Miniclip, the website you might've used to secretly play browser games during class in the early 2000s, has shut down most of its games.
The company, which has been "evolving" toward the mobile space and away from desktop-based games, announced back in April (via DelistedGames) that it would be gutting its web portal this Summer. Although it missed that deadline by a few weeks, Miniclip has fulfilled its promise and shuttered the servers for all but two of its browser-based games.
RIP to a piece of your childhood Miniclip has officially shut down all of its web browser games. 8 Ball Pool and Agario are the only games available. No more commando, no more raft wars... your childhood is over pic.twitter.com/4pazJpmxW3October 19, 2022
As of now, the only games you can play on Miniclip are 8 Ball Pool and Agar.io, the latter being an MMO where you control cells on a petri dish and eat other, smaller cells to get bigger and grow stronger. To be completely transparent, 8 Ball Pool is the game I played the most on Miniclip, so I'm hanging in there, but a nostalgic community of browser game fans are paying sorrowful tributes to a variety of games which are now lost to time.
The Four Pillars of Society https://t.co/qT1NuqmyXF pic.twitter.com/o5peH73t8ROctober 20, 2022
my childhood right here man 😓😔 https://t.co/wb1kqqNhlA pic.twitter.com/eZDxHo7hZQOctober 20, 2022
Daft wars is gone. https://t.co/3TqsL4PFIT pic.twitter.com/1fY3VYIHulOctober 20, 2022
While I'm selfishly thankful that my favorite Miniclip game was one of the lucky two to escape the purge, I'll also mourn the loss of what once was a portal into a near-endless selection of weird and very early-2000s games. Fun fact: Miniclip was also my gateway into Runescape, although that's long-since outgrown the platform.
If you're missing your favorite browser game from yesteryear, maybe you can find something shiny and new to fill the void in our lists of the best iPhone games and the best Android games available now.
