Most game apps assume you have a connection. Pause assumes you don't. The twelve games ship inside the app, so once it is installed there is nothing to stream, nothing to wait for, and no screen telling you to reconnect. It was built for the places where phones are actually boring: a plane, the metro, a waiting room, a hike, the end of a data plan.
What is and isn't in it
- Free, with no in-app purchases. There is nothing to buy, no coins, no lives to refill, no premium tier.
- No account. No sign-up, no email, no password. Leaderboards use a nickname you pick and an anonymous ID kept on your device. Connecting a Play Games profile is possible but entirely optional — skip it and nothing changes.
- Works fully offline. Every game runs from the app itself.
- Ads stay between games, never inside one. A full-screen ad can appear when you finish a game or a level, with a minimum number of levels and several minutes of play between two. There are no banners anywhere, and nothing interrupts a game in progress. Offline, you see none at all.
- No timers, no daily streaks, no notifications nagging you to come back.
- It does update itself when it has a connection — that is how fixes and new games arrive without waiting for a store release.
The twelve games
Each one is playable right now in your browser, no install required. If one of them is the reason you came, start there — the app is just the offline version of the same games.
- SnakeGrow. Hunt. Outlast.Play in browser
- NonoNonogram puzzles — read the numbers, reveal the picture.Play in browser
- BeloteCoinche or classic. Take the tricks.Play in browser
- PoolBeat the bot. Sink the 8.Play in browser
- 2048Swipe to merge. Reach 2048.Play in browser
- WordySwipe letters. Fill the crossword.Play in browser
- WoodfitFit every piece. Fill the shape.Play in browser
- RollSlide the blocks. Roll it home.Play in browser
- JamSlide it out. Match the gate.Play in browser
- DotracePlace dots. Beat the par.Play in browser
- StackTime your tap. Build it up.Play in browser
- DriftSlide. Refuel. Survive.Play in browser
Who makes it
Pause is made by Casoual Games, a one-person studio. Every game is a single hand-written HTML file — no engine, no framework — which is why they are small, start instantly and run on old phones. The app is the same games, wrapped so they work without a connection.
If you want to read about the games rather than play them, the guides and rules cover nonograms, belote, blackball pool, polyominoes and a few others.