You can no longer use Adobe Flash Player, but you can still play most Flash games. The easiest way is a website that runs them through the Ruffle emulator, which needs no installation. To open sites that still use old Flash embeds, install the Ruffle browser extension. For the largest collection, use Flashpoint.
Published and last updated 5 November 2026
| Option | What you install | Best for | Main limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| A site that runs Ruffle | Nothing | Playing right now | Only that site's games |
| Ruffle browser extension | An extension for Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari | Old sites that still embed Flash | Some games depend on servers that are gone |
| Ruffle desktop app | An app for Windows, macOS or Linux | A .swf file you already have | You need the file |
| Flashpoint Infinity | A launcher, about 1–4 GB on Windows | Finding one specific game | Downloads games on demand, so it needs internet |
| Flashpoint Ultimate | The full archive, 2.28 TB | Keeping everything offline | The size, and it is Windows only |
Sizes and platforms are from the Flashpoint and Ruffle download pages, checked on 5 November 2026.
Ruffle is an open-source Flash emulator that runs inside the web page. A site that includes it can play the original game files with no plugin. This site does that for 503 games from 2009–2014. Newgrounds also uses Ruffle for much of its Flash library, and the Internet Archive keeps Flash software you can look through.
Many old game sites are still online with Flash embeds that no browser can play. The extension is meant for these: install it from the Ruffle downloads page and revisit the page. If the game still fails, it may depend on a server that has since shut down.
Start with Flashpoint, a preservation project built for this purpose. The Infinity edition lets you search the archive and download only the games you open.
Adobe ended support for Flash Player on 31 December 2020 and began blocking Flash content in it on 12 January 2021. Adobe recommends uninstalling it and warns against downloading it from third-party sites, because such copies often carry malware. Treat any site or app telling you to install Flash Player to play a game as a warning sign.
Probably, at least to start. In our test of 509 Flash games in Ruffle, 504 started and drew a working screen. That does not guarantee the whole game works: one game passed the test and then failed in its own menus. Ruffle is improving quickly, so a game that fails today may work later.
The games were never deleted. A Flash game is a self-contained file, and what disappeared was the player that could run it, once browsers removed Flash at the end of 2020. Read how we restored our archive for the full story.