Samsung TV / game / NO INTERNET
REVIEW
No Internet ports the Chrome dinosaur to a Samsung TV remote.
GameLabTV's free Tizen title is a transparent homage to Chrome's offline T-Rex runner — same silhouette, same cactus parade, now controlled by the OK button on a Samsung remote.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
No Internet is a free Samsung TV game that does not pretend to be anything other than what it is: the Chrome browser’s offline dinosaur runner, rebuilt as a native Tizen app and mapped to the OK button on a Samsung remote. The pixel-art T-Rex, the cactus silhouettes, the pterodactyl that arrives once the score climbs — all of it is a recognisable transplant, and GameLabTV has not tried to disguise the source.
That transparency is most of the appeal. The download is free, the install is small, and the game loads without a sign-in or a network check. A single button jumps, a hold extends the arc, and down on the d-pad ducks. Latency on a recent Samsung Neo QLED is tight enough that timing feels fair. The death screen restarts in one press.
What it cannot escape is that the source material is itself a five-minute novelty designed to fill the gap between a dropped Wi-Fi connection and its return. Stretched to a 65-inch panel, the same loop is still a five-minute novelty — just one with a larger surface area. For a household with kids, a party guest who wants something to do during an ad break, or a Samsung owner who wants to know what their TV’s game tile actually contains, No Internet is a fair five minutes. Past that, the ceiling is exactly where the inspiration left it.
No Internet does not pretend to be anything other than a Chrome dinosaur on a 65-inch panel, and that honesty is most of what it has going for it.
FEATURES
No Internet is a single-button endless runner. A pixel-art dinosaur trots along a horizon line, cacti scroll in from the right, and the player presses OK on the Samsung remote to jump. Hold longer for a higher arc. Down on the d-pad ducks under low-flying birds once the score crosses a threshold and the speed ramps. That is the entire input vocabulary.
The visual language is lifted directly from Google Chrome's offline T-Rex game — the same 1-bit silhouette dinosaur, the same prickly-pear cacti, the same dotted ground line and pterodactyl sprites. GameLabTV has rebuilt that runner as a native Tizen application rather than a browser embed, which means it loads from the Samsung Apps tile and runs without any network handshake.
Scoring is local-only. There is no leaderboard, no account, no cloud save, and no analytics-style telemetry visible to the player. High score persists across sessions on the same TV. Difficulty ramps by speed alone — no new obstacle types beyond the cactus-and-bird pair that the Chrome original established.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The honesty is the achievement. No Internet does not dress itself up as an original IP, does not bolt on a battle pass, and does not gate the experience behind a sign-in screen. It is free, it loads in under three seconds on a 2023 Samsung Q60, and the single-button mechanic maps cleanly to a TV remote — which is the part Chrome's original never had to solve for.
Latency from OK-press to jump animation is tight enough on tested 2022 and 2024 Samsung panels that timing feels fair. The hit boxes match the sprites, the death animation is immediate, and the restart is one button press away. For a five-minute fill between streaming sessions, that is a workable shape.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The ceiling is low. There is no two-player mode, no alternate dinosaur skins, no day-night cycle past the one Chrome introduced years ago, and no achievement structure to give the score a reason to climb. A high score above 1,000 is the entire long-term goal and most players will hit it inside an hour.
More structurally, the game is a clone of a free in-browser title that anyone with a phone or laptop can already play. The Tizen version's only real argument is "now on the big screen with the remote you already have," and that argument is thin once the novelty fades. A handful of original obstacles, a cosmetic unlock track, or a daily-challenge seed would turn this from a curio into something a household actually returns to.
CONCLUSION
Install it for the kids, for a party-bored guest, or for the thirty seconds it takes to remember what a Chrome dinosaur looks like at 65 inches. Do not expect to launch it a second time next week. GameLabTV could turn this into a real Tizen casual hit with a few honest additions — for now, it is exactly what the name says, and exactly as deep as the inspiration it borrows from.