I make games on the side, and the two I am most proud of are both free and both run right in your browser. No store page, no download, no account, no payment. You click a link and you are playing inside a minute. One of them is cozy and quiet, the other is competitive and a little stressful in the best way. Between them they cover most moods. Here is the short, honest version of what each one is and why you might want it open in a tab.

Orchard Deck, For When You Want To Unwind

Orchard Deck is a cozy card collector built around a line of chibi apple folk. You spin a slot machine to win cards, plant them in an orchard that quietly earns coins even while you are away, donate matching sets to a museum for permanent boosts, and breed two cards into a child rarer than either parent to chase the ones you are missing. A separate lab lets you extract, transmute, and craft on top of that. There are 84 cards to gather, a three-act story campaign running underneath it all, 10 little arcade minigames, daily quests, and 41 achievements if you like a list to clear. What makes it work is that nothing pushes you. There are no timers shouting at you and nothing to buy. You spin a few times, complete a set, tidy your orchard, and look up to find an hour gone. It is the good kind of fiddly, the kind you reach for after a long day when you want to slow down. It plays best on a desktop with a mouse, and like everything here it is free with no purchases of any kind. If a quiet evening of collecting sounds right, play Orchard Deck here. I wrote more about what an evening with it feels like in this longer piece on Orchard Deck.

World 11, For When You Want To Compete

World 11 is the opposite mood, and it is for football fans. It is a World Cup draft roguelike. You spin a random nation and year, draft one real player per position from that era's squad, and build chemistry by stacking picks that share a nation or a decade. Then you send your cross-era team through a fourteen-match gauntlet and try to win the cup unbeaten. You draft, and the matches are simulated, so the whole game is in the choices you make before kickoff. The squads are real, pulled from football history between 1966 and 2022 across 58 squads and around 1,281 players, so no two runs land the same. You can watch results rip by in a quick Fast Sim, or follow a live Match by Match ticker and sweat a one goal lead in a knockout like it is the real thing. If you have ever built the greatest eleven of all time in your head and wanted to actually run it, this is that. It is free and instant in the browser. Play World 11 here, and there is a longer write up on World 11 if you want the full pitch first.

Which One Should You Open

It really does come down to mood. If you want to slow down, sip something, and let a little orchard grow while you sort cards, open Orchard Deck. If you want a focused puzzle with a result on the line and a cup to chase, open World 11. They are deliberately different, because the whole reason I built two is that some nights you want calm and some nights you want a contest. You can play either for two minutes to see if it clicks, and walk away with nothing lost if it does not.

Send Me What You Think

Both games live on the same games hub, so you can hop between them from there. And each game page has a feedback button, which is the best place to tell me what broke or what you wish it did. A good slice of what is in both games today started life as a player saying "it would be better if," so if you have an idea, send it over. Pick a mood, open a tab, and give one a few minutes. That is all either of them asks.