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

it's like tender buttons eroge

oh cool i won

how long did it take, i am trying to work out whether to dl

~8 minutes total. i played through it 3 times and beat it the 3rd time.

sounds doable!!

This is sort of like Candy Box but with a very different tone: http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

I actually like it better than CB but it lacks the surprise element.

That is A+

yeah, this is nice

Is the game over after the 4th area? It seems to restart.

I had a go at continuing on to see if anything had changed, but I think you 'win', or at least finish, when you lift off.

yeah that was annoying bcz I still hadn't uncovered the entire map yet and it was just like "nope sorry you win game over"

phew, made it! so proud of my little

@

it's too bad we all got really into the Candies game before this one, because this one is so much better!

very cool game so far. i keep imagining all the status messages being read aloud by the Bastion narrator.

*Spoilers* in case the ones above weren't enough:

I wish there was more to it! I liked the little hints at a plot in the cities, like that the character you play is actually the bad guy. Does the ending mean that the main character was actually one of the aliens/"Wanderers", or just that he decided to roam the universe in one of their ships?

more

http://game.lky.ph/

well thats an infuriating game

yeah. it's from the candy box guy. i ate too much pizza and now i weigh 422 pounds and am dead

same thing here. maybe that's the game?

no, there's more

well if i could start again w/o climbing that fucking coconut tree maybe i would give it a second go

hahaha that's where i quit too

I want to put this here as well as the StoryNexus thread, because... seriously, this game unnerves me.

http://blackcrownproject.com/s

http://robotacid.com/flash/ending/

^dope

oh, you can modify the puzzles as you play them?

nice one

http://www.draknek.org/games/BRICKbricksmashSMASH/

Cute!

http://abrevik.net/innhold/TermsAndConditions/

wtf?

stuck at "please enter a valid name"

yeah, i finished it but not entirely sure i'd recommend.
it's off the molyneux gamejam
try gaming it.

okay that was cryptic

yeah that was... eh

was suspicious the whole time i played it because of the url, but it turns out the guy's name is actually anders brevik. rather unfortunate that

hint please

after you successfully install it is it over?

Oh, I liked that. Short and sweet Molyjam entry, not going to change worlds but fun and funny.

http://www.freelives.net/broforce/

ok, when i got that thing to finally work it was awesome. contra + the expendables in a Cave Story-inspired engine, def. voting for it on Greenlight

Pretty fun! Strong concept, good sounds and blowing-up. Not sure how I feel about the basic mechanics of how you rotate between bros - seems to constantly happen right when you're getting comfortable with how to play as one of them. Probably would be way more fun if I had a D-pad...the controls are a little slippery. And where are the bosses?!

http://www.runestorm.com/viscera

baaaahahaha, that looks amazing!

I don't think any of Porpentine's interactive fiction games have been posted here, so I want to mention her haunting captivity narrative, Howling Dogs: http://aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/howling%20dogs.html
Her latest work, ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III was posted last night; it starts off as a whimsical parody of mid-90s "edutainment" games, and winds up somewhere more emotionally urgent: http://aliendovecote.com/?p=5360 (There's a detail in the images surrounding the link to the game that's necessary to play to the end.)

I find most of Porpentine's work terribly sixth form. She did do one recently that I liked, though, can't remember what it was called right now. I'll give the new one a go.

Also, I hate twine. Hate it hate it hate it.

yeah twine is almost not a game system imo

Yeah, I find most twine work really amateurish in the pejorative sense, but I usually find Porpentine's writing vivid enough to compensate for the simplicity of her games' mechanics and the weakness of their interactive elements.

lol "it's not a game"

Finished off BroForce, it got more fun as it went on and I got into the swing of it...interesting idea of a game mechanic, that you never get to hold on to one character/ability long, so it's about, at any given moment, with the character you have, solving the challenge you're currently facing knowing what you know about their skills. And on the (too-few) bosses, strategizing your use of the special moves, knowing you get a couple of shots of them and then you need to find another character quick. I could have done without all the "bro" naming, a little too cutesy IMO...and I never did figure out WTF to do with Blade. But overall pretty damned fun.