About Zabzoo
Zabzoo is a free browser-game portal built on one idea: a game should start in one click, and a good run should still be worth something after you close the tab.
The first half is the easy half. Everything here runs in the tab you already have open — nothing to install, no launcher, and no account needed to press play. You are in the game seconds after you click it, which is the whole reason browser games are worth bothering with.
The second half is the part most portals skip. Games that keep score post your best run to their own board, 99 places deep. Topping a board is worth 99 points, second place 98, on down to a single point for 99th — and your overall standing is those placings added up. Topping any board is worth exactly the same as topping any other, so there is no one title you have to grind to rank, and a good run on a game nobody has found yet counts for as much as a good run on the most played thing here.
Playing needs no account. Posting a score does, because a board full of anonymous entries is not a board. That is the only thing signing up changes.
What the standard costs
The catalog is small, and small on purpose. Every game is played before it is published, and most of what we try does not make it — about as often for being unlicensable as for not being any good. That is an easy thing to claim, so here is the record.
The first catalog here was eight open-source games. All eight came off the site on 5 July 2026, and only Hextris was judged good enough to bring back. Of the six candidates approved on how they played after that, two came through the licensing and technical review, and one of those two is in the catalog today.
The same standard applies to our own work. Five games built here were pulled back out of the catalog on 4 July 2026 — three judged as needing rework, two as having potential but needing tuning first. Their code was moved outside the folder the site can serve from, so a deployed build cannot reach them even by accident.
The boards are kept the same way. A score only replaces your previous best if it beats it, and a run has to cost real time before it can be posted at all. Every open-source game here is listed on the credits page with its author, its license, and a link to the original source.