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.

If it helps, its very short.

Aw, doesn't stay on when you close the window. Disappoint.

xp good to know actually

stayed ~4 minutes late at work just to play this before succeeding in closing tab

Thanks to this I learned about http://www.kingedward.co.uk/king_edward_potato_baker
Which to be quite honest is kind of amazing and whomever wrote the copy for their website should get a hug.

Spaceplan is cute! And it's staying on for me when I change tabs at least.

I mean this whole genre is basically dumb and none will ever catch me like that initial rush of Candy Box a few years (!) back, but I liked this one's "voice" if you will.

Does anyone know of a Tablet version of a game similar to Captain Forever?

http://monsterbreeder.com/

hilarious! and i feel guilty for sinking time into it

That's my day wiped out

sorry for being a vector

ok. i have created a dog treat monster and two others. 0.3% of breeds discovered.

i am closing the tab. i am not going to visit ever again. this stops here.

I just had Jason Voorhees and a skeleton mating, and it became... Jason Bonehees. This obviously is the best game ever.

i should at least buy some aquatic gear so i can capture that shark really quick

I got to 1.8% on the breeds, definitely need to stop

*a distant cry of "fooooooorks!!! foooooooooooooorks!" echoes down a corridor beyond sight*

you have made a James Malone!
it's super effective

i don't think it'll suck you up for too long. i played for a bit but after i unlocked the permit and whatever i mean how many combinations of monsters do you really feel like you need to find. esp once you've found them all and searched all the locations. but if there is a /true/ late game plz inform.

11.2%. Someone beat that so I can feel less bad

7.8% sorry

if you breed without a license do the cops go after you?

you can get busted by one of your customers but i think if you ask each of them if they're a cop you can avoid that.

i got busted. lost all my monsters which was good cuz i quit

Made it to 9.8% but I have the biggest truck and have seem to have explored everywhere so not sure I need to go on. But it swallowed up my workday very effectively.

Of course, XENOMORPH + JASON VOORHEES = JASON X.

I bred Freddy Kreuger with one I can't remember and got Chad Kroeger.
Blob + Zombie gives Blob Zombie.

It was Freddy Krueger + Chucky

THE DEVIL + HANNIBAL LECTER = DAMNABLE LECTER

aw damn, did anyone do sasquatch + michael myers yet (it's an abomichael snowmyers)

you'd think Shrek would combine well due to Neil C's Smash Mouth/Shrek memes, but it just adds "shrek" to the start or end of everything.

neil shreked me.

Family is a neat little investigate em up (kind of like a mix of Hypnospace Outlaw and Obra Dinn) where you have to figure out who the members of a bunch of fictitious British indie bands from 1985-1995 by listening to their songs and reading articles about them. The details are all really good and the fake songs aren't half bad (and all seem to match up with real world equivalents). It can be played in browser or downloaded for free and takes about 30 mins to an hour to beat.

https://owl-skip.itch.io/family

Pretty fun, excellent concept and good music. Couldn't figure out the last five.
Love that Kate Bush-inspired "Easy Tiger" cover art.

Ha, yeah, this was fun. Impressive that they recorded stuff for each band. I did find it ran horribly, full of lag, on my computer though.

thanks for this; i put in a good and enjoyable hour right up until the last five... those required lots of trial and error but i finally got it right... there's no clear answer to who Dova Pavlova's drummer is! Turns out it's the replacement drummer for Easy Tiger if anyone's having issues there. That, plus the other member of Klanger, gave me fits but it's a good feeling to turn the key.

https://familygame.bandcamp.com/album/family-game-soundtrack

https://dreadpon.itch.io/banners-begone

it's a clicker! it will only take you about an hour.

pretty good. i like that you have to sort of puzzle out where each gate basically is

https://ifcomp.org/comp/2020

here's an online multiplayer RPG that you play inside of a tweet

just smuggled my ENTIRE GAME into this "video" embed tweet, enjoy https://t.co/tYhXidt2Ur

— 𝕃𝕆𝔸𝕄 ʟ5 💧🌱 (@ClayLoam) December 11, 2020

cool, just as a technical exercise!

Was 2020 a bad year for free games? Would there be enough for a top 5 list?

releasing games on itch.io/steam/mobile stores for a small fee is pretty easy now. lots of developers taking that route.

Call of Duty Warzone #1

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289310/Helltaker/

A silly, funny, cute and short puzzle game about forming a harem of demon girls. Great music. Can't remember exactly how this came to my attention, but I think it got some kind of recognition during awards season/year-end best-of lists.

it's a good time!

has anyone tried this?
https://tocogames.itch.io/infinitepizza

https://okogame.ch/
^full screen plz

https://rob1221.itch.io/chessformer
fun if you like sokoban more than you like chess (I do!)

good stuff!

i hit a few stumpers but i should go back