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

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.

https://nandgame.com/

Man that’s homework

things i haven't really thought about since ~1989.

iirc a combination of NAND gates can do anything, NOT and therefore AND is trivial and de morgan's law says !(A AND B) = !A OR !B so OR is easy enough. i am thinking about XOR... (it's not a great experience on a phone...)

Fun Threes / 2048 / slider game with corn and poop of farming -- feels less like homework because there are no numbers!
https://kryogenix.org/farmbound/

https://grimacesbirthday.com

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