About Pocket Arcade

Pocket Arcade is a small independent website that publishes free, instant browser games.

What this site is

Pocket Arcade collects classic, quick-to-learn games - 2048, Snake, Memory Match and Minesweeper - and presents each one as a single fast page. The games run entirely in your browser using plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. There are no downloads, no plugins, no accounts and no paywalls. Your best scores are stored locally on your own device and never leave it.

How the games are made

Every game on the site is hand-written for Pocket Arcade. The rules of these games are classics that belong to everyone - Snake goes back to the arcade machines of the 1970s, Minesweeper became famous as a desktop game in the 1990s, and 2048 was released as a free, open-source puzzle by Gabriele Cirulli in 2014. What you play here is our own implementation of those ideas: our own code, our own artwork and our own words.

We test each game on both desktop and mobile before publishing it, and we keep the code deliberately simple so pages load quickly even on slow connections.

How the site pays for itself

The site is free to use. It has applied to show ads through Google AdSense; no ads are shown while that application is under review. If advertising is enabled later, it will be clearly separated from the games, and the Privacy page describes exactly what that involves.

Suggest a game

New games are added over time. If there is a classic game you would like to see here - or you found a bug in one of the existing ones - use the Contact page and let us know.