The Library · 8 reviews · free and open games
Every game on these shelves is free to play and made in the open, mostly by volunteers: a fantasy strategy game, a kart racer, an ancient-world strategy game, a world of blocks, a factory puzzle, a hall of board games, a space trader and a dungeon classic. No adverts, nothing to buy inside any of them. We play them, write about them honestly, and link to their official sites.
Showing all eight.
Drawer 01
Turn-based fantasy strategy on a hex map, with seventeen campaigns and a calm, deliberate pace.
Drawer 02
A cheerful kart racer with a story mode, split-screen races and tracks full of shortcuts.
Drawer 03
A historical real-time strategy game of ancient civilisations, built with care for how they really looked.
Drawer 04
An open-source world of blocks, and a platform for many games built on it: explore, mine, build, survive.
Drawer 05
Factory building meets tower defence: conveyor belts feed your turrets while waves arrive.
Drawer 06
More than forty two-player board games in one browser tab: chess, draughts, Go, Othello, mancala and more.
Drawer 07
A 2D space trading and exploration game: start with a small ship and see where the galaxy takes you.
Drawer 08
The classic dungeon exploration game, deep and unforgiving, with a new major version, 5.0.0, out in May 2026.
Tell us when you start, how long you have and when you want to be in bed. We suggest games whose typical sitting fits, with a ten-minute break between them, and finish an hour before bed so screens are off in good time. Everything happens on this page; nothing is saved.
A game makes the shelves only if it is free to play in full, shows no adverts, sells nothing inside the game, and is made in the open. We play each one for several evenings before writing, check the facts against its official site, and date that check on the review. The pictures are our own embroidery-style artwork, never the games' own art.
