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

that just provoked a really weird grimacing hopeful groan of optimistic dread

haha

who has time for that, I am still clicking cookies

anybody wanna tell me if this is worthwhile?
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/627444

Candy2 was a bad one day addiction, i think i kicked today

closed my Candy Box 2 tab after seeing the map of the world, just can't.

hah I won candy box 2 in one day, with a LITTLE hint seeking but not much

meanwhile I still have cookie clicker in my background. unlike candy box it takes no attention, just get to see my tab change now & then, like watching the clock

ok i lied

lakeview cabin's a neat idea

http://aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/LD25/CYBERQUEEN.html

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/beautiful-weapons/

welllll that was horrifying!

depression games, FEED ME MORE

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http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/11/14/tough-times-actual-sunlight-3d/

i think that it'll actually be less effective in poser 3D style vs. sprite art. also don't really want to play it again tbh

still though, my sentiment stands, i want to see more sad-face games about sad-face life

http://games.adultswim.com/westerado-action-online-game.html

slick game, wish it had a save system though

http://gamejolt.com/games/puzzle/the-very-organized-thief/18991/

Theory: Tonypa's games that start with T are great: http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/turnellio.html

http://findtheinvisiblecow.com/

winner

lol

hearthstone beta test yo!

My brother just released this fun (and challenging on the higher difficulties) little arcade style game. It's free...

http://gamejolt.com/games/arcade/all-you-can-do-is-shoot/20207/

Here's the trailer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_MbyHQkEy8

The controls are really simple. You aim with the mouse and vacuum up energy pellets (and power-ups) with the space bar. I did a bunch of play testing on it, and I think it turned out pretty good and addicting.

Yeah I really like that. 106,789 on survival hard, I haven't unlocked expert yet though.

my boot camp partition fritzed out, but when i'm back up and running i'll give this a try

https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom
Hm!

http://www.kongregate.com/games/danielben/ernesto-a-quick-rpg

i am the police chief (and also the victim) in this game: http://downloads.garagecoder.com/LD28/index.html

(my neighbor made it)

lol

got the perp first time. thanks chief Mordy!

that's fine but if you mess up again yer fired!

great finger posing, mord.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/05/live-free-play-hard-porpentines-top-10-of-2013/

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/631713

Aw, that was cute. I think I liked it better in that thunder-cloud game from a while back, but this was a reasonable little distraction.

http://or.paleozoic.com/

Huh - does that play better with a controller? Found it really unnatural and jerky with a keyboard, just kind of bouncing all over the place. Nice look, mind you...

okay, who's gonna make an ilx idle game
http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/idlegamemaker/help

xp game is cool, great sprite work, but i agree the KB controls are too loose

http://color.method.ac

very cool, love cheesy skill tests like that

Just now finally got around to Cave Story, first mentioned in-thread by Penguin USA Paper in 2007. Got hooked on it for a few days and had a ball, thinking it was one of the best Metroidvania type games I'd played (though considerably more linear than the genre ideally implies) - in particular I thought the difficult curve was just about perfect. Plus you just have to admire the "one man's obsessive project" aspect of it.

Then I got to the last boss, got completely stuck, checked a walkthrough and realized I'd missed all this stuff and was consequently totally underpowered and probably screwed totally. Kinda pissed now. In particular, to get fully powered and save everybody and so on, at one point you have to just walk past and ignore a key NPC who's shown up seemingly injured and out of place, who wants to give you a jetpack. This is just brutally counter-intuitive, a real beast of a beginner's trap. The only thing I can figure is that Amaya was counting on hardcore players to come back through the game and challenge themselves to win without the jetpack - and then pleasantly discover all this other cool shit happening as a result. On one level, I totally respect that, but on another...WTF???????? Super frustrating. It's possible I might be able to beat the last boss without all this, but a) who would want to? and b) it's a run of four consecutive bosses with no save or recharge along the way, so each attempt is kind of a brutal marathon. I dunno if I have it in me.

I never beat it either fwiw, basically for the reasons you mention

That stuff is secret, and for second playthroughs only. The last boss is beatable without them.

yes, this ^ - you can def beat the boss w/ a very minimal runthru. good luck tho beating the boss (and hell) after doing everything else.

Hrmmm, maybe I should give it another go then. It's really the multi-stage boss experience that makes it hard to invest in that. Probably this is a sign of how debased 'difficulty' has become for me in games at this point. I mean, if I was still 10, bring it on!

Yup, you're right - went back and tried again, and beat the final bosses on the first try. Ha!

http://nothing-to-hide-demo.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

also Infinity Wars is a free to play ccg on steam that i'm enjoying atm (mac + pc). if u sign up + use my invite code: D0202, i think i'll get free cards or something. not quite as crisp as hearthstone, but more mechanics + a theme (vaguely dystopian post-apocolyptic biohorror sci-fi cyberpunk?) that i prefer over generic WoW fantasy.