About SortFun

What is SortFun?

SortFun is a curated library of free online sorting games. We focus on the family of puzzles where the satisfaction comes from arranging things into the right order — pouring coloured water between test tubes until each tube contains a single shade, pulling balls out of mixed stacks, unscrewing nuts and bolts to match by colour, untangling parked cars, or stacking shapes until every pile is clean. If you have ever lost ten minutes to "just one more level" of a sort game, you already know the feeling we are trying to collect.

Every game on the site plays instantly in your browser on desktop or mobile. There are no downloads, no pop-up installers, and no account sign-ups. You click a thumbnail, the game loads, and you start sorting. Browse by mechanic, by mood, or jump into the newest arrivals.

Who runs SortFun

SortFun is run by a small independent team of puzzle-game enthusiasts and indie developers — not a venture-backed media company and not an affiliate farm. The site has been live since 2019 and is operated day-to-day by Marvin (lead editor and developer) along with a couple of part-time reviewers who actually sit down and play through levels before a game gets published. Between us we have shipped mobile and web games, worked in front-end engineering, and lost an embarrassing amount of time to water-sort puzzles in the name of "research." Every page on this site — descriptions, how-to-play steps, tips, FAQs — is written by a human on our team, reviewed before publication, and updated when the underlying game changes.

We are reachable. If you want to know who wrote something or why a game is on the site, email [email protected] and you will get a reply from an actual person.

Why we built it

The web is full of "free game" portals, but most of them bury the good titles under ads or throw hundreds of random categories at you with no editorial direction. We wanted a site where the homepage makes sense: a short list of the newest sorting puzzles, tidy category pages for the subgenres we actually care about (water sort, ball sort, parking sort, screw & bolt sort, shape sort, colour sort, object sort, number & letter sort), and enough written context so you know what you are clicking before you click it.

SortFun is funded by display advertising so it can stay free to play. We do not sell user data, we do not require accounts, and we do not run pre-roll video ads on individual games.

Where the games come from

SortFun's catalog is licensed from reputable HTML5 game distribution networks, chiefly GameDistribution and similar partners. That means the developers who build the games get credit and paid through the distributor's revenue share, and players get titles that are safe to load, free of malware, and tuned for browser play. We embed each game in its own frame, add our own write-up — how to play, tips, features, and a short FAQ — and organise everything into categories and topics that make browsing faster.

We do not claim ownership over third-party games. The SortFun name, the category pages, the written explanations, the layout, and the site design are ours. The games themselves belong to their respective developers.

How we choose and review games

Not every sorting game is a good sorting game. Before a title lands on SortFun we play through a handful of levels and ask a set of questions: Does the controls-to-challenge balance feel fair? Is the difficulty curve believable or does it spike into an ad-wall after level five? Do the visuals avoid dark patterns? Does the game load quickly on a typical mobile connection and respect the player's time between rounds? Titles that do well on those checks get published. Titles that feel like reskins, are broken on mobile, or beg you to watch a 30-second ad between every level get left out.

We review the library on an ongoing basis. Broken embeds get removed within a week of being reported. Games that start injecting aggressive interstitials after a publisher update get pulled. Our editorial descriptions are refreshed whenever a game ships a significant update. If you spot something out of date, tell us — the Contact page or a direct email is the fastest path.

Editorial independence

We do not accept payment to rank, feature, or review games. Nobody pays to be on a category page, nobody pays to be in the "featured" shelf on the homepage, and there are no sponsored slots hidden in the grid. When a game appears on SortFun it is because the editorial team decided it belongs there based on the criteria above.

Revenue comes from standard display advertising served alongside the catalog (disclosed in our Privacy Policy) and, in a smaller share, from the revenue split built into the third-party game distribution networks we license from. That revenue share is paid to us and the game's original developer regardless of how a title performs on our site — it does not change when we promote a game. See our Terms for the full rules of the road.

Our sibling sites

SortFun is part of a small network of niche browser-game sites we run, each focused on a single genre instead of trying to be an everything-portal:

• PhyFun — physics-based games and ragdoll puzzles.
• 2PlayerFun — couch-multiplayer games you can play on one device with a friend.
• LumiGameLab — educational games across geography, memory, and science.

Get in touch

Found a broken game, want to suggest a title, noticed a factual error, or have feedback on the site? Please visit our Contact page or email us directly at [email protected]. We read everything and usually reply within a couple of business days.