JOINRARENA
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9 arcade arenas. 48 players a round.
One phone, one controller, everybody in.
Free · no download · no sign-up · plays in your browser
▼ SCROLL ▼▶ THE ARENAS
Every arena takes an arcade legend and links 48 games of it into one ring. Your board, field or well sits between two neighbours: fly, dig or tunnel across the border into theirs, steal their points, send them trouble. Bots fill every empty seat, so a round is always full, and every round ends on a leaderboard.
EAT · RAID · DESTROY
The maze-muncher, 48 boards wide. The side tunnels are portals into your neighbours' mazes, so you can raid their pellets while the ghosts chase you both. Five hand-made mazes glow in their own neon colours.
48 LANES · ONE RING · NO MERCY
A ring of 48 lanes, each with its own marching formation. Invaders drop, speed up and dive at the nearest ship, and every cleared wave comes back meaner. Fly anywhere round the ring.
ROTATE · THRUST · HUNT THE LEADER
Every pilot gets a galaxy, and the galaxies are linked in a ring: drift off the edge into your neighbour's space. Classic inertia, glowing vector neon, meteors that split, and saucers that aim.
DEFEND YOUR PLANET · SAVE THE HUMANS
A tribute to the great side-scrolling planet defenders. Guard a strip of neon mountains while landers snatch your humanoids and carry them off to become mutants. Planets link in a ring; lose every human and your planet explodes.
DIG · PUMP · POP
The dig-and-pump arcade classic, rebuilt for 48. Every digger owns a field of neon dirt and the fields join in a ring, so you can tunnel straight into your neighbour's. Pump up the goggle-eyed monsters, dodge the fire-breathing dragons, drop rocks on everyone.
12 TEAMS OF 4 · ONE DUNGEON
A team dungeon raid in the spirit of the great arcade dungeon crawls. Warrior, Valkyrie, Wizard and Elf fight side by side through twelve connected dungeons and down into the Keep, hauling treasure home to their vault.
48 WELLS · ONE BEAT · DROP IT
48 falling-block wells in a ring, to a 128 BPM house track. Modern rules (hold, ghost, T-spins, combos) with garbage that travels round the ring. Clear lines on the beat for double points and an extra line of garbage.
48 KARTS · ONE NEON CIRCUIT · YOUR FACE AT THE WHEEL
A 16-bit kart racer for the whole room: 48 karts on one huge synthwave circuit, drawn in classic scaling-floor style. Every driver's head is their profile photo, so you know exactly who just shelled you.
FIRST PERSON · THE HIVE IS ABOARD · FFA, TEAMS, INVASION · GAMES OF 12
A first-person shooter in the spirit of the 90s corridor classics, aboard a dark deep-space hauler whose decks the Hive has got into. You are Sgt Sidney Weaver, in the dock at the bottom of the screen, taking it personally. Rounds rotate: free for all, six-on-six team deathmatch, and INVASION with its airlocks to hold. A game is up to twelve on the whole ship and never more than six bots, so there's room to think between firefights.
▶ HOW IT WORKS
Open the arena, type any name and you're in the hub. Add a password to claim the name: you get a 🔒 on the leaderboards and a profile with your photo.
Every arena shows who is in the lobby, who is playing and the top score. Bring friends: you land next to each other.
Hit READY. The round starts when everyone is ready, bots fill the rest, and you can jump into a round already going.
▶ PHONE + CONTROLLER
JOINR ARENA was built for a phone with a clip-on controller. Hold it upright and the game sits at the top of the screen while the bottom becomes a controller deck sized to your pad, with a rainbow ring round it that flashes every time you take a hit.
Plugs straight into your phone's USB-C port: no Bluetooth, no battery, no pairing. It flips out of the way when you need the screen, and the FlipPad preset lines the deck up with it exactly.
A pocket-sized pad that grips the bottom of the phone. There's a pairing trick to get it seen on iPhone; our controller guide walks you through it.
The keyring-sized pad in arena gold. Slot it into the ARENA clip on the bottom of your phone and you've got the smallest handheld in the ring.
Any controller your browser can see works: on a computer, a phone stand or a TV. No pad? Phones get an on-screen controller, and computers play with the keyboard.
▶ PRINT YOUR OWN
Gold plastic, ARENA in big blue block letters, and an 8BitDo Zero 2 snapped into the front. It slides onto the bottom of your phone, case and all, and turns it into a pocket arcade machine. Download the project, hit print, and bring it to the ring.
Bambu Studio 3MF · 2.6 MB. A remix of 8bitDo Zero 2 mobile phone clip by Jrosen73, itself a remix of 8bitdo ZERO gamepad handles by malizam. Shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: free to print, remix and share, not to sell.
Bots are warming up your seat right now.
ENTER THE ARENA
ZERO 2 + ARENA CLIP