The Best Free Online (in-browser or downloadable) Games

fly guy

kind of twee and pointless but I like it.

Continuity is clever, but after four levels it's enough.

That's about as much as I played.

First Person Tetris
http://firstpersontetris.com/

(hey this is fun! hang on ..... ewww ..... barf)

That is fierce. Clever too. Night Mode is just ridic. Also it appears to have fucked my eyes up.

ya know, turning on "night mode", it actually is kind of a good base for other puzzle game. probably one i've already played and can't remember...

It makes me go cross-eyed.

barf is right, uuuuuuugh

genuine nausea. don't know how it does it.

not barfing but kept getting my 'L' shapes mixed up.

GNOP: http://bitbattalion.com/games/gnop/

Cannot get enough of canabalt. You run, you jump. http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/

gnop was cute

Canabalt was fun for a couple runs but the rando factor becomes quickly obnoxious - every time you die, it's to a beginner's trap. Basically a whole game of the classic platformer annoyance "in real life, i would KNOW there was an enemy/pit/wall just off the screen!" But as with, say, Dino Run (or Sonic the Hedgehog for that matter), I *love* the sense of constant forward momentum.

Level Up! was kinda cool though (the one caek links as "fun little platform RPG"). Ending was BS but the basic gimmick is cool - could def see it being sustained over a larger game, the Majora's Mask of platform RPGs. At this length you kind of max out way too fast and there's not much to do with your mad skillz but I could sort of imagine a Metroidvania-scale game like this being really cool. Plus I like the general look-and-feel of it.

Canabalt is better on the iPhone

anybody playing vvvvvvvvvvvvv?

not free!

i thought the demo was at least.

http://mattmakesgames.com/games.php
top left corner is runman

(I used to play the jumpman games)

http://np.ironhelmet.com/

real-time (but super-slow) 4x space empire game, super simple and browser-based but incredibly intriguing. Would love to get an ILXor game going.

More info:
http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2010/02/column_battle_klaxon_the_i.php

Basically plays out like the board game Diplomacy, sort of.

looks really intriguing but complicated

u say real-time but super slow - does that mean u can play-by-mail?

ILG folk already hip to this, but worth listing itt: www.onlinegames.com/basketball/

addicting playable one-click fun

there's an ilx competition url as well.

here go:
http://www.onlinegames.com/basketball/?lv9tnjssoq

u say real-time but super slow - does that mean u can play-by-mail?

No, it's browser based but real time. to play by mail it'd ahve to be turn-based... it has the same PACE as a play by mail game does though

http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/rowowor.html

Addictive. 3-letter minimum, can't repeat words. 6900.

7705. i got 3000 pts for "aurated" though.

95 lol

would be better if it didn't keep showing adverts between games, i got fed up of that after my third game

This is strangely addictive but not reusing words is annoying, I just died because I left myself with just a choice between two single words and went for one I'd used already - if you've played tens of rounds already and played more than one game in a row, how are you supposed to remember what words you have and haven't used in that game?

Clockwords Prelude on Kongregate (is a very different kind of word game but) lets you repeat words for a severely reduced score, which I'd prefer here too.

(pissed off cz last time round I fluked two 7-letter words - the scoring for those makes the handful of points for everything else seem ridiculous, the first one got about 3500 and by that point I'd been playing for several minutes and only just reached 1000 in total - and then accidentally closed the window)

9090. Knowing the short scrabble words helps.

I call that one "dud" - I like the crappy find-a-word games (Word Whomp, Text Twist) b/c even though their dictionaries are sucky and incomplete, there's not really a PENALTY for them not knowing a word that you do...whereas here, "rabe" got me a game over. How was I to know they don't know what broccoli rabe is?

pretty sure it's using TWL

12420. Never touching this again.

http://armorgames.com/play/5379/sushi-cat

great gameplay here:
http://www.e4.com/game/steamshovel-harry/play.e4

god these INSTRUCTIONS

When I started this game Harvest just started, and I'm on "Are You Ready for the Country?" and I STILL haven't been allowed to play!

wait...ahahahahahahaha

aw man I got punk'd, where's Ashton?

Sushi cat is too short.

yeah, steamshovel harry is all about the music really.

great game, that steamshovel harry

the physics are crazy

hah, i love brad sucks

rowowor is a dud. didn't know "doula," but did give me several dumb short words that i'm almost certain are made up. liked the concept, but the dictionary blows

sushi cat was fun, and exactly the right length

steamshovel harry made me lol, the final boss was amazing

"physics are gonna kill you harry"

gonna take a gun and shooooot you in the face

Does steamshovel harry ever get paste the intro/tutorials?

It does take a while, but man, once it does you are FLYIN, crazy.

I gave up halfway through the national anthem. Never again.

Definitely some of the most innovative gameplay I've ever experienced.

That's too bad, because it FINALLY starts a little bit after the national anthem.