Action games

In an action game you move, dodge and strike in real time, and a late reaction usually costs you the round. The site has close to 570 action games, and about 380 carry the plain action tag. Fighting games come next with around 50, running from boxing matches to stickman brawlers, followed by roughly 20 battle games, some 15 parkour and obby courses where the course itself is the opponent, and a dozen or so built around guns.

Knockback Knights is a two-button duel in which every hop and swing moves your knight, and the aim is to shove your rival out of the arena. Ancient Armies vs Modern Weapons sends a time-travelling soldier with grenades and a flamethrower against armies from Vikings to samurai. Drunken Boxing 2 is stickman boxing with a wobble, where every punch drains an energy bar.

If someone is sitting next to you, look for a fighting game with a versus mode: Knockback Knights and Drunken Boxing 2 can both be played against a friend as well as alone. A single duel is over quickly, while battle and wave games that let you upgrade as you go are better for a longer stretch. Most are built for a landscape screen and the keyboard, so a desktop, or a phone turned sideways, suits them well. You pay nothing to play, and each game loads right in the page rather than as a download.