Hi! I'm Bart Bonte, a Belgian independent game designer and bontegames.com is where I blog about new interesting browser and mobile games. My own games are all in the left column (or at the bottom of this page on mobile). More info about me and my games on bartbonte.com.
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If you own an iPhone or iPad then I suggest you go and grab the immersive puzzle game able black by Scott Leach right now because it is free for the moment on iOS. Able is a lonely android struggling with his Citizenship Exam, a test he must pass if he doesn’t want to be shut down. Follow Able as he searches for purpose and a way out of isolation. Part storybook, part puzzle game, this is a must play!
Hi everyone, time for some bontegames news! I hope you've been enjoying the extra effort I have been putting in the site since a couple of months now to bring more posts with the addition of mobile and downloadable games, but of course never neglecting the browser games. Well I have also resurrected my youtube channel where I now make a short clip each week that shows all the games I posted that week, occasionaly a playthrough of a game, and of course footage of my games when I have a new game coming, so if you use youtube please subscribe to my channel here.
Find your way out in the retro platformer into the abyss by Noe. It's a metroidvania-style platformer so you will gain new abilities as you progress. Move with the cursor keys and use Z to jump. Once you find a map you can use the M key, and once you find a weapon you can use it with the X key.
Try to flood the board with a single color in as few moves as possible in each level of the new colourful papercraft-style mobile puzzle game KAMI 2 by State of Play. The game features over 100 hand-crafted puzzles and a level creator to craft your own designs.
Phase by Jose Pacio is a puzzle game set in one room but with many dimensions, where you must try to open the door by collecting all the glowing pages. Control the character with the cursor keys and use the Z and C key to hop dimensions. Note: you better switch to fullscreen mode first with the bottom right button to be able read the text.
The egg by Lectronice is a short atmospheric downloadable game about the meaning of life based on a short story by Andy Weir.
Let the light particles reach the exit in each level of the browser puzzle game psibinski by Eduardo Chico. Click an arrow to emit the light, but first place additional arrows if necessary by clicking the round spots and using the cursor keys to set the direction of the arrow.
An intrepid but small bird which still doesn't know how to fly very well embarks on an unexpected and revealing journey in the downloadable adventure puzzle game PiAwk by HiWarp. For now this a demo version of the game so it may contain unfinished parts, but this is so adorable!
Bendy and the ink machine by comic artist the Meatly is a creepy first person downloadable adventure game. You're a cartoonist visiting the workshop you used to work in 30 years ago and need to fix a mysterious ink machine. Warning: there are quite a few jumpscares in this game.
The surreal cube escape story continues in cube escape: the cave, the latest point and click adventure by Rusty Lake. A familiar guest needs your help before you descend deeper and deeper into Rusty Lake.
Time to make that monkey go happy again because Robin Vencel made 4 new mini monkey games: enjoy monkey happy stage 65, stage 66, stage 67 and stage 68.
Cosmic express is a new paid mobile puzzler by Alan Hazelden and friends. Plan the train route for the world's most awkward space colony in this cute and hard puzzle game with hundreds of levels. You might remember the browser prototype for this game: Alan's puzzlescript puzzler train braining from 2015.
The word puzzler that Zach gage teased earlier this week with a browser snowday puzzle is now out on mobile. Anagrams meets word search, with a sprinkle of crosswords in TypeShift. Shift columns of letters up and down as you try to spell words in the center row until you have used all letters in a puzzle at least once.
In the latest escape the room game by Funkyland you find yourself in a traditional Japanese inn with lots of puzzles to be solved before you can get out: escape an ocean view ryokan.
Wake up by Inverge Studios is a minimalist narrative game about a normal person living in a not so normal country, created for ResistJam, a game jam about creating games that resist oppressive authoritarianism in all its forms.
8bit love story is a frantic and interactive story of love and adventure by Manuel Fallmann. Click to interact with the game whenever instructions appear, let's go!
Zach Gage is releasing a new word game on Saturday and in honor of winter storm Stella he made a little snowday puzzle as a teaser for his upcoming game.
For this browser oldie we are returning to 2009. Can you find the legendary blade that will save the kingdom in the cute pixel graphics puzzler mamono slayer by Skipmore? Use the cursor keys to move and the spacebar to access your inventory. You can restore your health by returning to the castle. The game is from 2009 but Skipmore just now migrated it from flash to html5 so it is even working in a mobile browser.
Enter a cute pastel cyberworld as an apprentice of the notorios Glitch Witch and hack your way through mysterious files trying to unravel the minesweeper and bejeweled inspired mechanisms in this captivating paid mobile puzzle game by Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson. I picked it up earlier and simply can't put it down.
There is absolutely no stopping Robin Vencel and his monkeys. Time to make that monkey go happy again with 4 new mini monkey games: enjoy monkey happy stage 61, stage 62, stage 63 and stage 64.
If you own an iPhone or iPad then once again it's time to visit the app store and grab Apple's free game of the week: the point and click adventure love you to bits by Alike Studio. Follow the journey of Kosmo, a clumsy rookie space explorer in search of the parts of his robot girlfriend Nova that got scattered in outer space after a fatal accident.
An adorable mobile puzzle game where each stage is unique and subtly references other games.
Hello human, please come in, because your knowledge of human culture and language is needed to help this friendly robot compile a recipe in the short twine game Recipe for love by Shelly Alon.
Melone in the dark is a short free downloadable adventure game by Marius Winter (who was previously one half of Major Bueno) and Nick Maierhöfer created for the melon game jam 2017. Meet Melone, the greatest living melon devotee and experience the weirdly funny events that happen at midnight when it's time for his favorite snack, a bowl of sliced melons. (controls: cursor keys + spacebar to interact)
A gorgeous browser oldie from 2009: Icycle by Damp Gnat. The next ice age has arrived and the world as we know it has peacefully frozen in time, but to one naked survivor it’s cold and lonely as hell. Ride over the icy terrain collecting bubbles while avoiding various hazzards using the cursor keys. You can not back pedal so remembering the best route is part of the challenge.
Fragments of Euclid by Antoine Zanuttini is a free downloadable 3d game about exploring and solving puzzles in a mind-bending environment inspired by M.C. Escher. Enjoy its peaceful mood while trying to understand the strangely connected world.