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

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