Best Free Browser Games to Play With Friends (No Download Required)

Party / Social Deduction

• Gartic Phone – Telephone + drawing; hilarious cascade.
• Skribbl.io – Pictionary clone; custom words.
• Among Us (Web) – amongus.online (unofficial but functional).
• Spyfall / Codenames – spyfall.app, codenames.game.

Board / Card / Strategy

• Board Game Arena – 500+ games (Catan, Carcassonne, 7 Wonders, Azul); free tier + premium.
• PlayingCards.io – Customizable tabletop; load any deck/board.
• Chess.com / Lichess – Live + correspondence; variants, puzzles.
• CardzMania / CardGames.io – Hearts, Spades, Euchre, Crazy Eights, Rummy.

Action / Arcade

• Agar.io / Slither.io / Diep.io – Simple eat/grow/shoot; party modes.
• Tetris.com (Tetris Friends) – 1v1 sprint, battle royale.
• Battleship-Game.org – Classic + Salvo variant.
• Krunker.io – Browser FPS; movement tech, custom maps, cross-play.

Puzzle / Word

• Wordle / Quordle / Octordle – Daily + practice modes.
• Puzzmo – Curated daily puzzles (crossword, sudoku, logic).
• Minesweeper.online – Competitive leaderboards.

All run in Chrome/Firefox/Edge/Safari; share URL with friends. No installs, no accounts required (most).