A selection of cool, free games to play with friends and strangers.

The best multiplayer browser games

The Internet is full of strangers, and many of them are playing something right now. And you probably wouldn't mind doing it either. Convenient, isn't it? They're out there somewhere, waiting for you to show them where the crabs hibernate, and the easiest and fastest way for you to meet is in a multiplayer browser game. Plus, this is the best opportunity to play a little at work instead of sending endless emails.

Browser games launch very quickly, and some of the best ones don't even require additional files to be installed. Plus, most of them are pretty simple. So, if you are ready to go online and kill some time, you have all the cards in your hand.

Vikings Village: Party Hard

Courageous pixel Vikings punch other Vikings, because they call them "red" (despite the fact that redheads are all there), and each considers it his duty to insult the other by calling him red (despite the fact that each of them has red hair), while everything does not turn into a death match of beards. You play as one of these Vikings, kicking ass and adding new names to the kill list. At a certain level, up to 7 other Vikings can appear, and they will all equally want to destroy you.

Your goal is simple: kill every one of those flawed brutes to stay at the top of the table.

Hand-to-hand combat is not the only way to quickly arrange a funeral procession. You can pick up items scattered around and throw them right at the opponent's head – this will teach them to watch their language! You have several abilities to choose from (they will open over time): for example, set fire to items you pick up, or increase speed. For combos of deaths, you can get extra points, restore health with beer and get even more abilities.

Vikings Village: Party Hard also has achievements and various helmets that can be purchased with coins found on the floor. The game is still in development, and more interesting mods can be expected soon.

Blast Arena

Blast Arena is a 3D version of Bomberman that you can play in your browser against anonymous opponents from all over the internet. You and three other players are trying to survive and destroy each other in a maze-like area full of walls and rocks that can be destroyed. In the first turn, you only have one bomb available – you plant it, and it explodes after a few seconds, destroying the rocks (and players) that are in the radius of the explosion.

Sometimes power-ups are hidden in the rocks, which either increase the radius of the explosion of the bomb, or the speed of your run, or expand the number of slots in your backpack. When enough rocks are destroyed and the path is clear, you can walk up to other players – and either draw them into the blast radius or explode yourself.The last survivor wins. You can greet other players by throwing a waving hand emoji over your head. Blast Arena is still under development, and the available version is in beta mode.

LaserSharks.io

In this game, you play as a shark with a laser on its head and swim in the ocean. Thanks to the laser, you can shoot other sharks and kill them so that they no longer dare to hunt in your waters. The only problem? Using the laser stops the movement and there is not much time to aim. If you miss, the enemy shark can easily return your shot.

Simple fish also swim in the ocean – they can be eaten to get energy. It can be used to swim faster and earn more experience to level up. There are also first aid kits in the water. The longer you stay alive (and the more sharks you kill), the higher your name rises in the overall table.

Isleward

Isleward doesn't even look like a multiplayer game at first. This is a roguelike on the minimum requirements: you choose the character you want to play as, and you are thrown all alone into a city called Stratford. There, you finally get objectives, learn how to queue actions, and start exploring the area. There are also a couple of simple monsters that can be killed to increase the level.

Sooner or later you will run into other people and maybe you can convince them to come with you. A group of different characters is much stronger than a single player, and brings much more fun. Before you – a whole world that is waiting to be discovered, a bunch of islands and even loot. Isleward is still in development, and its community is not only active, but extremely friendly.

Agar.io

Although Agar.io looks very minimalistic with graphics of colored circles on a checkered background, the game is surprisingly challenging. At first, your circle is very small, but the longer you eat all the little colored dots around, the larger it becomes. When your circle is still small, you move quickly and can dodge large circles when they try to eat you – after all, larger portions are required with size. It is almost impossible to grow on insignificant points.

Smaller players move faster, so you can split the circle into two halves. One of them will be able to shoot at players fleeing from you and capture them. These circles also change depending on the diet – both their size and speed change. There are several game modes, including team. When you get eaten by a larger player, you go back to the beginning and become a dot again – as small as possible. The circle of life is cruel.

Slither.io

Just like in Agar.io, in Slither.io you need to eat dots (here they sparkle) in order to grow. Turn: you are a snake. Your body gets longer and a little wider as you eat the various dots scattered around the map.You can't eat enemies, but if you time it right, you can make another snake crash into your body and die, leaving behind a lot of sparkling dots.

Slither.io also allows you to change the skin of the snake, and there really is where to turn around. Consider, for example, pleasing your snake with a necklace that dangles from side to side as it slithers.

War Brokers

War Brokers is in open beta, and it's a massive team-based first-person shooter. Sometimes there are missions that go beyond face-to-face mortal combat – for example, preventing the enemy from launching rockets.

