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

http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/grid/gw18.jpg

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.

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

Holy crap, that cursor game is a brilliant idea.

By the way, I hate this pj character for bringing up the topic of Desktop Tower Defense, which in the days since I opened this thread has consumed half the free hours of my life. AUGH.

Slashdot article linking to 101 free games list.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/15/1655225

i particular like the sound of 'Lonely House Moving'

yeah i can't do level 15 either - i feel like i know what i should do, but it doesn't work

Figured it out! Doctor Casino's advice is the key.

http://onemorelevel.com/game/blast-o-matic

119550

132480

FINALLY beat the medium level on Desktop Tower Defense. With that I must swear never to ever open that game again. Jesus.

I love those 101 free games lists. I'm glad there is a new one.

For those of you who loved Sid Meier's Pirates there's a Flash version:

http://www.flashninjaclan.com/zzz765.php

Is anyone else having trouble with the download of Command & Conquer? It's really slow for me!

Like Desktop Tower Defense?

http://www.candystand.com/play.do?id=18047

oh man:

http://supersaimon.funfacegames.com/

I got on a roll and got 31. It's fun to play without looking at the screen, too. The best I can do that way is 15.

Good grief, Vector TD consumed half my weekend.

It's really fucking great. I can't beat any of the Hard maps though. :/

Haven't tried any Hard ones yet -- do enemies give out even less money than on intermediate?

I think it's close to the same amount, but the maps don't double back much (if at all), so if you don't get them with your first or second group of towers, you're fucked. It's pretty hard to even get through the first five waves.

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

just spent an hour playing the enjoyably goofy ROM CHECK FAIL
www.farbs.org

NetHack is still my fave free game.

Tried playing the hell out of a load of abandonware games this weekend, but lots didn't work due to that old fast memory error from days of old or they were just too darn fast (magic carpet woah).

psycho pinball was there but it ran too slow, so i'd gotten the taste for it and immediately had to get hold of genesis emu and rom. Such a great pinball game

and now remember how fucking annoying driving in the first gta game was.

okay in psycho pinball what the heck am i supposed to be doing in the whale mouth game? i can grab crabs, but is there a point?

I've heard of getting a virus from software, but crabs?

i can grab crabs, but is there a point?

My life summed up.

http://www.bobblebrook.com/games/coign-of-vantage

These Kenta Cho games don't seem to have been mentioned...
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html

My favorites so far are PARSEC47, rRootage, Titanion, Noiz2sa

oh man rRootage was my life for a while.

Yeah, love those.

150 Best Online Flash Games

OK, this one is a bit different than most:
http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

At first it's hilariously bad. Then if you stick with it for a few minutes, you can figure out how to go forward a few meters. One time, everything clicked and I was running like Carl Lewis. Then I was immediately shifted back to running like Corky.

16.4m

Best way to get started that I've figured out:

hold O until both feet are lined up, then hold W get moving forward.

http://playauditorium.com/

cannot get the hang of qwop athletics AT ALL.

wasted an hour on this last night: http://www.homestarrunner.com/dangeresque.html

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yeah, even after spending a loooooooong time with it, I still fall down right at the starting line every so often. This must have been some computer science major's final project.

I would pay for a full length auditorium.

I got stuck on Auditorium pretty early on. :/

i've spent my whole evening on most of this threads offerings :)

Holy shit, check out the awesome creature race from 4:10 on!

"After laughing and teasing her friend Rueben about believing in the Noah's Ark story, then Hannah the librarian has a dream about it. In her dream, her friends are re-shaped into animals and she herself changes into a racehorse and participates in the race "Games of Celebration" after the world flood. Watch how Hannah's friends are reshaped into animals and then have the funniest and most thrilling times of their lives."

www.zoorace.com

I love that video.

could only get 4.5m on that QWOP.

spent waay too much time last night on the sand falling toy YET AGAIN

This probably belongs here (and not in that other thread - oops). My top 10 free games of 2008:

1. Dolphin Olympics 2:
You're a dolphin, you do tricks for points. If you're good enough, you get a Scott Adam's reference. It's cool.

2. Kongai
Kongregate's card game. The game (which isn't bad) isn't actually as cool as the challenges. Every week Konrgegate.org has a few challenges in a random flash game. Accomplish task X and you win a free card for Kongai. It has really exposed me to a slew of amazing free games.

3. Pack Rat
Only facebook game I've ever enjoyed. It's actually less of a game and more of a card collecting thing. Recent changes have made it a little less compelling for me, but I really loved playing it over the summer.

4. Forumwarz
If WoW met Encyclopedia Dramatica?

5. Mirror's Edge 2D
Ok, maybe not that great. But pretty music and a good 2D adaptation.

6. www.eyezmaze.com
Really all his stuff. I'm not even sure it qualifies as games - but more like Japanese pop game art. Faux-simulations and really cool stuff. Best is his Grow series.

7. Violet
Winner of IFComp and also speaks very directly to me (comic book loving protagonist tries to write academia while avoiding distractions). Also, narrator has an amazing voice. Love it.

8. SeppuKuties
Save a bunch of cute animals -- generally by killing them in horrific ways.

9. Pandemic 2
RPG. You are a virus. Earn points by infecting countries. Spend those points on mutations. Kill the entire world.

