New games on RetroWorld

What's new

• Pin Sharp — Three thirty-second drills for a quick, steady hand. (Brain, added 20 Sept)
• Ring Rise — Bounce up a tower of turning rings, one mark at a time. (Arcade, added 20 Sept)
• Coil Fall — Turn the tower and drop the ball through every gap. (Arcade, added 20 Sept)
• Bead Chute — A line of beads rolls for the chute. Match three and burst it. (Arcade, added 20 Sept)
• Sling Yard — Pull the sling back and bring the whole yard down on the drums. (Action, added 20 Sept)
• Suit Call — Match the suit or the rank. Eights are wild, and you call what follows. (Board, added 18 Sept)
• Knock Ten — Ten cards each, melds against the machine, and the knock that ends it at ten or less. (Board, added 18 Sept)
• Neighbour Pile — Clear seven columns onto one pile, one rank up or one rank down. (Board, added 18 Sept)
• Tangram — Seven pieces, one ink shape, no gaps. (Puzzle, added 18 Sept)
• Peg Solitaire — Jump peg over peg until one is left in the ringed hole. (Puzzle, added 18 Sept)
• Nim Rows — Rows of matches. Take what you like from one row. Mind the last one. (Board, added 18 Sept)
• Dominoes — Match an open end, draw when you're stuck, go out first. Play the machine or pass the phone to three friends. (Board, added 18 Sept)
• Shore to Shore — Claim hexagons, join your two shores, cut off theirs. It never ends in a draw. (Board, added 18 Sept)
• Star Plots — One star in every row, column and plot, and no two ever touch. (Puzzle, added 18 Sept)
• Backgammon — Two dice, fifteen checkers each, and the race to bear them all off. (Board, added 18 Sept)
• Nine Men's Morris — Place nine beads, slide them, make mills and take theirs. (Board, added 18 Sept)
• Word Frame — A crossword with no clues: fit every word into the grid. (Puzzle, added 18 Sept)
• Allotments — Mark out the field into plots: one number each, and the number is the area. (Puzzle, added 18 Sept)
• Inequality Grid — Every digit once in each line, and every sign pointing at the smaller one. (Puzzle, added 18 Sept)
• Sea Shade — Every number is an island. Shade the sea around them. (Puzzle, added 18 Sept)
• Cage Sums — Every digit once a row, and every cage makes its target. (Puzzle, added 18 Sept)
• Spring Hop — Twenty rooms of running, jumping and wall-sliding against the clock. (Action, added 18 Sept)
• Fence Loop — Draw one closed loop so every number counts its sides. (Puzzle, added 18 Sept)
• Nestling — Hatch a little creature and look after it as it grows up. (Arcade, added 18 Sept)
• Claw Cabinet — Three free plays a day. An honest claw, and thirty-six figures to collect. (Arcade, added 18 Sept)
• Attic Lamp — A gentle text adventure: one sleepy house, a new chapter every day. (Brain, added 18 Sept)
• Cue Table — Eight-ball and nine-ball on a teal baize. Pull back, let go, and listen for the pocket. (Arcade, added 18 Sept)
• Table Football — Eight rods, one little ball. Slide, kick and beat the machine match after match. (Action, added 18 Sept)
• Nine Spokes — Nine letters on a wheel: make words with the centre, and find the one that uses all nine. (Puzzle, added 18 Sept)
• Ten Floors Down — One hero, one torch, ten floors. Nothing moves until you do. (Brain, added 18 Sept)
• Suit Runs — Two packs, ten columns: build king to ace in one suit and the run lifts away. (Board, added 18 Sept)
• Pig — Roll as often as you dare. A one wipes the lot. First to 100. (Board, added 18 Sept)
• Code Breaker — Four hidden colours, ten tries, and a clue after every one. (Puzzle, added 18 Sept)
• Penalty Kick — Take a kick, then keep goal. Five each, then sudden death. (Arcade, added 18 Sept)

Do I need to download or install anything?

No. Every game on RetroWorld is drawn and sounded in code inside the page, so opening the game page is the whole install. There is no plugin, no app store, and nothing to update. If you like, add RetroWorld to your home screen: it opens like an app, and games you have already played keep working without a connection.

Do these work on a phone?

Yes. Every game has touch controls — a swipe, a tap, a drag or an on-screen pad, whichever suits it — and the screen fills the phone when you press Play. Games that need a wide view rotate; the rest stay upright.

Do I need an account, and are my scores saved?

There is no account and no sign-up. Your best score for each game is stored by your own browser on your own device, which also means it stays behind if you switch phone or clear your browser data.

Are these copies of games I already know?

No. Every game here was written for RetroWorld with its own name, its own art and its own synthesised sound. Some share a genre with games you have played — that is the point of a genre — but none of them use anyone else's characters, sprites, music or branding.