404 adventure

How to play 404 adventure

You clicked a banana bread recipe and got a 404 instead, and now the website will not let you leave. Every scene is a broken page: dead links, cookie banners the size of cathedrals, a chat bot named Blipp, a carousel nobody has ever finished. Tap a link to follow it. Risky clicks drain your connection signal and smart ones restore it, and if the signal hits zero you go offline for good. Some options only appear when your signal is strong. Find one of the many exits, or one of the stranger fates, and see your ending on the result card.

Tips

• Be nice to bots, from chat bots to routers, kindness opens hidden doors
• The comments section is always a trap, no matter how confident you feel
• Reading the fine print pays off more here than anywhere on the real internet
• There are over forty endings, most escapes hide behind curiosity

About 404 adventure

404 adventure is a choose-your-own-adventure set inside every annoying website you have ever fought with. It stitches the worst of the web into one big broken labyrinth: refresh loops, newsletter guilt trips, 94 pages of cookie preferences, footer cities, spam folder princes and a live chat bot who just wants a friend. Every click either drains or restores your connection signal, and losing it all strands you offline with a tiny pixel dinosaur. The fun is in the endings, over forty of them, from graceful escapes to getting delivered somewhere as a miscellaneous data packet. Web developers will recognise every joke and everyone else will recognise every frustration. Runs take a few minutes and no two paths feel the same. Free, no login, and yes, the exit really was next to the signup form the whole time.

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