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

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.

I love the way the gravity feels. Really seems like they got it just right.

Yeah, but fuck those guys with the reflective shields. It's kinda like, there's just ONE too many things to think about, balancing my jumps against the gravity, the changing rock size, grabbing rocks to throw (which changes the gravity situation again, holy shit!) throwing the rocks at the dudes AND they bounce off?! Awesome concept though.

on a similar tip:
http://progresswars.com/

wooooooooow, this is EPIC and i'm serious; hope someone runs with this idea:
http://gamejolt.com/online/games/platformer/specter-spelunker-shrinks/1865/

cool!

A+

http://www.molleindustria.org/runjesusrun/run_jesus_run.html

btw, finally beat specter spelunker; I hope that mechanic gets picked up for a full length

Is the joke that it doesn't work?

Got it working. :) Great game.

i like that the games i put up here after steamshovel harry are all suspect

Specter Spelunker was fun! I do have to say I don't love the 3D engine, which feels kind of incidental to the shrinking/growing gimmick... the 3D/perspective thing just makes it hard to figure out distances, which is a problem in a platformer. But beautiful concept.

yeah imagine an updated version with amazing graphics that you could zoom into at crazy magnification. has great potential.

Redder
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/529992

(xp) 3d engine?! did i miss a bit? only 3d bit i saw was the snowdome, i went into the house inside and the game ended.

it uses a browser-3d flash thingy, so yeah look at the edges of the scenery closely. also i think it's used for the zooming in technique.

the guy didn't really try very hard on the graphics - if you've seen other games done in Unity they're pretty impressive for web games (see everything done by Blurst, like Off-Road Velociraptor Safari and Time Donkey)

http://dai5ychain.net/breath/

yeah, i liked that!

twas cool

tedious

aw cmon, i beat it in like three minutes!

Yeah, just short enough for the cuteness to last and not long enough to go "is this all there is to this?" Nice thing.

http://www.skipmore.com/freegames/synopsis/synopsis.html

lots of 8-bit jrpg hilarity in this one

lol, particularly the sunken treasure level and "act like a hero"

yeah, act like a hero was great, just beat it. cool ending puzzle, too!