10. Ayiti: Cost of Life
Take a Haitian family and help them thrive (or, more likely, fail horribly about twenty times before you hit on a winning strategy. Btw: Winning strategy means = you don't die every game). -- This actually came out in 2006, but I didn't play it until 2008. So I'm including it. But just in case it doesn't count, here is my bonus answer (ie, this list goes to 11):

11. ESPN Fantasy Football
Ok, it's not technically an independent game. Nor is it unique to 2008. But I spent SOO much time playing it. It must be included.

I really enjoyed forumwarz, though I haven't gone back since before they released the second chapter. Pandemic is pretty cool. Definitely agreed on the eyezmaze stuff, especially considering it's non-game status, but it's still really cool.

Kongregate is a great site.

Mastermind: World Conqueror was a real stand out for me this year. Evil Genius in half an hour, Tower Defence elements. Very good.

Wow, Mastermind is great!

Loving http://www.foddy.net/Cricket.html by the guy who did QWOP.

Cricket is awesome!

Just played the Dangeresque adventure linked above. Not too much to it but what a beautiful period piece! Spot on across the board, I love the crappy recorded speech, everything.

Doom 1 in flash!

Mario 63

achievement unlocked

that was kinda fun!

did you input the konami code? : D

http://www.kongregate.com/games/EvilDog/z-rox is great

stuck on 31...

seems to be a triangle on an inverted trapezoid. or a house where the walls slope outwards.

i think it might curve in at the bottom.

╱╲
╮╭

I was stuck on 31 for ages - eventually I got a friend to play it and he saw it right away.

"a triangle on an inverted trapezoid" is a 100% accurate description

(drawing it on paper kinda helps, especially on later ones)

gaaaaaaahhh i got it.

9. Pandemic 2
MADAGASCAR.

Last Chance to Nominate: Best Video Games of 2008

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3165201 - 101 Free Games 2008

Aw no Ben There, Dan That! mention.

Enjoyable little browser game...
http://www.foddy.net/Evacuation.html

I love 1up's 101 free game lists, but they fail to mention http://www.brokensword25.com/ under adventure games. I heard it was pretty good.

http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=160692

Just wondered if anyone else had played Ark22 ?

a zelda clone but i've been playing it all night.

..and basically anything from this list

http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/31/five-free-games-for-geeks/

black shades is quite fun

I had a good time with...

BUDGET HERO

"My fellow Americans, you should elect me for this distinguished office because in Budget Hero I reduced the national debt from 49.9% of GDP in 2008 ($11.2 trillion) to 17.9% of GDP in 2018 ($4.0 trillion), because delayed the budget bust from 2031 to 2069, and because I achieved badges in the Green, Energy Independence and Health + Wellness categories. God bless you, and God bless America!"

Seriously though, it's decent edutainment.

Black Shades was actually pretty cool - makes sense it was by the guys who did that Luguru game, they've both got a certain intensity to them.

http://nifflas.ni2.se/index.php?main=02Knytt_Stories&sub=03Download

Knytt Stories:
a largish download but an interesting platform game nonetheless.

http://www.mazefrenzy.com/

nice, shame about all the cheated high scores.

New Grow today!

http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2009/01/grow_tower.html

I can't play that maze game 'cause I'm scared that just when I'm concentrating the most it's gonna do the old AAAARGH LOUD SCREAM AAAAARGH SCARY FACE AAAAARGH trick. Just like what happened to me at work once.

haha the scary maze was genius, for making the maze smaller so people would move closer to the screen for that moment.

Oh man, best Eyezmaze yet. Wonderful stuff.

I was mildly addicted to Monster Den 2 on Kongregate for a few days. Brought me way back to my RPG beginnings.

http://raptorsafari.com/play.php

Just. Play. It.

Whoa, that game is a year old? Damn.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/moogoat/dodge - a 'shooter' with no guns. avoid the baddies and direct their own fire back at them.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/481906

Shopping Cart Hero

Fun! No Pressure!

http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/

http://www.brokenpicturetelephone.com/

fuck me those archives are funny !

it is a lol for sure!

also shopping cart hero = fun, more powerups please.

http://www.brokenpicturetelephone.com/view?id=87 !!!

Shopping Cart Hero

Fun! No Pressure!

5270.2

http://www.casualcollective.com/games/The_Space_Game

Mine, build and defend. Great graphics, steep-ish learning curve in the challenges...

Jumpman is amazing! http://runhello.com/

broken picture telephone broken

and I had about two dozen games on the go ;_;

It's working again!

was broken due to surge of traffic? did ilx break it?

ledge did i just see you on one of my brokentelephone picture thingy
(im fozzie909)

a user called crackbone seems to be ruining almost every game anyway

ha yeah that's me.

what an arse. although by its nature it's pretty impossible to ruin a game completely.

i think he's been removed now anyway

it's a funny game, though the drawing tool is pretty awful.

my worst error was someone had wrote 'ghost woman runs away from pepperoni pizza', in my haste i drew a pepperami man chasing a woman.

