About

dinogame.gg is a curated library of free browser games — from arcade classics like Pac-Man and Tetris to modern phenomena like Wordle and Cookie Clicker. The site started as a tribute to Google Chrome’s offline T-Rex Easter egg and has grown into a 87-game (and counting) library covering arcade, puzzle, strategy, card & dice, word, casino, and memory categories.

What we believe

Games should respect your time. They shouldn’t require accounts, downloads, app store installations, or in-app purchases. They shouldn’t harvest your data, push you toward addiction loops, or sell your attention to ad networks. They should just work — in any browser, instantly, free.

That’s the principle behind every game on dinogame.gg. Each one runs as a self-contained HTML5 page. No tracking pixels embedded in gameplay. No login walls. No achievement servers logging your every click. Just play.

How games are added

• Hand-written, not aggregated. Every game on the site is built or significantly modified by the editorial team. We don’t embed third-party iframes or aggregate from other game sites.
• Tested before publishing. Each game goes through a play-test pass — controls work as documented, scoring tracks correctly, save states persist where promised.
• Curated for quality, not quantity. We'd rather have 87 well-built games than 8,700 clones of the same Snake variant.
• Genre breadth, not depth. We aim for one good representative of each major game category instead of dozens of near-duplicates.

What we don’t do

• No download requirements. Every game runs in your browser. No installers, no apps.
• No accounts. No email collection, no password hashing, no GDPR data subject access requests to process.
• No in-app purchases. No “Buy gems!” microtransactions, no premium tiers, no paywalled content.
• No anti-cheat surveillance. Your local play history stays on your device.
• No interstitial ads inside games. The games themselves are ad-free.

What we do do

• Original content. Every game page on the site includes original strategy guides, historical context, and FAQ content — researched and written by the editorial team, not AI-spun or scraped.
• Browser localStorage saves. Most games save your progress to browser localStorage. Close the tab and come back tomorrow; your high scores and unlocks persist.
• Responsive design. Games scale to fit phones, tablets, and desktops. Some keyboard-heavy classics (Pac-Man, Chess) work better on tablets and laptops; mobile-first games (Color Sort, Cookie Clicker) shine on phones.
• Curated blog roundups. Our blog covers daily challenge games, retro classics, brain training, comparisons ("games like X"), and use-case guides (browser games at school, family game night, etc.).

About the Chrome Dino game

The site’s homepage features the famous Chrome Dino game — Google’s offline Easter egg first added to Chrome in September 2014. The T-Rex (internally codenamed “Lonely T-Rex”) was designed by Sebastien Gabriel and animated by Edward Jung, with game programming by Alan Bettes. It’s become one of the most-played video games in history simply by being available whenever an internet connection drops.

Our version is the open-source wayou/t-rex-runner fork — an MIT-licensed clean extraction of the original game. We forked it, fixed some accessibility issues (forcing the 1x sprite for visibility on standard displays, blocking the page-scroll behavior when pressing space during gameplay), and serve it directly from our own infrastructure.

For game developers and publishers

If you’re a developer of HTML5 games and want to discuss featuring your game in our library, we’re open to evaluating submissions. Games must be (1) original work, (2) playable in any modern browser without plugins, (3) free with no in-app purchases, (4) ad-light or ad-free, and (5) work without requiring a sign-up. Reach out via our contact page.

For SEO researchers and analysts

dinogame.gg is built on WordPress with a custom theme. All games are HTML5 (no Flash, no Unity, no plugins). Internal linking is automated through category-aware shortcodes. Schema markup follows VideoGame, FAQPage, and BlogPosting types from schema.org. We use Rank Math for SEO meta and sitemap generation, IndexNow for fast crawl notifications, and standard browser caching with WPStackCache server-side.

Get in touch

Questions, suggestions, partnership inquiries, or game submissions — see our contact page for ways to reach us.