Google has released a Chrome Experiment, titled Chrome Super Sync Sports, that turns mobile devices into controllers for games in which the action takes place on a PC’s screen.

The games offer simple running, cycling and swimming variants, none of which are conceptually too far beyond the “mash a button as fast as you can” genre Reg readers may recall from classics like the running events in Daley Thompson’s Decathlon.

The games don’t ask for fine motor skills – the cycling game we played called for us to draw circles with two fingers – and won’t interest even semi-serious gamers for more than a few minutes.

The fact it is possible for up to four players to play against one another does at least make the games a social experience, and a nicely open one given the games need only Chrome rather than insisting on Android.

The experience of syncing a mobile device with the games is simple and there is no perceptible lag between on-mobile actions and on-screen action. Graphics are bright, simple and pose no threat any console.

The games continue Google’s efforts to promote Chrome by showing off games, HTML 5 and alternate interfaces, after it last year offered a series of upper-lip-controlled games in support of Men’s health charity Movember. ®