(crackbone actually went next and just wrote 'RAPE', which was quite funny really)

http://www.classicdosgames.com/online.php

Indy Jones and Fate of Atlantis in browser!!!

just finished http://www.kongregate.com/games/TerryCavanagh/dont-look-back
liked it a lot. it's like an emotional journey of montezuma's revenge / h.e.r.o

has anyone linked the incredibly frustrating but really great Funny Farm? http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi Has a kind of "Prodigy Online Service" simplicity to it which I like. Friend of mine told me they used it as a party game the other night and I believe that could be fun, although whoever's typing would surely get sick of people yelling things at them to try....

Re: Don't Look Back, maybe it's a little weird but I am annoyed that less than half of the many sites I've seen of the game don't mention (it'll take you about five minutes to play the game, but ***spoiler***) that it's a surprise recreation/reinterpretation of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth, part of what makes it so moving at the end.

Funny Farm is pretty cool though I'm lost, can't get past the first screen really...

Yeah, it's a weird mix of like, stuff that actually goes on a farm (for example) and then kind of inductive/punning connections.

Played an hour or two of Space Game to unwind last night. It's good but the difficulty curve is too much for me - I don't seem to be getting any better and nothing I do really seems to make any difference. Once they start really sending in the bad guys, it's all over..

Funny Farm was a big hit a year or two ago, but it gets frustrating after awhile because the answers get very arbitrary.

what the heck is that three lettered word link to Chicken? i've already used up hen and egg, it's not run or pox either.

pie

ffs

(but thanx)

The hell? "pot pie" connects to chicken, not "pie."

http://www.doublefine.com/news.php/minigames/Host_Master

Stuck! Nothing makes me feel dumber than needing a walkthrough to get through the first (only?) room....

Wow, this Host Master game is actually longer than I epxected - way longer than that recent Dangeresque game.

Thing that held me up was this random pixel hunt thing. 22 jokes to be had by the end.

that shithead k thor has a new game, it's pretty good: http://www.shortandhappy.com/games/tidal

The Jumper games (red block pixel guy) are real fun and easy to learn, quick to play

of course it would be a lot better if I had a gamepad

http://balldroppings.com/js/

Similarly: http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix

thats simply superb, you can get some sweet tunes going on that last one

Stupid online free game that's kinda fun:

http://klezmer.mybrute.com

kinda fun!

i wonder how they make money.

Yeah, I like it too... though there's virtually nothing there.

super stacker 2 is sweet http://www.thegamehomepage.com/play/super-stacker-2/ - did that and grow island today http://shingakunet.com/school/0000002190/special/19024701/0285/index.html

a kingdom of loathing clone that isn't very good yet, but i'll stick with it:

http://www.legendsofzork.com

Out of curiosity, is your guy Klezmer, Mordy?

Yeah. That's me.

klezmer kicked my ass

five minutes: http://discovermagazine.com/interactive/star-formation-game/

and you'll learn something!

Mordy you have like 34 pupils now (I am one of them).

btw your description of it is very apt. It's kinda stupid, yet I end up visiting almost every day and doing my 3 fights. Weird.

http://www.arcadebomb.com/play/robot_dinosaurs_that_shoot_beams_when_they_roar.html

Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Laserbeams When They Roar

Nice little eight-minute game there! I was going to quibble with some of the gameplay decisions but since it's just one level, I give it a thumbs up.

Caked with ad bullshit, but BLASTER MASTER!!!!!!
http://www.1980-games.com/us/

also: http://amog.com/tech/gaming/oldschool-videogames/?ref=rss

If you've never played it, get Fairway Solitaire!

http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/05/free_games_from_big_fish.php

http://www.dailygames.com/games/Daymare-Town.html

daymare town, you may have already played it. quite hard in some parts ( i needed to cheat and peeked at a walkthrough for a couple of puzzles)

and see if you can spot all the 'birds'

http://www.freeonlinegames.com/puzzle-games/minim.html

Just played through Daymare with walkthrough and wish I hadn't bothered, honestly - the worst kind of pixel-hunting crap. Way too many places where I didn't even know I could go left until looking at the walkthrough, etc. Just not clear.

http://www.tetrisfriends.com/

BATTLEFIELD HEROES

damn, this game is fun. I probably have no idea what I'm talking about, because I haven't played an online FPS in a really long time, but I kinda got addicted. Sure it's got some balance issues, but when you're in a game with two evenly matched teams and you're racking up kills and completing missions (you can set different objectives like capturing the flag x amount of times, gaining valor points when you accomplish them) and bouncing around a field in the back of a jeep desperately trying to take out a tank, it's certainly worth the free price tag. Bonus: you don't have to download it and install, it's all online.

Battlefield Heroes

Oh. Well, now this game is out on PC, if it makes a difference for anyone (it does for me because I don't have a PS3 or 360). For some reason I always think of this thread as free online PC games.

wow
http://14-7.com/

http://www.ig.ns.ac.yu/fun.html

hurting my head, that one.

How far have you gotten?

i've opened the briefcase and have a whole buncha crap i don't know what to do with.

