BEST SINGLEPLAYER BROWSER GAMES

If you're looking for something new to try that won't take up precious hard drive space, try out these singleplayer browser games. You can find a few extra solo browser options in our best free PC games list too.

Wordle

Wordle has taken the world by storm, being bought up by the Official Wordle Games. If you've missed the boat, it's a deceptively simple word game. Five letters and six guesses is all the room you have to work with. Each time, you'll get feedback in the form of yellow and green boxes—representing correct letters and correct letters in the correct position. It doesn't take long to play each day's puzzle, and you can brag to friends if you got lucky and nailed it on the first guess.

A Dark Room

A Dark Room starts off as a clicker game, but don't let that deter you. It quickly becomes a strategy adventure where you venture out battling enemies in real time to grow your post-apocalyptic town. You'll need to manage your village's resources so you can better equip your character on expeditions. Heck, it even has a bit of a story and an ending to work towards as your learn more about the cold, apocalyptic world.

Townscaper

If you need something relaxing to play with, Townscaper is the ultimate desktop toy. There are no complex rules here, and barely much of a UI. Just a color palette and the mouse buttons to let you paint an ocean canvas with your very own seaside vacation spot. There's a simple joy to Townscaper, which—in essence—a simple but elegant creativity tool. It's the perfect pick for brief respites with soothing music.

Fallen London

Fallen London is the long-running narrative browser game that preceded Failbetter Games' later Sunless Seas and Sunless Skies in the same universe. Despite the release of two paid games, Fallen London still gets new content and stories added and recently had a nice update to the look of its map as well. You play as a newcomer to underground London, a person of leisure able to take on odd side jobs while accepting quests to dig up the secrets of the subterranean city. 

Final Fantasy Tactics Battleground

Okay so it's not exactly a browser game in the way everything else on this list is, but it does run in your browser. You've already heard about TwitchPlaysPokemon but FFT Battlegrounds is a totally different concept. Instead of fighting for control of the on-screen characters against the rest of chat, an AI controls all of the tactical battles. As a chatter, you place bets on which side you think will win and can spend your channel Gil to name a character after yourself with a chosen class and skill. It may sound hands-off but it's every bit as engaging as watching Marbles on Stream.