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

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.

The singing starts about 120 seconds in. Actually, to clarify, it's not the worst music ever, it's the worst Bjork imitation ever, and the worst lyrics ever.

EVER!

It's a real rekkid, not the programmer's girlfriend.

Is Grid Wars the same as Geometry Wars, or does it just look the same?

I've been trying to download the free game Perfect Cherry Blossom, but everywhere I can find it, it's a .lzh file, which I can't get my computer to unzip correctly for some reason (maybe because it's an old file and the new versions of winzip and similiar programs don't recognize it correctly?). Anybody here know what I'm doing wrong and what I need to do to be able to pay this amazing looking game?

Here's a clip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go-0dm14Hsw&feature=related

LZH is a very old archive format rarely used anymore, but Winzip should work. I just downloaded the demo (which I guess you have) to see, it should work with WinRar or 7-Zip. Grab the English patch here if you want to read the hyper-cutesy character dialogue, profiles and such.

Thanks Nhex - I got it to work finally using WinRAr. Pretty crazy shooter on normal - I can't imagine the harder difficulties. The hit point is pretty small, mercifully...

plasma pong is plasma http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/3057/58921334zd1.jpg

I can't figure out how to get past the 10th level on this thing:

http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html

Did I say 10, I meant 15th.

Hyper Frame makes me feel like a puzzle MORAN on only the fourth level of the easy mode. how in the fuck can you connect them???

But I really like that they recorded a theme song with vocals for their game.

polyphonic - I was stuck for a minute too, I realized I had bypassed a switch on a much lower level....

http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/games/crayon/

Has it been mentioned already? The original Crayon Physics demo (five or six levels) is well worth checking out. Very cool & I'm looking forward to the deluxe version. The first download mirror site didn't work for me, but the second did

one-button game
https://seudonimm.itch.io/hold-space-to-fly-straight

that is nifty but i agree with the comments that you should never actually try to fly straight

https://kloonigames.com/wordsolitaire/

got within five letters of clearing it today.

I've played this a couple of times and managed to clear it both times, but it took me ages. It's a good game but it doesn't feel addictive like a wordle or semantle.

yeah i definitely don't have the patience to backtrack and try again and again.

i wish there were an "appeal to the judges" feature
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7mmcopj3k7.png

https://corru.observer

holy fuck.

Someone ported wipEout to the browser
https://phoboslab.org/wipegame/

wow! despite being a huuuuge fan of 2097 and wip3out i've never actually played the original, maybe now is the time. though i'd have to get a controller, is that even possible for browser games on macos? and maybe it's not the best use of my time...

https://gridlochgames.itch.io/21st-century-roguelike-pac-man

pac-man having a minimalist renaissance!
https://abagames.github.io/crisp-game-lib-11-games/?pakupaku

Ha I love it

paku paku is very fun. i think it would reach flappy bird levels of stupid/addicting viral simplicity by adding mute and pause buttons

i know this is extremely beatable (even by me!) but after playing 10 times or so my hi score is about 3100. you get multipliers every time you pick up a power pellet so staying alive for an additional 30 seconds or so would probably quadruple that

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Does anyone else like these stripped down versions better than the originals? I don't remember actual Pac-Man being as instantly fun.

6269

https://itch.io/jam/bigmode-2023/entries

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

This is dumb but I keep coming back to it to try to make Doctor Who: https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

I played it a few days ago and got some firsts pretty quickly. seems like there aren't nearly as many now.

time + unicorn = time machine
time machine + captain = doctor
time machine + doctor = doctor who

Looks to be heavily indebted to this: https://littlealchemy.com/ / https://littlealchemy2.com/

There's a few predecessors, Doodle God and it's versions are others

If you somehow get goku, you can perform "his power level is increasing!" by continually plopping goku on top of goku
goku + time machine = trunks naturally.

free game 20 Small Mazes
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2570630/20_Small_Mazes/

Infinite Craft is hilarious

Eldritchvania, a free PC game that dropped last month: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2423710/Eldritchvania/

maybe the most La-Mulana-inspired game ever? i'll take whatever scraps i can get.

https://downpour.games/~terry/a-proper-cup-of-tea

I love that every combination is the perfect cup of tea. Amazing.

spoilers??

You know what, yes, that was totally spoilery. Hidden now.

aw cheers tbf i was half and half whether i'm gonna play it at all but i read your post before i'd got home and thought "ok that's the punchline" lol

playing it now, still worth it, 5.0/5.0

another good one from the samr site
https://downpour.games/~holly/where-s-madeleine

(the downpour thing is from the same person that did Cheap Bots Done Quick, the twitter bot meta thing that let people like me write twitter bots. that's their thing - tools to enable other people to create things. so Downpour is the platform and each individual game is just uploaded by pretty much anybody - you can make such games on your phone)

Oh god I assumed based on the url that it was going to be some awful Madeleine McCann thing. Thankfully it's not.