I opened the briefcase, the two panels, the vitruvian man and the floor board and then gave up :(

I've opened the briefcase and the safe but only one panel (htf do you open the right one?) and moved the chair out of the way but I can't figure out the color (or other) sequencing on the buttons for the key in the left panel (though I have the colored cube).

for the right one hold the button for 10-20 seconds and it'll open, not very logical I know : /

Grrrr. Thanks, cowzn.

haha I hate these things, they're so frustrating

sorry for posting!!! 8)

If I could get the color sequences or whatever for those two panels...

for the right one hold the button for 10-20 seconds and it'll open, not very logical I know :

there is a clue for that

still haven't opened safe or moved chair tho :/

there is a clue for that

So there is, in hindsight. The same clue helps with the safe.

nope, can't figure that out! also just worked out the batteries but still need another one ;_;

You need that battery for the safe.

Where have you found batteries?

ehrm behind the briefcase and on the skirting board near the chair, i think

Do you have a screwdriver at all?

yeah...

Where's the most dangerous place you could play with a screwdriver?

my pants?

i've tried that already. mebbe it's the wrong screwdriver.

closer...

There's a screwdriver and a can opener, 'member...

ok the FUCKING combo has R and L numbers but the numbers on the FUCKING dial only go in one FUCKING direction

i'm outta here

loving this one:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/gameinabottle/gemcraft-chapter-0

ok the FUCKING combo has R and L numbers but the numbers on the FUCKING dial only go in one FUCKING direction

Huh? Click at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock approximately.

and the numbers = numbers on the dial? i tried that. or clicks? bah.

I'm sorry ledge

either this is stupid or i am

ok left means click on the left side, which turns the dial to the right.

hulk smash.

games are fun

Ledge, have you never used that kind of lock?

where's the clue to press down for the right panel?

and how do i work out the missing part of the safe code?

no. maybe i'm confused. it's been a long day. xxp

Amongst the various pieces of paper, Ste: There's a cryptic one that tells you how to approach the safe's dial and it also shows someone pressing down a button. There's another that has XX=??

xpost

oh, i just found the panel 'clue'

h8 room escape

Fuck that radio thing - when you have to go through every single combination to get something to work, it's no longer a puzzle, it's a chore.

How does it work, snoball?

cannot find the magnet still?

cor I just played that La-Mulana for the first time, gorgeous.

I'm stuck. I have two batteries in the doohickey, and a big black thing with a tube inside of it that doesn't seem to do anything. Chair is still bolted in place. No idea how to open any of the various safes or lockboxes despite trying a lot of different theories.

Now I am stuck further along!

snoball, you need sound on for that to be less chorish.

i for one am completely stuck on wtf that black tubey thing mentinoed above is supposed to even be

Black tubey? It doesn't have a cork does it?

Nope. It's a black thing with a tube inside of it. No idea if it relates to the uncorked tube or not.

when you have to go through every single combination to get something to work, it's no longer a puzzle, it's a chore.

meh, gameplay-wise these things are always pretty much trial and error, even if there's a post-hoc explanation. why did i have to use the knife to cut away the plug socket? pretty sure the screwdriver would have done the job.

now stuck with the magnet (or lack of).

I dunno. I've found most of the solutions in this one pretty sensible so far.

There was one a while back where you had to go outside and look at roman numerals on a windmill that I *never* would've finished without a walkthrough.

finding that section of the floorboard was a little hit and miss, and then what you had to do with it didn't make a whole load of sense.

is the box with a tube in some sort of uv light?

anyway i gave up, the panel locks were doing my head in.

uv ligt is what i thought, but pretty sure i;ve shone it on everything so far.

i don't know how to use the lock but i have the code

ok got it

I found a walkthrough for this, was sad to find I was actually almost done. Willing to give hints. Does ILX have any sort of spoiler tags?

I quit on level 15 I think. a pink level.

what am I talking about, wrong thread. was looking for flash games

http://astrange.ithinksw.net/sa/1233164065872.jpg

I never would've gotten the third key to open the lockbox if I hadn't looked it up. I am not smart enough.

continuing from yesterday's game i suddenly find myself with a washer. where did that come from?

ok it's not a washer.

y'know i reckon i could have opened the door with the penknife.

How does it work, snoball?

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You need to adjust the sliders so that the radio makes five high tones in a row. But it's not "one slider controls one tone", because the slider settings interact with each other. So you'll get the first tone to be high, adjust the sliders for the second, but then the first tone will be low again.

snoball, you need sound on for that to be less chorish.
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― The controls are janky (Will M.), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 23:50 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yah I know - but there seems to be no apparent logical relationship between slider settings and tones produced. So the only option is to either find a walkthrough that explains what that logical relationship is (which defeats the point of the puzzle in the first place) or laboriously go through 5 ^ 7 slider combinations. I mean, if I wanted a small box that makes noises that I can't control, I'll buy an eff-ing Buddha Box...

And the more I think about it, the more these "room escape" games seem to be a nth degree extension of the "you can destroy a tank with a bazooka that somehow manages to fold up in your pocket whenever you're using another weapon, but you can't jump over a waist high picket fence" FPS tropes.

But it's not "one slider controls one tone", because the slider settings interact with each other. So you'll get the first tone to be high, adjust the sliders for the second, but then the first tone will be low again.]

?? didn't work like that for me at all. one position = high tone, for each slider. that's it.

Ah, just tried it again today and it's working properly.

Even with cheats, getting the third key was almost more than my wee brain could handle.

Sorry I didn't get the walkhthrough to you when you asked-- I only got the email about an hour ago. :/

http://www.kongregate.com/games/IcyLime/multitask

haha i wuz totally useless at that

I got 84.

