awesome-jsgames

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A curated collection of JavaScript games with a focus on game development and learning resources.

A curated list of awesome JavaScript Games 🎮

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Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Winners
js13kGames 2021 13 tiny and terrific entries from the js13kGames competition
js13kGames 2020 Top 10 games from the JS13K 2020 competition 🕹
js13kGames 2019 Highlights from the js13kGames 2019 competition
js13kGames 2018 13 Games in ≤ 13kB of JavaScript
js13kGames 2017 Build a game in 13kB or less with js13kGames

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Adventure
Triangle: Back To Home You are lost in the cave. Try to get out and back to home. Sometimes it can be easy, sometimes not… but don’t give up and you will do it
Dwarfs: There and Back Again A tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarfs, in search of dragon-guarded gold, true friendship, and varieties of ale (not necessarily in that order)
Bounce Back Boomerang adventure game for JS13k!
Wander Explore a desolate wilderness with your grappling hook
Offline Paradise The world, a paradise, has gone offline; everything has become grey and dangerous. Traverse, jump and dash over the obstacles to turn the world back into normal
Planetfall A space exploration game. The goal is to find satellite stations on each planet and take them offline
Quest of Tod A speed running adventure game, where you stuck inside unknown place controlled by strange machine. Can you find all the keys and codes to unlock the exit before the time runs out?

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Arcade
Racer Start from the back of the pack, finish 1st to go to the next race!
Everyone's Sky Make allies by completing missions, study other planets, stars, defend yourself against planetary defenses and pirate groups, or makes enemies by attacking them, ignoring their communications and destroying their facilities
Evil glitch Strange glitches appear in your dimension, could you stop them to assimilate your world?
Off The Line Jump off the line and try not to die or throw your keyboard across the room in this twitchy arcade tapper
Behind Asteroids, The Dark Side A game about throwing asteroids to people playing "Asteroids" on an arcade machine
Pest Control: Weasels Lemmings were meant to be saved, weasels should instead be disposed of. (consider this as your revenge on small pesky critters!)
Pizza Undelivery Here you bring pizzas back to the pizzeria, instead of the other way around
Pacman 1,473 about 2 months ago &
jump-n-bump 26 almost 5 years ago HTML5 port of the open source DOS classic by Brainchild Design: local multiplayer platfomer game

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Educational
Pixel Art Academy 189 3 days ago An adventure game for learning to draw

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Platform
nano-wirebot A simple platformer where you play as a nanobot that needs to fix some wires
The Wandering Wraith A lost wraith is wandering through the world seeking for peace. Will you guide him back to his grave so he can finally rest?
ONOFF Navigate through 25 brain-teasing levels in this fast-paced, hand-crafted platformer. You'll dodge spikes, jump over pits, and toggle between dimensions
The Matr13k After saving Morpheus, Neo needs to find an exit from this JavaScript version of the matrix
Glitch Buster Can you fix all 13 glitches before time runs out? Avoid the dangerous pointers, or kill them by jumping on their heads!
Vier You have the power to control the 4 elements with the VIER stone, It's time to destroy all the wizards and become the ruler of the universe
Way Out The door is locked. You'll have to explore a dangerous dungeon full of traps and monsters and find 4 lost gems to open the door and get your WAY OUT!

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Puzzle
Play Back Oh no, you've been kicked out of the castle! Solve puzzles and make your way back to your rightful home
Back Attacker Invaders have entered in the Ninja’s Forest. Be careful!, They have weapons. Attack behind the back
xx142-b2.exe This is the year 2413, humanity is enslaved by an alien race for more than two centuries already
1024 Moves This puzzle can be solved in 1024 movements
Re-Wire Bring the system back online by rewiring the power nodes
Envisionator A short puzzle game about escaping a building lockdown with the aid of your trusty robot friend
Planet Figadore has gone OFFLINE Fred lives on planet Figadore in the Hercules cluster, he likes watching cat videos from planet Earth via Parallax Shift, but the network link has gone OFFLINE!
Enmeshed A hacking puzzle / strategy game. Exploit vulnerabilities in nodes and connections to knock a dynamically-routed mesh network offline
Raven The security cameras for a secret facility have been taken offline, and it is YOUR job to fix the problem
Lost Treasure 'Lost Treasure' is a short retro style puzzle-platformer game. There are 7 different levels (for now) to go through and collect treasure back to little Flo
2048 96 over 1 year ago
Blitz Tactics 160 18 days ago fast-paced chess puzzles
Untrusted —or— the Continuing Adventures of Dr. Eval 4,586 8 days ago Meta-JavaScript Adventure Game wherein you must edit and re-execute the very JavaScript running the game in your browser to save Dr. Eval from this dark and confusing reality

