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Browser Shooters
First and third-person shooters that run in a tab with no launcher and no install. Impressive that they work at all; more impressive that they are good.
13 sites
Build ramps and walls while shooting, which is Fortnite's endgame extracted, simplified and handed over for free.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Team deathmatch with a built-in level editor, played mostly by people who memorised every map years ago.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Fast browser shooter with no account and no download: click, spawn, and get eliminated by somebody considerably better.
- 2 min
- Desktop
Halo-styled arena shooter running in WebGL, with vehicles, sniping and remarkably few visible compromises.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Top-down shooter with class loadouts and destructible cover, still busy years after everybody stopped writing about it.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Blocky arena shooter with skins, ranked play and lobbies that fill in under ten seconds at any hour.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Class-based arena shooter with grenades and blocky maps, running smoothly on a work laptop that struggles with spreadsheets.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Low-poly team shooter with tanks and jetpacks, free and playable the moment the page finishes loading.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Two-button duel on a rooftop where recoil, rather than aim, decides which of you falls off the building first.
Doom compiled to WebAssembly and running at full speed in a tab, which is either nostalgia or a small engineering miracle.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Superhot's trick in a browser: time only moves when you do, so every room becomes a slow-motion puzzle with guns.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Hero-shooter pacing in a browser tab, with abilities, a ranked ladder and matches short enough to fit a coffee break.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Low-poly military shooter with tanks, helicopters and a battle royale mode, all somehow inside a browser tab.
- 10 min
- Desktop
How we picked these
Every entry in Detour is hand-sorted rather than scraped: filed under one category, given one to three moods, and placed in a time band for how quickly it pays off. The practical facts — cost, sign-up, sound, device and whether it is safe at a desk — are recorded per site and shown on every card, so you can rule things out before you click.
Browser Shooters: questions
How many sites are in Browser Shooters?
13 sites, each hand-sorted by category, mood and how long it takes to pay off.
Which of these sites are free with no sign-up?
13 of the 13 are free and need no account. None of them are paid.
Do these sites work on a phone, and are they safe for work?
1 of 13 work on a phone; the rest are desktop only. 13 are safe for work and 13 work with the sound off.