Best free online games to play right now
These are the 25 games we would point a friend to first: free, playable in a browser with no download, and each one reviewed by the EarnVera team. The list spans every category, so there is something here whether you want a ten-minute puzzle or a full evening.
Defend the Castle
Defend the Castle is a tower-defence game with a medieval setting. Enemy waves march on your walls, and you spend gold and wood on cannons, archers and stronger fortifications to hold them back and keep the King safe.
Mahjong Classic
Mahjong Classic is traditional mahjong solitaire. Clear the board by picking pairs of matching tiles that are free on at least one side. Flower tiles count as a match for each other.
Garden Master
In Garden Master you play a hard-working gnome tending a garden. Water and grow your plants, chase off the gophers that try to dig them up, and collect golden seeds to buy upgrades that make the garden grow faster.
Deadly Descent
Deadly Descent is a driving game with a simple aim that is hard to achieve: get your car down a dangerous mountain road and reach the finish in one piece.
Card Sort Solitaire
Card Sort Solitaire is a relaxing card game with a twist: instead of suits and numbers, the cards show words and pictures that belong to categories. Draw cards, uncover hidden ones and place each in the right set until every category is complete.
Vegan Quest
Vegan Quest is a fast arcade game about catching the right food. Treats rain down the screen and your hero collects the vegan ones for points while dodging everything else.
Hidden Object: Clues and Mysteries
Hidden Object: Clues and Mysteries turns the classic hidden-object game into a detective story. A calm, experienced detective guides you through cosy living rooms and other charming locations, each hiding the items you need.
Hedgies
Hedgies is a farming game about a hard-working hedgehog who turns an abandoned plot into a thriving farm. Grow crops, craft goods, fish and cook.
SlowMo Sniper
SlowMo Sniper is a 3D sniper game in bullet time. You leap out of cover, time slows almost to a stop, and you must take down every enemy before you land.
Parmesan Partisan
Parmesan Partisan puts you on guard over a stock of cheese. Rats keep invading, and you fight them off with a shotgun.
Hazmob FPS: Online Shooter
Hazmob FPS is an online first-person shooter. Join matches against other players across several game modes, with non-stop action and clean 3D graphics.
Girl Crush Escape
Girl Crush Escape mixes match-three puzzles with rescue missions. Swap tiles to make matches, clear falling stones and free the girl trapped in each room before the timer runs out.
Turbo Crash Test
Turbo Crash Test is a physics game about staging the biggest crash you can. You propel a stickman through a course of chaotic obstacles and watch the havoc unfold, earning rewards for the crashes you set up along the way.
Penalty Kick Wiz
Penalty Kick Wiz is a penalty shootout duel. Take turns shooting and saving, trying to outguess your opponent with every kick.
Crash Core
Crash Core puts you in control of a heavy rolling core whose only job is destruction. Build up speed and smash through crates, walls, containers and machinery, collecting scrap as everything breaks.
Kobadoo Emojis
Kobadoo Emojis is a memory game played with funny emojis. You are shown a sequence, then you repeat it in the right order. Each round adds to the sequence, so it gets steadily harder to hold in your head.
Mahjong Lines
Mahjong Lines is a mahjong connect puzzle. Tap two identical tiles to remove them, as long as a path of no more than three straight lines can join them without crossing other tiles.
Flag Memory Match
Flag Memory Match is a card-matching memory game with flags from 98 countries. Flip two cards at a time and find the pairs.
Hidden Object: Street Of Secrets
Hidden Object: Street of Secrets makes you the lead detective on a mysterious case. A helpful assistant offers hints and points you to important details.
Buggy Blast
Buggy Blast is an off-road racer with 12 World Circuit stages. Each race is four laps through forests, night mountains, snow, storms, deserts and coastlines, against three rivals.
Memory Cards
Memory Cards is a sequence memory game. Remember the order in which cards are shown, then select them in the same order.
Good Sort Master: Triple Match
Good Sort Master: Triple Match is a relaxing shelf-sorting game. Drag items between shelves and line up three identical items on one shelf to clear them.
Math Fight Club
Math Fight Club turns arithmetic into a boxing match. Create your fighter, then beat opponents in the ring by solving equations faster than they can.
Merge Royal
Merge Royal mixes solitaire with the number merging of 2048. Merge matching cards to make higher numbers and keep space free on the table.
Nuts Puzzle: Sort By Color
Nuts Puzzle: Sort By Color is a sorting puzzle. Tap a nut, then tap a screw to move it there, until every screw holds nuts of only one colour.