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

ok, when i got that thing to finally work it was awesome. contra + the expendables in a Cave Story-inspired engine, def. voting for it on Greenlight

Pretty fun! Strong concept, good sounds and blowing-up. Not sure how I feel about the basic mechanics of how you rotate between bros - seems to constantly happen right when you're getting comfortable with how to play as one of them. Probably would be way more fun if I had a D-pad...the controls are a little slippery. And where are the bosses?!

http://www.runestorm.com/viscera

baaaahahaha, that looks amazing!

I don't think any of Porpentine's interactive fiction games have been posted here, so I want to mention her haunting captivity narrative, Howling Dogs: http://aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/howling%20dogs.html
Her latest work, ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III was posted last night; it starts off as a whimsical parody of mid-90s "edutainment" games, and winds up somewhere more emotionally urgent: http://aliendovecote.com/?p=5360 (There's a detail in the images surrounding the link to the game that's necessary to play to the end.)

I find most of Porpentine's work terribly sixth form. She did do one recently that I liked, though, can't remember what it was called right now. I'll give the new one a go.

Also, I hate twine. Hate it hate it hate it.

yeah twine is almost not a game system imo

Yeah, I find most twine work really amateurish in the pejorative sense, but I usually find Porpentine's writing vivid enough to compensate for the simplicity of her games' mechanics and the weakness of their interactive elements.

lol "it's not a game"

Finished off BroForce, it got more fun as it went on and I got into the swing of it...interesting idea of a game mechanic, that you never get to hold on to one character/ability long, so it's about, at any given moment, with the character you have, solving the challenge you're currently facing knowing what you know about their skills. And on the (too-few) bosses, strategizing your use of the special moves, knowing you get a couple of shots of them and then you need to find another character quick. I could have done without all the "bro" naming, a little too cutesy IMO...and I never did figure out WTF to do with Blade. But overall pretty damned fun.

has this been linked?
http://joon.be/toy/pressx/

If we had an art game P&C that would definitely place. Very cool

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/622566

heh, cute.

uh

Flippery
7. judio90 112,509
6. Pkmn2 141,398
5. BludThursty 243,162
4. Jc45vd 364,635
3. GodOfFury 13,248,389
2. BananamanXD 108,640,075
1. zgamer49 2,147,483,647

it seems like every online game of all time has a high score list like that. the only difference is that only one person managed to break this one. usually the entire top ten is filled with hacked scores

This is cute but I find some of the design decisions baffling. Why can't I turn around? Why are there foreground people blocking the view so I can't tell what I'm doing? Why don't I know what score I'm trying to hit?

same guy, these are cute
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/618794

dig it

Oh, I played that other one - I like that more than pancake tossin.

Ok, you guys gotta play this.
http://www.holywowstudios.com/teachestyping/

on endless mode i fucked up bigtime and still got the top score of the day. bring it ilx

oh wait. i meant #4 of the day. bring it il...oh gawd. lordy

tried again #2 score of the day/week. and 4324 beers deep!

i actually got weirded out by typing that they own my browsing history and quit. otherwise, very awesome

I had to bail when it asked for an apostrophe, then wouldn't accept the apostrophe I offered it.

xp aw man you gotta finish the *story*

ha, that was cute. Not quite enough "there" but fine for what it is.

This is cute and fun and brief
http://www.kongregate.com/games/patrickgh3/clockwork-cat

Not a patch on Candy Box, but Cookie Clicker is quite addictive: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

i'm such a sap for this kind of stuff.
currently making 3 million cookies per second brb

now 4 million

I dunno, this sort of semi-idle game can be quite fun, but they never have lasting power. Also I spent all evening with it running yesterday and now it's down, so I guess I never will find out if my cookies destroy the world. Probably not, eh.

For TD fans, however, Cursed Treasure have put out a second game. Oh yeah.

9.2 million

33.7

396 million

11.26 billion (90 million per second)

just kidding, i'm only up to 40,000

42.8, arrrrrgh

Also, I gave Clockwork Cat a go - that is SUPER CUTE. Shame it's so short, but eh, Ludum Dare, what you gonna do...

Love TD, and the Cursed Treasure 2 game is hella fun. Especially like that one of the towers looks like a TARDIS.

80.8 mill per second

115.5

223

after a certain point it all depends on the golden cookies

yeah, simple math suggests that 400 million per second is pretty much the cap

is there an end game here or is it just GET ALL TEH STUFF

There is no endgame as far as I can tell. I assume you've gotten to the "matriachs" by now? They're interesting, but they don't lead anywhere.

Also, it's still being updated frequently, so open it in a new window occasionally and check the version.

yeah, grandmapocalypse is anticlimax