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

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

really liked exit path when i wasnt being tempted to smash the keyboard during the latter levels

Finished it though

Zelda thing made me want to die. Sad nerdzz

I was kind of touched by the idea of it, but it's not exactly a playable, fun game. Maybe it's all a deliberate commentary on the pointless 3D-ification of classic franchises....except that the 3D Zeldas were actually good. So I dunno.

So hooked on this:

http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games8/gameindex/manufactoria.htm

music started creeping me out

http://www.nitrome.com/games/faultline/
^GREAT idea!

^^^ really addictive must. stop. playing. this. game.

lol i can't get over the first obstacle...

click the little x, drag it onto the other little x.

Yeah, it's a great concept but somehow still really dull to play.

yeah but when it comes to the mines i can't find another x to drag it on to!

I keep triggering off the John Barnes/World Cup advert on the right of the page.

http://php.scripts.psu.edu/tms5162/games/tca.php

This is a multiplayer online game from the guy who made Runman. Dessgeega wrote about it:

http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=598

Now it's up and running, but no one's yet playing it. One guy named Chris was there, but that's not enough to get a game going (you need four or five, I think).

http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/3184/gg2iceworld.jpg
GunGirl 2 is a really solid Metroidvania/run n' gun, cheesy 16-bit era aesthetic - kind of reminds me of other freeware/indie games like Survival Crisis Z. Between this and Hero Core I've been really getting my fill of these type of games.

So Frontierville on FB is actually a step above most FB social media games. Not saying it's great by any means, but they're starting to figure out how to make social media games work in interesting ways. (Link to it: http://apps.facebook.com/frontierville/ -- thing I wrote about it for more of my thoughts about why it works: http://popculturecurator.tumblr.com/post/740021134/frontierville-and-the-establishment-of-community )

Nice take on Mr. Driller:
http://www.lingolux.com/2010/01/29/go-to-hell/

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/540079
^easy as pie but a fun five second diversion

also the thread title's been bugging me for forever so i changed it.

also enjoying:
http://www.sootygames.com/red-remover-player-pack.html#

must play:
http://peanutgallerygames.com/blog/games/pond/

didn't find the kraken, couldn't be bothered trying again. Can go for a real walk in the woods whenever I feel like it.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/playpanic/shadow-snake

lol @ pond

I pulled something in my back and I've been pretty much laid up for the past day and a half - - - thankfully, there's Gun Girl 2. Great find. I think I ran into a sequence-wrecking glitch but it's still playable, and boy does it have great control/timing. There are things I would quibble about, and I had to turn off the special effects b/c the graphics don't work right on my machine, but it's a damn nice slice of freeware, great jump-n-shoot fun.

also the thread title's been bugging me for forever so i changed it.

THANK YOU. I thought I had requested a change to the thread title a long time ago, but maybe I just imagined it because I don't see it. Anyway, thanks!

http://www.bored.com/game/play/150904/Depict1.html
i got stymied but i liked it

pretty cool. got the first bad ending, too lazy to get the good one

http://mikengreg.com/solipskier/

Those jumps are a pain as there's no countdown for them, but otherwise great fun.

very nice

Manages to capture the feeling of those old "LOL u r ski-ing" vertical scrolling magazine type-in games, but with a modern gaming mechanic. Also I like how it doesn't dial down the difficulty too much when you restart after crashing, so you can get back to that difficulty sweet spot. And the tunnels are that classic "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! floor it just go go go" use-the-Force subconcious thing.

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Played a lot of this yesterday!
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Not a game, per se:

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/pulsate

still playing this for a couple of minutes most days http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/taberinos.html

haven't got past level 14 yet. that game's pretty addictive tho

got to level 18 and now I quit forever

level 19 today

http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Action/Play/Vertical_Drop_Heroes.html

so good. adult swim knocks it out again

http://games.adultswim.com/victorian-bmx-twitchy-online-game.html

http://swarmation.com/

Cave Story (mentioned upthread) is great.

http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/cascode/
the game is to figure out how to play the game

When it says "the end" does that mean you won or lost?

don't know why they couldn't have just put a single sentence - pick a group of four adjacent blocks where there's another group of those same four colors somewhere else on the board (can intersect with your choice), repeat until the bar fills up