Shark Games

Swimmers, boats and beaches on one side, a fin on the other.

Fish Rescue Go - Shark Attack

Shark Attack-Casual

Shark Attack 3D

Imposter Attack solo Killer

Shark Attack

Predator or prey

Nearly every shark game answers one question first: which side of the teeth are you on? On the predator side you steer the shark through a bay or an open sea, eating fish, then seals, then whatever floats by, growing with every meal and losing health when you go too long without one. The loop is greedy and satisfying and it is the reason the tag exists. On the prey side you are a swimmer, a surfer, a diver or a small boat, and the shark is the thing chasing you; those play as runners and dodge games, and the score is how long you last.

The eat-and-grow loop is the same one the survival games shelf and the fish tanks on the fishing games hub run on, and the shark is simply its most charismatic version. The wider sea — dolphins, whales, turtles — is on the animal games hub.

Categories:Animal

A narrow theme, so a short and mixed shelf

This is one of the smaller hubs on the site, and it is honest to say so: a shark is a subject, not a genre, so the shelf mixes an arcade chase with a coloring page with a full 3D simulator, and the quality spread is wider than on a genre page. The simulators are the heaviest and the most complete — a sea to roam, missions, a growth tree — and they control with WASD or the arrow keys plus a boost on the desktop and a virtual stick in landscape on a phone. The flat side-view chasers are the lightest, steer with a single thumb or the mouse and are done in a minute.

The online tanks where the sharks are other people belong with the io games family, and the quick chasers with the rest of the arcade games shelf. For a child, the cartoon chasers and the coloring pages are fine; the realistic simulators show blood in the water and their own pages say so.

Categories:.ioArcade

Where the shark shows up elsewhere

The fin turns up in more genres than the tag can hold. Surf and jet-ski runners with a shark behind the board are endless runners at heart and sit with run games; harpoon and spear titles where the shark is the target belong with hunting games; the giant sea creatures that tear through a city are cousins of the monster games shelf, and the prehistoric versions share a bay with the dinosaur games crowd. Shark coloring, shark jigsaws and shark trivia are on the coloring games and puzzle shelves rather than here.

If you came for the growth loop and ran out of sharks, the fish-eat-fish tanks and the survival hub carry the same idea with different animals; if you came for the fright, the horror hub is the place, because nothing here is built to scare so much as to chomp.

Categories:Coloring