Spirit Snare

Play Spirit Snare online — a free ghost-popping arcade game that runs right in your browser with no download needed. You are a lantern-carrying ghost hunter trapped in a moonlit graveyard, and the only way out is up. Bouncing spirit orbs drift overhead in long, looping arcs, and your weapon is a spectral chain that you fire straight up into the night. Every hit splits an orb cleanly in two — and you have to keep splitting until the smallest wisps pop out of existence and the graveyard falls quiet.

The catch is that a big orb never just disappears. Pop the largest will-o'-wisp and it bursts into two mid-sized ghosts; pop those and you get four small ones; and the small ones move fastest of all. Suddenly a calm screen becomes a storm of bouncing light, and you are dodging arcs while lining up the next shot. Smaller orbs are worth far more points, so the real skill is herding a tier together and popping them back-to-back: chain the same size over and over and your score multiplies ×2, ×4, then ×8. Powerups tumble from burst orbs to help you survive — a twin-chain shot, a protective shield, a four-second freeze that stops every spirit dead, and the rare extra life.

Ten hand-tuned levels carry you from a single lazy orb to a finale crowded with platforms, timers and a whole graveyard of spirits at once. A per-level countdown keeps the pressure on, lives let you recover from a bad bounce, and your best run is saved on your device so you always have a number to beat. Cleanse the graveyard, chase a perfect chain combo and climb the leaderboard.