The free webgame round-up

There's something for everyone this week, provided you like dungeons, dancing, minimalistic platformers or bees. If that all sounds like a regular Saturday night in your household, then boy are you in for a treat. (Also: what time can I pop round?) Fire up your browser, turn off the lights, put the dog in the kitchen, the cat in the bin, and make a pot of tea while the Unity-based webgames finish bloody loading, because things are about to get hellish.

Quietus II by Connor Ullmann

Play it online here.

Seedling creator Connor Ullmann has returned to the underworld with a sequel to his brutal platformer, Quietus. This time, the skeletal protagonist has a lost soul in tow; if he can shepherd it through Hell in one piece, he'll be given one final chance at redemption. So no pressure.

The soul doesn't actually help out, of course, so once again you're left to navigate each trap-filled screen under your own steam. Useless spirit aside, there isn't a hell of a lot of difference between this and the original, so Quietus survivors will have a significant headstart over the rest of mere immortals. The secret to conquering the game is... timing. That and perseverance. Not dying would also probably help.

Empty Black by Mary Rose Cook

Play it online here.

This minimalist platform game may involve a bunch of white squares moving against a blank black backdrop, but it makes full use of every last pixel – or anti-pixel. Where other developers make shapes and leave it at that, Empty Black creator Mary Rose Cook has used them as a novel place to keep the health bar. As you take damage from enemy bullets – or deal damage with your own, identical bullets – the full squares gradually turn hollow, before reverting to nothingness.

It's also a pretty good platformer in its own right, with a robust physics engine – always important – and some annoyingly precise level design. Stripped of its stripped-back approach, there might not be too much to write home about, but sometimes less is more.

Beeserker by Sugar Rockets

Play it online here.

Sometimes, of course, more is more. Empty Black may be tricky and visually striking, but it is severely lacking in bees. Let's fix that with by introducing the aptly named Beeserker. It's a little rough around the edges, but the alarmingly high bee quotient just about makes up for it. You're a girl with a bee headband and stripy bee trousers, so naturally you have to collect a bunch of bees. (Don't worry, as long as they don't get anywhere near your eyes you should be fine.)

Bees aside, what really makes Beeserker stand out is the presence of a dedicated 'dance' button. Hold the appropriate key and the girl will do a little boogie – the kind the Bee Gees would probably have enjoyed. It's an act that, as far as I can figure out, has absolutely no effect on the game. Clearly, more games should feature a proper dance button, and I'm not going to rest until they do. In fact, if you need me, I'll be doing the Charleston – endlessly, like that priest on Father Ted.

bit Dungeon by Kinto Games

Play it online here.

But the best game this week, by a country mile, is Kinto Games' bit Dungeon, a permadeath dungeon crawler with a few great flourishes and one brilliant control scheme. It's all point and click, which is not exactly novel for the action RPG genre, but feels fresh and entirely welcome in a game that looks to the original Zelda for its dungeon design.

Like The Binding of Isaac, bit Dungeon goes for the gridded approach, its lairs laid out as strictly interlinked squares filled with enemies, who drop keys when they've gone the way of the dodo. Defeat the boss of each area and you move onto the next dungeon, which is pretty much identical in layout. The good thing about this structure is that it forces you to backtrack, giving you the opportunity to witness a small but ridiculously cool feature, and one of our favourite elements of the game.

Upon returning to previously conquered rooms, it's not uncommon to find the ghosts of the monsters you've just killed, or to stumble upon ratlike scavengers feasting on their remains. As I said, it's a small thing, but seeing the consequences of your actions makes the world feel that much more alive. Or that much more dead. Either way, this weekend I will be mostly in bit Dungeon, poking through monster guts for new equipment.

Want more? Have a look at last week's free webgame round-up .

Tom Sykes

Tom loves exploring in games, whether it’s going the wrong way in a platformer or burgling an apartment in Deus Ex. His favourite game worlds—Stalker, Dark Souls, Thief—have an atmosphere you could wallop with a blackjack. He enjoys horror, adventure, puzzle games and RPGs, and played the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VIII with a translated script he printed off from the internet. Tom has been writing about free games for PC Gamer since 2012. If he were packing for a desert island, he’d take his giant Columbo boxset and a laptop stuffed with PuzzleScript games.

Latest in Games
Split Fiction trailer still - Zoe and Mio standing side by side, wearing glowing neon sci-fi jammies
Split Fiction sells 1 million copies over 2 days
A soldier looks out over the Verdansk map, as a single tear rolls down his cheek.
The original Verdansk map is returning to Call of Duty: Warzone, to celebrate which we get a soldier crying to Nat King Cole
More than 5 years after launch, Control gets a surprise patch that lets everyone play the Hideo Kojima mission
Swen Vincke
Swen Vincke stamps seal of approval on Stardew Valley mod that yoinks the Baldur's Gate 3 cast out of D&D and into a cosy pastoral life
Maximillian from Evil Genius 2
Rebellion CEO says Evil Genius 3 could happen but wonders 'what else could we do with it other than a base-building game?'
FragPunk codes - A close-up shot of a mercenary wearing a mask with glowing eyes.
All FragPunk codes and how to redeem them
Latest in Features
OneXPlayer 2 pro on a table
I never thought a handheld PC bloated with Windows could replace my Steam Deck, but after gaming on an old OneXPlayer 2 Pro I can see now I judged it too harshly
Beyond the Ice Palace 2 screenshots
I’m not sure what’s weirder: that someone made a sequel to a completely forgettable 37-year-old game I played as a kid, or that it was actually worth the wait
Screenshot of Children of Clay showing a mysterious clay model
Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 10, 2025)
A goalkeeper in a plague mask wields an axe
Silent Hill gets a soccer league in FEAR FA 98, and you can play the demo now
The Sims 4 - stacks of laundry machines in a small laundromat small business next to chairs with laundry
The best part of The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies expansion is just coming up with fun small business ideas
Obenseuer
This brutalist life sim gave me a free tenement block to renovate, but my mushroom addiction kept getting in the way