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Running
Offline: O.E.C.T They said organic-electric technology was the way of the future

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Shooter
[SWAGSHOT] The station on LZ-13 was taken over by its AIs! You must take it back... with style!
The Chroma Incident The Achromats have taken the worlds color offline! Raid their colorless lair and vanquish them all, restoring the world to it's technicolor glory
UNDERRUN A twin stick shooter in 256 shades of brown
Backcountry Kill or be killed in this hack-and-shoot set in the Wild West! Use the mouse or tap the screen to control your avatar, and earn as much gold as you can from the sheriff's bounties

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Strategy
Ancient Beast 1,679 7 days ago Match based eSport where players battle themselves by materializing and controling a squad of carefully selected creatures, each having unique stats and abilities. Master your beasts!
Elematter Elematter is a tower defense game based on the four elements: Earth, Water, Air and Fire

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Virtual Reality
Back to Space 40 Years ago we thought we had defeated them. But they are back! Now it's up to you!
You Are Offline You are trapped in a room. There is no way out. Your only hope is to contact someone to rescue you. The only problem is: YOU ARE OFFLINE

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Web Components
Scroll! 23 almost 2 years ago A Face to Face fighting game for mobile that you can play in your browser

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Uncategorized
Push Back In Push Back you create currents to help the stranded boats get back to the mainland. This game uses fluid dynamics to simulate the water
Retrohaunt Someone or something is stealing our time. Today was yesterday and tomorrow is nowhere to be seen. Detective Clay is on the case!
SPACECRAFT "Space, the final frontier" is your ultimate destination in SPACECRAFT
LOST ROBOT If I'd written the mapping module, it wouldn't be offline!
Exo A space based tower defence game! Build satellites and stations around planets orbiting a distant star. Survive waves of enemies
Submersible Warship 2063 Enemy submarines have invaded your perimeter. Stay off their radar and fight back!
Enjoy The Sunshine (Get Offline!) Another beautiful day. But, look! Nobody appreciates it
oh, flip! You're a majestic square with one leg who loves to flip!
UNO 217 7 months ago The famous UNO card game with online multiplayer support!
MemoryGame.js 4 over 8 years ago A customizable memory game

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Game Engines
GDevelop 11,274 6 days ago An open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone
melonJS 5,916 3 months ago A fresh & lightweight HTML5 game engine
PixiJS 43,948 4 days ago The HTML5 Creation Engine: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer
Phaser 37,159 6 days ago Desktop and Mobile HTML5 game framework. A fast, free and fun open source framework for Canvas and WebGL powered browser games
Cocos2d-x 18,244 10 days ago A multi-platform framework for building 2d games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications
Craters.js 22 over 1 year ago A Compact Game Engine that helps you build fast, modern HTML5 Games
BLACKSMITH 2D 206 over 1 year ago Black is a highly optimized 2D framework for web, mobile games, and playable ads
Impact 2,006 14 days ago A JavaScript Game Engine that allows you to develop stunning HTML5 Games for desktop and mobile browsers
Babylonjs 23,270 6 days ago A powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework
PlayCanvas 9,704 6 days ago Fast and lightweight WebGL game engine
three.js 102,744 6 days ago JavaScript 3D library

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Math
CindyJS 658 11 days ago A JavaScript framework for interactive (mathematical) content
big.js 4,887 about 1 month ago A small, fast JavaScript library for arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic
Math for games Maths & trigonometry cheat sheet for 2D & 3D games
Math is Fun Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, worksheets and an illustrated dictionary

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Micro-libraries
EasyStar.js 1,893 10 months ago An asynchronous A* pathfinding API written in Javascript
Sound.js 307 7 months ago A micro-library to load, play and generate sound effects and music for games and interactive applications
Simplify.js 2,292 about 2 years ago A high-performance JavaScript polyline simplification library by Vladimir Agafonkin, extracted from Leaflet
ZzFX 580 about 1 month ago A Tiny JavaScript Sound Effect Engine
ZzFXM A tiny JavaScipt music generator
SAT.js 766 over 3 years ago A simple JavaScript library for performing 2D collision detection
jsfxr synth port to JavaScript created for js13kGames
Kontra A lightweight JavaScript gaming micro-library created specifically for the Js13kGames game jam
Hexi 558 over 5 years ago A fun and easy way to make HTML5 games or any other kind interactive media using pure JavaScript code
js13k-2d 121 almost 6 years ago A 2kb webgl 2d sprite renderer, designed for Js13kGames
IonPhaser 252 25 days ago A web component to use Phaser Framework with Angular, React, Vue, etc 🎮
Animatable 255 25 days ago Animate once, use Everywhere! 💫
minivents 414 over 2 years ago Tiny eventing for javascript

