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

(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