Destroy Any Website: How to Play, Weapons & Tips

What Destroy Any Website is

Destroy Any Website is a free browser game that does exactly what the name promises: you give it a URL — any URL — and it rebuilds that page as a retro, 90s-arcade world that you then demolish piece by piece. It grew out of nowhere in late September 2026, racked up news coverage in a dozen countries within days, and became the reason "web page destruction" is now a genre rather than a one-off joke. It was made by Hugo Duprez, a France-based developer known for the Sprite Fusion pixel-art tool, and it plays entirely in your browser: no download, no account, nothing to install.

The appeal is easy to explain and hard to resist. The page you load keeps its real title, its real headlines, its real layout — just redrawn as chunky pixel blocks with a tiny stickman standing on top of it. Then you pull out a pistol. Whatever website logo is on your screen at that moment, watching it come apart under a rocket launcher hits a nerve that plain sandbox games never quite reach.

How to play, step by step

1. Open the game and paste a URL. Any http/https address works if the game can fetch it. There are also a few built-in pages if you just want to start wrecking immediately.
2. Wait a few seconds while it builds the level. The page is fetched, sliced into blocks and reassembled as a physics world. Text-heavy pages load fastest; gallery sites and video platforms can take a moment longer.
3. Move and aim. You control the stickman with the keyboard (WASD or the arrow keys, with a jump/hover on the space bar) and aim with the mouse. Fire with the left click — or a mouse button — and experiment; the game is forgiving.
4. Watch the destruction meter. A counter tracks how much of the page you have flattened. Smash enough blocks and it climbs toward 100% — that's the "complete" state the game nudges you toward. It is not a time trial; there is no losing.
5. Respawn the page if you want a fresh run. You can usually reset the level and try a different URL whenever you like. Nothing is saved, nothing carries over — every session is a one-off.

The arsenal, briefly

The game keeps you supplied with an escalating set of weapons — you start small and the toolset grows as you play. Expect the familiar ladder: a pistol and submachine gun for picking blocks apart, a shotgun for close work, a rocket launcher when you want columns to disappear, a rail gun for satisfying straight-line demolition, and a flamethrower for setting whole banners alight. Later phases push you into deliberately absurd, "too much" territory, with effects that flatten most of the screen at once. Half the fun of a new URL is finding out which weapon the layout deserves: sniper the navigation bar, hammer the article body, nuke the newsletter popup.

Multiplayer: destroy one page together

Destroy Any Website ships with online rooms, so a small group — up to about half a dozen players — can pile into the same web page and wreck it cooperatively (or competitively; the game does not judge). It changes the rhythm: with several stickmen hunting the last intact blocks, the destruction meter fills much faster, and the last 10% becomes a miniature team sport. If you want to play with friends, create a room and share the code; if you'd rather have the page to yourself, solo mode is the default.

Practical tips (learned the loud way)

• Pick pages that load light. Simple, text-heavy sites (news, wikis, blogs) rebuild fastest and frame-rate best. Video-first pages often come out chunkier than the real thing.
• Wikipedia is a meme for a reason. Long, structured and instantly recognizable — the perfect canvas for the genre.
• Work top-down. Gravity does a surprising amount of your demolition for you; collapse upper structures onto lower ones.
• Load-bearing elements first. Find the big containers — hero image, sidebar, cookie banner — and everything piled around them falls with them.
• Play full-screen. The game is much easier to aim when your browser's own UI isn't competing with the pixel one.
• Don't fight the loading screen. If a page is taking more than a few seconds, chances are it's too heavy — pick a lighter page instead of refreshing in a loop.
• Then go destroy your own site. If you have a blog no one reads, watching it come apart is the most attention it has ever had.

Is any of this actually harmful?

No. The game builds a copy of the page inside its own canvas — the real website is untouched, unaware, and never even receives a request from your demolition session. Pages behind a login can't be loaded at all, and nothing you smash is transmitted anywhere. The whole genre is elaborate, joyful theater: the page is the pillow, the rockets are pretend. Read more about how the games work and what else to play in our genre hub, or jump to the closest rival, Page Rage, if you want a smoother, jetpack-flavored take.