About
A tiny game studio from Tallinn, Estonia, making small, obsessively-polished games since 2014.
Dark Square Games started in 2014 as a side project — a place to publish the small game ideas that didn't fit into bigger jobs. Over the years we've shipped a couple of dozen iPhone games, from Pi — The Game to Waterfall, Jotto, Round-Robin, Mazed, Knight Squares and many more. Some were experiments that lasted a weekend; a few found real audiences and are still downloaded today.
The thread running through all of it is the same: small games, made carefully. We'd rather ship one screen that feels exactly right than a sprawling app full of menus. That means no accounts, no timers nagging you to come back, no dark patterns dressed up as engagement — just something you can pick up, enjoy, and put down again.
Why the browser
This site is the new home for our browser ports — small games anyone can play for free, on any device, with nothing to install and no app store standing in the way. A link is all it takes: open it on a phone at a party, on a laptop during a dull afternoon, or on a tablet passed around a table. We build each one to work with touch and mouse alike, so the same page plays the same everywhere.
We started with the games that travel best to the web — the party and pick-up-and-play games — and we're bringing the rest of the catalogue across one at a time.
What you'll find here
- Relaxing puzzles — like Color Sort Therapy, a calm colour-sorting game with no timer and no score.
- Party games — Would You Rather, Spin the Bottle and Truth or Dare for a group with a phone between them.
- Classic card games — the drinking-game canon like Waterfall and Kings, each with the full rules on the page (and every one of them plays just as well with soft drinks).
- More games being ported from our iPhone catalogue, and the occasional experiment in browser-based multiplayer.
Who we are
We're a tiny team based in Tallinn, Estonia — one of the small studios that Estonia's outsized software scene quietly produces. We design, build, and maintain everything here ourselves.
If you'd like to say hi, suggest a game to port, report a bug, or collaborate on something, we read every email. Drop us a line at contact@darksquaregames.com or on our contact page.