All 50 Arcade Zone games
Every game on this list was written for Arcade Zone and runs in your browser — nothing to install, against friends or against bots. Here is what each one asks of you.
Play nowClassics and originals (14)
The house arcade games — from Pong to Ticket Rush, including mechanics written from scratch for this site.
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🏓 Pong
The classic of classics, and the most complex game here under the hood. Two modes, up to four players, and the ball speeds up while the rally lasts.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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✖ Tic-Tac-Toe
Tic-tac-toe with an infinite mode that solves the draw problem: only your last three marks stay on the board.
2 players · how to play
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✊ Rock Paper Scissors
Rock paper scissors, best of five. It is not luck: against a real person it is pattern reading.
2 players · how to play
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🚢 Battleship
Battleship for up to four, where a hit gives you an extra turn — and two modes that change who you are shooting at.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🔴 Connect 4
Connect four in a row, column or diagonal. Seven columns by six rows — and going first is a real advantage.
2 players · how to play
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🐍 Snake Battle
Snakes sharing one arena. Eat apples to grow — and remember that everyone else's body is a wall, but so is yours.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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💣 Death Switch
A row of switches, a bomb hidden in one of them, and always one switch more than there are players. Flip and hope.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🎨 Neon Splash
Twenty seconds to paint the canvas your colour. Fire blobs of paint — and covering someone else's colour is worth double in the gap.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🧗 Neon Climb
Climb the tower by hitting a sequence of fourteen commands. Miss one and you lose progress — and everyone climbs the same sequence at the same time.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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💻 Data Breach
Break into the system floor by floor by picking doors. No hints are given — and the doors behind you keep locking.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🧠 Data Recall
An artefact spins on screen. Memorise its details and find the exact copy among the options — five rounds, and the differences are small.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🧨 Critical Pressure
Pump the bomb and score a point per pump. The limit is secret, sits between 16 and 26, and whoever reaches it explodes.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🎟️ Ticket Rush
Thirty seconds of scrambling for tickets. Grab them off the floor, steal them from whoever is carrying, and get them to your base before someone does the same to you.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🧱 Quoridor
Get your pawn to the other side — and use walls to slow everyone else down. A classic of abstract strategy, for two to four players.
Up to 4 players · how to play
Party games (30)
Short rounds of reflex, reading and friendly betrayal. The biggest family, and the one that fills a four-seat room.
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🥔 Hot Potato
The bomb has a fuse nobody can see — between six and fifteen seconds. Pass it on before it goes off in your hands.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🌈 Neon Sequence
Memorise the colour sequence and play it back. It grows by one colour every round — and whoever gets it wrong or takes too long is out.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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⚡ Instant Shock
A quick-draw duel for up to four. Pick your target in secret, wait for the signal and fire — but firing early costs you the whole round.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🐎 Mash Race
Ten seconds of frantic clicking. Most clicks wins — no hidden rule, no rhythm, no reading. Just the finger.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🚩 Minesweeper
Turn-based minesweeper: one cell at a time, the numbers are the clues, and finding a mine eliminates you on the spot.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🔍 Emoji Hunt
One emoji in the grid is different from the others. Find it first — and do not be wrong, because a mistake locks you for a second and a half.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🔷 Stable Footing
The floor is made of tiles carrying symbols. Each round the game announces which symbol stays standing — and all the rest of the floor drops away. Reading fast is worth more than running.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🎯 Moving Target
A 45-second shooting gallery. Waves of targets cross the screen in lines, in waves and in circles — and the golden ones are worth more.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🃏 Unique Number
Pick a number from 1 to 8 in secret. Whichever number nobody repeated pays its own value — the 8 is worth most, and that is exactly why everyone wants it.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🧊 Neon Curling
A long sheet of ice, one stone at a time, and every stone stays where it stopped. Scoring is live: landing on the target counts, but knocking an opponent's stone away counts just as much.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🎨 Copy the Drawing
A pattern lights up for just over three seconds. Reproduce it on your grid — every correct cell scores, including the ones you correctly left off.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🤫 Tiptoe
A guardian dozes at the back of the room. Fetch the key and get back to the door unseen — holding to move, releasing to stop. And stopping is not instant.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🔢 Number Rush
Tap the numbers 1 to 25 in ascending order, as fast as you can. A mistake locks you for a second — and finishing first does not end the match.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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⚔️ Tug of War
Two sides, one rope, and a public beat that speeds up. Pulling on the beat is worth everything; hammering the button moves nothing.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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💎 Follow the Gem
The cards show their value, flip over and shuffle in front of you. Follow the gem with your eyes — and be the first to grab it, because each card has exactly one owner.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🧮 Math Rush
A sum on screen, four answers. The round stays open for five seconds and pays by order of correct answers — a wrong one takes you out of the round.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🔄 Reverse Reflex
The word names one colour, the ink is another. And the rule changes every round: sometimes the ink counts, sometimes the word does.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🔫 Laser Arena
Cannons on the four edges charge up and sweep whole rows and columns. Dashed warns, solid kills. Last one alive wins.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🏃 Neon Tag
One player is it, and it moves faster than everyone else. Whoever spends the least time holding the flame wins.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🖌️ Zone Control
Walk to paint the floor in your colour — and you can paint over everyone else's. Most area in thirty seconds wins.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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💰 Blind Auction
Bid in secret: the highest bid takes the points and pays the coins. Tie at the top and the prize rolls over to the next round.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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📦 Dots and Boxes
Join the dots, one line at a time. Close a box and it is yours — and you go again. The paper classic, with the same old trap.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🏗️ Tower Stacker
Everyone stacks their own tower and the tallest wins. Nobody interferes with anyone — your opponent is your own hand, and a block left on the edge charges interest on the floors above it.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🧱 Brick Saver
Stack blocks with real rigid-body physics. They topple, they slide and they bring the whole tower down — and you have three lives.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🔨 Hammer Hop
A stack of gears above a furnace and two giant hammers on the walls. Every strike rips out the gear under your feet: jump at the right moment or go into the fire with it.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🎚️ Nerves of Steel
A multiplier climbs on everyone's screen at once and eventually blows. Cash out before that — and preferably after your neighbour.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🔦 Tower Escape
Cross the dark courtyard to the gate without being caught by the tower's searchlight. Standing still makes you invisible — movement is what gives you away, and letting go of the controls is your defence.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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👥 How Many Passed?
