Strategy
HTML5 Canvas
Lattice Marines
Place three HQs, branch build range, probe Battleship fog, and fight a never-ending campaign against local AI or a second player on one keyboard.
What the Arcade Deck is
The deck is the console view of this site's arcade. There is no store page, no launcher and no queue: every card below is a game that already runs in a browser tab, built by the same hand that writes the guides on this site. The alternative — eighteen bookmarks and a browser history you cannot search — is why it exists. Hover a card to preview it in the stage at the top, press it to open the deck theater, and pop it into its own tab when you want the whole screen.
Nothing here asks for an email address. Progress lives in your browser's local storage, so a returned player keeps their save as long as they keep the browser profile. Clearing site data clears the save; that is the trade for having no accounts to breach.
How to drive the deck
The console is keyboard-first, and a connected gamepad works without setup. Arrow keys walk the catalog in the order it is filtered, so a category pill or a search narrows what the arrows step through.
- Left / right — move the featured title through the filtered catalog.
- Enter — open the featured title in the deck theater. Esc closes it.
- / — jump into the search field from anywhere on the page.
- D-pad or left stick — same walk; A opens the title, B closes the theater.
Sound is off until you switch it on, and the choice is remembered. The deck never autoplays audio, and the stage's ambient glow and card tilt both respect a reduced-motion preference.
Live halls, and what they store
12 of the titles write to a public score hall: a name you type and a result. No account, no email, no tracking profile — the hall is a leaderboard, not a login. The ticker above reads the shared arcade ledger from a Hugging Face dataset, which is also what the individual hall pages read, so a run logged on one device shows up on the next visit. Games without a hall keep everything local.
What's underneath
Most titles are hand-written HTML5 and Canvas with no framework, which is why they start instantly and keep working when the network is slow. Three of them are not: Lattice Grand Prix is a Unity WebGL build, Lattice Corridor runs a real PrBoom engine compiled to WebAssembly, and Lattice Chess renders in three.js. Those take a few seconds to load, and the deck says so rather than spinning silently.
Questions we get
- Do I need an account? No. There is nothing to sign into anywhere in the arcade.
- Does it work on a phone? Yes for the catalog and for most titles; the racers and shooters want a keyboard or a pad. The catalog itself is a single column on a small screen.
- Can I play offline? The catalog yes, once cached. The games themselves run locally after load, but the halls need the network.
- Why open a game in its own tab? Full screen, controller permissions and audio all behave better without an iframe, and a long session survives a tab reload.