TextTwist is a simple, fun little word game that will overtake the brains of certain kinds of people (word obsessives) until they can't stop playing it even with the computer off.

Okay, seriously is Evony really making the kind of money that allows them to be on every website everywhere?

Circle the Cat

Building Blaster

It's a combo of reversion to three (playing with blocks) and to thirteen (playing with fireworks).

I finally won at Circle the Cat and now I feel bad for the kitteh.

Okay, seriously is Evony really making the kind of money that allows them to be on every website everywhere?

Yah, I was wondering the same thing. I saw an ad on talkingpointsmemo the other day and wondered what the hell was going on.

On the plus side, the boob girl is gradually getting more attractive.

By this time next year the winner of America's Top Model will win the spot of boob girl in the next Evony webvertisement.

that building blaster was sorta fun, but a little miffed on one of the levels which I completely destroyed yellow blocks to the point of complete obliteration and left the pink tower standing but it still wouldn't give me a success.

You've got to blow the blocks further away to score more points.

ah i see. i really should read instructions shouldn't i

im hopelessly stuck in level 39 ;_(

I'm stuck on level 40!

you can blow the right building to the right without touching the middle building. use the 2 & 3 charges.

i cant seem to take down the giant lollipop stop sign in level 49. maybe its a red herring. however, i hesitate to use the word 'hopelessly' again.

I am such a sucker for tower defense games! Gemcraft!

The Onion AV Club has a new feature on free and cheap games:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/august-24-2009,32052/

but play this game before reading its review, which spoils it: http://www.raitendo.com/games/you-only-live-once

TextTwist + Tetris = must pop words

Ludum Dare, a 48hr game writing compo. this time's theme 'Caverns'

so here are 144(!) cave based games to download and vote on
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-15/?action=preview

http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt
for wider screens: http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/mega/

2025's the best i've gotten so far

make that 3100-ish

3378

By "online" I don't necessarily mean games that you play online with other people (although, I'm not ruling that out).

In retrospect, one of my dumbest lines ever, and that's STIFF competition.

sorry guys, moment of doubt, moment of doubt

It took many runs, but finally got 3243m on Canabalt.

That thing that falls from the sky gets me every single time.

3715!

(What killed me was a low corridor. I had already hit jump, and once you hit that wall, it's straight down.)

3730

3736. Low corridors are the worst. There's nothing you can do.

Yes! 4653. I was determined to break 3000. I can give it up now.

u r all gay

(I got abt 1200 and gave up :/)

I was never able to crack 3000 again after the first day, around 2200 I would always crap out

damn thats the best game ive played in a while

better story music and atmosphere than 90% of games u can buy in a store

u got the wrong thread max

Mario was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me

5954 motherfuckers

3259

Time Fcuk
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/511754

I like this one, especially the sound fx and general atmosphere.

who is going to test this one?

"Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted.

Although touching aliens will cause the player to lose the game, and killing aliens awards points, the aliens will never actually fire at the player. This calls into question the player's mission, which is never explicitly stated, only hinted at through classic game mechanics. Is the player supposed to be an aggressor? Or merely an observer, traversing through a dangerous land?

Why do we assume that because we are given a weapon an awarded for using it, that doing so is right?

By way of exploring what it means to kill in a video-game, Lose/Lose broaches bigger questions. As technology grows, our understanding of it diminishes, yet, at the same time, it becomes increasingly important in our lives. At what point does our virtual data become as important to us as physical possessions? If we have reached that point already, what real objects do we value less than our data? What implications does trusting something so important to something we understand so poorly have?

KILLING ALIENS IN LOSE/LOSE WILL DELETE FILES ON YOUR HARDDRIVE PERMANANTLY"

ugh no. especially the second to last paragraph there

link for the crazy brave stupid
http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/

how did the hi-scorer not obliterate his OS? o_O

BlueHawk slaughtered 4711 alien(s)
roto slaughtered 2700 alien(s)
marcan slaughtered 2699 alien(s)
CaitSith2 slaughtered 2698 alien(s)
Sharona slaughtered 1000 alien(s)
arvernus slaughtered 412 alien(s)
Guest slaughtered 154 alien(s)
orochidp slaughtered 99 alien(s)
funkyskunk5 slaughtered 24 alien(s)
brian slaughtered 15 alien(s)
Meldariel slaughtered 13 alien(s)
newaccount slaughtered 12 alien(s)
ArtemAksenov slaughtered 10 alien(s)
pablos93 slaughtered 9 alien(s)
test slaughtered 8 alien(s)
Meldariel slaughtered 8 alien(s)
danielfrings slaughtered 7 alien(s)
georgelam slaughtered 7 alien(s)
Guest slaughtered 5 alien(s)
test slaughtered 3 alien(s)
test slaughtered 3 alien(s)
schmandy slaughtered 3 alien(s)
test slaughtered 3 alien(s)
test slaughtered 3 alien(s)
Guest slaughtered 3 alien(s)
Sharona slaughtered 3 alien(s)
Jake slaughtered 3 alien(s)
test slaughtered 3 alien(s)
test slaughtered 2 alien(s)
Manu slaughtered 2 alien(s)
test slaughtered 2 alien(s)
DAM_ini slaughtered 2 alien(s)
d1staff slaughtered 2 alien(s)
test slaughtered 1 alien(s)
henninggerdemann slaughtered 1 alien(s)
Trevor slaughtered 1 alien(s)
dustin slaughtered 1 alien(s)
test. slaughtered 1 alien(s)
brian slaughtered 1 alien(s)
leongrantbussinger slaughtered 1 alien(s)
test slaughtered 1 alien(s)
danielfrings slaughtered 1 alien(s)
danielwahl slaughtered 1 alien(s)
test slaughtered 1 alien(s)
test slaughtered 1 alien(s)
test slaughtered 1 alien(s)
test slaughtered 1 alien(s)
james slaughtered 1 alien(s)
Guest slaughtered 1 alien(s)
sebastianfranz slaughtered 1 alien(s)
Shared slaughtered 1 alien(s)
Shared slaughtered 1 alien(s)
Jake slaughtered 1 alien(s)

