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

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.

I just got pile drived by Zangief.

pretty nice: http://games.adultswim.com/super-house-of-dead-ninjas-action-online-game.html

Hmmm....nice idea, seems like I'd be into some of the gameplay mechanics, but ughhh are those some slippery controls. Everything feels just a shade too <i>fast</i> if you know what I mean.

http://ncannasse.fr/file/ld24/ld24.html

Cute!

tedious!

Nice idea, but I hate how one touch from a monster kills you and sends you right back to the beginning. Although I suppose 'save points' appears as an upgrade somewhere further along.

sorta free, sorta pay-what-you-want. the demo was amusing. in association with piratebay?

http://mcpixel.net/

http://www.pica-pic.com

terrible retro handheld games collection

the port is great, actually. the games tho are as bad as you remember them!

Great site. They don't have the dual screen Mario Bros set in the factory, but that was a good game.
http://gamez-gear.com/ds/images/uploads/console_pic/game&watch/mariobrosgw.gif

http://www.kongregate.com/games/YoeriStaal/cloud-wars

pretty simple idea, but i like it. you take control of neutral or enemy clouds on the map. clouds gradually grow larger until they hit capacity. you can wait for them to "charge up" or just send them out to attack when they're not yet full. there are also bonus stars that you can collect that allow you to upgrade your cloud (capacity, speed of attack, recharge rate).

nothing mindblowing but well executed and a good way to kill 20 minutes.

Ha, yeah, that's nice. Virtually content-free but basically satisfying and I like the scenarios the levels set up.

Weird though - the hard mode apparently takes away the numbers on the clouds, which is kind of the basis of the game! "Hard" as in more mysterious and less winnable but not really a fair upping of challenge IMO...

http://twinbeardstudios.com/frog-fractions
lol

aaaaahahahaha that was awesome

i accidentally closed the tab right after i discovered the dragon let you swim down and acquire infinite fruit, but everything had gone so batshit crazy by then that i don't know if i could ever finish "wave 1" and do anything with it

this game gets very strange eventually

oh my god, that was insane. i had to stop when i got to the text adventure section, couldn't take anymore

I gave up when i dove underwater on the first Mars wave and the underwater tunnel just never ended

haha great thing is i can't tell if you're just making stuff up

the tunnel ends! I also got stuck on the text adventure section

Okay, wtf is going on here?