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What Are The Best Free Games Online?
almostdead writes "CNET has just put up a story about what it thinks are the best online flash games of all time. These include titles like Line Rider, Bejeweled, Desktop Tower Defense and Portal, all of which I enjoy playing a lot. But my thirst for free games is peaking at the moment, probably due to an incredibly boring job and lack of imagination. Can you suggest any more good free games online?" Two words: Puzzle Pirates.
I also enjoy the portal game...
I mean get back to work
Try Nethack. You can play online at nethack.alt.org. All you need is telnet.
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Portal looks like fun, but does it let you save your game in progress?
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Trying to get first post on Slashdot is one of my favorite online games. As you can see I kind of suck at it.
Flash variety: http://www.teagames.com. I prefer motocross. Their games are generally pretty well done, and look nice.
Adventure-like: http://www.kingdomofloathing.com. I can't play this any more. It's too addictive. I get nothing else done in life.
I have to say, Portal is one of the best online games out there. It's great for us folks who don't have time to play the real Orange Box.
"The only winning move is not to play"
Of course, my current favorite is Theseus and the Minotaur: http://www.logicmazes.com/theseus.html
Oh, back to work....
The Kai's Semi-Updated Website Thingy
My work here is dung.
http://www.addictinggames.com/kittencannon.html
:gonk:
Dwarf Fortress has been a decent time waster for offline play (great for airplane rides as it turns out).
:)
For an online flash game I can't believe they left out Gold Miner, one of my favorite turn-brain-off-and-play flash games of all time. Great for those long corporate meetings...shhhhh.
I'm partial to Text Twist.
There should be a moderation category "Dumbest Comment EVER"
http://www.orisinal.com/
Cutest amongst the cute.
http://www.adultswim.com/games/ninebillion/index.html
What, no falling sand game or the many variants? The hours I've wasted playing that is hard to think about. Also it was a great CPU stress test, gobbling up pretty much 100% of the CPU
One letter:
:).
N
Free, flash, but you play offline on your own computer.
Of course for the online competitive people you can still submit scores online.
500 levels of amazing platforming goodness
Believe it or not, if you can get past the super-fluffy-cute-website-filled-with-chilluns factor, many of the games there are actually pretty fun...
Of course, never let any of your old buddies see you playing them...
Hapland is one of my favorites. Not abundantly popular, but it makes for a really good think.
http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/hapland/
Also... If you're on slashdot, you've probably already heard of Notpron
If you haven't, you'll be unproductive for the next 16 hours, at which point you'll be stumped on level 21.
For the love of all that is unholy, don't RTFA. It's literally about 1.5 sentences per page along with the name of the game.
I've been playing Bejeweled for years. Not online mind you, but actually on my cell phone. It's an amazing five minute distraction during that short break in a two hour lecture.
I tried the demo of Peggle this week, and...well...while "entertaining" I doubt I would be willing to spend more than a few dollars on it. Now if it were ENTIRELY free, I could probably see myself playing it for a night while bored, otherwise I'll pass.
To anyone who remembers Infantry/Cosmic Rift/Tanarus, those games are now free again. Come back, let's play twin peaks!
We didnt have all these sophisticated environments to waste our time in... We played SOLITAIRE in visual basic and WE LIKED IT!!!
...and it should be known by now
The greatest free cycle eater in the universe doesn't make the list? I can't believe it.
http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/n.html
Average play time ranges from 30 seconds to 10 hours. Perfect for those long software builds when you've already checked your email 30 times in the last 5 minutes. No scrolling, just perfect stick-figure ninja goodness.
6th Street Radio @ddombrowsky
Kingdom of Loathing (http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/) is my choice favourite. But it's not a flash game.
This one is easy to play while at work. (Unless you have Vista in which case telnet apparently isn't enabled by default.)
telnet://game.org:4000/
It's nice to know that there are still independently-run, noncommercial games out there like this one, where they don't claim they are free and then tempt you into paying big bucks later.
wtf! I'm not going to browse 10 pages with only 1 paragraph each. Go milk a cow.
http://www.addictinggames.com/ngame.html
I love me some fl0w.
http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/
There is a war going on for your mind.
Mouse Wheel at Makai Media. They have a few other nice games there too, but Mouse Wheel is one of the funniest.
"DRM is like the Ford Pinto: it's a smooth ride, right up the point at which it explodes and ruins your day."-C.Doctorow
and this story should be tagged accordingly.
