There are many people who play games online in their browsers. It is a huge market, and that is why there are so many sites dedicated to browser games. The list is long including Kongregate, Newgrounds, gamejolt, itch.io, coolmathgames, and the list goes on. This type of site started in the 1990s and is still strong today, with no signs of going away any time soon. In this time there has been a change in technologies used such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, all the way to the current HTML5. Web based games are easily accessible to almost anyone and can be addicting whilst simple to run. The advent of HTML5 has even meant that these games can be played on mobile devices.
Because of this, it is no wander that webmasters want to use games to gain traffic on their sites, or even want to make their own gaming sites and platforms. While this may seem like a great idea to some, a major problem in this is getting content for the site, whether making games yourself, getting someone to do that for you, or licensing content. Thankfully, there are many large online gaming platforms that make games available to other websites free of charge. While some allow direct embedding, others provide downloads so you can host them yourself. There are also two technologies being used Flash, and the more modern HTML5. Embeddable games are useful as they are hosted by other websites, and do not require you to set up hosting for the game files.
Due to this I will be using a key for each site listed down below.
It will look something like this:
E|D|F|H
and will come before the name of each website. The key is broken up into four parts, E (embeddable), D (downloadable), F (Flash), H (HTML5). If a part of the key is green, then that means that type of content is available, if it is red, than it is not. So for our example key above, the website provides embeddable content, and it provides content both is the category of flash games and HTML5, it does not provide any downloadable games, as that is red.
E|D|F|H Miniclip
Miniclip is one of the largest online flash games sites. They also offer a wide selection of their games that you are free to embed on your website.
E|D|F|H HTML Games
HTML Games offers HTML5 games that you can place on your website. They have a wide selection of categories in games, mostly in the puzzle and board game categories. They offer both free games to embed if you keep the pre-roll ads, or you can license the games for around $400 USD each if you want to remove ads, add your own and get it branded.
E|D|F|H Kongregate
Kongregate is one of the largest and best online browser-based game sites on the internet. The site even has hundreds of games on their site that users are able to embed on their website.
E|D|F|H PrimaryGames
Primary Games offers a variety of games that you are able to add to your site for free. There are embeddable Flash games and downloadable HTML5 games. The page does not specify which gmes are which, so you will have to click on the title which will either take you to the embed code, or will automatically download the file.
E|D|F|H Free World Group
Free World Group offers a wide variety of games that you can use on your site. They offer iframe embeddable HTML5 games on the site as well as downloadable Flash games. It does not offer downloadable HTML5 games or embeddable Flash games. The embeddable HTML5 games did not load correctly when testing, so you might not want to use these on your site.
E|D|F|H Games68
Games68 is one of the larger gaming sites which offers over 317000 free online games. There are also thousands of embeddable games that you can use on your site, however they all seem to be flash based.
E|D|F|H playpager
Playpager is a a site that provides free puzzle and board games to play online. They have also made games available free to webmasters to embed online. They do not have much content for you to use, but they do have some high quality games.
E|D|F|H Gameflare
Gameflare is a site that provides a wide variety of free online games, and a wide variety of embeddable games, mostly WebGL based HTML5 games. Many games are similar to mobile games, and these games should work on mobile devices as well. This site also provides mobile versions of some specific games as well.
E|D|F|H embed
Embed supplies a wide selection of retro-style games, including a wide selection or arcade and card games that you can easily embed onto your website.
E|D|F|H FreeGamesJungle
Freegamesjungle is home to over 2600 flash games to play online. They also supply a selection of dozens of flash games that you can download and upload on your site, however they do not have any embeddable options. They also have a embeddable game bar link to their website that you can put on your website: www.freegamesjungle.com/add_gameroom.html.
E|D|F|H CrazyMonkeyGames
CrazyMonkeyGames is a huge online flash gaming website with a wide selection of flash games to play. They also provide a wide selection of downloadable flash games that you are able to submit on your website. However, there is no option to embed.
E|D|F|H FreeGamesForYourWebsite
FreeGamesForYourWebsite provides games for your website. I have not been able to get embedding to work, so you might have to test out these games before considering using this site.
E|D|F|H Flipline Studios
Flipline Studios has a wide selection of downloadable games that you can use on your website. All of the games are flash games that you can downoad and add to your site, none of them are embeddable. Flipline Studios also has the range of 'Papa's' games.
I have made another blog with a bunch of games from these sites embedded to show you what you can make with these sites without having to host any of your own games. Check it out on the link below:
https://freewebgaming.blogspot.com/
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