New Browser Games of the Week: Monkeys, Ghosts and Merging

Escape games: haunted houses and a locked roof

This week's escape games lean spooky – with one refreshingly ordinary exception.

Break Free the Rooftop

You only stepped out for some fresh air, and then the roof door slammed shut behind you. In Break Free the Rooftop you search every corner, collect tools and keys, fix the fuse box and crack codes to get back down.

Creepy Hotel Escape

An old, elegant hotel – until night falls. In Creepy Hotel Escape the grand building suddenly feels haunted, and anything could be waiting behind the next door. Perfect if you like your escape games with a few chills.

Haunted House Tours and Theodor's Halloween Escape

Two more for the Halloween crowd: Haunted House Tours sends you into Cormac the Great's house of horrors, where there's no way back once you're through the door. Theodor's Halloween Escape is a cosier kind of creepy – the former butler needs help getting his mansion ready for a party, and there are hidden house ghosts to spot along the way.

Point and click: monkeys and hidden objects

Monkey Go Happy just keeps going. In Stage 1098 the two monkeys are floating weightless in space, while Stage 1094 is all about pumpkins, candy and an old crypt.

If you'd rather hunt than combine, there are two new hidden object games:

• Kingdom Mess: The kingdom is a mess. Find the well-hidden items before time runs out.
• Secret Hall: Hidden Objects: Mysterious halls full of objects from times long past. Stuck? The magnifying glass points you in the right direction.

Puzzles, tiles and merging

Plenty of new games for a more relaxed session:

• Merge and Harvest: Digital gardening – start with strawberries and merge matching fruit and veg to unlock new kinds.
• Cozy Tiles – Relaxing Picture Puzzle: A laid-back picture puzzle where you combine matching tiles and go for the star bonus.
• Twilight Onet Connect: Link identical tiles with no more than three straight lines and clear the board before the clock runs out.
• Halloween Treats and Fruit Blast: Two colourful match-3 games – one with spooky sweets, one with juicy fruit and boosters.
• Hot Pot Chef: Prepare orders by finding and cooking the right ingredients in a bubbling broth.

Action and speed

When you want something faster:

• Collect Million Coins: Grab coins, upgrade your skills and work your way up to a million.
• 99 Nights in the Forest: Gather supplies and build up your camp by day – and be ready for what comes at night.
• Demolition Derpy: Ram, don't brake. In the Derpy Dome, the last car still on its wheels wins.
• Extreme Formula Racing: Formula racing against the clock – reach every checkpoint in time.

Also new: Flash classics back in the archive

There's news from the Flash archive too. These old games run in your browser again, through the Ruffle emulator and without a plugin:

• Hapland – a single-screen puzzle classic full of stick figures and contraptions
• Tribal Prison Escape – break out of a gloomy tribal cave
• Mushroom Showdown – a physics puzzler with flying mushrooms
• Dummy Sneak Out – a crash test dummy wants out of the factory
• Ultimate Crab Battle – an underwater shooter against the giant crab king

You'll find every restored game among the Flash classics from A to Z.