Phosphor. a shockwave based FPS. yes, that's right, an FPS. pretty good graphics too.
the Motherload! Great game. You dig with a miner unit, get money, upgrade and then dig deeper and deeper for the big scores. I wasted hours playing that game.
import system.cool.Sig;
Maple Story, a 2D MMORPG. Pretty fun. Repetitive like most RPGs though. Repetitive like most RPGs though.
TFA is titled "The ten most addictive online flash games ever made"
Why then are three of the ten rated 2 out of 5 on their own addictiveness scale? A fourth is rated only 3/5...
Maybe they should have called it "the first ten flash games we found links to"?
Experience teaches only the teachable. -AH
Having spent entirely too much time with it, I had a lot of fun with Line Rider, and all the variations that came after the original.
Unfortunately, none of the Flash games I have played has lasting value... once I have expended enough time on them, rarely do I go back and play them again.
... if that's your best, your best won't do... - Twisted Sister
Not a flash game, but Urban Terror is a great free game and doesn't require you to own Quake 3 anymore.
Hold the Button is the best game EVER.
I'm rather partial to the Adobe Acrobat pong like game that shows up on the stories here sometimes. It's great!
for good old fassioned runescape (.com) cant beat a free MMO that plays in the browser with half decent graphics.
I've decided to Diversify my Holdings. I've divided my cash between my left and right pockets, instead of all in one.
But a whole lot of my non-techie female friends are hooked on Diner Dash. My admittedly non-scientific sample suggests it might be the next Tetris!
Doesn't use flash, just standard HTML. And chok full of lovely absurdist humor. And undead elbow macaroni.
Kingdom of Loathing
Completely free, no ads, donation supported. Fair warning: a few of the items are easiest to get by donating, but those are nice-to-haves, and it's certainly no big deal if you don't have them.
I'll second N. Edges out Cave Story as my favorite platformer of all time.
Best of all, the two are pretty drastically different, so it's worth trying both.
You could always play Game! - The Witty Online RPG.
Game! - Where the stick is mightier than the sword!
N Definitely the best online flash game there is. Why is there no mention of N in that article?! Line Rider is a close second though. :)
Weaksauce as they say...
Check out BattleMaster
It's kind of a mmorpg web-based feudalism simulator.
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
http://www.urbandead.com/
it's a free browser grid-based MMORPG about humans trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse.
There is no NPC in the game, both zmobies and harmans are played by live players.
BARHAH!
"life is a joke, and someone is laughing at me"
I never finished it. Partly that's because I was playing in Linux, where the performance of this 2D game was awful on a system where Valve's 3D Portal ran smoothly at moderate-to-high quality settings. It's kind of sad that the Wine programmers can use Linux APIs to implement Windows APIs so much more efficiently than the Adobe programmers can use Linux APIs to implement their own Flash player.
Anyone want to spoil the ending for me? Was there 2D cake, and was it delicious and moist?
Zoo Keeper
ZWOK
It's a multiplayer flash game where you throw snowballs.. and bricks.. at the other team.
Try it and you'll play for days.
Some of the best free games online are still MUDs. Like microbrews in an era of WoWeiser the King of MMORPBeers, they're capable of catering to specialized tastes in ways a game meant for the masses (for its strengths) just can't.
Granted, not Flash games. There's something of a disconnect between the title of TFA and the title of the Slashdot story, here.
Why Does Puzzle Pirates require unlimited access to my computer?
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Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game; raise armies and fight battles. Play solo campaigns where you can advance your troops' skills, or play short battles against other players online. http://www.wesnoth.org/
Freeciv is a Civilization clone, also single player or multiplayer online. http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
And if you're willing to go really old-school, nethack is always available; the annual tournament is ongoing in the month of November. Current standings at http://nethack.devnull.net/tournament/scoreboard.shtml or enter for free at http://nethack.devnull.net/tournament/howitworks.shtml ; you can always telnet to nethack.alt.org to play or download from http://www.nethack.org/
There are all kinds of trophies for smaller achievements, so first-time players can hope to get something but it's still competitive for experienced players--I pulled off 6 ascensions in a row at the June tournament and didn't make the top 3 for most consecutive, so the level of play is quite high.
rage, rage against the dying of the light
http://twd.trenchwars.org/
The best. Game. Ever.
