īrowser technology quickly began to mature in the mid-1990s with support for browser plug-ins and the introduction of JavaScript. It featured only text but allowed players to interact and form alliances with other players of the game. One of the first known examples of a browser game was Earth 2025, first released in 1995.

When the Internet first became widely available and initial web browsers with basic HTML support were released, the earliest browser games were similar to text-based Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs), minimizing interactions to what implemented through simple browser controls but supporting online interactions with other players through a basic client–server model. Thousands of these games have been preserved by the Flashpoint project. In the past, many games were created with Adobe Flash, but they can no longer be played in the major browsers, such as Google Chrome, Safari, and Firefox due to Adobe Flash being shut down on December 31, 2020. On the back end, numerous server technologies can be used. In addition, WebGL enables more sophisticated graphics. It is implemented with the standard web technologies of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly. The front end of a browser game is what runs in the user's browser. However, the browser version may have fewer features or inferior graphics compared to the others, which are usually native apps. For users, the advantage of the browser version is not having to install the game the browser automatically downloads the necessary content from the game's website. Some browser games are also available as mobile apps, PC games, or on consoles. Alternative names for the browser game genre reference their software platform used, with common examples being Flash games, and HTML5 games. They are mostly free-to-play and can be single-player or multiplayer. Video game played in a web browser The browser version of FreecivĪ browser game is a video game that is played via the internet using a web browser.

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