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About Tiny Arcadium

A free, local-first browser mini-game hub

What this is

Tiny Arcadium is a small, growing arcade of free browser games. Everything runs instantly in your browser tab — no download, no signup, no account. Just open a game and play.

The games

Right now the hub has 13 games, spanning Reflex, Speed Run, Memory, Perception, Precision and Duels. Each one tests a different skill:

  • 🎈Balloon MatchA free memory and precision game: watch a balloon inflate, then recreate its size from memory by pressing and holding. How accurate can you be?
  • 🥤Perfect PourA free precision game: watch a glass fill, then pour it back from memory. A calm, relaxing test of timing and touch.
  • 🧠Memory PathA free brain memory game: a neon path lights up across the grid. Memorize it, then trace it back to train your focus and recall.
  • 🎨Color MatchA free colour perception game: memorise a colour, then recreate it from memory on RGB sliders. How accurate is your eye?
  • 🎯Timing TapA free reflex and timing game: a glowing indicator sweeps a neon bar. Tap the instant it crosses the Perfect Zone at the centre for a top score.
  • 🎭Stroop SnapA free brain-teasing speed game built on the Stroop effect: tap the colour of the ink, not the word it spells. Far trickier than it sounds.
  • 🧮Block CountA free counting and perception game: blocks sweep across the screen in a moving crowd. Count only the red ones and trust your eyes.
  • ⏱️Time SenseA free time perception game: watch a duration tick by, then recreate it from feel alone. How accurate is your internal clock?
  • 🎵Echo EarA free pitch memory game: hear a tone, then recreate it on a slider by ear. A simple, surprisingly tricky test of your musical memory.
  • 🏏Hand CricketA free hand cricket game, the classic schoolyard duel: throw a number from 1 to 6 each ball. Match the bot and you are out — chase runs, take wickets.
  • ⚔️XO ShiftA free strategy duel that starts like tic-tac-toe and turns into a sliding battle: place three marks, then shift them around the board to line up three in a row.
  • 👻Ghost GridA free twist on tic-tac-toe where nothing stays put: your oldest mark fades away and must be moved, so every turn rewrites the board.
  • 🔷Shape EchoA free spatial memory game: a shape flashes with a size, spot and tilt, then vanishes. Rebuild it from memory and see how close you get.

How it works

Every game supports a few ways to play: Solo mode, where you pick a difficulty and play freely; a Daily Challenge, where everyone gets the same seeded rounds each day, so scores are directly comparable; and Challenge a Friend, which generates a shareable link with its own leaderboard so you and your friends can compete on the exact same rounds.

Quests & streaks

Playing regularly builds a simple daily rhythm on top of the games themselves: a short set of daily quests, a streak that tracks how many days running you’ve shown up, and levels that climb as you play. All of it lives on your device — there’s no account behind any of it, just a reason to come back tomorrow.

Guides

Curious what a game is actually testing? The Guides section has short, plain-English explainers on the ideas behind the games — reaction time, working memory, colour perception and more — with links to the games that let you test each one yourself.

Local-first, by design

There’s no account to create and nothing to sign in to. Your progress, best scores and preferences are saved on your own device; the only thing that ever reaches our servers is a leaderboard entry you choose to submit, under a nickname you pick yourself. See our Privacy Policy for the details.

Free, supported by ads

Tiny Arcadium is free to play. We keep it that way by showing ads around the games — never during active play.

Contact

Questions or feedback? Email us at hello@tinyarcadium.com, or see the Contact page for what to include and how quickly we reply.