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They have almost nothing in common beyond the look, so the useful question is what you are in the mood for rather than which is best. Neon Breaker is the most familiar - a bat, a ball and a wall of bricks - and it is also the most configurable, with a sandbox mode that lets you change the rules while you play. If you want somewhere to start without learning anything new, start there.

Neon Rise and Neon Void are both endless climbs with no finish. Rise is the gentler one: you bounce automatically whenever you land, so all you ever do is steer in mid-air. Void is the hardest thing in the collection by a distance - you grapple onto orbs and swing, and the boost only counts if you let go while you are still travelling upward.

Neon Core and Neon Catch are the two short ones. Core is a defence game played around a centre point, and Catch is a pure reflex test. Both are the sort of thing you play in a spare two minutes rather than settle into.

The entire set is six HTML documents and nothing else. No images, no sprite sheets, no music, no sound effects, no libraries. Every glow, every particle and every note you hear is calculated by the browser as it runs.

That is unusual enough to be worth pointing at, and it has a practical upshot: the whole thing loads almost instantly and works the first time even on a poor connection, because there is nothing to download beyond the page itself. It is also why the audio is a synthesiser rather than a soundtrack - the games are generating tones live, so the sound reacts to what you are doing rather than looping underneath it.

The trade-off is a house style you cannot escape. All five look like the same game at a glance, which is fine once you know they play nothing alike, but it does make the collection harder to browse than it should be.

Four of the five let you choose Easy, Normal or Hard before you start, and the choice is made inside the game rather than on the hub. Picking Easy in Neon Breaker or Neon Rise is a reasonable way to learn what a game wants from you before committing.

Neon Void is the exception. It offers Normal and Hard only - there is no easy setting, and its Hard mode makes the side walls lethal on top of everything else. If you have not played it before, expect early runs to end in seconds, and treat that as the intended experience rather than a sign you are doing it wrong.

Best scores are stored per game rather than across the collection, so there is no combined total to chase and no reason to play all five if only one of them appeals.

The menu screen is styled as a terminal, complete with scanlines and a readout along the edge reporting system status, memory and network state. Almost none of that is real - the memory, network and security lines are decoration, part of the cyberpunk framing rather than anything measured. The frame rate counter is genuine.

Worth knowing so you do not go looking for meaning in it. The hub does one job, which is opening one of the five games, and it keeps no scores or settings of its own.