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

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Interested people, please see http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/grid/wars.htm

Great link to a g'drillion online games (ok, only 20). http://www.zanorg.com/prodperso/jeuxchiants/doublejeu.htm and http://www.vivalagames.com/play/cursorthief/ two of my faves, both v simple and quick and "just one more go" type addictive.

You need never work again...

Ah, cheers. Under hybrid setup your keyboard controls movement and the mouse controls shooting direction, a la Quake, etc.

Grid wars = too hectic for me.

I never survive longer than about ten minutes, which I see as an advantage. It's a proper game, but you only need ten minutes for it.

http://addictinggames.com/extremeheliboarding.html

It would be nice to get past a log for once grrrr

101 free games (with hardly any comments on any of them. there's moaning on a.n.other forum that the list is an amalgam of other lists which were better but...)

gimme new ones

About a month ago, I used the Stumble Upon "online games" channel so often that I actually got a message telling me that I had viewed every single recommended Stumble link on the topic, and to chill out for a while. I haven't played a free online game since. Thanks for fucking up my self-esteem, Stumble Upon.

www.minijuegos.com

Can't pimp it enough people.

BUT WHAT GAME ON MINIJUAGOS

^srsly

http://zetaflow.skylogic.ca/

Lazy bastards! (xxpost)

Tombot, that is a fantastic game.

puzzler: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/bloxorz

hte best free online game: http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/ssb/

bloxorz roxorz! Something surprisingly counter-intuitive about it. (Or, I'm dense.)

No one seems to have mentioned these old school platform games yet:

Cave Story
Info
Download with English Patch for Windows
And then the Mac English patch is here
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/_111_cave_story_ss_01.gif

Knytt Stories
Can be downloaded here
Extra levels
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/knytt6.jpg

La Mulana
English version is available at home of the underdogs
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/lamu_01.jpg

This might be a better place to get La Mulana

No pop ups.

desktop tower defense!

Damn, I forgot all about Cave Story! I can really, really recommend that one. That one was obviously a labor of love for whoever developed it. It also has replay value because depending on the way you proceed, you can get different weapons and endings. A+ would play again etc.

Knytt Stories looks intriguing, I may check that out later today.

Knytt Stories looks intriguing, I may check that out later today.

It took forever and never seemed to go anywhere. I stopped playing.

The original Knytt is even more low-key than most of the Knytt Stories levels. I'd agree that they don't really 'go anywhere' -- the appeal is mostly in exploring the weird mysterious world and seeing the tiny little sprite animals hop around, which is compelling enough for me but I can see how it could seem boring.

http://www.yoyogames.com/games/launch/11956

Just going to give it a try.

http://jayisgames.com/images/kaipuu.gif

Kaipuu has a memory leak. (and Seiklus is better)

I couldn't get Kaipuu to work.

God help me, I just discovered Peggle.
Crack.

I really like Peggle and I've considered thought about buying the full version, but I bet it isn't much better than the free one.

thought about

But more levels! MORE LEVELS

o hi dere, its a download, but how does online kart racing grab you http://kart.nexon.net/Download/Client.aspx

I played KongKongSEA for a long time. It is a jump racing game with attack items and tiles on the ground that give you boost and direction changes.

as for rpgs I found:
The Spirit Engine
Triglaw -only works in certain browsers
flash rpgs: Sinjid Shadow of the Warrior, Swords and Sandals 2 (need full version to save), Bleach Training 2

Everyone should play the Knytt Stories level "Don't Eat the Mushroom"
http://www.box.net/shared/5ju8b2232v

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/1171/pathpixss7.png
PathPix and more. The demos will take you several hours to complete each.
http://krispixton.com/PathPix/
http://www.kaser.com/

Question:

Is the music for this game the worst music of all time?

HINT: Wait until the programmer's 15 year old girlfriend starts singing before you make your final decision.

check out the non-free game donut county too.

wow, hole-io is very very compelling

goddammit. now i'm a double silver star. if anyone sees a giant karl malone on there, that's me. i'm getting pretty good at "Classic" mode - I almost always get 10 or 20 stars

:(

I just realized I've been playing most bots, probably. every time i start near other "players", i notice almost all of them make a straight bee-line toward something, instead of exploring the surrounding area for the smallest objects (a strategy that leads to victory almost every time). speaking of "victory almost every time", i'm starting to become suspicious that....sigh

however i will continue destroying these bots until i am triple silver star.

for tonight.

there's a solo mode which is just you against the scenery.

i find some scenes have nothing small and you really struggle to get started. and when you are large it gets laggy. maybe I'm just terrible.

no, those are problems for me too. the bot theory is helpful actually, i'd wondered about those mysterious high-speed bee-lines towards stuff. but hey, computer opponents have been a mainstay of video games since the golden age. just think of them like the ghosts in pac-man and enjoy the loop of chomping stuff and getting bigger.

