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Given our research and play testing, we have decided to use Ruffle, an open-source Flash emulation project to continue offering as many Flash games as we can. We have always strived to deliver the best web games with a seamless experience. While several emulation options are still in development, the ones we have explored currently support a small number of games and will continue to support more in the future. With all of today’s modern browsers supporting WebAssembly (a technology that enables high-performance applications to run safely on web pages), it is perfect for this task.

Flash emulation in the browser – This is our final and most preferred solution.

Part of the joy of web games is the ease of dropping into games whenever and however you want, and we want to preserve that.

Requiring a desktop application to play Flash content – We don’t believe in asking you to install third-party software to play web games is a great experience.

Converting games to HTML5 (or other technologies) – This can be an ideal solution but can’t be done in any mass or automated way, as it is expensive and time-consuming.

Outlining some potential solutions and our thoughts on each of them: Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be any perfect solution or replacement for Adobe’s Flash player as of writing this post in December of 2020. Flash is an important medium for game developers and many developers have fond memories and experiences creating and publishing games using its technology. Given our large catalog of Flash games, we would like to continue to offer these games to our players as well as help preserve Flash games in general. HTML5 has continued to mature as a games technology, and we’re excited to see the future of this technology and the incredible games to come with it.

You may not have even noticed our new games are no longer Flash. HTML5 games on Armor Games over our site’s lifetime: Here is a quick chart comparing the percentage of released Flash vs. In 2014, HTML5 games started to become more widely available and slowly began replacing Flash for web games. The End of an Era – Next Steps for Adobe Flash (IE11/Edge)Īrmor Games currently offers over 3,700 Flash games dating back to 2007.

All of the major browsers soon followed in a coordinated effort outlining their plans to remove the Flash player from their browsers: To provide some history, Adobe announced in 2017 that its Flash player and browser plugins would be end-of-life at the end of 2020. Second, we wanted to reassure all of you that we’ll continue to be a great place to play games with new games coming in each week and supporting our legacy Flash content as well as we can. Flash’s end-of-life is fast approaching in January of 2021. First, thank you for your years of dedication to the site and countless hours playing the best free web games over the past 15+ years.