📺 Channel guide

All Channels

Every channel we've tuned in. Public-domain, open-source, and officially-archived. Pick one.

Difficulty
Genre

CH 01
Freeciv-web
1996 (original) → today (web port) Strategy / 4X Hard

The full Sid-Meier-school 4X experience, built natively for the browser. Bring a snack — turn one is a commitment.

License: GPL-2.0

CH 02
HexGL
2013 Racing Medium

A WebGL futuristic racing game built in three weeks. Think F-Zero in a browser tab — fast, neon, and surprisingly faithful to the genre.

License: MIT

CH 05
Internet Arcade
1970s–1990s Arcade (multi-cabinet collection) Medium

A 900+ cabinet collection of classic coin-op arcade games, browser-playable via MAME running on Emscripten.

License: Mixed (Internet Archive Software Collection)

CH 06
Lichess
2010–present Chess Medium

The world's largest open-source chess platform. No ads, no premium paywalls, no accounts required for casual play. Just chess.

License: AGPL-3.0

CH 03
Freedoom: Phase 1
Modern (2003–present) First-person shooter Medium

An entirely free, all-original IWAD compatible with the original Doom engine. Same shape, none of the rights problems.

License: BSD-3-Clause

CH 04
Wolfenstein 3D (Internet Archive)
1992 First-person shooter Medium

The shareware episode of the genre's foundational text, served by Internet Archive's in-browser MS-DOS emulator.

License: Shareware (Internet Archive Software Collection — see Terms of Use)

CH 07
Simon Tatham's Puzzles
2003–present Logic puzzles Easy

Forty-plus hand-implemented logic puzzles — Sudoku, Minesweeper, Sokoban, and dozens more. Clean, offline-capable, no ads.

License: MIT

CH 08
Mindustry
2017–present Strategy / Factory Hard

A tower-defence game about building automated factories on alien planets. The supply chain is the game.

License: GPL-3.0

CH 09
2048
2014 Puzzle Easy

Gabriele Cirulli's original 2048. Slide tiles, merge numbers, chase the powers of two. The one-more-go loop is still perfect.

License: MIT

CH 10
Doom (1993) — Internet Archive
1993 First-person shooter Medium

The shareware first episode of id Software's Doom, emulated in browser via Internet Archive's MS-DOS Software Library.

License: Shareware (Internet Archive Software Collection — see Terms of Use)

CH 11
NetHack Online
1987 Roguelike Hard

The dungeon that has eaten decades. NetHack in the browser via alt.org, with persistent saves, public score boards, and thirty-eight years of accumulated lore.

License: NetHack General Public License

CH 12
Hextris
2014 Puzzle Medium

Tetris rotated ninety degrees and wrapped around a hexagon. Chains build multipliers. The board spins. MIT licensed, built in a weekend, deceptively deep.

License: MIT

CH 13
Space Cadet Pinball
1995 Arcade Easy

The pinball table that shipped with Windows XP, reverse-engineered and ported to the browser. Three flippers, a rank system, and the table you already know.

License: MIT

CH 14
OpenRA
2007 Strategy Hard

Open-source re-implementation of Command & Conquer, Red Alert, and Dune 2000. Multiplayer, modded, actively developed. The real thing.

License: GPL-3.0

CH 15
Endless Sky
2015 Space Sim Medium

Open-source space trading and combat sim in the Escape Velocity tradition. Hundreds of star systems, faction politics, ship outfitting, and an optional story.

License: GPL-3.0