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Graphics
p5.js 21,694 11 days ago A client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing
Paper.js 14,507 4 months ago The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Physics
Matter.js 16,877 3 months ago A JavaScript 2D rigid body physics engine for the web
Planck.js 4,922 3 days ago 2D JavaScript Physics Engine
box2d.ts 407 over 1 year ago A TypeScript port of Box2D
p2.js 2,647 over 2 years ago 2D rigid body physics engine written in JavaScript

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Virtual Reality
A-Frame 16,691 7 days ago A web framework for building virtual reality experiences

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Audio Resources
A port of sfxr to HTML5 Dead easy game sound effects generator
TinyMusic 355 about 6 years ago A simple, lightweight music synth/sequencer in JavaScript using the Web Audio API
SoundBox 430 about 1 year ago A tool for composing synthetic music, in your browser
Sonant-X 235 22 days ago A very small JavaScript synthesizer library, suitable for small JavaScript demos or video games

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Visual Resources
Poly A website created by Google for users to browse, distribute, and download 3D objects
OpenGameArt.org Free, legal art for open source game projects (includes models, sprites, textures, sounds, music)
NFG's Arcade Font Engine Font for your games
The Spriters Resource The #1 source for video game sprites on the internet!
Sprite Database Sprite rips from classic games
TinyPNG Compress PNG images while preserving transparency
Arcade Font Writer Create your own text using hundreds of fonts from classic Arcade games
ShoeBox A free Adobe Air based app for Windows and Mac OSX with game and ui related tools

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Real-Time
Snapshot Interpolation 278 over 2 years ago A Snapshot Interpolation library for Real-Time Multiplayer Games

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Utilities
Tiled Parser for Phaser 3 Generate code for loading tilemaps created with Tiled 🤓

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Editors
Tiled Map Editor 11,237 6 days ago A flexible level editor
Phaser Editor 2D A web-based IDEfor HTML5 game development
Aseprite Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool
Piskel 11,211 6 months ago A free online editor for animated sprites & pixel art

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Generators
Stitches An HTML5 sprite sheet generator
Audiosprite 691 about 2 years ago A ffmpeg wrapper that will take in multiple audio files and combines them into a single file

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Minification
Rollup 25,379 5 days ago A module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application
webpack 64,791 6 days ago Bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset
UglifyJS 13,164 5 days ago A JavaScript parser, minifier, compressor and beautifier toolkit
Brunch 6,799 almost 2 years ago Fast front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config and seamless incremental compilation for rapid development
Gulp 33,011 6 months ago A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow
Grunt 12,266 19 days ago The JavaScript Task Runner

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Build
Electron 114,414 6 days ago Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
NW.js 40,391 3 days ago Call all Node.js modules directly from DOM/WebWorker and enable a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies
Cordova 625 12 months ago Mobile apps with HTML, CSS & JS. Target multiple platforms with one code base
Capacitor 12,207 6 days ago Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the web ⚡️

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Compilers
Babel 43,241 6 days ago The compiler for writing next generation JavaScript
Emscripten: An LLVM-to-Web Compiler 25,828 6 days ago Compiles C and C++ to WebAssembly using LLVM and Binaryen. Emscripten output can run on the Web, in Node.js, and in wasm runtimes

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Templates
js13kserver 90 over 2 years ago js13kGames Server category files and rules
JS13K A-Frame Boilerplate 13 over 1 year ago An A-Frame boilerplate for the js13k competition
Ourcade Templates Various open-source game templates and starter projects to help speed up learning and development
Phaser 3 TypeScript Project Template A quick-start project template that uses Phaser 3, TypeScript and Rollup for bundling
StackBlitz Phaser & React Phaser & React template using Hooks 👾