why not just install a virus instead, a lot quicker.

Backup - kill a million aliens - restore means you get to be best in the world at a game. Even if it's a stupid shit game, you get to be best in the world. We've got people on here with hands like gnarled claws from trying to get in the top 1000 at Trials HD.

GNARLED CLAWS

That game is a death trap for OCD players.

Is the player supposed to be an aggressor? Or merely an observer, traversing through a dangerous land?

This is retarded, btw. Your gun auto-fires. You can't *not* kill aliens. Epic fail.

(Also, has anyone tested with a dud computer to see if this actually deletes files? Could be a false claim.)

but don't we all have a "gun" with "auto-fire" as we traverse through a "dangerous land"? makes you think...

time fcuk is pretty fun: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/511754

... :/

http://nintendo8.com/toplist/more/

neat

http://secrettechnology.com/explode/evidence.html

what the shit

ANTI GAME

if you win lose/lose do you get extra files

http://onemorelevel.com/game/miami_shark

It's been getting picked up on a lot of blogs this week, and I have to say it's been a pretty fun little game (and for Mac too!) -- Star Guard: http://vacuumflowers.com/star_guard/star_guard.html

Been addicted to the time trial mode for the last few days. I went through the regular single player mode, finally beat level 9 after 50-odd deaths-- I ain't getting through the whole thing on hard mode, that's for sure!

The storytelling/aesthetic reminds me of The Manipulator which was also pretty fun, though SG is more refined.

ok that shark game is hilarious.

ha, i killed a space shuttle with a shark!

This isn't free but the demo is:

http://machinarium.net/demo/

it's an awesome demo

I'm loving Machinarium. And it plays on the Mac! (Super hard, tho.)

oh hai the samorost guy is back <3 <3

this is really meta but fun:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/upgrade-complete

well that just sucked up my whole morning.

Enjoyed: http://www.kongregate.com/games/Coolio_Niato/light-bot

Really like this:

http://jayisgames.com/cgdc6/?gameID=9

cool

that is seriously beautiful

Yeah, I got just as much enjoyment from that as I did from the whole of Shadow Complex.

it's an amazing proof of concept; would love to see it fully fleshed out

i definitely liked that, but definitely more art piece than game, not sure how much further you could go with it without adding something more to it.

Yeah, you'd have to add some sort of interactivity at least.

Idea #1: a gun

Idea #2: Detective Mode

Why can't we be nice to one another for a change? (xp)

Did Mario ever need a gun?

no, because he had fireballs

idea #3: fireballs

idea #4 a cute widdle puppy
idea #5 a howitzer

idea #6 quicktime events

http://gam.ebb.jp/kaitai1.html

I like. Not too tough.

I realize that 1) most of you probably don't have Grid Wars (see first post in this thread) and 2) don't really give a shit about music matching up well with games, but if you get a chance, play this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RsdMs-Whlo

and play Grid Wars with the game music turned off but the sound effects left on. The sound fx from the game and the song are in the same key and match together perfectly, whether you're blowing shit up or exploding yourself.

killer music here too: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/473755

grid wars is so great

just completed this fun little platform rpg

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/519030

http://www.continuitygame.com/

xpost to caek

Jeez, that game was awesome! It kind of reminded me of the feel of Cave Story. Weird anal sex ending though

That game was pretty damn cool, but I burned out around the time the 12 block grids of almost identical stages starting cropping up. Nice to see they added a little control graphic at the start, and they actually put a level countdown (31 levels from the end).

Level Up was fun. (i'm glad Z S wasn't being literal about the ending, there's at least one popular newgrounds game that ends with a graphic sex scene.)

levelup WAS fun and i kinda think ZS was being literal about that ending; what a lousy reaming I got for my time.

http://www.molleindustria.org/everydaythesamedream/everydaythesamedream.html

This is interesting, but I'm not finished yet and I suspect there's not much actual gameplay in it. Worth a look tho.

I just played that tonight! Loved the ending.

I dunno, I finished it now. It was a cute enough diversion but the mechanics of walking sloooooowly left to right outweighed the end a bit, for me. I like my art statement games to have a bit more game in them.

depressed me so much i didn't play through. can someone spoil the ending here so i don't have to deal with it?

same

you end up watching a dude who is probably yrself jumping off the office roof.

then you go "bollocks I just spent 15 minutes playing this"

Continuity is clever, but after four levels it's enough.

fly guy

kind of twee and pointless but I like it.

