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

flaming out on this too, what's the del with beating the dragon? I just die very quickly even with seed / invulnerable, like I barely seem to hit him

i did invul/teleport scroll/teleport scroll/invul a bunch of times. when you teleport it gives you time for your potion countdown to run out, so you're only hitting the dragon when you're invulnerable.

ah ok

gotta make a bunch of potions then

hmm not sure if I'll bother, but it was fun while it lasted!

where do you even use the seed? like when you're right up against the dragon? but then don't you just attack the seed
I DONT GET IT

The point of the seed is to slow you down to buy time to use another potion. So you hack away at the dragon in invulnerable mode, teleport away as soon as it wears off, and immediately drop a seed to give yourself time to use a health potion and recharge the meter again to hit the next invulnerability potion right as you return to the dragon. Note that this level has TWO misc item drops, neither from the dragon, so you kind of only want to bother beating the dragon if you've gotten lucky enough to catch both of them.

whoa thanks! that clears things up

was getting tired of getting slain after using up honey bunches of potions

Np. I also recommend (ab)using save/restore so you can try different tactics w/o losing your potion stash each time.

hah I had not done any illegal time travel experiments in this game...yet

B-b-but they give you the save option! It's legal!

talking about the spirit of the law

don't worry, I love breaking this law

just beat the last two levels after hell, really might give this thing up soon, as there was just no sense of payoff or reward for either of those, and i can't really see any way of tackling the next one

OTOH any game that still has me muttering about it after 2-3 days is probably doing something right

er, just "two levels after hell," not "last." unfortunately.

Really starting to wonder if i'm missing some gear. The two bottom slots in the third column remain empty and I haven't gotten anything new since the castle keep, I think.

nah, those slots never fill up i'm afraid

sure they do

wait so are all the boards from the dragon on basically invulnerability + teleport + seed, repeat?

because I'm getting pissed off with the garden. do i just need to repeat these dumb steps again?

never mind, I just needed to get back inside my shell a bit

yo what game are you all going on about?

candies.aniwey.net

so I got to the developer once in the developper's computer, but every other time I die without a chance after maybe 30 seconds or so. is there some method to this madness, or is it just random whether you make it through?

ok ignore me again, "figured" this out

candies.aniwey.net

thought you were fucking with me at first :)

i got a sword of randomness from the level 5 bug at the end of the game, the one time i was able to afford it. it is quite random. every time i encounter an enemy it adjusts my and their health to basically whatever number. also my player's 'sprite' changes to random characters or nothing at all. i can no longer beat the dev, something i was able to do pretty easily before getting this dumb sword, i just die instantly now. plus at the end of each quest my health is some random number so it takes a long time to recharge.

in summary, i am still enjoying this stupid game somehow.

*not the devil in hell dev, the developer dev. when i press the key it gives him like infinite hp and me 0

uh, spoilers

Gave up happily after the dragon

I had to google how to beat dev computer. It's totally ridic and I don't understand how anyone is supposed to infer or guess how to do it w/o someone else telling them.

i still don't get how to beat the developpers (sic) garden. i realize you're supposed to use the dragon strategy and just use invulnerability/teleport/seed, but as soon as i start the level (and before i can move the mouse from the start button to the invulnerability button) the first flower lowers my HP down to 4, and then i die. ?

It drops to 4 no matter what you do; you shouldn't actually die til you hit one of the monsters at the end and you use the inv potion like a second before you reach them and then teleport and seed like a second before it runs out

Twice I have reached 0 hp at the exact same moment as the devil. screw you, game.

(I'm assuming that beating the devil is the last part of Hell but I guess if I ever manage it I'll be like YEAAAHHH and then another banshee will fly at my face and wipe me out)

I am srsly bad at this game, I bet I have like 3-4x the total hitpoints some people here had when they beat hell, but nope. so other people's distress at later levels probably suggests I should just give up now

I ended up using turtle to beat the garden fwiw, turtle plus teleport

ok ok. it was weird, the first time i beat the castle stairs i didn't get the cauldron or the candy converter, but they showed up after the second time. now it's dragon fun zone.

i go on holiday for a week and what the hell happens here

I have tried candies.aniwey.net twice now and both times I got like a shitload of lollipops but nothing else happened?

You currently have 21840123.4 mlp. <--- this isn't fun anymore

yeah, now that i'm at hell i'm not sure how much further i want to go with this, too bad you can't get better healing potions, because eating candy gives you almost no HP now

fwiw after hell the game was over pretty quickly

Also feel like the "Frog Fractions" expansiveness/unpredictability has faded a bit, though that's enhanced it as a parody of RPGs and old-school BBS door-game good times. At first it seemed really open-ended, like, oh, there's nothing on the screen, now I have the candy salesman! Now there's a quest mode! Now I'm farming resources! But all those things start to lock together as an actual grinding mechanic, and while there may be more surprises around the corner, there hasn't been anything really crucial in a while,

100% agree with this. like i said before, though, it provides plenty of entertainment for a free text-based game.

now my question is...what OTHER Free Online (in-browser or downloadable)Games are there?

depression games, FEED ME MORE

here's an old classic if y'all haven't played it

http://server-admin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/motas/

Oh man, not played that for yeeeeeeeeeears. Might give it a go, I've probably forgotten all the puzzles.

motas!!!

the ludum dare 48-hour indie game making challenger just happened recently, so there are a bunch of interesting little free online (in-browser or downloadable) games knocking around. here is one about providing for your family: http://jonathanwhiting.com/ld/26/

here is a non-ludum dare indie game that i like, it is a roguelike, i guess, about being stranded naked in an icy waste and trying not to freeze to death: http://humbit.com/rogue/afsahr-v1.2/play.html

two other kinda fun variations on the roguelike i guess:
four scepters: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5708192/LD26/index.html
too much loot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11221318/TooMuchLoot/TooMuchLoot.html

http://rac7.com/YouMustEscape/

also, u+k
http://www.farbs.org/romcheckfail.php

romcheck seems really novel and awesome at first but is impossible to play after like 15 sec

nvm this is dope

wow rom check is awesome

you must escape ultimately freaked me out and i had to quit

yeah, i couldn't handle that too well either
i keep getting to level 18 or rom check and dying.

rom check ending is delightful