War Brokers has a decent amount of different weapons and vehicles to unlock and use. At first, you get a pistol and a rifle with which to defend yourself. Vehicles – helicopters and tanks – are scattered around the map, and you can naturally climb inside and start controlling them. If you create an account, you will see a bunch of small missions and rewards for them. The competition can be fierce, so the game is especially good for those who aren't used to taking the easy way out.

Skyarena.io

If you prefer to fly planes and attack from the inside, Skyarena.io will definitely suck you in. This air shooter is, quite frankly, extremely simple: you fly a large airplane, desperately trying to shoot down other vehicles and the pilots behind the wheel. Flying the plane is very easy with the mouse, so you'll have no problem navigating through the clouds, looking out over the islands and endless waters.

Transformice

Browser classic. General idiocy in its pure, unfiltered form. You are playing as a mouse. You need cheese. Getting the cheese is only possible if you work together with your mouse friends and the mouse shaman… in fact, you are being extremely selfish, and your team suddenly dies within ten seconds.

Only once in my memory I managed to pass the level: then the mice were saved by the instinct of self-preservation. Together they were on the same platform, and it was impossible to build a bridge from it to the cheese without the help of a shaman. But even when there is at least the slightest chance of success, the crowd hurries forward – to a sudden death.

What is so attractive about her? This is wildly funny.

Town of Salem

If you've ever played Mafia or Werewolves, Town of Salem shouldn't be a problem. This role-playing game challenges you to be a devious liar and lead other players astray. Depending on what role you get after random distribution, you can be a civilian (good), mafia (bad) or neutral.

If you are a civilian, you need to hunt down the mafia members and stop them before they kill everyone in your city. There are a great many roles, and each of them gives you a unique ability, which can only be used at the night stage of the game. At night, players plan their moves and make notes in their wills.If they die during the night, the remaining players can use these notes to complete what they started! Explaining the rules of Town of Salem is long and hard, but you get involved pretty quickly.

MS Paint Adventures

There is a hidden feeling of collective helplessness in this game, but I promise you that this will pass with time. MS Paint Adventures is a hybrid of a text quest and a webcomic that allows the audience (players) to democratically vote on what should happen next. In the style of text quests.

Each "scene" is represented by a picture and a description, in which there is a designation of objects in the room and stuff like that. People are offered several courses of action, and the best must be chosen. Okay, it's not really a democracy, but you get the idea.

Gartic.io

Think Pictionary or Drawful. One player has to draw a random word while the others watch and try to guess what he is drawing for a while. Creating the necessary image is extremely simple: the game offers an impressive set of tools.

On the side there is a simple chat where you can write your guesses while the other player continues to draw. If your guess is close to the word, you are informed about it. The game is simple, but quite fun, especially when professional artists offer their drawings.

Kingdom of Loathing

Perhaps the style of Kingdom of Loathing, which has become popular for quite some time, is familiar to you. It's kind of like a pseudo-MMO that fits nicely into the web interface, with drop-down menus for choosing attacks and reloading the page in each new territory. She's a bit sloppy, but Kingdom of Loathing isn't trying to be pretty: she just needs to be funny – very, very funny! – and it comes out with a bang.

Take, for example, classes. They don't make any sense, but their names are a play on words, so it's hard not to laugh. For example, I am Sauceror. I splash hot sauce in people's faces and it hurts them because hot sauce burns are really not very pleasant. Or, even less so: Disco Bandits, able to dance their enemies to death. Their own audacity serves as fuel. At the end of the path, the Hokku Dungeon awaits you: and there, not only descriptions of enemies, but also your attacks are written in haiku.

The entire game is pure absurdity and fun, from the enemy typology to the genre clichés it emulates so gracefully. And, while you can't directly play with others, you can steal from them, you can join guilds and interact with them. So the game is really worth watching.

Wilds.io

The basic principle of a hack and slash game is to kill people whose appearance you don't like and look for loot scattered around the map. There are several game modes, but the most popular is Ruins, a standard map where you control the game yourself.

Ruins gives you the opportunity to explore the area as part of one of three teams. You can kill players from different teams, break boxes and look for loot. Let's be honest – who doesn't want more loot? Armor, potions and new weapons will help you survive longer in this wasteland. The main goal is to collect the bones that appear after the death of people.Collect enough bones and become the king of the ruins. There are other modes – with other goals and shorter timings. There is even football. Yes, football.

Realm of the Mad God

Realm of the Mad God doesn't look all that advanced at first, but don't be fooled by the pixelated aesthetic. The game runs on a primitive 3D engine, and it can turn into the hardest shooting game if you accidentally look into the wrong part of the forest. It is based in a medieval setting. You attack all at once, and fire different charges, depending on the class, in all directions, trying to dodge enemy bullets.

