By "online" I don't necessarily mean games that you play online with other people (although, I'm not ruling that out).
The best two free games available on these intarnets that I've found are:
Grid Wars 2 and Grow RPG. The former has staying power, while the latter just provides a really fun 30 minutes, or however long it takes you to beat it.
― Zachary S (Zach S), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link
http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/grid/gw18.jpg
Interested people, please see http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/grid/wars.htm
― caek (caek), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zachary S (Zach S), Monday, 22 January 2007 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― ledge (ledge), Monday, 22 January 2007 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link
You need never work again...
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 22 January 2007 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― caek (caek), Monday, 22 January 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zachary S (Zach S), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zachary S (Zach S), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link
http://addictinggames.com/extremeheliboarding.html
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 26 January 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
It would be nice to get past a log for once grrrr
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 26 January 2007 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link
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...)
― Koogy Bloogies (koogs), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Z S, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
― Z S, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
― Will M., Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
― Will M., Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
gimme new ones
― chaki, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Z S, Thursday, 30 August 2007 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
www.minijuegos.com
Can't pimp it enough people.
― kv_nol, Thursday, 30 August 2007 08:31 (sixteen years ago) link
BUT WHAT GAME ON MINIJUAGOS
― chaki, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
^srsly
― Z S, Thursday, 30 August 2007 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://zetaflow.skylogic.ca/
― El Tomboto, Monday, 10 September 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Lazy bastards! (xxpost)
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 09:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Tombot, that is a fantastic game.
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
puzzler: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/bloxorz
― caek, Thursday, 20 September 2007 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
hte best free online game: http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/ssb/
― sleepingbag, Friday, 28 September 2007 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
bloxorz roxorz! Something surprisingly counter-intuitive about it. (Or, I'm dense.)
― ledge, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Penguin USA Paper, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
This might be a better place to get La Mulana
No pop ups.
― Penguin USA Paper, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
desktop tower defense!
― pj, Sunday, 30 September 2007 04:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Z S, Sunday, 30 September 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
It took forever and never seemed to go anywhere. I stopped playing.
― kv_nol, Monday, 1 October 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Penguin USA Paper, Monday, 1 October 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.yoyogames.com/games/launch/11956
Just going to give it a try.
http://jayisgames.com/images/kaipuu.gif
― kv_nol, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Kaipuu has a memory leak. (and Seiklus is better)
― abanana, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I couldn't get Kaipuu to work.
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
God help me, I just discovered Peggle. Crack.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 4 October 2007 05:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― abanana, Thursday, 4 October 2007 05:56 (sixteen years ago) link
thought about
But more levels! MORE LEVELS
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 4 October 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
o hi dere, its a download, but how does online kart racing grab you http://kart.nexon.net/Download/Client.aspx
― stevie, Friday, 5 October 2007 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― CaptainLorax, Monday, 8 October 2007 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― CaptainLorax, Monday, 8 October 2007 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Everyone should play the Knytt Stories level "Don't Eat the Mushroom" http://www.box.net/shared/5ju8b2232v
― abanana, Sunday, 14 October 2007 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
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/
― abanana, Saturday, 27 October 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Z S, Friday, 2 November 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
nice play mechanic, good way to kill a half hour!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 January 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
indeed
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 January 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
fun and cute!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 13 January 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 13 January 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
Are we just not mentioning the obvious free online in-browser game for some reason
― lukas, Friday, 14 January 2022 05:06 (two years ago) link
there's w0rd1e talk in the spelling Bee thread
― koogs, Friday, 14 January 2022 06:07 (two years ago) link
which is naturally searchable by the word "tomtit"
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 January 2022 07:05 (two years ago) link
Also searchable by "spelling bee."
― Wordle Stephen Curry II (Leee), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
What fun is that
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
https://jesper-hustad.github.io/NoPixel-minigame/index
idk who follows nopixel but this has been my recent brain recalibration.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 04:07 (two years ago) link
ouch that hurts my brain.
