[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":119},["ShallowReactive",2],{"site-about":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":111,"extension":112,"meta":113,"navigation":114,"path":115,"seo":116,"stem":117,"__hash__":118},"site\u002Fsite\u002Fabout.md","About SonoTap",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":101},"minimark",[9,13,17,22,25,29,32,61,64,68,77,81,84,88,91,95,98],[10,11,5],"h1",{"id":12},"about-sonotap",[14,15,16],"p",{},"SonoTap is a small, independent arcade of free browser games. The pitch is simple: open a page, press play, and the game runs — no installer, no account, no paywall. The internet is full of genuinely good games that load in a tab and get buried under aggregators that copy-paste the same one-line blurb under each one. SonoTap exists to do the opposite: a short, curated list where every game comes with a real write-up.",[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"who-runs-this","Who runs this",[14,23,24],{},"SonoTap is run by a small group of people who like browser games and like writing about them. We aren't a big publisher and we don't make most of the games here — we find them, play them, and point you at the good ones. When a game is built by someone else, we credit them on the game's page and link to the original source.",[18,26,28],{"id":27},"how-we-pick-games","How we pick games",[14,30,31],{},"Every game on SonoTap has been played by a human before it was listed. We look for a few things:",[33,34,35,43,49,55],"ul",{},[36,37,38,42],"li",{},[39,40,41],"strong",{},"It runs in a browser",", on desktop and (where possible) mobile, without a download.",[36,44,45,48],{},[39,46,47],{},"It doesn't force a sign-up"," before you can play. Optional accounts are fine; mandatory ones aren't.",[36,50,51,54],{},[39,52,53],{},"It's actually good."," A game doesn't have to be famous — some of our favourites are obscure little experiments — but it has to be worth your time.",[36,56,57,60],{},[39,58,59],{},"It's free to play."," We don't list games that demand payment to start.",[14,62,63],{},"We're deliberately selective. You'll find under a hundred games here rather than thousands, because a curated shortlist is more useful than an infinite scroll.",[18,65,67],{"id":66},"how-games-are-embedded","How games are embedded",[14,69,70,71,76],{},"Most games are embedded directly from the developer's own site inside a frame on the game page. A handful of older classics are self-hosted by us so they keep working even if the original host disappears. In both cases the game's page names the developer and links back to the original project. If you made a game we list and you'd like it removed, or the credit corrected, ",[72,73,75],"a",{"href":74},"\u002Fcontact","contact us"," and we'll sort it out promptly.",[18,78,80],{"id":79},"how-sonotap-is-funded","How SonoTap is funded",[14,82,83],{},"SonoTap is free and supported by advertising — display ads served through Google AdSense. We don't run pop-ups that hijack the page, we don't put ads over the game itself, and there is nothing to buy here. If you'd rather not see ads, your browser's ad-blocking tools work on this site like any other.",[18,85,87],{"id":86},"our-content-policy","Our content policy",[14,89,90],{},"Each game gets its own guide: a short overview, how the controls work, and some concrete tips for getting better. We write these ourselves rather than generating them, and we revisit them when a game changes or when we find something worth adding. If a write-up is inaccurate or out of date, that's on us — please tell us and we'll fix it.",[18,92,94],{"id":93},"a-note-on-ratings","A note on ratings",[14,96,97],{},"You won't find star ratings or play counts on SonoTap. They're easy to fake and, on a site this size, they wouldn't mean much. What you get instead is an editor's \"Popular\" list — games we personally recommend — and honest descriptions of what each game is.",[14,99,100],{},"Thanks for playing.",{"title":102,"searchDepth":103,"depth":103,"links":104},"",2,[105,106,107,108,109,110],{"id":20,"depth":103,"text":21},{"id":27,"depth":103,"text":28},{"id":66,"depth":103,"text":67},{"id":79,"depth":103,"text":80},{"id":86,"depth":103,"text":87},{"id":93,"depth":103,"text":94},"Who runs SonoTap, how games are picked for the arcade, how it's funded, and how we handle the games we embed.","md",{},true,"\u002Fsite\u002Fabout",{"title":5,"description":111},"site\u002Fabout","bgqhGhmRb8Ybc9JC2VcnvscDfs_tFI2SMddlTOAN1bY",1783332161815]