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

braid-like: http://armorgames.com/play/12409/one-and-one-story

minesweeper but with levelling up: http://www.hojamaka.com/game/mamono_sweeper/en.html

^ that i like

hasn't been released yet, but O_O

http://youtu.be/mTBXvP89Now

awesome.
what's the levels? i count mega man, zelda, double dragon, river city ransom, pro wrestling, urban champion, mario, contra, balloon fight and elements of goonies(?), kid icarus, castlevania, mike tyson and kung fu.

man, that's some trailer!

http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/letsplayancientgreekpunishment/LetsPlayAncientGreekPunishment.html

Modern Greek Punishment - Press F5 to refresh ILX!

http://armorgames.com/play/10912/space-is-key

i know i should do it again, to try to beat it with less than 221 deaths this time, but...i think i hate myself now

been having a lot of fun with Uplink lately

http://www.abobosbigadventure.com/fullgame.php
It's here!

sweet

have we talked about Echo Bazaar! yet? it's very cool:

http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2012/02/01/what-precious-treasure-will-you-find-in-echo-bazaar/
http://echobazaar.failbettergames.com

http://jmtb02.com/coinbox-hero/

amazing

Oh, hey Mordy, I've been playing Echo Bazaar for a little while. The thing that annoys me most is the stuff that requires co-op play, so if you fancy being a buddy on there I'd be grateful.

For sure -- how do we friend up on Echo Bazaar? My ILX name is the same as my EB name.

I use my twitter account. Would rather not post it up here, so might not find you until after this weekend as I'm currently away from my normal computer.

Sent u a message.

erg. when are people gonna stop doing this required facebook/twitter connect junk

after fb/twitter stop being so popular i guess

by then tho you'll have to connect to your neurally implanted identity facetime-wall chip

synapse-poke!

i will stab you

that's how you poke in post-apocolyptic desert ranger wasteland facebook. post messages in gecko entrails

http://katawa-shoujo.com/

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/590255

i think i'm bored of Echo Bazaar

more "adult" visual novels btw:

http://tss.asenheim.org/index.php

I read a review of Echo Bazaar that said that they managed to make the game overall incredibly interesting, but each individual play session incredibly boring. I think that's kind of right. I still like it, though.

i haven't bothered for a couple of days now and don't feel that inclined to carry on. it's well written but i think i don't really like this kind of "come back every day and click a couple of options and grind yr stats so you get new options to click" gameplay

I've been playing semi-obsessively for like a week and even as I'm aware of the boring mechanics I really want my dude to make a name for himself

I need Echo Bazaar friends, can I interact with you guys or would we have to be twitter-following each other?

idk I think we can be in each other's cliques w/o twitter but as far as I know cliques ain't do shit

omg, i played Sisters' Story and Runaway City when i was 15! + season of sakura i think. oh shit, and Ring Out! where is True Love tho? for sure the best eroge VN of the bunch!

i don't know why i'm so excited to excavate this incredibly awkward and embarrassing stage of my life...

cos we all miss being 15 no matter how awful it was at the time?

i see on the side of the page that the reason True Love isn't up there is bc they're finding it too complex to convert into javascript.

i think the save game system mightn't work too well which is a pain

my vote for biggest disappointment of 2011 in coint + plick was a pseudo-homage to all these late 90s erotica visual novels

"Date Ariane" is promising a visual novel sequel this year

coint + plink winner 2012 right there ^

did anyone here actually play Katawa Shoujo? the press totally scared me off, not the subject matter

i haven't yet. tbh idk anything about it except a) free b) VN style? c) runs on Mac

from what I understand it's about moe disabled characters (amputees, burn victims) who are apparently treated with some semblance of human dignity instead of creepily fetishized so it's gotten good press for that, but I also happen to know some of the devs are 4channers and because of my deeply-ingrained loathing for that set I'm reluctant to play it

i've played the first three quarters of an hour or so, it's ok. the 4chan connection is purely coincidental as i understand it

I dunno, I think you can treat characters with some semblance of human dignity in a way that it still creepily fetishistic. The site seems to do that, to me. So I'm guessing the game does too.

*that is still

Meh, I don't know. I've played it a bit and it seems... well, mostly boring? I enjoyed Don't Take It Personally, Babe, but I'm not sure I like most visual novels. This one, in particular, there's just way too much text that seems pointless - reiterations and redundancies (how many more times do I have to click through conversations about the way this girl concentrates when she runs? Grrrrrr), telling not showing, and also some characterisation that is contradictory. I could accept that if it worked as a game, but it is so long between interactive elements that surely it really needs to concentrate on the novel aspect more than it does?

I know, I know, these things rely on tropes, and I'm asking too much... it's just... I don't get it.

nah i agree a lot of visual novels aren't interactive enough and suffer from wordiness, this is less interactive than most but the subject matter was of interest.