It is pretty easy to win unless you get born somewhere with no small stuff but yeah still satisfying. Solo mode is harder, best I've managed is about 75% but I've only tried two or three times.

i got to the 80% threshold, but it's VERY map-dependent. like what you want is to be in one of the maps with a ton of marsh grass and bamboo to just chow down on at the beginning.

yeah, there's one map where the little marsh grass is actually worth +2 at the beginning, while the bigger trees and things like that you can barely swallow are only +1

and there's another map where I can't seem to get past 30% no matter what.

one suggestion for this game is that they could put the title of the map somewhere when you play it! if you're playing on rando, sometimes it's tough to know where you actually are.

i did submit a tip to the developer and asked them about the possibility of creating private rooms, or somewhere where you could count on more humans

the maps have titles on the maps page. pretty generic though. sci-fi. vikings. japan...

the sci fi one looks like it has lots of large buildings but they are actually prefabs, made up of smaller blocks, which slip down nicely.

i appreciate the No Sound aesthetic, too

it's a lesson that should apply to book covers, too - if you don't have any good ideas for what it should be, it's almost better to just go with nothing at all

Japan seemed easier, always something small nearby. got 80 something percent on solo a couple of times.

the other thing this BADLY needs is a mini-map. doesn't need to be, and probably shouldn't be, "live" ... but being able to know at a glance whether you're heading towards viable terrain or the bottom right corner of the map would be really nice.

https://lonebot.itch.io/possessed

fun gamejam winner. someone should make more based on this mechanic.

good stuff!

more from same people
https://lonebot.itch.io/what-goes-up

your player sniffs when idle

possessed is nice

Made it through What Goes Up. Nice brain tickler.

The games that are free on GOG: https://www.gog.com/partner/stay_at_home

I can recommend Flight of the Amazon Queen, Beneath a Steel Sky (last two both SCUMM games), Samorost, Treasure Adventure Game

Syndicate Plus and Syndicate Wars also currently 100% off (which I guess is different to free which is why they're not showing on that list?).

https://pedropsi.github.io/tag.html?search=puzzle
mostly pen & paper style puzzles

Always impressed with how much people can squeeze out of the Pico-8 system, this one is playable in the browser and if you like trains;

Cab Ride

Actually realised that's the previous version, if you hunt down the cart on the Pico-9 website you'll get the most recent one which features more stuff.

erm, Pico-8

pico 8 highlights video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrb23YNeAK4

(i need to finish the one i'm in the middle of, but i'm slightly bored of it and i don't see why anyone would play it when they could be playing anything else. also need to finish the one before that...)

SteamWorld Dig 2 free on Steam for the next few hours

thanks!

been meaning to up load a fun level I designed for this, because of the film Dune right now. This is a well done reworking of the classic real time strategy game (original?!?) Dune 2 for the PC, this fan made re-design operates very differently to the original but it keeps the same everything else, style of graphics, sounds, etc. I enjoyed it as a fan of the original but don't know if it is appealing to new players? One for the retro gamers and dune fans, at least.

http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/

Oh nice, SteamWorld Dig 2 is so good! Hope some of you got that. I have it on Switch.

i enjoyed this

https://kultisti.itch.io/sulka?ac=qfCyYFQF-tw

little platform puzzle thing

thanks

nice play mechanic, good way to kill a half hour!

indeed

fun and cute!

yeah, written in 60hrs for some jam or other, i think

would be great with a level editor and shareable levels, could easily fit them in a url, or a tweet.

Are we just not mentioning the obvious free online in-browser game for some reason

there's w0rd1e talk in the spelling Bee thread

which is naturally searchable by the word "tomtit"

Also searchable by "spelling bee."

What fun is that

https://jesper-hustad.github.io/NoPixel-minigame/index

idk who follows nopixel but this has been my recent brain recalibration.

ouch that hurts my brain.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1260520/Patricks_Parabox/

free demo that's worth playing

https://antgame.io/ - place red ant hills, get ants to eat as much green food as possible. Try to get near the top of the leaderboard, near impossible imo!

this reminds me too much of my "back porch situation", i will have to bow out

been doing the brain bashers daily tracks for a while now (the 10x10 take about 3 minutes each generally - https://brainbashers.com/tracks.asp )

but looking around he has others and these are a similar kind of fun, but longer:

https://brainbashers.com/3inarow.asp

(colour the boxes, avoid runs of 3 in a row, equal number of each colour in each row / column)

Thanks koog, those are fun...
I suspect a bunch of them use the same underlying math just with a different visualization...

i have thought about the train tracks thing and the random walk for generating the tracks is easy enough but i can't get a handle on how you'd decide which squares to reveal to make it solvable and distinct.

the three in a row, again, trivial to write a solver that looks for two in a row and puts an opposite square on the end, or for two with a gap and full that gap, but when you've exhausted those, recursively, there's still a way to go.