ByteBuffer — Casual games in the side panel

Casual games in Chrome’s side panel. Cache them on your device, play offline, and close the panel with one keystroke.

ByteBuffer puts easy little games in Chrome’s side panel. When you need a short break, you don’t have to leave the page you’re on. Open the panel, pick a game, play a round, then close it with one shortcut and get back to what you were doing. Games you’ve played are cached on this computer, so they still work offline. What’s new in 0.2.1 • New games: Pixel Post and Light Rain Breaker. • Switch the game list to an icon view so every game fits on one screen. • “Recently played” remembers up to 8 games, so you can pick up where you left off. Games • Merge 2048 — slide tiles, merge bigger numbers, stop anytime. • Minesweeper — uncover the board cell by cell. Think before you click. • Stack — tap to drop a block. See how high you can go. • Snake — grow longer and beat your own high score. • Buffer Type — type along with the word stream and find a rhythm. • Pixel Post — a nonogram puzzle. Fill cells from the number clues and build a pixel stamp. • Light Rain Breaker — aim and fire. Let a rain of balls smash the bricks. Why the side panel Games sit beside the page you’re already looking at. No new window—the layout is made for a narrow column. Alt+Shift+B opens or closes the panel (Option+Shift+B on Mac). Alt+Shift+M mutes. Remap both in chrome://extensions/shortcuts. Scores and saves stay on this device. No account, no ads. How to start 1. Click the ByteBuffer icon in the toolbar, or press Alt+Shift+B. 2. Choose a game. 3. Press Alt+Shift+B again when you want to get back to work. ByteBuffer is for the gap between tasks: a short break, then back to it. Privacy The extension sends anonymous usage data to Google Analytics, including: opening the side panel, which game you open, how long that game stayed in the foreground, and when a round starts and ends (level or mode, win or lose, a length range, moves, hints and undos, and a rough progress range). It does not collect accounts, browsing history, exact scores, or saves. Games load from play.bytebuffer.app, which we operate. See https://www.bytebuffer.app/privacy