Play Nox in Your Browser

About Nox

Nox is an action role-playing game that Westwood Studios developed for Microsoft Windows. It was released in North America on February 16, 2000, published there by Westwood, and in Europe on February 25, 2000, published by Electronic Arts. John Hight, Mike Booth and Brett Sperry designed it, Ken Allen, Frank Hsu and Mark Skaggs produced it, and Frank Klepacki wrote the music.

The hero is Jack, a young man from Earth who is pulled into a high fantasy parallel universe. To get home, he has to defeat the evil sorceress Hecubah and her army of necromancers. At the start you choose a character class, Warrior, Conjurer or Wizard, and the game then follows one of three largely different linear storylines, each with its own ending. DOS.Zone’s description adds that each class has a very different style of combat and progression, and it mentions the game’s humor. The original release had both single-player and multiplayer modes.

How it runs in your browser

There’s no emulated PC behind this one. DOS.Zone runs Nox as a native WebAssembly build made for the browser: the page loads its own WebAssembly program from DOS.Zone’s content delivery network, with no js-dos bundle involved. How the build was produced is less clear, because DOS.Zone doesn’t say what source it was made from, and we can’t fill that gap.

Pressing Play opens dos.zone/nox in a new tab. You don’t install anything or provide game files, you don’t need an account, and DOS.Zone shows no ads. The listing has a rating of 5 from 38 player reviews.

A Russian-language version exists as well. In January 2026, DOS.Zone’s developer pointed a player on the site’s forum to a separate link for it, and said to clear the site’s data first if you’ve already run the English version.

The original game’s multiplayer isn’t offered on this listing, and DOS.Zone doesn’t describe save support, so check the game’s menus before a long session.

Controls and devices

Nox was designed for a keyboard and mouse, and that’s the setup to use here. The host’s page doesn’t list the controls, so look at the game’s own settings when you start.

DOS.Zone offers virtual on-screen controls on phones, but this game was built for a keyboard and mouse and we haven’t tried it on a touchscreen. A computer is the better fit, and Chromebooks haven’t been checked.

Who it’s for

It suits players who remember Nox from 2000 and want it back without reinstalling an old Windows game, and anyone who knows Westwood from Command & Conquer and wants to see the studio’s take on an action RPG. DOS.Zone’s own description sets Nox up as a rival to Diablo, so if you want to compare the two, Diablo runs in the browser as well.