About Playdeck24

Playdeck24 is a small, growing deck of browser games built on one belief: the best games are the ones you can start in three seconds and think about all day. No launchers, no 2 GB downloads, no accounts before you're allowed to have fun. You open a tab, you play.

Five games are live today: Typefall, a typing game built on a Tetris skeleton — words fall, you type them away, and the ones you miss stack up until they reach the ceiling; Slice, an arcade blade game where only one shape on screen is worth cutting and the colours are randomised so you can't shortcut the reading; Cipher, a daily word puzzle where the answer is visible from move one but written in a code you have to break; Doomscroll, a 60 fps arcade roguelite about surviving your own phone; and Empire in Minutes, a whole 4X civilization compressed into exactly five minutes against three AI rival empires. Two more are in active development: The Hot Seat (bet on your friends' trivia confidence) and Last One Standing (a trivia battle royale against the day's field of real players).

Fair play

These are the house rules every Playdeck24 game follows, current and future:

• Soft currency only. Chips and data packets are earned by playing. They can never be bought with money, never converted back to money, and never transferred between accounts. There is no cash-out path — by design, not by policy.
• One seed, one world. Daily challenges are generated from a shared seed, so every player on Earth faces the exact same puzzle, the same waves, the same odds. Scores are comparable because the game was identical.
• Verified leaderboards. Where scores are ranked publicly, runs are validated for plausibility against the day's actual seed — the server regenerates the same world your browser played and checks the run was possible in it. Impossible scores don't make the board.
• Ranked days are played on level ground. Where a game has permanent upgrades, its daily ranked mode sets them aside and gives everybody the same loadout. A board should rank the run, not how long you've been playing.
• No fake players. If a synthetic opponent ever appears in a Playdeck24 game, it is visibly labelled as one. We don't dress bots up with human usernames.
• No dark patterns. No ads before your first game, no countdown-pressure purchases, no infinite-scroll traps. Doomscroll is the only doomscrolling we endorse, and it's the game.

Privacy

Playdeck24 needs no account, and almost everything stays on your device. The one exception is the daily leaderboards — currently on Typefall, Doomscroll and Slice — which only store something when you choose to post a score.

• No account is required to play anything on the site.
• The only cookies are analytics cookies, and only if you say yes. Nothing is set unless you accept them, and declining is one click. See Cookies and analytics below.
• Your progress lives on your device. Typefall keeps your best score and words per minute, Slice your shards and upgrade tree, Cipher your streak and statistics, Doomscroll your upgrades and best scores, Empire your records — all in your browser's local storage. That is not tracking and it never leaves your browser. Clearing site data resets it.
• No ad networks, no fingerprinting, no data sold or shared for advertising. We don't run ads, and the analytics we do run are configured with every advertising signal switched off.

Cookies and analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how many people visit Playdeck24 and which games they play. It's the only thing on this site that sets cookies, and the only thing that sends anything about you to another company — so we ask before it runs. On your first visit you get a straight choice, and nothing is loaded from Google until you accept. Not the script, not a cookie, not a single request.

Declining costs you nothing. Every game plays identically, nothing is withheld, and you won't be asked again unless you go looking for the setting.

If you accept, Google Analytics sets two cookies in your browser — _ga (two years) and _ga_<id> (two years) — which give your browser a random identifier so repeat visits can be counted as one person rather than several. It records the pages you view, roughly when, the referring page, and technical details like your device type, browser, language and approximate location. Your IP address is used to derive that location and is not stored by us.

• Who receives it. Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC act as our processors, and the data may be handled in the United States. Google LLC is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, which is the basis for that transfer.
• Advertising is switched off. Advertising storage, ad personalisation and ad-user-data signals are all set to denied, permanently and regardless of what you choose. We do not run ads and we do not share anything for advertising purposes.
• It is never joined to your game data. Analytics knows nothing about your Cipher streak, your Slice shards or any leaderboard entry — those live in different places and are never combined.
• Changing your mind. Use Cookie settings at the bottom of any page. Choosing to decline after having accepted deletes the analytics cookies rather than merely muting them.
• Blocking it entirely. Any tracker blocker, or Google's own opt-out add-on, will stop it regardless of what you clicked here.

Everything else on the site is served from our own servers, including the typefaces — we self-host those deliberately, so that simply loading a page doesn't announce you to anyone. Your saved game progress is not part of this choice: it stays in your browser, it never leaves your device, and it is what makes the game remember you rather than something we learn about you.

What the leaderboards store

If you post a run to a board, we store on our servers: the display name you type, your score, run duration, best combo and the figures that describe that game's run. For a Daily Dive that means the wave, kills, and the apps and synergies you finished with; for a Daily Slice it means the round you reached and your clean slices, misreads, escapes and bombs; for a Daily Fall it means the speed you reached, words typed, lines cleared, words per minute and accuracy. A display name is personal data even when you invent it, so we treat it that way.

• A random player ID is generated in your browser so the board can tell one device from another and enforce one ranked run per day. It identifies a browser, not a person, and is never joined to anything else.
• No email, no password, no account — there is nothing to leak and nothing to recover.
• Your IP address is never stored. We keep a salted, truncated hash of it purely to rate-limit abuse, and delete those after 7 days.
• Retention: board entries are kept for 90 days, then reduced to anonymous aggregates.
• Removing your entry: use the "Remove my entry" control on the board from the same browser you posted with. No email round-trip, because we never asked for an email.
• Nothing is posted automatically. Playing a daily sends nothing until you type a name and press Post.

Names on the board are moderated before they become visible, and you can report one from the board itself.

Contact

Found a bug, a balance problem, or an impossible score on your own leaderboard? We want to hear about it. Reach the deck at info@playdeck24.com.