Angry Marius Games is a small independent studio in Denmark. It makes games that run in a browser tab — free, with no download, no launcher and no account.
The idea
Almost every game now asks for something before it gives anything. An install. A sign-up. A launcher that spends six minutes updating itself. Each of those steps quietly loses people who would have enjoyed the game, and none of them make the game better.
So the studio builds the other kind: a game you reach by clicking a link, that is interesting within seconds, and that you can close without having installed anything. That is a real constraint, not a marketing line — it rules out long tutorials, heavy downloads and anything that only works on a fast machine.
How the games are built
Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No frameworks, no bundler, no build step. The file that gets edited is the file the browser runs.
This is unfashionable and unreasonably durable. There is no toolchain underneath that can rot between releases, no dependency tree that breaks when something upstream is abandoned, and no compile step standing between spotting a bug and fixing it. Games built this way are still running years later, because there is nothing under them to fail.
It also keeps them small and fast, which matters more than it sounds: an old phone on a bad connection is the design target here, not the edge case.
What the studio makes
- Pig Derby — pig racing. Tournaments, championships and a breeding programme that runs across seasons.
- PrisonBaLL — seven-a-side prison football with no referees, in two modes: run a crew across ten seasons, or serve a ten-season sentence as one inmate.
- La Grande Course: Directeur Sportif — a cycling management game set in 1903, run from the team car rather than the saddle. In development, with no date.
- Mud & Whiskers: The Great War Below — a strategy game about the rats fighting their own Great War in the mud beneath the trenches. In development, with no date.
- Beneath the Grass — an ant colony that forages, digs and buries its own dead whether or not you are watching. In development, with no date.
The full list, with what each one actually plays like, is on the games page.
Saves, money and privacy
Progress is stored in your own browser. That is the honest trade for having no account: nothing to sign up for and no password to lose — and equally, no copy on a server if you clear your cache or open the game in a private window. Every game says this plainly before you start, rather than after you have lost a career to it.
The games are free and stay free. There is no premium currency and nothing is locked behind a payment. Revenue comes from the studio's own banner system, sold and served in-house, which means no third-party ad network gets to decide what appears next to the game — and no player data is sold to anyone. It never will be.
Getting in touch
There is a form on the front page. No account, no newsletter, and one person reads every message that comes through it — bug reports, ideas and complaints alike. Say hello.