About Alcy

Alcy is a collection of thirty-two tiny games made for the pause, the daydream, the small wonder. There is no score, no level, no timer and no way to lose. You open one, you play for a minute or for an hour, and you close the tab feeling a little lighter.

Everything runs directly in your browser, on a phone as well as on a computer. There is nothing to install and no account to create. Each game opens with a short pause screen, then lets you touch, drag and listen at your own pace.

Why games without a goal?

Most free games are designed to keep you hooked: streaks, rewards, notifications, one more level. Alcy takes the opposite path. These are toys rather than challenges, closer to a sand garden or a kaleidoscope than to a puzzle. They are meant for a tea break, a waiting room, the minutes before sleep, or any moment when your mind needs something gentle to hold.

Many of them borrow from real phenomena: how waves travel through water, how fireflies fall into sync, how a flock of starlings turns as one, how flowers arrange their petals along the golden angle. You do not need to know the science to enjoy them, but it is there, quietly doing the work.

Sound

Touch, and it sings. Every note is tuned to a pentatonic scale, so nothing you play can sound wrong.

• Bubble Pop colorful bubbles rise; each pop plays a pentatonic note. Web audio (Tone.js).
• Loop Maker mandala of orbital voices. Tap to add a voice; Harmony mode snaps to polyrhythm.
• Ripple sound pond. Tap = drop = concentric ripple = pentatonic note. Ripples interfere.
• Pluck nine horizontal strings tuned to the pentatonic. Strum across them and they ring (Tone.js).
• Chime wind chimes. Click to ring, drag for a breeze. Pentatonic.
• Zen Rake virtual zen garden. Rake the sand, encircle the stones to wake them up. Save as PNG.

Create

Slow drawing toys. Each one leaves an image behind that you can keep with the Save PNG button.

• Spirograph three sliders (R, r, d) draw infinite hypotrochoid rosettes. Save as PNG.
• Constellation connect stars in an endless sky to draw your own constellation. Save as PNG.
• Kaleidoscope every stroke mirrored N times into a perfect mandala. Adjustable folds, save as PNG.
• Aurora paint your own northern lights. Drag to grow ribbons of green and magenta. Save as PNG.
• Bloom procedural flowers built on the golden phyllotaxis (137.5° angle). Save as PNG.
• Vine L-system plants. Click to seed a vine, drag for wind.
• Maze recursive backtracker grows a labyrinth in real time. Click to seed a new walker.
• Pottery a spinning wheel and a lump of clay. Drag along the silhouette to push and pull, save the pot as PNG.
• Carom polygons of light bounce off the edges and drag a long rainbow trail behind them. Click empty space to add a shape, click a shape to recolor it, drag a vertex to throw it. Save as PNG.

Physics

Small simulations of real phenomena, from gravity to flocking birds, that you can nudge with a finger.

• Strata six layers of colored liquid with the slowest of waves; tap or drag to ripple, four palettes.
• Orbit a tiny gravity well. Drop bodies, watch them trace ellipses around the sun.
• Pendulum chaotic double pendulum. Drop several to watch them diverge.
• Wave pendulum wave demo. 15 pendulums of different lengths drifting in and out of phase.
• Galaxy slowly rotating spiral galaxy. Click adds a star, drag spins the arms.
• Murmuration a starling boid flock follows the cursor. Three local rules, one emergent cloud.
• Fireflies Kuramoto synchronization. They blink at random, then they blink together.
• Tunnel endless geometric wormhole. Move the cursor to bend the warp.
• Slice satisfying slicer of colorful blobs. Drag to cut, juice + halves + camera shake.

Ambience

Quiet scenes to watch and stir: wind, snow, water, fire and light.

• Wind a thousand petals in a flow field. Drag to gust and steer the current.
• Snow endless snowfall. Flakes settle into a drift; sweep them with the cursor.
• Ink pour colored ink into virtual water and watch it bloom in psychedelic swirls.
• Pond koi swimming. Click to feed them, ripples spread.
• Bonfire campfire. Click anywhere to stack a log, drag to fan the flames.
• Duet colored souls drift in pairs. Tap two and a thread of light binds them; they meet in a heart and orbit, blending hues.
• Spark sparkler trail. Drag for a continuous trail, click for a burst.

Breathe

A guided breathing circle, for when you need a slower rhythm.

• Breath guided breathing circle. 4-7-8, box breathing, slow 6-6.

How it is made

Alcy is written in plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with no framework. Each game is a single light page, usually under 50 KB, so it opens quickly even on a slow connection. The sound games use the Tone.js audio library. Drawings you save with the Save PNG button are created on your own device and never uploaded anywhere.

Privacy

There is no signup and the site never asks for your name or email. Anonymous statistics tell us which games are played and for how long, so we know what to improve. The details are on the legal and privacy page.

Who is behind it?

Alcy is an independent project, made and maintained by a single person, with new games added over time. Ideas, bug reports and kind words are always welcome on the contact page.