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

both ate and learned

i won on the first command. the equivalent command loses the game in "don't shit your pants".

http://jhollands.co.uk/spaceplan/

sounds and animation, HOW DARE THEY

I hate you for this

Damnit. Sucked in again...

I opened it up, clicked a few times, felt my pupils begin to dilate and then x'd out of the tab so hard I almost jammed my finger. Not today.

If it helps, its very short.

Aw, doesn't stay on when you close the window. Disappoint.

xp good to know actually

stayed ~4 minutes late at work just to play this before succeeding in closing tab

Thanks to this I learned about http://www.kingedward.co.uk/king_edward_potato_baker
Which to be quite honest is kind of amazing and whomever wrote the copy for their website should get a hug.

Spaceplan is cute! And it's staying on for me when I change tabs at least.

I mean this whole genre is basically dumb and none will ever catch me like that initial rush of Candy Box a few years (!) back, but I liked this one's "voice" if you will.

Does anyone know of a Tablet version of a game similar to Captain Forever?

http://monsterbreeder.com/

hilarious! and i feel guilty for sinking time into it

That's my day wiped out

sorry for being a vector

ok. i have created a dog treat monster and two others. 0.3% of breeds discovered.

i am closing the tab. i am not going to visit ever again. this stops here.

I just had Jason Voorhees and a skeleton mating, and it became... Jason Bonehees. This obviously is the best game ever.

i should at least buy some aquatic gear so i can capture that shark really quick

I got to 1.8% on the breeds, definitely need to stop

*a distant cry of "fooooooorks!!! foooooooooooooorks!" echoes down a corridor beyond sight*

you have made a James Malone!
it's super effective

i don't think it'll suck you up for too long. i played for a bit but after i unlocked the permit and whatever i mean how many combinations of monsters do you really feel like you need to find. esp once you've found them all and searched all the locations. but if there is a /true/ late game plz inform.

11.2%. Someone beat that so I can feel less bad

7.8% sorry

if you breed without a license do the cops go after you?

you can get busted by one of your customers but i think if you ask each of them if they're a cop you can avoid that.

i got busted. lost all my monsters which was good cuz i quit

Made it to 9.8% but I have the biggest truck and have seem to have explored everywhere so not sure I need to go on. But it swallowed up my workday very effectively.

Of course, XENOMORPH + JASON VOORHEES = JASON X.

I bred Freddy Kreuger with one I can't remember and got Chad Kroeger.
Blob + Zombie gives Blob Zombie.

It was Freddy Krueger + Chucky

THE DEVIL + HANNIBAL LECTER = DAMNABLE LECTER

aw damn, did anyone do sasquatch + michael myers yet (it's an abomichael snowmyers)

you'd think Shrek would combine well due to Neil C's Smash Mouth/Shrek memes, but it just adds "shrek" to the start or end of everything.

neil shreked me.

Family is a neat little investigate em up (kind of like a mix of Hypnospace Outlaw and Obra Dinn) where you have to figure out who the members of a bunch of fictitious British indie bands from 1985-1995 by listening to their songs and reading articles about them. The details are all really good and the fake songs aren't half bad (and all seem to match up with real world equivalents). It can be played in browser or downloaded for free and takes about 30 mins to an hour to beat.

https://owl-skip.itch.io/family

Pretty fun, excellent concept and good music. Couldn't figure out the last five.
Love that Kate Bush-inspired "Easy Tiger" cover art.

Ha, yeah, this was fun. Impressive that they recorded stuff for each band. I did find it ran horribly, full of lag, on my computer though.

thanks for this; i put in a good and enjoyable hour right up until the last five... those required lots of trial and error but i finally got it right... there's no clear answer to who Dova Pavlova's drummer is! Turns out it's the replacement drummer for Easy Tiger if anyone's having issues there. That, plus the other member of Klanger, gave me fits but it's a good feeling to turn the key.

https://familygame.bandcamp.com/album/family-game-soundtrack

https://dreadpon.itch.io/banners-begone

it's a clicker! it will only take you about an hour.

pretty good. i like that you have to sort of puzzle out where each gate basically is

https://ifcomp.org/comp/2020

here's an online multiplayer RPG that you play inside of a tweet

just smuggled my ENTIRE GAME into this "video" embed tweet, enjoy https://t.co/tYhXidt2Ur

— 𝕃𝕆𝔸𝕄 ʟ5 💧🌱 (@ClayLoam) December 11, 2020

cool, just as a technical exercise!

Was 2020 a bad year for free games? Would there be enough for a top 5 list?

releasing games on itch.io/steam/mobile stores for a small fee is pretty easy now. lots of developers taking that route.

Call of Duty Warzone #1