Continuity is clever, but after four levels it's enough.

That's about as much as I played.

First Person Tetris
http://firstpersontetris.com/

(hey this is fun! hang on ..... ewww ..... barf)

That is fierce. Clever too. Night Mode is just ridic. Also it appears to have fucked my eyes up.

ya know, turning on "night mode", it actually is kind of a good base for other puzzle game. probably one i've already played and can't remember...

It makes me go cross-eyed.

barf is right, uuuuuuugh

genuine nausea. don't know how it does it.

not barfing but kept getting my 'L' shapes mixed up.

GNOP: http://bitbattalion.com/games/gnop/

Cannot get enough of canabalt. You run, you jump. http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/

gnop was cute

Canabalt was fun for a couple runs but the rando factor becomes quickly obnoxious - every time you die, it's to a beginner's trap. Basically a whole game of the classic platformer annoyance "in real life, i would KNOW there was an enemy/pit/wall just off the screen!" But as with, say, Dino Run (or Sonic the Hedgehog for that matter), I *love* the sense of constant forward momentum.

Level Up! was kinda cool though (the one caek links as "fun little platform RPG"). Ending was BS but the basic gimmick is cool - could def see it being sustained over a larger game, the Majora's Mask of platform RPGs. At this length you kind of max out way too fast and there's not much to do with your mad skillz but I could sort of imagine a Metroidvania-scale game like this being really cool. Plus I like the general look-and-feel of it.

Canabalt is better on the iPhone

anybody playing vvvvvvvvvvvvv?

not free!

i thought the demo was at least.

http://mattmakesgames.com/games.php
top left corner is runman

(I used to play the jumpman games)

http://np.ironhelmet.com/

real-time (but super-slow) 4x space empire game, super simple and browser-based but incredibly intriguing. Would love to get an ILXor game going.

More info:
http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2010/02/column_battle_klaxon_the_i.php

Basically plays out like the board game Diplomacy, sort of.

looks really intriguing but complicated

u say real-time but super slow - does that mean u can play-by-mail?

ILG folk already hip to this, but worth listing itt: www.onlinegames.com/basketball/

addicting playable one-click fun

there's an ilx competition url as well.

here go:
http://www.onlinegames.com/basketball/?lv9tnjssoq

u say real-time but super slow - does that mean u can play-by-mail?

No, it's browser based but real time. to play by mail it'd ahve to be turn-based... it has the same PACE as a play by mail game does though

http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/rowowor.html

Addictive. 3-letter minimum, can't repeat words. 6900.

7705. i got 3000 pts for "aurated" though.

95 lol

would be better if it didn't keep showing adverts between games, i got fed up of that after my third game

This is strangely addictive but not reusing words is annoying, I just died because I left myself with just a choice between two single words and went for one I'd used already - if you've played tens of rounds already and played more than one game in a row, how are you supposed to remember what words you have and haven't used in that game?

Clockwords Prelude on Kongregate (is a very different kind of word game but) lets you repeat words for a severely reduced score, which I'd prefer here too.

(pissed off cz last time round I fluked two 7-letter words - the scoring for those makes the handful of points for everything else seem ridiculous, the first one got about 3500 and by that point I'd been playing for several minutes and only just reached 1000 in total - and then accidentally closed the window)

9090. Knowing the short scrabble words helps.

I call that one "dud" - I like the crappy find-a-word games (Word Whomp, Text Twist) b/c even though their dictionaries are sucky and incomplete, there's not really a PENALTY for them not knowing a word that you do...whereas here, "rabe" got me a game over. How was I to know they don't know what broccoli rabe is?

pretty sure it's using TWL

12420. Never touching this again.

http://armorgames.com/play/5379/sushi-cat

great gameplay here:
http://www.e4.com/game/steamshovel-harry/play.e4

god these INSTRUCTIONS

When I started this game Harvest just started, and I'm on "Are You Ready for the Country?" and I STILL haven't been allowed to play!

wait...ahahahahahahaha

aw man I got punk'd, where's Ashton?

Sushi cat is too short.

yeah, steamshovel harry is all about the music really.

great game, that steamshovel harry

the physics are crazy

hah, i love brad sucks

rowowor is a dud. didn't know "doula," but did give me several dumb short words that i'm almost certain are made up. liked the concept, but the dictionary blows

sushi cat was fun, and exactly the right length

steamshovel harry made me lol, the final boss was amazing

"physics are gonna kill you harry"

gonna take a gun and shooooot you in the face

Does steamshovel harry ever get paste the intro/tutorials?

It does take a while, but man, once it does you are FLYIN, crazy.

I gave up halfway through the national anthem. Never again.

Definitely some of the most innovative gameplay I've ever experienced.

That's too bad, because it FINALLY starts a little bit after the national anthem.

I love the way the gravity feels. Really seems like they got it just right.

Yeah, but fuck those guys with the reflective shields. It's kinda like, there's just ONE too many things to think about, balancing my jumps against the gravity, the changing rock size, grabbing rocks to throw (which changes the gravity situation again, holy shit!) throwing the rocks at the dudes AND they bounce off?! Awesome concept though.

on a similar tip:
http://progresswars.com/

wooooooooow, this is EPIC and i'm serious; hope someone runs with this idea:
http://gamejolt.com/online/games/platformer/specter-spelunker-shrinks/1865/

cool!

