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

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.

http://www.stencyl.com/game/play/12347
!!!!!!!!!!!^

Haha, I played this earlier today. I had to quit after the second busy one where they all move when you do.

Charming concept, sort of don't get how it's a game after a certain point - like once there's a million dots and the controls are so counterintuitive as to be random, then I'm basically just hitting the keys and hoping eventually the lucky dot hits the center. Like it's so soothing as to be a screensaver except also really sort of frustrating on a physical level.

ha i spent aaages playing realm of the mad god when 'working' on my first paper

the difficulty is keyed to altitude, moving inland is always towards the mountains which is where the boss monsters are; following roads keeps you on more or less the same difficulty

when i was playing it ppl were not managing to trigger the end-of-the-world bit every 20 minutes. but mb they have got better. i don't think i ever managed to hit the end-of-the-world boss tbh

Using the word "best" loosely:

http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/

best!!

wow, that's a thing

"fack foug dife" ("fuck your wife") 76%

More zombies:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/krangGAMES/i-saw-her-standing-there

cute

so this is interesting (it has an Emily Short story already) tho it seems kinda limited:

http://varytale.com/books/

Yeah, I'm playing the Emily Short one, which is quite nicely written, though I'm not entirely sure what my aims will bring (I'm attempting to become more worldly while simultaneously practising my spelling) or if I honestly care, and I'm confused about whether the progress of months means anything... and the limit on actions is just frustrating here - while I can understand larger game worlds using it to stop someone burning through the content too quickly, if these are individual stories then why are they limited so tightly?

to entice you to spend money i guess

Well, yep. But there are ways of making that happen that don't seem so cynical and artificial, surely? I bloody hate the 'freemium' model, I must say - the loosening up of Echo Bazaar's turn count has definitely improved play to the extent that I don't really mind the limitations, but this strikes me as something that should either be sold as a game in itself (and I'm sure it'd do fine on the iphone app/kindle/reader market) or done entirely for free, not forced into shitty freemium that is likely to make me hate everything to do with it in the end.

applying the time-unlock pay model to a choose your own adventure... wonders never cease

not really a game, but still pretty damn awesome. chrome required. basically a synchronized synth jam session

http://labs.dinahmoe.com/plink/

Is anyone else playing I Wanna Be the Guy Gaiden? I'm at the buzzsaw shaft on 1-2.

I got past that part, but I need a break.

oh jesus he made another one?

Yeah, it's kind of fun. I barely played the first one, but I can already say this one is better. It's less unfair, anyway.