Cave Story ( doukutsu monogatari) is a great ride and it's cross-platform. You download an executable, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Story
http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html
http://www.sharpproductions.com/jamsoft/incognito/filechute/Doukutsu.dmg
One letter. N.
http://www.digisonline.com/tactics
One of the most interesting flash games I've played. Actually came close to spending money on it. (something I will admit I rarely do)
"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time." Danny Vinyard -American History X
I disagree with your statement. Sure Flash isn't as glamorous when dropping three stories then soaring across the room, but the functionality, level design and problem solving are all very directly comparable to its Orange-boxed counterpart.
I obsessed over the Flash version for a full week, leading me to buy the Box for the real deal. While fully satisfied with my purchase, I still had a strong sense of "I've solved this already" when playing through the Orange version.
So it's not hardware accelerated, first person, three-dimensional goodness. But it still is a very solid and faithful replication of everything that makes Portal, well, Portal.
I went to eat some animal crackers and the box said, "Do not eat if seal is broken." I opened the box and sure enough..
don't use flash, but, Free Internet Chess Server is my favorite free online game, great community, rated games, tournaments, chat channels.
I'd recommend Desktop Tower Defense, but I can't in good conscience doom 50% of /. readers to getting less sleep and lower performance reviews over the next 3 months.
I just moved to a new city - from Stockholm, Sweden to Phoenix, Arizona, so Ive had a lot of free time on my hands and much of that has gone to looking for good, free games. I havent limited this to only flash, obviously. Beggars cant be choosers.
But here are some I found that were very addicting!
(flash)
Motherload
http://www.miniclip.com/games/motherload/en/
A game where youre a miner on a mars colony. Deeper you go, the more dangerous, but the more valuable the gems. Upgrades and planning ahead are really important. Actually takes the better part of the day to beat, and it incorporates a save function.
(flash)
Aqua Energizer
http://www.miniclip.com/games/aqua-energizer/en/
Really addicting puzzle/maze game.
I dont like straying from the subject, but usually we are limited to buggy beta-type games when the pricetag is $0.
It may be interesting for a lot of people to know that Rockstar has released Grand Theft Auto (1) to the public, free of charge
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/ (download link). The good people at Virgin Interactive have also released Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn to the public, also free of charge: http://megagames.com/news/html/freegames/commandandconquertiberiandawn.shtml (download link).
These are some great classic titles that are all worth being played again!
That is all.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
A blend of killing, addictiveness, and strategy... good fun anytime... plus there's sound effects...
Play Defend your castle
- My uid ends in 69...
Not just the best Flash game, but possibly the best use of flash in the history of time!
http://www.homestarrunner.com/disk4of12.html
Spaced Penguins game. Great for teaching basic physics to your youngun's, too.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2007/09/grow_island_game.html
I wrote a 3d shooter called Independent. You can download it from http://www.mightyware.com/independent.htm. It's shareware, but, since all of you folks put up with my loony rants, the registration code is 1138. Enjoy!
This is my sig.
Flash and best in the same sentence? Ick.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Great for a lonely/drunk Friday evening, when complex games are too mentally exhausting.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Not quite as popular as it used to be, but there are still a few thousand of us that play this browser based strategy game.... http://games.swirve.com/earth
Another 2 free games that are classics are Grand Theft Auto 1 and 2 available from rockstar classic site, FarCry is also free and is another kick ass game.
This is slightly off topic, I know, but has anyone tried out mangband (multiplayer angband)? The idea of a MMORoguelike strikes me as freakin' awesome, but the servers seem so empty from a cursory look. At least my wife and I could be playing co-op angband even if we're the only people on the server.
Dice Wars is a simplified Risk game that is quite fun.
Neopets.com is a great repository of flash games. I partial to a faerie bubbles myself. If you get bored with the games, then there's the world to explore, neopoints to collect, etc, etc.
UTF-8: There and Back Again
Jelly Battle.
What does it mean to wake out of a dream
and be wearing someone else's shorts?
BNL, Born on a Pirate Ship (1998)
Cause its a full-fledged application, not some applet or flash object. Quite frankly, given the amount of graphics & sound files the game involves, you really don't want to be downloading this thing every time you play; it would take 10 minutes to load up on a good connection, and who knows how long on a slow one.