A+

http://www.molleindustria.org/runjesusrun/run_jesus_run.html

btw, finally beat specter spelunker; I hope that mechanic gets picked up for a full length

Is the joke that it doesn't work?

Got it working. :) Great game.

i like that the games i put up here after steamshovel harry are all suspect

Specter Spelunker was fun! I do have to say I don't love the 3D engine, which feels kind of incidental to the shrinking/growing gimmick... the 3D/perspective thing just makes it hard to figure out distances, which is a problem in a platformer. But beautiful concept.

yeah imagine an updated version with amazing graphics that you could zoom into at crazy magnification. has great potential.

Redder
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/529992

(xp) 3d engine?! did i miss a bit? only 3d bit i saw was the snowdome, i went into the house inside and the game ended.

it uses a browser-3d flash thingy, so yeah look at the edges of the scenery closely. also i think it's used for the zooming in technique.

the guy didn't really try very hard on the graphics - if you've seen other games done in Unity they're pretty impressive for web games (see everything done by Blurst, like Off-Road Velociraptor Safari and Time Donkey)

http://dai5ychain.net/breath/

yeah, i liked that!

twas cool

tedious

aw cmon, i beat it in like three minutes!

Yeah, just short enough for the cuteness to last and not long enough to go "is this all there is to this?" Nice thing.

http://www.skipmore.com/freegames/synopsis/synopsis.html

lots of 8-bit jrpg hilarity in this one

lol, particularly the sunken treasure level and "act like a hero"

yeah, act like a hero was great, just beat it. cool ending puzzle, too!

Nice one! Basically the first time I died in every quest I LOLed.

http://www.nitrome.com/games/tinycastle/

we should likely talk about tiger woods EA online.
Just wasted an hour. It's compulsive.

Haha, I was tempted to post about that. Continue to be impressed with the kind of stuff they can do in a web browser now (though it uses Unity) - wish Pangya was playable like this!

tinycastle was cool too but... too tiny

actual screenshot:
http://i40.tinypic.com/e0pzef.jpg

tiny castles is great; a half-hour well spent.

Tiny Castles really turned me off honestly - - awkward and unresponsive controls with a lot of classic platformer no-nos (delay between attack button and attacking, can't attack while jumping, can't effectively jump past a ladder, can't attack from ladders) and arbitrary non-puzzles where everything on the screen just sort of changes when you hit a checkpoint, no way to predict that and no real control over it anyway. I freely admit that this is sort of out of whack with my well-documented LOVE LOVE LOVE for "Ultimate Wizard" on the Commodore 64 but there you go.

Nice soundtrack though!

I liked it because it was quick and diverting (and free).

too small - messed up my eyes

retro games that old people can't play: c or d?

also I agree with all the criticisms noted by Doctor Casino

Upgrade/achievement crazy whack-a-mole...
http://www.king.com/games/sponsored-games/mushroom-madness-2/play/?language=en_US

this was ten minutes well spent:

http://www.skipmore.com/freegames/synopsis/synopsis.html

Super Mario Crossover:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/534416

oh man, the music cues totally make this

also like that it just becomes brutally hard to play as simon

it's kind of awe inspiring

this is amazing

playing as mega man feels really natural

it totally shouldn't work, but they nailed the integration

Best fit in a way is playing as Contra guy, which perfectly captures the Contra experience: when you get the Spread Gun everything is just over-the-top wonderful, and then as soon as you lose it everything's fucked.

Really hard to switch over to Samus after that, losing the whole duck-and-shoot thing in favor of the bombs.

http://www.party-tencho.com/munekyun/

I don't know either.

oh man I LOVE THAT, i can't believe he made another one

pretty awesome

got 128kyun but still not a kyunboy ;_;

One of the best shooting games for me is "Bowman"

Is there an astroturfing game?

pretty cool, altho computer was dumb when faced with wind and wall on one game.

liked the Airport game on that link

Gentlemen, this is fucking brilliant

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Mousebreaker/ashes-2-ashes-zombie-cricket

omg that is the greatest thing i've ever seen.

STREWTH!

I won back the Ashes! Final score: 124

i got killed and eaten by a 12ft zombie dame edna :(

http://armorgames.com/play/5917/exit-path

canabalt/portal.
I made it to level 28 and had to go to bed.

it was fun. my final score was 2,055. But I imagine knowing some of the puzzles I could get a higher score now.

what the hell?
http://3dnes.blogspot.com/

Exit Path's decent, but seems to miss the point a little of Canabalt, with so many moves and death traps, it's not simple and engaging enough to be worth all the dying. But the multiplayer/mmo stuff is a great idea, with more polish it could really be something.

Zelda II... just no.

omg that zelda thing

really liked exit path when i wasnt being tempted to smash the keyboard during the latter levels

Finished it though

Zelda thing made me want to die. Sad nerdzz

I was kind of touched by the idea of it, but it's not exactly a playable, fun game. Maybe it's all a deliberate commentary on the pointless 3D-ification of classic franchises....except that the 3D Zeldas were actually good. So I dunno.