This is There Is No Game unblocked: the original jam game loaded from thereisnogame.org itself, so it plays in an ordinary browser tab on a school Chromebook or laptop. Free, no download, no extension, no account.
There Is No Game: a puzzle that tries to stop you playing
There Is No Game opens on a black screen with four words in chunky white-and-ink pixel letters: THERE IS NO GAME. A voice says hello, apologises, and explains that there really is no game. You could watch TV, go outside, read a book, ask for a refund — no, no refund, it is free. Then, just as it says goodbye, it adds one more thing: please do not touch the title. It is not quite dry yet. Especially the letter O.
That warning is the first puzzle and the whole idea. Click the O and it cracks loose and drops out of the title; the narrator is horrified. From there every scene is built the same way: the voice tells you what not to do, and doing it is how you move forward. A sound icon, a wooden crate that will not break, a panel marked private, the letters of the word GAME — each thing you are told to leave alone turns out to be a way into the next idea.
This is the original 2015 jam version, made in a few days by the French developer Kamizoto (Pascal Cammisotto) for the Construct 2 "Deception" game jam. It later grew into the full commercial game There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension by his studio Draw Me A Pixel. The jam version is short — a single sitting from the first click to the credits — and it is played entirely with the mouse.
Controls & mechanics
| Action | Control | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Click | Left mouse button | Almost everything on screen reacts to clicks, especially what the narrator tells you to leave alone |
| Drag | Hold the button and move | Loose letters and objects can be picked up and carried to where they fit |
| Language | Flag on the first screen | The union flag gives English, the tricolour French |
| Start over | Reload the page | There is no save; the game runs from the beginning each time |
| Keyboard | Not used | Nothing in the game needs a key |
How to get unstuck in There Is No Game
- Do what he says not to: The narrator is the hint system. When he begs you to stop touching something, that is the thing to touch.
- Click more than once: Some objects need several clicks before they give — the O of the title cracks before it falls.
- Letters are tools: Letters from the title keep coming back as objects. When you need a word, look at which letters are lying around.
- Read the long complaints: When he waffles about his childhood or a goat, he is telling you what to look for next. The goat and the tree are not random.
- Wait for the line to finish: Some things only react after the voice has finished speaking. If a click does nothing, let the sentence end and try again.
- Play with sound on: The jokes are in the voice and the sound icon is part of a puzzle. The text subtitles every line too.
Key features
- A game that says no: The narrator spends the whole game trying to get you to leave, and his objections are the puzzles.
- One sitting: A short jam game with a beginning, a middle and a proper ending with credits.
- Mouse only: Click and drag, nothing else — easy on a Chromebook trackpad or a laptop.
- English or French: Choose with a flag on the first screen; every line is subtitled.
- Pixel-art jokes: Falling letters, a stubborn crate, glitches, a goat in a cage and a squirrel with a key.
- Where it began: The 2015 jam version of the idea that became There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension.
Game info
- Title: There Is No Game
- Developer: Kamizoto
- Category: Trick Puzzles
- Platform: Web browser (HTML5)
- About the build: There Is No Game (jam edition) by Kamizoto, Construct 2 "Deception" Jam 2015 · HTML5 canvas · served from thereisnogame.org
Pro tip: Most people are stuck after the title falls apart because they wait for the game to tell them what to do. It never will. Click the icons in the corners, the frame, the bits of rubble — anything the narrator reacts to is part of the solution.