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

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!

Nice one! Basically the first time I died in every quest I LOLed.

http://www.nitrome.com/games/tinycastle/

we should likely talk about tiger woods EA online.
Just wasted an hour. It's compulsive.

Haha, I was tempted to post about that. Continue to be impressed with the kind of stuff they can do in a web browser now (though it uses Unity) - wish Pangya was playable like this!

tinycastle was cool too but... too tiny

actual screenshot:
http://i40.tinypic.com/e0pzef.jpg

tiny castles is great; a half-hour well spent.

Tiny Castles really turned me off honestly - - awkward and unresponsive controls with a lot of classic platformer no-nos (delay between attack button and attacking, can't attack while jumping, can't effectively jump past a ladder, can't attack from ladders) and arbitrary non-puzzles where everything on the screen just sort of changes when you hit a checkpoint, no way to predict that and no real control over it anyway. I freely admit that this is sort of out of whack with my well-documented LOVE LOVE LOVE for "Ultimate Wizard" on the Commodore 64 but there you go.

Nice soundtrack though!

I liked it because it was quick and diverting (and free).

too small - messed up my eyes