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Guides
Google JavaScript Style Guide
WebGL guide A complete, summarized WebGL tutorial, with tiny interactive demos in each chapter
browserdiet.com The definitive front-end performance guide
JavaScript Garden A growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Books
Phaser 3 HTML5 Cross Platform Game Development - Endless Runner Designed both for beginners and skilled programmers, the course guides you from an empty folder introducing the bare bones of JavaScript to advanced Phaser 3 features
HTML5 Cross Platform Game Development Using Phaser 3 The first Phaser 3 guide to the creation of HTML5 cross platform games using Phaser 3 framework and other free software
From null to full HTML5 cross platform game Each step of the book is provided with its source code example, for a total of 79 pages and 27 source code examples
Interphase #1 A 400 page bookazine complete with a coverdisk filled with source code, graphics and more for Phaser CE
A Guide to the Phaser CE Tween Manager Learn how to use the Phaser Tween Manager to its full potential and spice up your games
A Guide to the Phaser CE Scale Manager Phaser has a powerful built-in Scale Manager and this guide teaches you how to unlock its features
Infinite Jumper in Phaser 3 with Modern JavaScript A free book to help beginners learn Phaser 3 with modern JavaScript without complicated web development tooling
Infinite Runner in Phaser 3 with TypeScript A free book to help you get started using TypeScript to make more complex Phaser 3 games

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Competitions
Js13kGames Create HTML5 games that will fit in a zip package of only 13 kilobytes
Ludum Dare An online event where games are made from scratch in a weekend
Node Knockout The world's biggest Node.js programming competition

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Courses
Codecademy JavaScript Courses & Tutorials
CodeCombat: Learn to Code by Playing a Game 7,977 6 days ago Learn programming with a multiplayer live coding strategy game for beginners
Codewars Achieve mastery through challenge

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Tutorials
JavaScript30 Build 30 things with vanilla JS in 30 days with 30 tutorials
Making your first Phaser 3 game Learn how to create a small game involving a player running and jumping around platforms, collecting stars and avoiding baddies
Modular Game Worlds in Phaser 3 Creating modular worlds with tilemaps in the Phaser 3 game engine
Game Mechanic Explorer A collection of concrete examples for various game mechanics, algorithms, and effects
Procedurally Generated Dungeon A Procedurally Generated Dungeon Tutorial in Java-Script
Gamedev Tuts+ The best place to find game development tutorials
Codrops Useful tutorials, insightful articles, creative inspiration and free resources for web designers and developers
Emanuele Feronato Posts about Game design, HTML5, Phaser, JavaScript, Monetize, Box2D, Unity3D
Phaser Tutorials Phaser - News - Tutorial
Ourcade Blog Playful game development tutorials

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Workshops
Chrome Experiments A showcase of work by coders who are pushing the boundaries of web technology, creating beautiful, unique web experiences
VR Workshop 24 over 7 years ago VR Workshop at Gray Area Festival
Immersive 37 over 7 years ago Immersive Three.js Workshop at Gray Area
Phaser CE Workshop using ES6 23 25 days ago Isometric worlds and Real Time games

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Forums
HTML5 Game Devs Forum A forum about Phaser, Pixi, Babylon, Panda 2, melonJS, Collaborations, Services and Jobs!

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Distribution
5 Apps Deployment and distribution tools
GamePix Platform for developers and publishers with interesting blog posts
MarketJS A B2B Platform for licensing HTML5 games. Buy HTML5 games, customize and deploy instantly to your server
itch.io Distribution and game jam hosting platform for HTML5 games
CrazyGames New distribution platform for HTML5 games
Y8 Games At Y8 Games, there are over 70,000 games and videos available to play online. We are leading in the latest Unity3D car and dress up games

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Monetization
GameDistribution The biggest broker of high quality, cross-platform games. We connect the best game developers to the biggest publishers
Facebook In App Purchases Facebook Instant Games In App Purchases
Facebook Games Ads Facebook Instant Games Ads
Awesome Web Monetization 305 2 months ago Awesome stuffs about Web Monetization. Learn more, check modules and others tools

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Testing
stats.js 8,732 about 1 month ago JavaScript Performance Monitor
Leshy SpriteSheet Animator Online Sprite Sheet Animation Utility

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Security
Jscrambler A JavaScript interpreter and parsing engine that creates an Abstract Syntax Tree representing your source code to make it extremely difficult to reverse engineer

Awesome JavaScript Games 🎮 / Other Awesome Lists
Magic Tools 13,670 2 days ago A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen
awesome-phaser 470 4 months ago A curated list of awesome Phaser libraries, resources and shiny things
Awesome PlayCanvas 261 28 days ago A curated list of awesome PlayCanvas assets, resources, and more
jsGameWiki 1,224 over 4 years ago A collection of good links for gaming with javascript
Games on GitHub 22,900 7 months ago A list of popular/awesome videos games, add-ons, maps, etc. hosted on GitHub. Any genre. Any platform. Any engine

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