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A British studio that made pixel-perfect browser games for fifteen years and then put the entire back catalogue up free.
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Nitrome sits in Arcade Hubs under Play, filed as coffee break.
About this category: The large portals. Less curated than everything else here, but when you want volume rather than a recommendation, this is where volume lives.
Yes. Nitrome is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Nitrome without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Nitrome as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
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.
One of the oldest portals still standing, from the era when a game loading in thirty seconds counted as instant.
The riddle that calls itself the hardest on the internet, played by editing URLs and reading page source.
Minecraft skin editor with a 3D preview you can spin, plus a gallery of other people's skins to take apart and reuse.
The pop-tart cat, the rainbow and the song, with a counter for how many seconds of your life you have handed over.
Nine hundred thousand digitised items from the New York Public Library, a large share of it public domain.
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