Fakeout is a free browser game: two teams of four steer balls around a top-down map, each side trying to steal the other's flag and carry it home. Movement runs on real momentum instead of a fixed walking speed — you accelerate, coast, bounce off walls, and have to brake on purpose to stop. There's no download and no account required. Open the page, hit Play, and you're in a match.
Where it comes from
Fakeout is capture the flag at full tilt. All thirty maps are Fakeout originals, and the movement model was calibrated against recorded ranked matches — per-axis acceleration, drag, speed caps, and bounce behavior measured from real play, not guesses. The other twenty-eight shipped maps (Grease Trap, Tarpit Mid, Skate Park, Cold Storage, Undertow, Proving Ground, Deadbolt, Thicket, Redline, Tremor, Warp, Gambit, Portcullis, Foundry, Caltrop, Maelstrom, Apogee, Dyson, Saltworks, Husk, Backdraft, Crescendo, Afterburn, Yaw, Relic, Slipstream, Overcast, Recoil) are built around oil, tar, gravity wells, bounce walls, team-directional speed pads, portal rotations, gate-and-button chokepoints, and Drop Bomb pickups — or, for Proving Ground, deliberately none of them. It is a from-scratch build with the things players always wanted around a flag game: a real tutorial, drills, daily goals, progression, replays, and bots good enough that a match is always full.
Built by one person
Fakeout is a solo project. That means updates come in bursts rather than on a fixed schedule, and it means every decision — the physics, the maps, the moderation rules — was made by one developer trying to build the game they wanted to play. If something's broken or missing, say so.
What you get today
- Two shipped modes — CTF and Neutral Flag — on thirty maps.
- A profile that starts in your browser — make a free account and your level, achievements, cosmetics and online match record follow it across devices.
- Full key remapping and a moderated chat system.
- No ads, no tracking, no account required.
Curious how the game actually plays? Start with your first capture.