With so many people are now playing video games from their phones, browser-based games are making a comeback. They were popular many years ago, then faded into obscurity, and now they are more popular than ever.
Besides mobile phones encouraging people to play browser-based games, there are so many great games that you can play on your browser now. More games to play alone, with random people, or with your friends. Furthermore, with browser-based games, you don’t need to download and install them first. Simply open the link and start playing for free!
In this article, we are going to talk about 5 browser-based games that are exploding in popularity. These games should be a great place to start playing games on your browser.
1. Gartic Phone
This is probably one of the most popular browser-based games right now. Gartic Phone is a combination of team-building, a party game, a drawing game, and randomness. There are 11 game modes that you can choose from, so the replayability is very high. Each mode is unique and offers new ways of having fun. As for the number of players in a game, you can even play with up to 30 players at the same time.
Playing the game is very simple – usually, each game mode involves two things: a caption or story or premise and a drawing. I still can’t believe that this game is free. Just seeing people playing this game is already interesting enough. The value of this game is just through the roof right now.
If you want to start playing, feel free to host a room and share the link. Other people then can join the room and play together. Or you can just join other people’s rooms. To make things more interesting, there are scores at the end of each round. You can see which player is the best in each round.
2. Town of Salem
Town of Salem is an iconic game. It has inspired many new and exciting games until today. It is a free-to-play browser-based game that you can play with up to 14 other players. In Town of Salem, players are assigned a random role – either as Town members, the Mafia, or other solo roles such as Serial Killer, Executioner, or Jester.
If you are assigned as a good guy then your mission is to gather evidence, survive, and find out the killers (Mafia and Serial Killer). Otherwise, your mission is to kill as many good guys as possible while keeping your identity a secret. To help you get started, feel free to read these Town of Salem tips. It covers basic things like how to whisper and other useful information to succeed.
3. Slither.io
Slither.io is one of those games that people play but don’t talk about. You may think that this game isn’t interesting but believe me, once you try it you don’t want to stop. If you had played the classic worm game, then you should know the basic idea of Slither.io.
But there’s more, Slither.io is an online game, so you can see other worms controlled by actual people in the game. Don’t be surprised when you see worms of different sizes from small to gigantic. The first thing you have to do in the game is to survive – don’t hit other worms’ tails or straight get eaten by them. The bigger your worm is the more fun the game is going to be.
The main quest is to become the largest and longest worm in the game and devour everything in front of you. The bragging rights you can get are a good motivation to keep playing.
4. Spelunky
Spelunky is an old game that keeps showing up on everyone’s radar from time to time. The game has gone through many iterations and inspired many other games in a similar genre and theme. So it isn’t surprising that you can play Spelunky via a web browser.
The main goal of the game is to survive and get deeper into the underground architecture. You’ll find many treasures, monsters, and traps as you play. Also, the game has randomized levels so you will always find new layouts and monsters in the game.
5. Doom
People have been joking around about where and how you can play Doom. Some people even managed to run Doom on a calculator. So can you run Doom on a browser? Yes of course.
Open up your browser and suddenly you can run Doom on it. Prepare yourself to slay many scary demons and get all the upgrades in the game. This classic game can provide you many hours of fun and perhaps, you’ll become a new fan of the Doom franchise.
Conclusion
These browser-based games are free and ridiculously fun. You can play them anytime and anywhere you want – alone or with other people. And considering you don’t have to download and install any of these games, you can try as many browser-based games as you want.
