Paste any web address, then run through it as a stickman with a shotgun until the headlines are rubble. Six friends can help.
What it is
Destroy Any Website takes a web address, rebuilds that page as a pixel-art level and drops a stick figure with a gun onto it. The headline, the paragraphs, the images and the boxes are all solid and all breakable. A demo is already running behind the front page, a famous online encyclopedia's own article about stick figures being shot to pieces, and the address box is prefilled with that page. Type a different one and press Destroy.
How to play
A and D run, Space jumps and tapping it again flips, holding it turns on a jetpack. S drops through a platform. The mouse aims, left click shoots, right click lobs a grenade that lands on the cursor. The number keys or the scroll wheel switch between ten weapons on a hotbar: pistol, submachine gun, shotgun, rocket, railgun, flamethrower, a parachute bomb, a gatling drone you fly for about twelve seconds, and two very silly ones. A progress bar in the corner tracks how much of the page is gone, and the end screen offers to keep going on the rubble or type a new address. The site says multiplayer puts everyone on the same page, where what one player breaks is broken for all: quick matches take up to five players for ninety seconds, private rooms take up to six on any website the host picks, first to ten kills.
What makes it different
The level is the website. The game slices the page's text into letters, about four thousand on the demo page by its own loading screen, and the site describes weapons that shred text, cut trenches and set letters on fire, so a wall of text is there to be carved up. The layout is the real one, down to the header and the tabs. The site also offers a badge for your own site, which it says opens the game on that page when a visitor clicks it.
Why it is on Bored
Everyone has a page they would like to shoot at. This hands them a stick figure and a shotgun. The demo is already running when you arrive, the address box is the only setup, and ten weapons are enough variety to make a second page worth loading.
Tips
- The prefilled demo address is a good first target, it has a lot of text
- Hold Space to fly, that is the jetpack
- Right click drops the grenade on your cursor, so aim it at a dense paragraph
- Switch weapons with the scroll wheel
- The pause menu has a background switcher
FAQ
Is Destroy Any Website free?
Yes. The publisher's own tools are plugged in the header and on the end screen, and that is the only commercial element. No ads and no cookie banner.
Do I need an account?
No. A sign in button next to a rank bar is there for people who want the extra skins, which the page says are free with an account and open up as you rank up.
Does it work on a phone?
The site says it plays in any browser on a computer or a phone. The controls listed on the page are keyboard and mouse.
Does it end?
Yes. A progress bar tracks how much of the page is gone, and a Website destroyed screen offers to keep going, load another address or play online.
Does it have sound?
Optional. There is a Sound toggle in the pause menu.
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