GamesGarden

About GamesGarden

A games garden, planted by players

GamesGarden is a free browser games site where you can play on your phone or laptop with no download and no sign-up. It has eight games today: five new ones (Gnome Line, Petal Pop, Prize Marrow, Pot Shot and Saltwind) and three classics (Cribbage, Gin Rummy and Checkers). GamesGarden is community first: players can plant an idea for a game, we build it with them, and their garden name goes on the game.

Free games that feel good on a phone, and a place where your idea can become one of them.

What GamesGarden is

GamesGarden is a small garden of games you can open in any browser. Tap a link and you are playing. There is nothing to download and no account to make. If you want to be on the leaderboards, you pick a garden name, and that one name works across every game. No email, no password. A garden key brings your name and points to another device.

The garden has two shelves. New from the garden holds games that grew here: a route puzzle with gnomes and trains, a bud-popping puzzle, a garden defence of up to 100 waves, a flower-pot duel and a sailing adventure. Classics holds old favourites that nobody owns, rebuilt to feel smooth on your phone: Cribbage, Gin Rummy and Checkers.

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Ever wanted to make your own game?

Now you can. And when it earns, so do you.

Two of our games already started as a player's wish. One player asked for a bud-popping game, and that became Petal Pop. Another player asked for a favourite kind of route-building game, and that became Gnome Line. In both cases the idea was a single sentence. What made the games good was what came next: those players played every early version and told us what felt wrong, round after round.

That is what planting a game means here. You bring the idea and your taste. We draw it, build it, test it and tune it. You play it first and help shape it, and your garden name goes on the game.

Authors share in what their game earns. Terms come before launch.

Open for early testersThe planting form is open for early testers. See how planting works

From seed to the shelf

  1. Pick

    Every game starts as an idea: from a player, or from our own list of old classics. We check it is fair for us to make: no copies of famous games, their names or their looks.

  2. Build

    We design the rules, draw every card, leaf and gnome, and make every sound, all in code.

  3. Test

    Bots play the game thousands of times to find the rough edges, and we tune the bots against how real people play, so Easy feels easy and the top level feels sharp.

  4. Taste

    A person plays it. Nothing reaches the garden until someone has played it and liked how it feels.

  5. Grow

    Once a game is out, we keep listening and keep tuning. Some of our games have been through many rounds of changes, and old scores still check out.

Who we are

GamesGarden is made by a small team working with AI agents. The agents help design, build and test the games quickly; a human plays every game before it reaches you, and decides what goes on the shelf. We would rather tell you that plainly than pretend otherwise.

Making a game is no longer the slow part. What matters is whether it is fun, and whether you come back. So we spend our time on the feel of each game, on fair leaderboards and on games people actually asked for.

What we promise

Free stays free

Every game, every level and every leaderboard stays free to play.

Fair boards

Our server checks every score before it counts, and in most games it replays the whole match move by move. Our bots play by the same rules you do. Nothing anyone could ever buy will change a score or a place on a board.

Little about you

No email, no password, analytics only if you say yes. A garden name is all that shows. Privacy

Honest about what is coming

Planting a game, authors earning, in-game helpers, the Garden Pass and ads are all coming, and we label them that way. When ads arrive, they will be optional videos you can watch for a bonus, plus short breaks between rounds, and you will be asked first.

What is live and what is coming

Live now

  • Eight free games in the browser, phone and laptop
  • No download, no sign-up
  • One garden name across games, saved progress
  • Leaderboards checked by our server before a score counts
  • Bots at four levels in Pot Shot, Cribbage, Gin Rummy and Checkers, and a five-rank bot league in Saltwind
  • Play a friend online, 1 vs 1, in Pot Shot

Coming

Coming at launch
  • Planting a game (the form is open for early testers)
  • Authors sharing in what their game earns, under published terms
  • In-game helpers you can buy, never a better place on a board
  • The Garden Pass: no ads plus extra looks
  • Ads: optional videos for a bonus, breaks between rounds
  • 1 vs 1 in more games

Get in touch

Open for early testersQuestions or ideas? The planting form is open for early testers, and it is the best way to reach us about a game.