Seven consoles, running in the browser on whatever screen you have — a big screen, a laptop, the phone in your hand. Everyone else joins with a code, from the room or from anywhere.
Big screen, laptop or phone
It runs where you open it.
Phone as controller
Scan the code. That's it.
Two players, any pads
In the room or anywhere.
Cloud saves
Your run follows you.
7
Consoles, playable now
2
Players per game
60fps
On the screen, or on your phone
∞
Nostalgia
Built for players
One app, straight from the browser: open playagain.app/host on the screen you play on and add it to the home screen. Phones join by scanning — nothing to install on them.
A big screen, a laptop, or the phone in your hand — the emulator runs where you open it, laid out for that screen rather than shrunk down to it.
The controller opens with the camera already looking. Point it at the code on screen and you are in — nothing to type, nothing to pair.
Phones, a DualSense, an Xbox pad, a keyboard — mix them in one session, in the room or anywhere with a link. Two-player consoles seat two; a latecomer scans the code on the pause menu and takes the free slot.
Drop your files into a folder in your own Google Drive and they appear with their real cartridge names and box art, on every screen you sign in on.
When the big screen cannot keep up with a PlayStation game, the game runs on the phone in your hand and streams its picture and sound to the screen, peer to peer. The host measures itself and offers this before the download starts. Single player, same Wi-Fi.
A big screen has no keyboard, so the host shows a code: scan it with the phone you are signed in on and the screen is signed in too — your library and saves follow. Sign a screen out again from your account settings.
An instant save state for the bit that just killed you, cloud saves that carry a run between screens, and 2× fast-forward for the grind — hold L3 on a pad, or press R3 to latch it.
Get playing in seconds
Visit playagain.app/host on a big screen, a laptop or a phone. That’s the whole install — or add it to the home screen and it is an app.
playagain.app/controller opens with the camera already looking: point it at the code on screen and you are in. Or pair a DualSense or Xbox pad straight to the host.
Pick a game from your Drive library, or load a file from the device. A second player on any pad, saves that follow you, and 2× fast-forward for the grind.
Game night, any night
Create or join sessions in seconds. Invite friends with a link and jump into epic retro battles and co-op adventures — no one has to be on your couch, or your Wi-Fi.
Invite with a link
Share a link or code and bring everyone in.
No same Wi-Fi needed
Friends join from anywhere — internet is enough.
Join mid-game
The code is on the pause menu, so a latecomer takes the next slot without anyone quitting.
Phone, PlayStation or Xbox
Everyone brings what they have. Pair a pad to the screen — or to your phone, which relays it.
Legendary games, iconic consoles
NES
.nesup to 2 players
Playable nowSNES
.sfc · .smcup to 2 players
Playable nowGame Boy
.gb · .gbc1 player
Playable nowGame Boy Color
.gbc · .gb1 player
Playable nowGame Boy Advance
.gba1 player
Playable nowGenesis
.md · .genup to 2 players
Playable nowPlayStation
.cue · .binup to 2 players
Playable nowNo store, no downloads, no waiting. The screen in front of you becomes a retro console the moment you open it.
Sign in with Google on the host to carry your Drive game library & cloud saves everywhere — or jump in without an account.
Good questions
Not from a store. Open it in a browser and you are playing. If you want it on a home screen, the console at playagain.app/host installs straight from the browser as an app. Phones never install anything — they scan the code on screen and become controllers.
NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Sega Genesis and PlayStation — all playable now, all running in the browser on the screen in front of you.
Yes. The console runs on a phone too, with on-screen controls over the picture, and anyone who scans your room code joins as a second player. A phone with no big screen is still a game night.
Yes. Pair a DualSense, an Xbox pad, a Switch Pro or an 8BitDo to the screen you are playing on and it takes a player slot, named as the pad it actually is. It drives the menus too, so you never have to reach for a remote. A keyboard works the same way, and any of them can share a session with phones.
Pair the controller to your phone instead. Some hosts claim a Bluetooth pad for their own software before any web page sees it — so the phone you are already using as a controller relays the pad to the host over the link it already had. Nothing to set up: pair it, press a button, and the phone shows which pad is driving.
Yes. The join code is on the pause menu — press it and it grows to something scannable from the sofa. Whoever scans it takes the next free slot, and a controller already playing steps aside to make room. Nobody has to quit the game to let a friend in.
No — an internet connection is enough. Your phone pairs over the cloud, so friends can join your session from anywhere with a link. The one exception is running a game on your phone and streaming it to a slow screen: that goes peer to peer, so those two devices do need the same Wi-Fi.
PlayAgain measures the screen the moment the lobby opens. If it cannot hold 60 fps, pressing Start offers to run the game on your phone instead and stream the picture and sound to the screen — same saves, same pause menu. Single player, and the phone and the screen need the same Wi-Fi.
You play with your own game files. Drop them into PlayAgain/roms/<console> in your own Google Drive — the folder tells us which console a file belongs to — and they appear on any screen you sign in on, with their real cartridge names and box art. Zip, 7z and RAR archives open on their own, and PlayStation discs need no BIOS file. Nothing is stored by us and nothing is distributed.
Yes. Battery saves sync to your Drive as you play, so a run started on the host carries on from a phone. There is also an instant save state in the pause menu for the bit that just killed you.
PlayAgain is free to start playing. Premium extras like expanded cloud saves may come later — game night itself stays free.