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I know the article mentions flash games, but there are a whole set of small fun games by "nifflas". Check out: http://nifflas.ni2.se/. All three of the games on the main page: Knytt, Knytt Stories, and Within a Deep Forest are fun. Within a Deep Forest is quite challenging.
The Matchstick Puzzles are also decent.
Crimson Room is neat too.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
The Bloons games are fun and free. If you haven't played them yet here are their respective links.
The original Bloons http://www.ninjakiwi.com/bloons.html
Bloons Player Pack 1 http://www.ninjakiwi.com/preview/bloonspp1.html
Bloons Player Pack 2 http://www.ninjakiwi.com/preview/bloonspp2.html
More Bloons http://www.ninjakiwi.com/preview/morebloons.html
Bloons Tower Defense http://www.ninjakiwi.com/preview/bloonstd.html
Bloons World (Build your own level) http://www.bloonsworld.com/
Ninja Kiwi also have several other flash based games you can play for free, though I haven't played them yet.
Great site with daily game reviews
http://www.jayisgames.com/
Warbears
http://www.warbears.com/
Bloxorz
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/bloxorz
Eyezmaze
http://www.eyezmaze.com/
Hapland
http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/hapland/
May I humbly suggest a game which has withstood the tests of time and remained a vibrant growing community of players, uses commonly available materials and requires very little resources to play and study? I speak of the oriental game of Go (or baduk or weiqi, depending on where you are from).
There are free java clients (such as KGS) you can download and play any of the thousands of constantly online players. I also work on an open source server to allow people to play Go as a turn based game, similar to old chess-by-mail setups but adapted for the internet, which is optimized for display on mobile phones such as the iPhone.
Go takes little time to learn the rules, but can be a lifelong pursuit. It costs almost nothing to play other amateurs, and I love to play people at my server, David's Go Dojo. Feel free to come and register for an account and start playing a few games, or download KGS and get access to thousands and thousands more players around the world.
Play here: http://go.intellectualpirate.com/
iShudan project page: http://code.google.com/p/ishudan
Check my Go-related blog for beginners: DGD
It's still in beta, but from my experience so far, it's quite fun. You basically roleplay a forum archetype. Massively-single-player-online-game. It's the next big acronym.
http://www.nonoba.com/as
:-)
It's like asteroids, only multiplayer. Pew pew pew pew pew!
I'm disappointed that my favorite Settlers of Catan server has gone away (http://settlers.cs.northwestern.edu/) but there is one over at (http://www.jsettlers.com/) that I've been on. Of course, these are Java, not Flash. Potato, potato.
The Kingdom of Loathing http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/ Not flash, just HTML and Javscript.
Stick figures, strange enemies (sabre toothed lime?!), soft spots for seal clubbers and disco, and plenty of alcohol.
NO Nanaca Crash?!?!?!
That is nearly the best flash game ever!
Nothing beats being a small asian man who gets the crap knocked out of him by a girl and goes flying for best distance.
It's kind of like the penguin game only you get boosts when other chicks kick your ass while bouncing along.
Now that I think of it it is more like real life than a game.
Free browser-based MMORPG. The developers were going for the "old school" look and feel. http://www.sdegames.com/
The rest of the games at homestarrunner are pretty good too.
Gimme Friction Baby!
1st place in the Casual Gameplay Design #3 (yes, it's as prestigious as it sounds)
Sigs are for suckers.
I'd suggest travian.
Travian is an online multiplayer browser-based game developed by Travian Games GmbH in Germany.[1] For the international market the game is published by Gameforge AG.[2] In Travian, players interact simultaneously and compete with thousands of others in a virtual world set roughly in Classical antiquity, at the time of the Roman Empire. (Shamelessly copied from Wikipedia)
http://www.studiohunty.com/dungeon/
The original. It was, is, and ever shall be.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/ they are fun and addicting. very difficult, too.
FOXTROT UNIFORM CHARLIE KILO
It uses OpenGL, so it needs to be able to talk directly to your video card.
That said, the code is signed, so it should be safe. And if it isn't safe... you know who to sue.
Fun free 2D multi-player shooter (glorified asteroids)... Info: Continuum info Client/Site: Continuum download
http://www.darkgalaxy.com/
;)
Not flashed based, can play on most any web browser, and addictive if you have the time
There are plenty of fun and free games online!
Best flash games ever, orignally produced by Romp.com, led to a failed attempt at a movie. