Everything people usually want to know about the games, the saves, and who makes them.
Yes. Every game on Free Arcade is free to play with no payment, no trial and no in-game purchases of any kind. The site is paid for by advertising, which is why you will see adverts around the pages but never inside a game.
No. These are free online games that run entirely in your browser. Click play and the game starts in the same tab. If you want to play offline you can add a game to your home screen and it will keep working with no internet connection.
No. There is no sign-up, no login and no email address to hand over. Where a game saves your progress, the save lives on your own device rather than on a server somebody else owns.
Yes. Every game here has proper touch controls and lays itself out again for a phone screen, in portrait or landscape. They also work on tablets, laptops and desktops, and several support a gamepad.
Fifteen. Shadowmon Hunters is a real-time monster-catching RPG with 200 creatures, 15 types and 100 moves. Iron Circuit is a fighting game with a handheld overworld, fifteen towns and a full ground game. Last Page is a roguelike deckbuilder in which your deck is your health bar and every hit burns a card out of it for good. Open Mat is a fighting game where the martial art you choose is your moveset. Clean Run is a speedrun platformer with a level editor and share codes. Shadowmon Soldiers is a lane defence game built from the Shadowmon roster. Tight Spot is a car parking game with a real steering model. Spellwright is a game where you write your own spells in a block language with loops, conditions and variables, and keep ten of them in a book. Gun Grade is a top-down shooter where every gun carries its own mastery rank and the rank is damage. Daily Five is a five-letter word puzzle with a new word every day and every past day still playable. Cold Start is an idle game about a power grid that never has enough capacity. Even Odds is a survivors-like in which the swarm levels up alongside you. Swish is a 3D basketball game about judging how far away the hoop is and how hard to throw. Sendoff is a platform fighter whose whole roster comes from the other games on this site — one fighter each, two players on one screen.
None of them have chat, user accounts, or any way for players to contact each other, so there is no way for a stranger to reach a child through this site. The games vary in tone: the puzzle, driving, platform and idle games are suitable for anyone, while the fighting and shooting games are cartoon violence of the sort you would find in any arcade.
Where a game has progress worth keeping, yes, and it is kept on your own device in your browser. Clearing your browser data will clear it, and it does not follow you to another device unless the game gives you a save code to carry across.
Yes. Each game is a single self-contained file, so once a page has loaded once you can add it to your home screen and it will keep working with no connection at all.
Some of them, and there is a page that says which. Free Arcade has no accounts, no chat and no data collection, which is most of what a school filter cares about, but one of the games is a shooter and we would not expect a school to allow it. The schools page rates all fifteen honestly and explains how a teacher or IT department can allow a specific game. We do not help anyone bypass a school filter. Read the schools page.
One person, for the fun of it. There is no studio, no publisher and no roadmap — games get added when they are finished and worth playing.
Use the contact page. Bug reports are genuinely useful, especially if you can say which game, which device and what you were doing when it went wrong.
Still stuck? Send a message — bug reports are welcome.