The mixture is unusual, but with the right equipment – potions, armor, rings and various weapons – and quests that you can grab along the way. Kill the goblin wizard, slaughter the dwarf king… The game has more in common with the classic arcade game than with something in the spirit of Oblivion. It can be perceived as Diablo, but only in the atmosphere, and not in the manner of the game.

There can be up to 100 people in the game at the same time, each of them in his own part of the forest, and everyone is killing their bad guys. Sometimes you stumble upon a couple, and sometimes you walk for hours in splendid isolation, but constantly stumble upon what remains after their death, whether it is prey or an eerie silence that reigns where those who dreamed of killing you once lived.

pokemon showdown

If trainer duels are your favorite Pokemon genre, Pokemon Showdown is for you. You can immediately rush into battle against other players without leveling up and without taking care of the Pokémon. If you lose, you do not need to return to the center and rest – you can immediately rush into a new duel.

You can get a random team, or if you want to decide which Pokémon to work with, build it yourself. After that, you can quickly go through the fight, choosing movements and parrying the blows of another trainer. But it takes you so much energy to grow a Pokemon that there is simply no desire left for high-speed battles.

Squadd.io

An isometric shooter that can be played with friends against the enemy team, or against everyone in the public arena. Various stations located right there give out weapons. There are a couple of characters to choose from at the start, and more can be unlocked by killing opponents.

Your main task is simply to stay alive and earn enough points to reach the top of the leaderboard. The more points you earn, the higher your level will be, and the more weapons you can unlock. You can get into it very quickly, and if you like high-speed matches, this is a great option.

mechar.io

Although this is the same shooter, Mechar.io will be more difficult than Squadd.io. You control a giant machine with a bunch of weapons, but the goal is the same – to be at the top of the standings.

Since you are a professional mechanic, you can easily take several different weapons with you while exploring a seemingly abandoned laboratory. In Mechar.io, there are other opportunities to develop abilities: two are other small machines that hunt down enemies in order to limit their actions or completely destroy them.Although the map seems very small, it is a well-detailed area where enemies can be found and eliminated very quickly.

Everybody Edits

Everybody Edits is a multiplayer platform game. There are two types of players here: some mindlessly go forward, the second – intrigues. The point is that while other players can't directly influence you as they progress through the levels, they bully you in a way you can't imagine.

Key platforms in the game are attached to one of the keys. The green key controls the green bricks, the red key controls the red ones, and so on. And by "management" I mean the management of their existence. You can run down a long, supposedly safe line of green bricks, when suddenly someone in front of you turns the green key, and, boom, you're on the first level. It's horrible. And brilliant.

All this on top of the fact that each level is designed by the player and is either closed to be played or left open to be played. Masochists really are.

Little War Game

This pixel strategy game invites you to build your own kingdom first and then conquer others. You can build buildings, manage units and collect resources – all in the name of survival! At first, you need to focus on collecting resources and building a base. Your main goal is to gather the best army and destroy everything that gets in your way. This can be done alone or with a friend.

There are quite a few different upgrades and weapons that will help you repel attacks. You can even learn different spells to strengthen the fighters (especially mages), or get a couple of dragons on your side. If you're good enough, you can even start fighting Little War Game ranked battles, but be prepared for some serious competition.

Brutes.io

What are the local animals doing? Again and again they hit people in the face. In Brutes.io, you will face muscular monsters who really want to box. You can aim, or you can recklessly flail with your fists of rage, trying to knock out your opponent, and when he is on the ground, continue to beat his body until his health runs out and he dies, exploding in a bunch of colorful balls.

These balls can be collected – they count as experience points and help you grow and become even more muscular. If punching is not enough for you, you can learn new abilities: for example, turn into a pumpkin or a bird that can produce surprise attacks. What else can birds do?

Neptune's Pride

Neptune's Pride is the epitome of backstab, duplicity and sincere human abomination. It's a real-time strategy game in the same sense that glaciers move in real time, set in space. The whole point is in the expansion of the galaxy. Up to 8 players start the game owning several star systems and then try to expand until they meet someone else.Then there are several options – you either immediately kill each other, or leave everything as it is.

Fleets take hours (and sometimes days) to get from star to star, and this leaves you with a decent amount of time to play diplomat, trying to establish your own connections and destroy enemy alliances. When you can catch them alone (knowing that one of the partners does not see), you simply undermine their trust until they turn into a container for suspicion in the form of a person, and before you can blink an eye, as before you will unfold a galactic civil war. You just have to pick up the pieces.

Well, or you can play like a decent, noble person. But it's boring.

