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

It was linked on one of the many recent gender politics threads and nice things were said, but if we are saying less nice things over here then I'll note that the shaving levels reminded me of the possibly more graphically sophisticated ZX Spectrum classic Advanced Lawnmower Simulator

(I do realise that neither the graphics nor the gameplay were the point and that's OK)

http://pr-if.org/event/apollo-18/

They Might Be Giants 'tribute album' except each track is an IF game instead of a song.

excellent :)

Ha. I like IF, I really don't like TMBG - to download or not to download?

This from their page is quite neat, too:

http://pr-if.org/doc/play-if-card/play-if-card.png

wow. i am all in on that one!

Only tried a handful of the fingertips games and Mammal so far, I think knowing the songs might help? Not only with knowing what to do but also with getting any enjoyment out of what then happens. But yep, I love these.

I was talking about this game with zappi yesterday; I really do think it's one of the best free online games: The Asylum

can't play at work but i already <3 the comfort pillow crocodile, hope it's in the game and not just a logo.

oh i played that a long time ago and can't remember if i enjoyed it or not. i definitely love the idea of it.

anyway, will revisit.

more ipad but still free and on the TMBG tip: http://toucharcade.com/2012/03/26/daniel-johnstons-space-ducks-an-interactive-glimpse-into-the-art-and-music-of-daniel-johnston/

Comfort pillow crocodile is very much in the game, don't worry ledge.

NV, yeah, it's pretty old, but they put in a new character last year so probably worth replaying.

i'm not sure there was an English dub when i played it so that might be v. helpful

Treasure Adventure Game (windows only) is quite good. Shame about the five-minute unskippable intro sequence.

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/treasure_adventure_game

http://browserquest.mozilla.org/
curious to try

i updated its thread recently but no responses - do any of you ever check in on kingdom of loathing? i played a bit in 2009, checked back in recently and they've revamped a lot. they've also added these challenge runs which are normal game progressions but with wildly different skill sets and limitations. super addictive.

man i haven't thought about KoL in forever

I used to play obsessively, but (kind of like Glitch?) it seemed to be an all-or-nothing thing for me. Couldn't just check in for a coffee break. Probably haven't played for a couple of years... Could check back in again, I guess.

Check back in and try the Avatar of Boris run. It's a lot of fun.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/superflat/lone-survivor-demo

aesthetics are great but i found that pretty annoying

http://seb.ly/demos/MMOsteroids.html
xpost to game lolz

also - http://www.mapstd.com/

mmosteroids is remarkably stupid and kinda great.

does anyone know of any dece dungeon crawlers free to play

GOG doing free Fallout for 24 hours, get it now
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout

very nice

only for windows :(

i think you can find a free download of mac fallout, somewhere, on the internet

not if u have 10.5.8 and an intel mac

Katawa Shoujo is the best game i've played in this or any other year; download the album if you don't have the stamina for the game

just starting to go through "don't take it personally" mannnn

pretty amazing: http://unmanned.molleindustria.org/

― s.clover, Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this one is pretty interesting and unnerving

somehow got addicted to this flash mmo topdown shooter kind of thing, Realm of the Mad Dog

every 20 minutes or so there's a huge earthquake and all of the players are transported down to the pit of hell in this giant mob to make a run at the evil lord of doom or whatever, nabbing crazy xp bonuses all the way as a team.

er, Realm of the Mad God.

Mad God 4040

it's kind of chaotic to figure out what to do during the first 15 minutes or so, similar to Minecraft, but soon progress seems intuitive

it's pretty fun, and seems to have gotten better in the last year. i could easily see sinking too much time into it, but.. i won't

Killed by a Great Lizard, actually two of them. Seriously, if you see one of the red dots on the minimap moving quickly in a circle, avoid them.
The game's basic combat kind of reminds me of Sinistar - I used the old tricks of finding the boss, then running away while firing, all the while holding down the fire button to take out any minions in the crossfire.

I always have a lot of lag in games like this. the WASD ends up sending me in the opposite direction I push.

It's pretty fun when you can hook up with someone else to slay a boss or two (the game encourages you to do it by giving you big exp bonuses when you're near other players), but often i can't keep up with the roving mob because i'm old man zach these days. still, multiplayer roguelike!

wow, that is ADDICTIVE i think i need to not play it.

you get it

ugh, can't stop playing. it's an unnerving game because once you're a road or two into the island, the action is pretty relentless. it's always on the edge between manageable and chaos.

ok that game is neat and I spent way too much of this weekend on it, thank you

I am quite bad at it tho, or at least I'm quite bad at knowing when I'm out of my depth when wandering round the map (sometimes you see a new enemy and think "ok this dude is totally badass and I am foolish" and then they barely graze you, and then after that happens 5 times and you think "well I guess I need to find tougher guys to match my awesomeness" you suddenly turn a corner and go from full HP to 0 quicker than you can remember which slots have healing potion in)

I am also quite bad at steering around with one hand on WASD and the other aiming on my shitty laptop mousepad, going from doing that to looking at items or pressing 1-8 without something suddenly appearing and killing you is difficult, have no idea how anyone manages to chat as well

lol old woman lacks coordination required for gaming

my problem is that i can't see the mouse cursor on the screen. i'm always losing it, especially when i'm in a massive 20-person train running around a loop on a road.

/grandpa zs

oh yeah, in big crowds I can't even tell which character is mine, which combined with the lagginess of big groups makes it a bit too easy to run right into a bad guy and then stand still under him going "uh"

(or find that suddenly everyone else is 6 screenfuls away and I don't know where I'm going)

but the game is neat and I am just complaining abt my lack of coordination in the hope that someone will go "actually there is a magic single keypress that will solve all your problems!"

or sth

one thing that has been helping me is stashing away equipment for other classes in the vault. that way when you start out as a fresh character after dying, you can eq yourself with decent shit before heading out as a level 1

Oh god, I foolishly clicked through this thread again and it resulted in me playing straight through Abobo's Big Adventure. Which was definitely entertaining although really frustrating in a couple of places...I mean of all the things to take from Mega Man they went with the instant-death lasers!? Final boss fight was also kind of annoying...but satisfying when you finally pull it off. Lots of good gags along the way...maybe not the masterpiece it promised but definitely transcends the postmodern collage thing it shoots for.