About Alcy

Alcy is a collection of fifty-four 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.
• Crystal plant glowing crystals across the night; tap one and a chain of light and sound cascades through your constellation.
• Tingles an ASMR microphone: tap, scratch, brush, slime or glue stick on the grille, with foam, fluffy or beaded covers. Every sound moves from the left ear to the right.
• 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.
• Burger build the biggest burger you can: drop patties, melting cheese and toppings onto a wobbly stack, draw the sauces with your finger, press it down to squish. Save 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.
• Nat’s Terrarium a glass jar of kinetic sand. Pour colored layers like a sand art bottle, scoop up a handful and watch it crumble, plant tiny trees and gnomes and bury them. Save as PNG.
• Pigment a porcelain bowl and five pots of paint. Pour, stir and marble the colors until your mix matches the one you were shown, with glitter if you like.

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.
• Starlings a thousand starlings fold over a reed bed at sunset, in three dimensions. Tap to send a wave of fear through the flock, drag to hunt it like a falcon.
• 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.
• Slime a tub of glossy slime. Press in and it bulges around your finger, drag to leave slow grooves, pop the trapped air bubbles with a crisp click, hold to squash it flat.
• Domino draw paths of dominoes with your finger, curves, spirals and branches, then tap anywhere and watch the cascade run, each fall a clack and a rising note; the line stands back up by itself.
• Last Marble a marble elimination race you set up and watch: choose the colors, roll a random machine for every leg, count the marbles that make it through, and see who is the last marble standing.
• Floe hold a round little penguin above a bumpy ice floe, choose your spot and let it drop. Penguins roll, wobble and pile up in funny heaps while the floe tilts under their weight; keep as many as you can out of the sea.
• Gears tap and a brass gear snaps into place, its teeth perfectly meshed with its neighbour. Draw whole chains of gears, fling the train and watch it turn like clockwork.
• Peel peel the protective film off brand-new glossy objects: drag anywhere, the film lifts from the nearest corner, folds back with a glowing crease and flies away crumpled.
• Bubble Wrap endless bubble wrap: tap a bubble to squash and pop it, drag to pop a whole row, hold to flatten a patch with your palm.
• Squeeze soft glossy bumps that swell and pop out pearls, glitter, soap bubbles or pastel ribbons, then heal without a trace.
• Balance an old brass beam scale with brass weights on one side and fruit on the other. Add weights from the velvet box until the needle stops in the middle and the scale rings, pull the pans, or hang a mobile of four pans.
• Spools wooden spools wound with threads of different thicknesses. Vote for the one holding the longest thread, then watch them all unwind at the same speed: the last one spinning wins.

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.
• Orchard fruit trees that grow themselves toward the light, season after season. Tap to plant, drag for a gust of wind. Save as PNG.
• Spark sparkler trail. Drag for a continuous trail, click for a burst.
• Sheep count sheep to fall asleep: fluffy sheep leap over a moonlit fence, one lullaby note per leap. Tap, throw, swipe the flock.
• Daisy pluck a daisy petal by petal: I love you, a little, a lot, passionately, madly, not at all. The last petal gives the answer.
• Lenses an eye exam you play. The chart is blurry: set the four settings of each lens (sphere, cylinder, prism, curve) with − and + until you can read it, then the next chart arrives.
• Time Flies enter your birthday and funny life stats land on the table, one card per theme: seconds and heartbeats lived, nights slept, trips to the bathroom, your age on Mars, days until you turn 100. Little arrows switch each card within its theme, the counters keep ticking.

Breathe

A guided breathing circle, for when you need a slower rhythm, and a wordless way for little children to show how they feel.

• Breath guided breathing circle. 4-7-8, box breathing, slow 6-6.
• Feelings for children who can't read yet: touch a coloured bubble (joy, love, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, surprise, sleepiness) and a round little friend takes on the feeling. Hold to make it bigger, stroke it to calm it down. No words anywhere, nothing saved.

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. Alcy is free and paid for by Google AdSense ads, shown on the home page, text pages and below the games. Audience is measured with our own anonymous counters, without cookies. Details and cookie settings 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.