NoBrakes.io

Let's take a break from talking about destroying enemies. NoBrakes.io is a racing game where you try to outrun your rivals before reaching checkpoints all over the track. Passing a checkpoint, you get a bonus that can either increase your speed or give you a projectile: on hit, the shot will push the opponent back a little.

Sometimes, however, moving forward is not the best option. Depending on where the new checkpoint pops up, you may have to turn around and drive in the opposite direction. It doesn't matter which direction you're moving in, it's important to avoid the walls – otherwise you'll die instantly and you'll have to look for the checkpoint in a new match. NoBreaks.io is very simple, but it looks clean and polished, and complements it with music that plays to the rhythm of a rattling engine.

powerline.io

Another version of the Snake… but with a surprise. Powerline.io gives you the option to occupy the board with a neon snake body. Just like in the classic game, you control a snake body that gets longer and moves in straight lines. You eat the cubes that appear when another snake dies and lengthen your own snake's body.

It all sounds very simple – it happens in other remakes of the Viper. But here your snake accelerates, passing by enemies: a spark jumps between the bodies. With extra speed, you can move faster and avoid death. Be careful: if the speed is too high, it will be difficult to control the snake. High risks and high rewards make Powerline.io unique and extremely heavy compared to the minimalism of the original source.

Hexar.io

Hexar.io also vaguely resembles Snake, but instead of lengthening the tail, you capture parts of the screen and establish color dominance. The floor is made of hexagons, initially white. You paint as many tiles as you can with your color, marking them by simply driving over them, before returning to the tiles that have already been painted in the desired color.

All tiles that fall into the contour will be painted with your color. As you explore the map, a tail appears behind you. Other players can run into this tail and kill you, after which your territory will disappear and you will have to start over.

It forces you to be careful, leaving the painted territory in relative security while you choose when trying to jump out to capture more hexagons. Green mugs swim everywhere, revealing that, you can greatly increase the speed. You extend the territory of your color and help get rid of other colors, but if someone will stay in your tail, everything will be in vain.

SLAIM.IO.

In Slaim.io you play for a colored pixel slug that can handle the weapon. It can be used to destroy other slugs, although shooting is the least effective way to destroy enemies, and the slowest. Do not worry: like any slug, owning the skills of using two weapons at the same time, you have a sword, which you can hit the enemies nearby, killing them with a drop. Or you can hide in the bushes, completely disappearing from the card and secretly watching the bloody slaughter.

When the mucus dies, multicolored bursts decorating the floor, and DNA remain from it, which can be collected to increase the level. The game goes for a while, and you need to kill so many slugs as soon as possible until it is over, and the card will not reboot.

Foes.io.

FOES is a shooter on a flat arena who faces face to face with rivals as the Arena gradually becomes less and less. Each participant starts equally, without weapons, and to find it, have to dig in the garbage. When the timer expires and round starts, you notice that the edges of the arena are filled with some poison, which makes everyone holding the center.

At the edges of the card, as you understand, it will not be possible to hide. In Foes.io there is a variety of weapons that can be used, and a pretty card that can be explored before you move your enemies.

Lordz.io.

The main goal of Lordz is to become the main kingdom in the territory. For conquest, you can buy units – for money scattered throughout the map. The archers are striking the goal from the distance, the warriors cheaper – small, and they are easy to kill, the soldiers are more expensive behind the top of the ax, and to kill them, you will need several shots. Over time, if you don't die too often, the whole army and even the dragons that will follow you as you explore new lands.

Although playing Lordz is difficult if you die several times while others are engaged in building strength, do not stop trying, expanding the circle of warriors and buy buildings and castles, not forgetting them to protect them.

Treasure Arena.

This 16-bit Adventrich invites you to fight in the dungeon for a valuable treasure. There are three other players who also want their piece of cake. You can reborn so many times as it turns out in a temporary framework, but, dying, you lose part of the mined. The goal of the game is to get as much gold as possible until the time is over.

Various bonuses appear throughout the dungeon, and they can be used to not die.You and other online players are not the only ones here; NPCs are guarding the treasure and will attack you if you appear in their line of sight or simply pass by. You will have to find more powerful weapons if you hope to even have a chance of winning.

Snowfight.io

In Snowfight.io, you throw snowballs at your opponents and freeze them until they become snowmen instead of just shooting each other. You are wrapped in a huge jacket and you want to have a huge snowball fight in the middle of winter. You can quickly throw snowballs or aim to unleash a huge snowball, hitting other players and slowly turning them into snow. Huge snowballs can do a lot of damage, but if you hold your aim too long, the snowball will turn into a square and not fly far.

When you turn another player into Bigfoot, they drop a lot of cool stuff, like brownies and, uh, dinosaurs? On top of that, as you level up over time, you can choose specific traits for snowballs, such as ice shards of "yellow" snow.