About Online Game List

An independent guide to websites where you can play games in your browser. It doesn't host any games: it points you to sites worth visiting and tells you what to expect before you click.

Every listing is checked the same way: we visit the site, measure its advertising, note whether you need an account and whether it works on a phone, and describe what you can play there. Anything we couldn't confirm is shown as "Not yet assessed" rather than guessed. How sites are assessed has the details.

The owner's own sites

The person who runs this directory also makes games. Their sites are listed with the label Made by the directory owner, and they are assessed by exactly the same code and thresholds as every other site.

Currently: Five Minute Game, Littleby and Twogeva.

Our crawler

Listings are gathered by an automated visitor that identifies itself honestly:

OnlineGameListBot/0.1 (+https://onlinegamelist.com/about#crawler)

• It reads and follows robots.txt, and never lists a site that asks not to be indexed.
• It waits at least 3 seconds between requests to the same site, and looks at no more than 5 pages per visit: usually the home page, one game page and an about page.
• It keeps a copy for up to 6 days so it doesn't ask for the same page twice.
• It never tries to get around a block. If a site refuses automated visitors, it isn't listed.

To keep it out of your site, add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: OnlineGameListBot
Disallow: /

Corrections and removal

Details are gathered automatically and can be wrong or out of date.

• Something wrong? Use Report outdated information (there's a link on every listing). Corrections are checked and applied by hand, and a correction is never overwritten by a later automatic check.
• Want your site removed? If you run it, use the removal form. Requests from a site's owner are honoured, and the site is added to an exclusion list so it isn't picked up again.

You can also email hello@onlinegamelist.com.

Names, logos and screenshots

Site names, icons and logos belong to their owners and are used only to identify each site. Screenshots show a site's home page as our crawler saw it on the date given. All images are stored here rather than loaded from the listed sites.