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

Favorite random bit: during a random death on the minecart stage, Dikembe becomes fat and says "I'm fat now."

i posted on I love Hoops; it's pretty impressive

http://www.indiedb.com/games/pokmon-3d
damn yo

http://www.incredipede.com/
Pretty great!

Interesting, like Fantastic Contraption (some of the graphics are the same so maybe it's be the same people?) crossed with QWOP.

this look worth a whirl
http://teleglitch.com/

http://www.molleindustria.org/kosmosis/kosmosis.html

http://i.minus.com/iduImtFKsdBzl.png

;_;

is the Dikembe game no longer available, or is my computer just being an asshole.

also if people want to rep for stuff in here before i make my coint and plick ballot, i will try to give stuff a shot

i second that, would love some last minute CP12 links in here. i am only now trying frog fractions for the first time in what feels like a very, very shallow pool this year -- it will prob make my ballot on account of that

give fallen london a try

ok fallen london is pretty damn cool

waiting for actions to refresh is super annoying though, am i missing something

It's better than it used to be but it is incredibly annoying, yes. You have to get used to the whole 'play for five minutes, wait for five hours' thing; a lot of free games do this now and it makes me want to kill. Does FL really count as a game of this year, though?

Also, allow me to say FROG FRACTIONS just one more time.

I think FL has been updated enough (including the new name and stuff) that it should count as this year... and it's definitely the kind of game you periodically check into instead of play in big chunks of time.

Story Nexus might be the exact 2012 release... Tom Chick included FL on his list of best games here.

the waiting killed FL for me pretty quickly, it seems more than a lot of these games to call for an immersive experience but never gives you time to get immersed, much less so than something like Kingdom of Loathing.

having said that, i'm curious to revisit because Tom Chick's review makes it sound a lot stronger than it was when it started.

Mordy (or anyone else), have you tried any of the other games on StoryNexus now they've opened it up for public development?

http://gamejam.bossastudios.com/

is this a qwop type deal or am i just terrible

it's basically impossible

http://blog.keithclark.co.uk/creating-3d-worlds-with-html-and-css/

demo of above: http://keithclark.co.uk/labs/css3-fps/

Fucking bonkers.

oh my lord, frog fractions

http://jayisgames.com/games/400-years/

sweet.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/briderider/fps-man

cute

okay, what is this
http://chrome.com/maze/

addicted to MMO bomberman: http://bombermine.com/

xp turns a webpage into a Marble Madness type game. Also if you have a phone that uses the Chrome browser, the phone can be used as a motion controller.

!!!!

it's been over a month since i mentioned this, so i feel obligated to say that i am perhaps the best Marble Madness player of all time, at least on NES. i gotta check this out.

"turns a webpage into something that makes Chrome use all your CPU and doesn't do anything" is a more accurate summary of my experience so far, but it sounds p. cool

(my laptop is pretty underpowered for gaming, but more so than a phone? I hope not)

Yeah, the page doesn't do anything at all for me. Just shows a few loading bars at the bottom.

xp the phone is just used a controller for the game running on a PC/Mac, there's some weird pairing procedure to get them working together with the game. Although a mobile isn't actually required. However a fairly speedy computer is necessary (how fast? faster than mine apparently).

the phone is just used a controller for the game running on a PC/Mac

oh i see. that's clever if... probably not the future of gaming

(NB never pay any attention to what I think is the future of gaming. I've been waiting for this 3D fad to die out since Descent came out... any time now...)

uh, i don't know if you ya'll have tried this yet, but this is pretty amazing

i mean, forget the game itself. it's just an amazing concept.

http://www.krillbite.com/theplan

tried it - cute

http://jayisgames.com/games/simian-interface/

very cool

that was cute clever and brief. good find!

Yeah, that was a pleasant little sideways-brain activity!

For fans of (the non-porny elements of) visual novels: No-one Has to Die

looks interesting, will check it out when i get home. the lack of porn and death may be a turnoff.

lol that's what i thought but i am a sucker for well-made VN in any mode

it were alright, brief enough to play thru anyway. not crazy about the writing and the puzzles were way too easy.

whoah. i really dug that! i'm a sucker for that... genre

snesbox.com is blowing me away - a snes emulator in flash!