November 14th free games roundup

Saturday's freebies skip the big corporate storefronts and lean right into strange indie experiments. There are eight free games worth grabbing or playing right now across Steam, itch.io, Google Play, and browser portals, ranging from a shared million-room platformer to a hungry mimic idle game.

Steam

1. Jono

Finnish developer Part Time Monkey built a precision 2D platformer spanning 1,000,000 rooms, with one bizarre catch: only a single person in the entire world gets to control the character at any moment. Everyone else hangs out in a live queue playing trivia and cheering in chat until their 60-second turn arrives, picking up right where the last stranger died or ran out of time. It's permanently free to claim and keep on Steam with no expiration date, and I'm curious how chaotic the lobby gets as the community closes in on room 200,000.

itch.io

2. Everything is a Mimic!

Instead of opening suspicious dungeon chests, you play as the toothy wooden box itself, chomping greedy adventurers and spending their dropped gold to wake up nearby barrels, bookshelves, and statues. Every sprite in this browser-playable idle clicker is drawn purely through canvas code rather than image files, and you'll eventually have to bolt when an actual Hero shows up to clear the room. It's free to play on itch.io with no end date posted.

3. Pixoot

Developer Skanet's pixel-art hack-and-slash RPG ditches standard hotbars so you can cast magic by physically drawing spell glyphs on the ground mid-fight. Four-player online co-op, 205 glyphs, and a 385-node skill tree sounds absurdly ambitious for a browser game, though that kind of sprawling build math is hard to turn down when it costs nothing. You can jump in for free on itch.io (or its dedicated web portal) with no expiration window.

4. Clocked

General-knowledge trivia gets a frantic arcade pace here by dumping all 20 daily questions onto the screen at once alongside a five-minute timer and a single text box. You don't even have to select a prompt first, since typing any correct answer in any order automatically slots it into the matching line and clears your input for the next guess. It's free on itch.io with no expiry date, resetting with a fresh shared board every day at midnight ET.

Android and itch.io

5. Orbit Rivals

Built on a custom C++ engine by two-person team Astro Arcade, this four-player space board game caps every round of dice-rolling with one of 100 3D minigames that won't repeat during a match. Bots can fill empty seats if you aren't hosting a room code for friends, and there's even a seven-chapter solo story mode tucked inside. You can grab it for free on Google Play (with optional cosmetics and zero loot boxes) or play the browser build on itch.io, with no expiration date on either version.

Web browsers

6. Twin Sky Scramble

Anyone who misses competitive arcade shmups like Twinkle Star Sprites should get a kick out of this two-player versus shooter, where chaining enemy ship explosions hurls fireballs and bosses into your rival's lane. You can bat incoming hazards right back across the divide against human opponents or AI bots without registering an account. It's free in your browser on Porchlight with no expiry date.

7. Wanderdle

ThatBlueGuy Studio turns The Oregon Trail into a brisk 15-minute daily fantasy trek where every player gets the exact same starting class, road, and daily rule modifier. Keeping rations stocked and party morale above 50 matters way more than brute-forcing every wolf or troll ambush across its 16 pixel-art regions. It's free in your browser with no end date, and once you finish your scored daily attempt, an unlimited mode unlocks past quests.

8. Lab Rat

Every gate in this reflex lane-runner is modeled after a real published psychology study, using the Stroop effect, Flanker arrows, and optical illusions to bait you into slamming face-first into a shut door. Getting tricked stings a bit less because the game pauses after a wipeout to explain which cognitive bias just tripped your brain up. The browser version is free to play right now with no ticket limits or expiration date.

Even when indie developers list their work as free with no set end date, pricing and hosting plans can shift without warning, so claim the downloadable picks and try the browser builds while they're live.