Three.js Website Examples That Aren't Portfolios
Search for the best Three.js websites and you'll mostly find portfolios. They're worth a look—we have our own roundup of those—but they're only a slice of what people are building with WebGL. A lot of the most interesting Three.js work isn't a developer showing off their CV. It's the website itself: a story you scroll through like a film, a game you can play in the browser, a world built around a product or an album.
So this is a list of Three.js and React Three Fiber sites where the experience is the whole point. No about page, no project grid—just things worth opening in a new tab and losing a few minutes to.
The Monolith Project / themonolithproject.net
The Monolith Project feels more like a short film than a website. It's a scroll-driven story built with Three.js, React Three Fiber and GSAP that runs across thirteen scenes, moving from hand-drawn sketches into fully lit 3D worlds. The look owes a lot to Moebius and 2001: A Space Odyssey, and it holds that mood the whole way through. The technical side is serious too: a custom shader framework, a GPU particle system and a custom renderer, all of which creator Ethan Chiu wrote up in detail on Codrops. If you want to see how far React Three Fiber can go, start here.
Messenger / messenger.abeto.co
Messenger, published by Abeto and built by Vicente Lucendo and Michael Sungaila, is a small browser game where you play a young mail carrier delivering parcels around a tiny round planet. It's also multiplayer: you'll spot other players exploring the same world and can wave at them with emoji. It runs on Three.js with three-mesh-bvh, models made in Houdini and Blender, and WebSocket multiplayer on Node.js. What's impressive is the restraint. The whole game loads at 5.7 MB and tops out at 17.5 MB, so a rich 3D world never turns into a huge download. It picked up an Awwwards Site of the Day.
Egg Hunt by Merci-Michel / egghunt.merci-michel.com
Egg Hunt is a simple, very replayable timing game from Merci-Michel, the Paris studio that's been making web games since 2012. You click to dash between floating rocks and grab golden eggs, and good timing earns you speed bonuses that quickly turn into a high-score chase. It's built with Three.js, WebGL and GSAP on top of the studio's own engine, with assets made in Blender. There's no tutorial and no menu, just one tight little loop that's hard to put down. It also won an Awwwards Site of the Day.
Mola Zone (Yamê) / mola-zone.com
Mola Zone is the site Studio 9P built for French-Cameroonian artist Yamê's album Ebêm. Instead of a static page, it drops you onto a rotating platform where Yamê rides a motorcycle while the world scrolls past, shifting between the desert, forest and palace settings from his short film. You can hop on the bike in a mini-game, hunt for easter eggs in the scenery, and unlock extra content as you go. Every environment was modelled and textured in Blender. It's a good look at how musicians are using Three.js to turn an album into a place you can explore rather than just a tracklist.
Equinox / equinox.space
Equinox invites you to take an interactive story among the stars. It's a space adventure from Little Workshop, a studio that's been working with Three.js for years, and it leans on atmosphere and pacing rather than spectacle. The interaction, sound and timing all serve the story, which is part of why it won an Awwwards Site of the Day. Together with The Monolith Project, it's a good reference if you're thinking about how to build a longer narrative in WebGL without losing people along the way.
What ties these together
The common thread isn't the tech, it's the intent. None of these exists to list someone's skills. Each one uses real-time 3D to tell a story, sell an idea, or just be fun to play with. For developers, that's the interesting part: studios like Merci-Michel and Abeto, and solo builders like Ethan Chiu, show there's real demand for Three.js and React Three Fiber work well beyond the portfolio.
If that's the kind of work you want to do—or hire for—take a look at the Three.js developer roles and React Three Fiber jobs on the board, or see how the best developers present themselves.