10 Neal.fun Games That Prove the Web Can Still Be Weird, Clever and Fun

From impossible passwords to infinite crafting, these interactive experiments turn ordinary web pages into memorable experiences

Most websites are designed to help us complete a task, find information or buy something. Neal.fun takes a completely different approach. Created by programmer and designer Neal Agarwal, it is a collection of browser games, simulations, visualizations and unusual interactive experiments.

Some projects are funny, some are educational and others are surprisingly difficult. What connects them is that they are immediately understandable. There are usually no lengthy tutorials, downloads or complicated menus. You open a page, interact with it and quickly discover the idea for yourself.

If you are exploring the collection for the first time, here are ten Neal.fun games and experiences worth trying.

1. Infinite Craft

Infinite Craft begins with only four basic elements: Water, Fire, Earth and Wind. Combining them produces new items, which can then be combined again to create increasingly unexpected results.

Basic combinations are easy to predict, but the game quickly becomes strange. You might create countries, fictional characters, historical figures, emotions or concepts that should not logically exist as craftable objects.

The enormous number of possible combinations makes Infinite Craft feel less like a traditional puzzle and more like an endless experiment. Discovering something rare — especially a “First Discovery” — provides a surprisingly satisfying reward.

2. The Password Game

The Password Game starts with a familiar request: create a password. At first, the rules seem normal. You need uppercase letters, numbers and special characters.

Then everything changes.

New rules require increasingly unusual additions. You may need to solve a puzzle, include a changing answer or protect something already placed inside the password. Every new requirement must be satisfied without breaking the previous ones.

The result is a clever parody of modern password requirements and one of the most frustratingly entertaining browser puzzles available.

3. Stimulation Clicker

Stimulation Clicker turns the overwhelming nature of the modern internet into a clicker game.

It begins simply, but every upgrade adds another source of digital stimulation. Notifications, sounds, videos, messages and visual effects gradually fill the screen. What starts as an ordinary clicking game eventually becomes a chaotic representation of online information overload.

It is funny, stressful and uncomfortably familiar.

4. Spend Bill Gates’ Money

How difficult could it be to spend an enormous fortune?

Spend Bill Gates’ Money gives you access to a virtual billionaire’s bank account and a catalogue filled with products. You can purchase fast food, cars, houses, private jets, sports teams and other expensive items.

Small purchases barely affect the total. Even buying luxury products repeatedly demonstrates how difficult it is to comprehend wealth measured in tens of billions of dollars.

The game is simple, but it turns an abstract financial number into something people can understand visually.

5. Asteroid Launcher

Asteroid Launcher lets you choose a location on Earth and simulate an asteroid impact.

You can adjust the asteroid’s size, speed, impact angle and composition. After launching it, the simulation estimates the size of the crater and the possible effects of heat, shock waves, wind and seismic activity.

It combines scientific information with an interactive map, allowing users to experiment with different scenarios. The results can be fascinating, although discovering what a large asteroid could do to your home city is slightly unsettling.

6. Draw a Perfect Circle

The challenge sounds easy: draw a circle.

Once you try it, you quickly discover how difficult it is to produce a genuinely smooth and symmetrical shape with a mouse or touchscreen. After completing your attempt, the game gives you a percentage score based on how close your drawing is to a perfect circle.

It is the type of challenge that takes only a few seconds to understand but can keep you repeating the same action for much longer than expected.

7. Absurd Trolley Problems

The traditional trolley problem asks whether you would sacrifice one person to save several others. Absurd Trolley Problems takes that philosophical thought experiment and pushes it in increasingly ridiculous directions.

Each situation asks you to make a choice. After deciding, you can compare your answer with the choices made by other players.

Some scenarios encourage serious reflection, while others are intentionally bizarre. Together, they create a humorous game about morality, priorities and how people make decisions under pressure.

8. The Deep Sea

The Deep Sea is an interactive journey from the ocean’s surface to its darkest depths.

As you scroll downward, you encounter marine animals, underwater vehicles, shipwrecks and unusual organisms found at different depths. Familiar creatures gradually give way to animals adapted to extreme pressure, darkness and cold.

Instead of presenting the information as a conventional article, the project uses the act of scrolling to communicate distance. It makes the depth of the ocean easier to understand and far more memorable.

9. The Size of Space

Space is so large that its scale is almost impossible to imagine. The Size of Space attempts to make it understandable through an interactive visual comparison.

The journey moves from relatively small objects to planets, stars, galaxies and enormous cosmic structures. Each step provides a new point of comparison, revealing how tiny familiar objects become when placed next to the largest things in the known universe.

It is educational, visually impressive and an excellent example of how interactive design can explain complex topics.

10. Internet Artifacts

Internet Artifacts presents the history of the web as an interactive digital museum.

The project explores websites, software, communities, memes and online events that helped shape internet culture. It is particularly interesting for people who remember the early web, but it also gives younger users an opportunity to see how dramatically online life has changed.

Instead of treating internet history as a list of dates, the project presents it as a collection of recognizable digital objects and experiences.

Why do Neal.fun games work so well?

The best Neal.fun projects are built around a single clear idea. They do not require complicated controls, powerful hardware or a major time commitment. The interaction itself explains how each project works.

They are also highly shareable. A strange Infinite Craft discovery, an impossible Password Game rule or a terrible attempt at drawing a perfect circle can immediately become something worth sending to a friend.

Most importantly, these experiences demonstrate that a webpage does not have to be a static document. It can be a game, simulation, museum, calculator, story or interactive joke.

For a broader overview and an organized list of projects, visit this NEAL.fun games collection.

The modern web can sometimes feel repetitive, but Neal.fun shows that there is still plenty of room for experimentation, curiosity and wonderfully unnecessary ideas.