By Kavita Mistry 
Waiting for an email or passing time until your software installs? You would generally pick up your phone in such spare times and hop onto your PC as soon as everything is done. But what if I tell you that aside from your smartphone, there are plenty of websites that can easily help cure your boredom. No matter whether you are waiting for your plane at the airport, or taking a journey across cities on a bus, these websites are so amazing that you can even use them when you want to kill time.
The best part is that you might not even know about these websites until now. But that’s what TechPP is good at — bringing stuff that is interesting. In this guide, we have listed down eight of the best websites to cure boredom and something that you can use to can use for fun, time pass, or whichever way you like. Let us jump right into it.
Best websites to cure boredom
GeoFS – Flight Simulator
Want to fly the world, but at your own convenience and in your own plane? While in real life, it is only possibly by your hard work, there is a website called geo-fs.com that can help you achieve that virtually. You might have heard a lot about the Microsoft Flight Simulator, but that requires a good CPU and GPU in order to run smoothly. If you don’t want to go through that hassle and spend that much money, you can simply try geo-fs.com. This website was created in 2010 and used Google Earth for maps. Fast-forward to now, GeoFS makes use of CesiumJS, an open-source platform, letting you fly your plane in a virtual world.
This website is available for free and as soon as you open the website, you will be welcomed and a quick brief will be provided on how you can play this game. You don’t need to log in to play this game, and you will see all sorts of information dial on your screen to smoothly glide in the sky. You get the option to choose your aircraft (from 30 different options), location, camera angles, and play radio. The website also shows the number of people flying their aircraft in real-time. A great way to explore the world virtually, from the skies. You can even enjoy this game with your friends and connect Discord for voice communication and messaging.
Tough Love Arena – Indie Fighting Game
If you love those Street Fighter-style side-by-side games, then you would find Tough Love Arena interesting. It is a web-based indie fighting game that gives you interesting characters (6 in total) to play and fight with. Playing this game do bring back old memories when games used to be playable with only a few buttons. The controls for this game are straightforward and the goal, beat the enemy. But the fun part is that if you are a pro, then there are several button combos that you can uncover and master.
Tough Love Arena is available to play for free, but the Steam version is a bit better because you get all events, skins and boss characters unlocked, works without the internet, Steam-exclusive skins (coming soon) and the gameplay is smoother and loads up a bit faster. The website version also lets you play locally versus other players, versus CPU, training mode and event mode. Once you hit the play now button, the servers will try to join with you with a player and from there its up verses them.
Draw a fish – A digital aquarium
Ever wanted to have an aquarium with your favorite type of fish that you can watch and admire? Well, draw a fish aims to do that, not literally, but virtually. There are different versions of this “Draw a fish” term, but whichever one you pick or visit, it lets you create a fish of your choice and watch it swim in the community tank. You can vote on the best fish in the tank, and watch your fish interact with other fishes. No matter how bad you have drawn the fish, thanks to AI, it will be transformed into a nice fish.
You can also interact with the fish. A left mouse click will change the direction of the swim, whereas the right-click anywhere on the tank will feed the fish. There is a dedicated fish ranking system where you can see which is the most popular fish, voted by the community members. That’s all you can do with this website.
Bongo Cat – A Cat that types as you type
Small things do bring a smile, which you will feel when you install Bongo Cat. Recently, this free-to-use desktop app gained traction and everyone on Reddit was talking about a cat that lives on your desktop and mimics your keyboard typing. This free clicker game is available on Steam and GitHub, where whenever you type or click, the cat baps the counter.
What’s the catch? You have to accumulate points that you can use to unlock hats and other cosmetic items for the cat. Bongo Cat is available for free on Steam, and the app description says it is a “friend while working hard.” You can move the cat anywhere on the screen and will bap the counter as soon as you start typing and clicking the mouse.
Slow Roads – Drive you worries away
Slow Roads is a fun web-based game that lets you drive in an open world with no restrictions. You can drive a car in an open road with no ending along different scenic setups. The best part is that you can choose the weather, switch between seasons (fall, winter, spring, summer), or even drive the car in other planets such as Mars, Venus and the Moon. You can change the time of the day and even change the landscape. Not only a car, you can ride a bus or a covered bike and choose between different drive modes such as AWD (All-Wheel Drive), FWD (Front-Wheel Drive), and RWD (Rear-Wheel Drive).
You also get a boost feature that you can use to rev the car up to climb the hills or achieve a top speed with your vehicle. You can drive in the field, chase the sunset, or just kill time while your important thing complete booting. Inside the settings menu, you get to tweak a lot of settings such as change the driver side, show steering wheel, change the camera view, tweak the units, etc.
Drift Hunters – Drift to collect coins
If you love car racing games, and especially doing drifts, then you would be glad to know that there is a website to cure boredom by doing drifts. You heard it right. No downloads, no sign-ups, nothing. Simply head over to the website and start drifting. If you want a dedicated app, then you can download them from the App Store or the Google Play Store as well. Launching the game shows you different options in the home page where you can change cars, tweak the car engine and performance, change the appearance of the car and in-game settings.
To unlock cars and other customization items, you need to drift a lot to collect points. Clicking the “Race” buttons shows you the different maps where you can drift your cars and earn points. The controls are simple, you need to use the arrow keys to go forward and backward and hit the space button for hand brakes. The drift happen automatically as you pick up the pace, but it can be a bit challenging to master. Overall, a great time killer.
Townscaper – A game with no goal
Casual games are the best. First you won’t like their concept, but as you start playing you start to admire their simple concept. Townscaper is also one of such casual games where there is no aim or goal. All you have to do is create colorful towns simply by tapping on the sea. The algorithm automatically identifies the blocks you have placed and converts them into houses, arches, stairs, or bridges.
There is no winning or losing. You just have to go on and built a town with cathedrals, canals, or curvy streets. Tapping on top of a block, makes an empty block, where you can tap further to establish a house. Clicking on the same structure again and again builds a new structure on top, ultimately building a multiple-story building. This is a free, browser-based game, but you can download it via Steam for PC.
MapScroll – Discover hidden gems along your route
If you love exploring different places but hate doing research or going through multiple websites, then you should check out MapScroll. It makes use of AI to let you create itineraries based on the famous locations of a place. The best thing is that all you need to do is enter a simple prompt, such as “All major pyramids in Egypt” and it will show you all the locations. You can use this information to plan your travel to Egypt and make sure that you don’t miss out on any of the main pyramids for those Instagram posts.
You also get information about the major attractions along with photos and a short history. It is a great tool to uncover hidden gems. For instance, although I’ve lived in London for so long, there are so many attractions around the city that none of my friends (living since birth) know about. MapScroll works for all countries of the world and not only famous attractions, but you can choose highlights based on events, activities, and landmarks. Notably, you do need to sign in in order to use MapScroll.