A parade crosses a narrow canyon and you count in your head how many passed. Your counter never appears on screen — this is memory, not a spreadsheet. Closest guess wins.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🏰 Packed Castles
A procession files into five castles, one villager at a time. Work out which one filled up the most and tap it first — the choice is exclusive, and only one player gets each castle.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🛤️ Crossed Tracks
Memorise the switches on a ladder of rails taller than the screen while the camera descends it — in the dark the rails vanish — and be first to touch the cart that leads to the highest sign. Each round: more switches, less time.
Up to 4 players · how to play
Table games (6)
Long turn-based matches, seen from the point of view of whoever is sitting at the table. Complete rules — the chess engine is verified against perft.
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♟️ Chess
Complete chess in your browser, with a five-minute clock per side and an engine that plays seriously. Full rules, including castling, en passant, promotion and every draw condition.
2 players · how to play
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🟠 Draughts
Draughts in the Brazilian kitchen-table dialect: a man captures forwards only, and whoever declines a capture can have the piece huffed off the board.
2 players · how to play
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♠️ Poker
Texas Hold'em with play-money chips, eight hands and rising blinds. No wagering of value: chips start equal, exist only inside the match and never become a prize.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🎴 Neon Cycle
Discard by matching colour or symbol until your hand is empty. Penalties stack, the Prism changes the colour, and the Mirror sends the whole bill back to whoever sent it.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🎡 Neon Wheel
European roulette, 37 pockets, six rounds, play-money chips. The draw happens on the server — the wheel on your screen animates toward a result that already exists.
Up to 4 players · how to play
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🤥 Bluff Table
Play cards face down claiming they are the round's figure. If someone doubts you and you were lying, you pull the fuse — and one of its six contacts is live.
Up to 4 players · how to play
Which game fits my group?
The table below puts all 50 games side by side. Pace separates the two experiences that change the night the most: turn-based games stop and wait for you — there is room to talk between moves — while in real time everyone acts at once, and letting go of the controls for three seconds is expensive.
| Game | Players | Family | Pace |
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| 🚢 Battleship | 2–4 | Classic | Turn-based |
| 💰 Blind Auction | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🤥 Bluff Table | 2–4 | Table game | Turn-based |
| 🧱 Brick Saver | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| ♟️ Chess | 2 | Table game | Turn-based |
| 🔴 Connect 4 | 2 | Classic | Turn-based |
| 🎨 Copy the Drawing | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🧨 Critical Pressure | 2–4 | Classic | Turn-based |
| 🛤️ Crossed Tracks | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 💻 Data Breach | 2–4 | Classic | Real time |
| 🧠 Data Recall | 2–4 | Classic | Real time |
| 💣 Death Switch | 2–4 | Classic | Real time |
| 📦 Dots and Boxes | 2–4 | Party game | Turn-based |
| 🟠 Draughts | 2 | Table game | Turn-based |
| 🔍 Emoji Hunt | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 💎 Follow the Gem | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🔨 Hammer Hop | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🥔 Hot Potato | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 👥 How Many Passed? | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| ⚡ Instant Shock | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🔫 Laser Arena | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🐎 Mash Race | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🧮 Math Rush | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🚩 Minesweeper | 2–4 | Party game | Turn-based |
| 🎯 Moving Target | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🧗 Neon Climb | 2–4 | Classic | Real time |
| 🧊 Neon Curling | 2–4 | Party game | Turn-based |
| 🎴 Neon Cycle | 2–4 | Table game | Turn-based |
| 🌈 Neon Sequence | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🎨 Neon Splash | 2–4 | Classic | Real time |
| 🏃 Neon Tag | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🎡 Neon Wheel | 2–4 | Table game | Real time |
| 🎚️ Nerves of Steel | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🔢 Number Rush | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🏰 Packed Castles | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| ♠️ Poker | 2–4 | Table game | Turn-based |
| 🏓 Pong | 2–4 | Classic | Real time |
| 🧱 Quoridor | 2–4 | Classic | Turn-based |
| 🔄 Reverse Reflex | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| ✊ Rock Paper Scissors | 2 | Classic | Turn-based |
| 🐍 Snake Battle | 2–4 | Classic | Real time |
| 🔷 Stable Footing | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| ✖ Tic-Tac-Toe | 2 | Classic | Turn-based |
| 🎟️ Ticket Rush | 2–4 | Classic | Real time |
| 🤫 Tiptoe | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🔦 Tower Escape | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🏗️ Tower Stacker | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| ⚔️ Tug of War | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🃏 Unique Number | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
| 🖌️ Zone Control | 2–4 | Party game | Real time |
How a match works
You create a room (or join an open one), the group picks a game and everyone marks ready. The room is persistent: when the match ends, the same group switches to another game without rebuilding anything. In Arcade Mode, instead of a single game, the room draws a sequence of mini-games and adds up points by placement until a final podium.
An empty seat can become a bot, and bots have three difficulty levels. If your connection drops you get a window to come back and reclaim your seat before you lose it.