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 11:19 (two years ago) link
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1260520/Patricks_Parabox/
free demo that's worth playing
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 31 March 2022 10:15 (one year ago) link
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!
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 20 May 2022 09:00 (one year ago) link
this reminds me too much of my "back porch situation", i will have to bow out
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 May 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
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)
― koogs, Saturday, 13 August 2022 11:32 (one year ago) link
Thanks koog, those are fun...I suspect a bunch of them use the same underlying math just with a different visualization...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 13 August 2022 13:25 (one year ago) link
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.
― koogs, Saturday, 13 August 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
https://nandgame.com/
― ciderpress, Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
Man that’s homework
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
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...)
― koogs, Sunday, 20 November 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Fun Threes / 2048 / slider game with corn and poop of farming -- feels less like homework because there are no numbers!https://kryogenix.org/farmbound/
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 20 November 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
https://grimacesbirthday.com
― formerly abanana (dat), Thursday, 15 June 2023 03:13 (nine months ago) link
one-button gamehttps://seudonimm.itch.io/hold-space-to-fly-straight
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 20:22 (nine months ago) link
that is nifty but i agree with the comments that you should never actually try to fly straight
― ✖, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 22:12 (nine months ago) link
https://kloonigames.com/wordsolitaire/
― ledge, Monday, 3 July 2023 14:41 (eight months ago) link
got within five letters of clearing it today.
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:12 (eight months ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:31 (eight months ago) link
yeah i definitely don't have the patience to backtrack and try again and again.
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:36 (eight months ago) link
i wish there were an "appeal to the judges" featurehttps://cdn.imgchest.com/files/j7mmcopj3k7.png
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 16:58 (eight months ago) link
https://corru.observer
― formerly abanana (dat), Sunday, 16 July 2023 19:45 (eight months ago) link
holy fuck.
― Nhex, Monday, 17 July 2023 02:39 (eight months ago) link
Someone ported wipEout to the browserhttps://phoboslab.org/wipegame/
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 17:28 (seven months ago) link
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...
― crutch of england (ledge), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 09:08 (seven months ago) link
https://gridlochgames.itch.io/21st-century-roguelike-pac-man
― formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 16 September 2023 13:03 (six months ago) link
pac-man having a minimalist renaissance!https://abagames.github.io/crisp-game-lib-11-games/?pakupaku
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:31 (two months ago) link
Ha I love it
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 4 January 2024 18:35 (two months ago) link
paku paku is very fun. i think it would reach flappy bird levels of stupid/addicting viral simplicity by adding mute and pause buttons
― z_tbd, Thursday, 4 January 2024 23:51 (two months ago) link
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
― z_tbd, Friday, 5 January 2024 00:01 (two months ago) link
4723
― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 5 January 2024 06:12 (two months ago) link
Does anyone else like these stripped down versions better than the originals? I don't remember actual Pac-Man being as instantly fun.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 5 January 2024 21:21 (two months ago) link
6269
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 00:44 (two months ago) link
https://itch.io/jam/bigmode-2023/entries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPhNzYCQtCc
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2024 19:53 (two months ago) link
This is dumb but I keep coming back to it to try to make Doctor Who: https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Monday, 5 February 2024 21:54 (one month ago) link
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 machinetime machine + captain = doctortime machine + doctor = doctor who
― formerly abanana (dat), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 08:27 (one month ago) link
Looks to be heavily indebted to this: https://littlealchemy.com/ / https://littlealchemy2.com/
― organ doner (ledge), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 08:44 (one month ago) link
There's a few predecessors, Doodle God and it's versions are others
― wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 10:49 (one month ago) link
If you somehow get goku, you can perform "his power level is increasing!" by continually plopping goku on top of gokugoku + time machine = trunks naturally.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:18 (one month ago) link
free game 20 Small Mazeshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2570630/20_Small_Mazes/
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 17 February 2024 12:06 (one month ago) link
Infinite Craft is hilarious
― Nhex, Friday, 1 March 2024 16:13 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 21 March 2024 02:02 (one week ago) link