So you decided to stay safe, stay home and not get anyone, or your self, caught in the COVID-19 pandemic.  Or, you just got back from a trip or spring break and you need to self-quarantine for two weeks.  What do you do with all that time and no money since you squandered it on food and drinks during your break.   How about some FREE FUN software to play with and kill a bunch of time? Those two weeks will be gone in a flash and coronavirus will be no where to be seen by the time you are done checking out this list.

Stellarium

This is a FREE open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.  A virtual universe at your fingertips that lets you stargaze from any location and time. Check out easy to find constellations and other information about any object in the universe.

SpaceEngine:

A a realistic virtual Universe you can explore on your computer. You can travel from star to star, from galaxy to galaxy, landing on any planet, moon, or asteroid with the ability to explore its alien landscape.  This is a very aesthetic program, but far more demanding on resources. It also generates random planets and galaxies so all stars have something orbiting around them. There are more objects like nebulas, and black holes  There is a paid and FREE version.  To get the free version click this link: http://spaceengine.funix.cz/engine/latest/SE-0980-setup.exe, or go to the download page by clicking on the button below.

Powder Toy

Have you ever wanted to blow something up? Or maybe you always dreamt of operating an atomic power plant? Do you have a will to develop your own CPU? The Powder Toy lets you to do all of these, and even more!

The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances! The game provides you with various building materials, liquids, gases and electronic components which can be used to construct complex machines, guns, bombs, realistic terrains and almost anything else. You can then mine them and watch cool explosions, add intricate wirings, play with little stickmen or operate your machine. You can browse and play thousands of different saves made by the community or upload your own – we welcome your creations!

Little Alchemy

A simple but addictive game. Start with four basic items and use them to find dinosaurs, unicorns and spaceships!

Little Alchemy 2

Mix items and create the world from scratch! Discover interesting items accompanied by funny descriptions and lose yourself exploring the huge, exciting library!

GeoGuessr Free

A geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings.  Think you’re a geography expert? Test your knowledge with BBC Travel’s Geoguessr – the game that proves how well you know the world! Once the player is ready to guess the location, they will place a location marker on a zoomable map. After the placed marker is submitted as a guess, GeoGuessr reveals the true geographic location and assigns the player a score depending on how far away the player’s guess was from the true location.

Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress is a part construction and management simulation, part roguelike, indie video game. It consist of a construction and management simulation of a colony of dwarves. There are no objectives, with the player being free to decide how to go about managing the colony and making them interact with the environment, thus making it an open-ended and sandbox-style game.

Tanki Online

Tanki Online is the first flash-based online 3D action game. It has received a number of prestigious awards, including Site of the Day at Favourite Website Awards, Best Game Without a Publisher and Best Technology at KRI 2009, Best Technology at Russian Flash Awards 2009 and Best Game of Russian Internet at the Runet Prize in 2013 and 2014. Hundreds of thousands of players all over the world have already joined Tanki Online. To do the same, just go to tankionline.com and start playing! For those of you who are on Android smartphones or tablets, you can download a mobile version of the game from the Google Play store.

Trimps 

A resource management, incremental game developed by GreenSatellite, where players control a society of impish creatures called Trimps. With them, the player must venture through zones and maps, defeating a plethora of bad guys in order to obtain loot and unlock upgrades to further their advancement as a society. A journey of conquest and discovery awaits you!  The game is completely open-source. Click on the external links to either play on Kongregate or the main Trimps site.

Bored Button

I am bored. I’m so bored. I’m bored staying home. I’m bored to tears. I’m bored to death. Do you find yourself saying any of the above? If so, you’ve reached the right website. Clicking the red button will instantly take you to one of hundreds of interactive websites specially selected to alleviate boredom. So go ahead and give it a try. Press the Bored Button and be bored no more.  Tap the Bored Button and start your journey into series of games specially selected for you. A new addictive game will always be ready for you to play with every tap in just seconds.

Universal Paperclips

The user plays the role of an AI programmed to produce paperclips. Initially the user clicks on a box to create a single paperclip at a time; as other options quickly open up, the user can sell paperclips to create money to finance machines that build paperclips automatically. At various levels the exponential growth plateaus, requiring the user to invest resources such as money, raw materials, or computer cycles into inventing another breakthrough to move to the next phase of growth. The game ends if the AI succeeds in converting all the matter in the universe into paperclips.

20Q.net Inc.

20Q is a computerized game of twenty questions that began as a test artificial intelligence  (AI). The principle is that the player thinks of something and the 20Q artificial intelligence asks a series of questions before guessing what the player is thinking. This artificial intelligence learns on its own with the information relayed back to the players who interact with it, and is not programmed. The player can answer these questions with: Yes, No, Unknown, and Sometimes. The experiment is based on the classic word game of Twenty Questions, and on the computer game “Animals,” popular in the early 1970s, which used a somewhat simpler method to guess an animal.  I tried it and it correctly guessed what I was thinking of…mind blown!

Cookie Clicker 

It is an “incrementer” game, as proclaimed by Orteil. The point of the game is to bake cookies by clicking on a giant cookie until you have enough cookies to buy upgrades. The seemingly endless gameplay makes it a game that can last an indefinite amount of time, or at least until your device can no longer run it.

Chrome Dino Game

T-Rex Dinosaur – a replica of the hidden game from Chrome offline mode.

Game About Squares

A challenging game about squares .

Freerice 

Kill time by answering incredibly easy vocabulary questions, each right answer donates 10 grains of rice to the World Food Program.  Please don’t ask me how you can be sure that 10 grains of rice gets donated? I don’t know, just don’t exhaust the rice grain supply, okay?

Every Noise at Once

Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 4,182 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2020-04-07. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.  Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like.  Click the » on an artist to go to their Spotify page.

Radiooooo

The website allows visitors to  time travel, using an interactive map,  to tune in to music from all over the world through the decades! Enjoy discovering different cultures and their music!

Radio.Garden

Lets you tune into over 8,000 stations from around the world . Travel a way to a faraway places and a listen to what the world has to offer.

So I lied about the 10 thing, here is more…

Sporcel 

Play thousands of free online trivia quiz games. There is a fun quiz about virtually every topic imaginable: Geography, History, Sports, Music, TV and more

Chrome Music Lab 

Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments. It lets you make and share your own songs. Cross device compatibility – phones, tablets, laptops – just by opening the site on a web browser such as Chrome.