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

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

swarmation seems like it could be really fun with enough people

whoa that adult swim victorian bmx game is AWESOME

> don't know why they couldn't have just put a single sentence

i think this:

> the game is to figure out how to play the game

is part of the appeal. that said, i don't think it's as simple as you expressed it, it's slightly tighter than that.

Not a game or in fact appropriate for this thread, but deserves some posterity somewhere on ILX: http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html

www.wgt.com

http://armorgames.com/play/6561/achievement-unlocked-2

http://armorgames.com/play/7348/corporation-inc

sim tower, but it bugged out and wouldn't let me place any new people in it.

super mario crossover is amazing but only for about 5 minutes

http://armorgames.com/play/7348/corporation-inc

― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Monday, November 22, 2010 8:00 PM Bookmark

This is weirdly satisfying in a "watch the numbers go up as things click away onscreen" way, but by Day 3 or so it really ceased to be anything resembling a "game" since the money just keeps piling up infinitely, and every decision I make can only cause that infinite growth to happen slightly faster. By Day 6 I turned off the sound and let it run as a screen saver. Granted, I was on the "easy" mode but does anything challenging ever happen in this? Like, does anyone try to steal your employees or blow up the building or whatever?

has anyone played achievement unlocked? really enjoyed the ~1h it took to finish it. lolled out loud at the final screen.

Granted, I was on the "easy" mode

That's your first problem.

Some of the challenges get more difficult. Keeping all the employees happy is fucking hard.

fwiw I'm not saying it's a masterpiece or anything. Fun little timewaster.

i loved both achievement unlocked games