Elendheim Games

A free, ad-free collection of the games I actually like to play — built to run in any phone browser and install to hopefully be able to add to your home screen like an app in the future.

Why I made this

I love these little games — solitaire, chess, a quick word puzzle, slicing fruit on a boring bus ride. The problem is that almost every free version is buried in ads: full-screen interruptions, "watch a video to continue," timers, pop-ups. I hate that. So I built my own free web version, with zero ads and zero nonsense, for myself — and put it online so anyone else who feels the same can play too.

No ads. No tracking-for-profit. No paywalls. Just the games, instantly, on whatever device you've got.

The games

Cards & solitaire

• Solitaire — classic Klondike. Drag, tap-to-auto-move, the whole thing.
• Spiderette — one-deck Spider solitaire, quicker than the full version.
• King's Corners — a cozy card game against the computer.
• Blackjack — beat the dealer to 21.
• Elendheim TCG — my own little trading-card game: collect cards from packs, level them up with duplicates, build a deck, and duel the computer for Heimers. Endless battles, no spending real money.

Brain & board

• Chess — full rules, play the engine or a friend.
• Connect 4 — drop, line up four, win.
• Tic-Tac-Toe — the classic, vs computer or a friend.
• Word Guess — six tries to find the hidden word; keep your streak alive.

Arcade & reflex

• Fruit vs Sword — swipe to slice the fruit, dodge the bombs.
• Whack-a-Mole — bop the moles, avoid the bombs, beat the clock.
• Tile Tap — tap only the dark tiles as they fly by.
• Blockfall — stack the falling blocks and clear lines.
• Block Rows — drop blocks onto the grid and clear rows and columns.

Your wins, streaks, and high scores are saved on your own device.

Play it

Just open it in a browser. On a phone you can tap "Add to Home Screen" to install it as an app — after the first visit it works fully offline.

Run it yourself

It's plain HTML/CSS/JavaScript — no build step, no dependencies. Serve the folder over HTTP (the offline service worker needs http/https, not file://):

python3 -m http.server 8099
# then open http://localhost:8099

Under the hood (for the curious / contributors)

index.html              app shell + PWA hooks
css/theme.css           the dark, chunky, rounded look
sw.js                   service worker — caches everything for offline play
js/main.js              hash router: #/ home · #/game/:id detail · #/play/:id live game
js/core/
  registry.js           the catalog — one entry per game (metadata + difficulty + modes + loader)
  storage.js            scores / wins / prefs (localStorage)
  screens.js            home grid + detail/start screen
  shell.js              in-game chrome (header, restart, footer, modals) + the game `api`
  anim.js               shared card move/draw animations (FLIP)
  icons.js              hand-drawn SVG game icons
js/games/               one self-contained module per game

Adding a game: create js/games/<id>.js that default-exports init(api) (the api gives you a play area, settings, stats, footer, modals, and score reporters), add an entry in js/core/registry.js, then list the file in sw.js and bump CACHE. The home tile, difficulty slider, mode toggle, stats, and offline caching all come from the metadata.

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Made for fun, kept free. If you enjoy it, that's the whole point.