How to play the Chrome Dino game offline

The Chrome Dino game was designed to be hidden behind a broken internet connection. That made sense in 2014. It makes less sense in 2026. Here are every working way to start a run — online, offline, on phones, on iPads, in browsers that aren’t Chrome.

The fast way: chrome://dino

The cleanest method, and the one most people don’t know about:

Open Chrome (desktop, on any OS).
Type chrome://dino into the address bar.
Press Enter.
Press space to start.

No need to disconnect anything. It loads the same Easter-egg game that you’d see if your internet died. This is the method we’d recommend if you only remember one thing from this article.

The fastest way: dinogame.gg

If you’re not on Chrome — or you want to play on a phone where typing chrome:// URLs is awkward — open dinogame.gg directly. It’s the same game (we extracted the runner from the open-source Chromium source) and it works on any modern browser without needing to disconnect anything.

The original way: disconnect

If you want to play it the way it was designed:

Turn off your Wi-Fi and disable any Ethernet connection. Airplane mode works.
Open Chrome.
Navigate to any URL — for example example.com.
You’ll see “No internet” and a pixel dinosaur. Press space.

This is the canonical experience. It’s also the slowest, because you have to actually go offline.

On mobile

Chrome Mobile (Android)

Disconnect from Wi-Fi and mobile data (airplane mode works). Open Chrome. Visit any URL. When the offline page loads, tap the dinosaur to start. Tap once to jump. There’s no duck input on mobile — pterodactyl runs are harder.

You can also just open dinogame.gg, which works without disconnecting and includes a duck control on mobile.

Chrome on iOS / iPad

Same flow as Android Chrome, with one catch: on iOS, Chrome uses Apple’s WebKit under the hood. The offline Dino game is still available — Apple hasn’t blocked it — but visual quality and input timing can feel slightly different from Chrome on Android.

In browsers that aren’t Chrome

The Chrome Dino game ships with Chrome and Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Arc). It doesn’t ship with Firefox or Safari — they have their own offline pages.

Edge: Type edge://surf for Edge’s own built-in game (a surfing endless runner). For the Chrome Dino specifically, use dinogame.gg.
Brave / Opera / Vivaldi / Arc: Chromium-based, so chrome://dino works (Brave uses brave://dino, Opera uses opera://dino, Vivaldi uses vivaldi://dino).
Firefox: No built-in Dino. Use dinogame.gg.
Safari: No built-in Dino. Use dinogame.gg.

The DevTools detour

For the curious: if you have Chrome open and want to launch the game from JavaScript, open DevTools (F12), go to the Console tab, and run:

window.location.href = 'chrome://dino'

The page navigates and the game loads. You can also toggle Chrome into “offline mode” inside DevTools:

Open DevTools (F12).
Go to the Network tab.
Set “Throttling” to “Offline.”
Reload the page. The Dino appears.

The advantage is that your actual internet connection stays alive — DevTools only fakes the offline state for that tab.

What about Chrome OS, ChromeBox, smart TVs?

Chrome OS: works exactly like desktop Chrome — disconnect or type chrome://dino. ChromeBox / Chromecast / Google TV: depends. Some smart TVs ship Chrome but disable the offline page. Easiest fallback is always opening dinogame.gg in the TV’s browser.

Methods that don’t work

To save you a search:

A “Chrome Dino” app in the Play Store / App Store. Google hasn’t published one. Anything you find with that name is a third-party clone — usually packed with ads. Play the original instead.
An official Chrome extension. Doesn’t exist. There are unofficial extensions that embed a Dino clone in your new tab; quality varies wildly.
chrome.com/dino, dinogame.com, or g.co/dino. Not Google’s URLs.

Which method should I use?

If you’re on Chrome on a desktop: chrome://dino. If you’re anywhere else, or want it on mobile without weird URL bar typing: dinogame.gg. If you want the authentic broken-internet feeling: airplane mode and load a URL.

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