Cartoon Network-style Games

Switch forms mid-level; each alien has a different jump or attack.

Ben 10 Alien Onslaught

Ben 10 Subway Ultimate Alien

Ben 10 Alien Match

Ben 10 Match 3 Cards Alien Force

Ben 10 Alien Alert

Ben 10 Alien Run

Flip pairs of cards with the cast on the back.

Ben 10 Memory Time

Ben 10 Matching The Memory Cards

Ben 10 Memory Cards Universe

Ben 10 Matching The Memory

Ben 10 Memory Universe

Ben 10 Memory Alien Force

Tap to jump, swipe to slide, the road gets faster.

Ben 10 Run Adventure

Ben 10 Space Run

Ben 10 Alien Run

Ben 10 Super Run Fast

Ben 10 Island Run

Ben 10 Christmas Run

The other cartoon channel

Every game here is a fan-made or inspired title from a licensed third-party provider; none is an official product of the network, and nothing on this hub is affiliated with or endorsed by it. The label collects games whose title names the channel or one of the casts most tied to it: a boy with an alien-transforming watch, a blue cat and his goldfish brother, a human boy and his stretchy dog in a candy kingdom, three superpowered kindergarteners, a pair of park groundskeepers and a boy with a gem in his belly. Where the rival channel's fan games lean toward preschool puzzles, this shelf is a little older and a little faster: runs, shooters, memory boards, penalty shootouts and find-the-difference frames sit alongside the coloring pages.

The alien-watch hero dominates by sheer count, and his fan games are the most varied: endless runs, side-scrolling shooters where each alien form has a different attack, a tap-to-fly plane, a world-rescue mission across a small map, hidden-star hunts and memory grids. The cat family is next, mostly in sports minigames and picture puzzles, and the candy-kingdom pair turn up in platform adventures and coloring pages. The fan games do not replay the episodes; they borrow a face, a color scheme and a signature gadget and attach them to a browser genre that already existed. He has his own hub at Ben Ten-style games, and the cat family at Gumball games; the candy-kingdom pair are gathered under Adventure Time-style games and the teen heroes under Teen Titans-style games. The preschool channel's fan shelf lives at Nickelodeon-style games if you have the wrong network in mind.

Runs, shots and puzzles

The moving games come in a few reliable shapes. A run puts the hero on a scrolling road with a tap to jump and a swipe to slide, coins for score and a faster pace until a gap or a drone ends it; the alien-form runs let you switch character mid-run for a double jump or a dash. Shooters are side-scrolling or top-down, with a hero who fires at waves of robots or aliens and a health bar that does not regenerate. A penalty shootout with the blue cat is a swipe to curl the ball past a keeper. A handful of titles borrow the cast for a kart race, a rescue mission across a small map or a fall-through-platforms drop. The run games hub has the whole runner genre with every other hero, and shooting games the same reflexes without the license.

The still games are the same tools that turn up on every cartoon shelf. Memory grids flip pairs of cards with the cast on the back and count your turns; find-the-difference boards count taps between two near-identical frames and hide the last difference somewhere small; coloring pages fill with a bucket or a brush; jigsaws cut a scene into a chosen number of pieces and time the assembly. They suit the youngest players, need no reading and cannot be lost, which is why they make up a large share of the shelf. Some fan titles borrow only a name and a color scheme, and a few are the same game published twice with a different face on the box, so quality varies between studios; the popular row below is a better guide than any thumbnail, and the game page says what each one is. The memory games and coloring games hubs hold the plain versions with every theme.

Categories:ShootingMemoryColoring

Keys, thumbs and who it suits

On a desktop the runs and shooters use the arrow keys or WASD with the space bar to jump or fire, and the alien-form games add a key to switch forms, which is the first thing to learn because each form solves a different obstacle; on a phone the runs are a thumb and the shooters put a fire button under the other one. The puzzles are tap and drag on both, and a mouse is as good as a finger. Art is flat cartoon frames, so loading is quick even on mobile data, and nothing installs or asks for an account. Sessions are short: a run lasts until you fall, a memory grid a couple of minutes, a shooter level a little longer, and progress in the multi-level titles usually saves in the browser so a rescue mission can be picked up where it stopped.

The shelf skews slightly older than the preschool cartoon hubs. The alien-form shooters have explosions and a health bar, the runs need real reflexes, the penalty shootouts need a feel for a curling swipe, and a few fan titles borrow the cast for a fight, so a quick look at the game page is worth it before handing a phone to a very young child. The memory boards, coloring pages and jigsaws are the safe end and belong just as much to kids games, where the character stops mattering and the tool is the point. For the same run-and-jump feel with original heroes, the platformer games hub is the wider shelf and usually the better-made one, and the fan tradition around another cartoon cast, a cat and a mouse who have chased each other for generations, is collected under Tom and Jerry games.

Categories:Platformer