You can now destroy your least favorite website, thanks to this free browser game

In brief: There have probably been times when a website – hopefully not this one – has sent you into a such an apoplectic rage that you just want to literally destroy it. Now, a new free browser game lets you do just that, at least visually, and have a ton of fun while doing so.

The game, aptly called Destroy Any Website, puts you in control of a heavily armed stickman who can walk, jump, and hover across almost any website while destroying it using an array of weapons.

To its credit, the game involves more than shooting holes in a screenshot. Individual letters can be knocked loose, while chunks of the page break away amid flying debris, sparks and smoke. Text and interface elements provide surfaces for your stickman to run and jump across – it's all very addictive and satisfying, despite the simplicity.

To select a website, just paste the URL into the game, or you can try the demo page or Wikipedia.

The controls use the familiar A/S/D keys (or arrow keys) to move, space or W to jump and hover, while the mouse aims and fires (right click for grenades). There are seven weapons at your disposal: Pistol, SMG, Shotgun, Rocket, Railgun, Flamethrower and "Too Much," which fires a parachute-attached projectile that produces multiple smaller bomblets.

The objective is to blast a webpage until the destruction meter hits 100%. But more fun can be had in the multiplayer mode, where it's a race to reach the room's kill target. You can set up a game and invite friends to take part on the main page.

Destroy Any Website is the work of France-based Hugo Duprez, a design engineer at Craiyon. Published by Duprez's own Sprite Fusion, the game doubles as a showcase for the company's pixel-art generator.

There are obviously a lot of comparisons between this and classic Flash games (RIP), from the way you play instantly from a webpage with no installation to the simple controls and even the stickman. Adobe announced Flash's retirement and encouraged developers to move to technologies such as HTML5 in 2017, though the actual shutdown happened a few years later.