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

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

this game is simple and stupid and i cannot win

https://dotsandboxes.org/

something i firefox(?) means i don't see chosen lines, which makes it extra difficult. but i wonder if it's one of those things you can't win, like Nim, if you go first and the computer plays perfectly?

is that only 2^24 combinations. actually, fewer given there's got to be an equal number of 0s and 1s. um, perhaps not because order is important.

or is it 24! which is 6e+23 which is a few more.

You can switch who plays first, doesn't make a difference to my miserable performance.

After googling and getting it to show some hints I can now beat it fairly reliably going first or second, but I suspect only because the computer makes the same moves every time, I'd probably still be shit against a decent human player.

i have been doing these, train track puzzles, which i first saw in the guardian on saturdays

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/tracks.html

nineletterword.tompaton.com/random

has a questionable word list.

http://lalo.li/ddd/
click to make ball barriers. use the ball barriers to help the falling ball hit the black ball. now work around the obstacles. rinse repeat.

^^^ good one, feels like something out of the heyday of this genre/thread. got to 30 points and called it a night.

also scrolling through thread i had a nice little nostalgic moment for that wacky weekend in May 2013 spent, with the rest of the folks itt, totally hooked on the strange abstract world of Candy Box.