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Play free online games in every new tab. Instant game dashboard with web search, favorites and recently played. Play free online games every time you open a new tab. Free Online Games New Tab turns Chrome's New Tab page into an instant game dashboard powered by Zgames.io. Browse popular browser games, filter them by category, save your favorites, and pick up recently played games — with no downloads, no installs, and no sign-up. Games open on Zgames.io only after you choose one. FREE ONLINE GAMES ON EVERY NEW TAB • A live selection of popular free games, refreshed automatically in the background. • Play racing games, action games, puzzle games, driving games, arcade games, sports games, shooting games, simulation games, strategy games, and .io games. • Category filters help you find the right game for a short break. • "Surprise me" opens a random game from the full Zgames.io library. • The game list is cached on your device, so your new tab still shows games when you are offline. WHO IT IS FOR • Anyone who wants a quick free game between tasks instead of an empty new tab. • People who open dozens of tabs a day and want one useful landing place. • Casual players who prefer instant browser games over downloads and installers. • Anyone tired of new tab extensions that hijack search or bury the page in ads. HOW IT WORKS Open a new tab. The dashboard loads instantly from your device — the games, your favorites, and your recently played list are already cached, so nothing waits on the network to render. In the background, at most once every six hours, the extension refreshes the game list from Zgames.io so the selection stays current without you updating anything. Pick a game and it opens on Zgames.io. Nothing autoplays, nothing loads a game until you click. SEARCH AND NAVIGATION One field handles the web and your games: • Search the web with your own default search engine — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or whatever you have set in Chrome. This extension does not change your search engine. • Enter a full web address to open it. • Enter a domain such as example.com to open it over HTTPS. • Type two or more letters to find a game by title or category. • Choose game suggestions with the mouse or with the arrow keys and Enter. PERSONALIZATION • Star any game to save it to your favorites. • Return to your five most recently played games. • Switch between light and dark themes, applied instantly with no flash of the wrong colors. • Responsive layout for large monitors, laptops, and small windows. AVAILABLE IN 15 LANGUAGES English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean — including full right-to-left layout for Arabic. Game titles are shown in your language wherever Zgames.io provides a translation. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS • Press "/" to jump to the search field. • Press Ctrl+K on Windows and ChromeOS, or Command+K on macOS. • Use the arrow keys to move through game suggestions, Enter to open one, and Escape to dismiss the list. PRIVACY AND PERMISSIONS Your search terms are never sent to Zgames.io. Game suggestions are matched against the game list already stored on your device, so typing triggers no network request at all. When you submit a web search it goes straight to your own default search engine. This extension requests three things: • Storage — to save your theme, your favorites, your recently played games, and the cached game list. All of it stays on your device. • Search — to hand a submitted search term to the default search engine you already chose in Chrome. • Access to www.zgames.io — to read the public list of games, at most once every six hours, and to load game thumbnails. It does not request access to your browsing history, open tabs, passwords, cookies, bookmarks, location, or the contents of other websites. It does not sell personal information or share data with third parties. Full privacy notice: https://www.zgames.io/privacy FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Does this change my search engine? No. Submitting a search sends it to the default search engine you already chose in Chrome. The extension never changes that setting and never redirects your searches through its own service. Are the games really free? Yes. Every game on the dashboard is free to play in the browser, with no purchase, no installer, and no account required. Do I need to sign up or log in? No. There is no account, no login, and no profile. Your favorites and recently played list are stored on your own device, not on a server. Does it work offline? The dashboard itself does. Your games, favorites, and recently played list are cached locally, so a new tab still renders without a connection. Playing a game or running a search needs the internet. Will it slow down my browser? No. The page renders from local data, the game list refreshes at most once every six hours, and there is no background tracking, no analytics script, and no content script running on the websites you visit. Can I get my old New Tab page back? Yes. Disable or remove the extension and Chrome restores its standard New Tab page immediately. Nothing is left behind. Does it collect my browsing history? No. The extension never requests permission to read your history, your open tabs, or the content of any website, so it has no technical ability to see them. Which languages are supported? Fifteen: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The interface follows your Chrome language automatically. Does it work on a Chromebook? Yes. It works on Chrome for Windows, macOS, Linux, and ChromeOS, and on Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Brave, and Opera. ACCESSIBILITY • Full keyboard navigation, including the search suggestions list. • Screen-reader labels on every control, and a skip link to the game list. • Visible focus outlines throughout. • Respects your system's reduced-motion setting. • Right-to-left layout for Arabic. IMPORTANT INFORMATION Installing this extension replaces Chrome's standard New Tab page with the Zgames.io dashboard. Disabling or removing the extension restores Chrome's normal New Tab page. An internet connection is required to load thumbnails, search the web, and play games. Games are provided through Zgames.io and may have their own device, browser, availability, and network requirements. This extension is developed by Zgames.io and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google.