About

What this is

Game Rig is a browser arcade holding sixteen games across four categories. Every one of them was built in-house for this site. None of them are licensed, embedded, wrapped in an iframe or collected from somewhere else, and none of them are clones of a commercial game with the name changed. When you open one, you are running code written for this page.

They open instantly because there is nothing to install. The whole site is static files — HTML, one stylesheet, and the games themselves — with no framework and no build step. A game runs on the canvas element your browser already has, which is why the same page works on a laptop, a phone and a tablet without a separate app.

How the games are chosen

The rule is that a game only goes up once it is worth playing more than once. A simple game that is genuinely good beats a complicated one that is only impressive, so the catalogue is small on purpose and grows slowly. Each game has to work with the keyboard alone, save your best score locally, and tell you what you did wrong when a run ends.

What it does not do

There are no accounts, no sign-ups, no email collection and no advertising anywhere on this site. Your scores are stored in your own browser and are never sent anywhere. You can read the details in the privacy policy and the cookie policy.

Getting in touch

Bug reports are the most useful thing you can send — a game that breaks, a level that cannot be finished, a control that does not respond. There is a contact page for that.