Arcade Hubs

One of the oldest portals still standing, from the era when a game loading in thirty seconds counted as instant.

A survivor of the Flash era that converted its best strategy and adventure titles rather than letting them quietly die.

The site every school network forgot to block, still hosting Run 3, Fireboy and Watergirl and almost no actual mathematics.

The biggest browser arcade going, with genuinely decent HTML5 ports and a search that mostly finds the game you meant.

A preservation project that has rescued more than a hundred thousand Flash games and animations from deletion, all playable.

A grid of small games and nothing else — no descriptions, no ratings, no explanation, exactly as it was in 2010.

Part indie games host, part social network, where horror fan games and unfinished experiments live cheerfully side by side.

The full arcade: dozens of browser games sorted by genre, all playable immediately with nothing to install.

A large casual portal aimed squarely at people who want a match-three game and no further conversation about it.

The Archive's Flash collection, running thousands of dead games inside an emulator so the whole era stays clickable.

The indie storefront where thousands of experiments run free in the browser, and where the deeply strange ones are the point.

A tidy portal of casual browser games with an unusual amount of care given to which ones are actually finished.

What remains of the great Flash portal, plus a badge system that once made people finish games out of pure spite.

The 2000s browser giant, now mostly a mobile publisher but still hosting 8 Ball Pool and a shelf of its own history.

The chaotic original, still hosting animation and games uploaded since 1999, and still the least sanitised corner of the web.

A British studio that made pixel-perfect browser games for fifteen years and then put the entire back catalogue up free.

Clean, fast and mobile-first, with a front page that reads more like a curated shelf than a dump of everything uploaded.

A no-frills portal unusually strong on two-player games you can play on one keyboard with somebody sitting next to you.

A vast, barely filtered pile of browser games including a great many Flash-era oddities kept alive by an emulator.