.
14 sites
Oddly Satisfying
Loops and fidgets that soothe.
14 sites
Zen Visuals
Move slowly, or not at all.
13 sites
The Wholesome Web
For when the feed has been too much.
15 sites
Good News
Evidence that things also go right.
15 sites
Laugh
106 sitesReliable laughs, low commitment.
Gloriously Pointless
No purpose whatsoever, and that's the point.
19 sites
Gags & Memes
Quick laughs, low commitment.
15 sites
Webcomics
Archives deep enough to lose a weekend in.
16 sites
Satire & Fake News
Headlines that are not real, and know it.
15 sites
Look Productive
Corporate camouflage, full screen.
13 sites
Prank Toys
Harmless mischief, sendable as a link.
14 sites
Celebrity Gossip
Pop culture, unfiltered.
14 sites
Weird
130 sitesThe internet at its least explicable.
Horror Vault
Creepy corners and digital dread.
13 sites
Liminal Spaces
Empty rooms that feel like something.
13 sites
Crowd Experiments
Thousands of strangers, one canvas.
13 sites
Weird Shops
Products that should not exist.
13 sites
Optical Illusions
Proof your eyes are guessing.
13 sites
Odd Obsessions
One person, one subject, twenty years.
13 sites
Unexplainable
We're not sure either.
13 sites
Weird Video
Footage the algorithm buried.
12 sites
Portals & Directories
Other people's collections of the good stuff.
27 sites
Retro
66 sitesOld software, running again, in a tab.
Retro Web
Television and interfaces from before.
18 sites
Old Net Art
Made before the web got tidy.
12 sites
Emulators & Old OS
Software that should not still run.
12 sites
Lost Media
Footage nobody was supposed to keep.
12 sites
Web Archives
The internet's own memory, still browsable.
12 sites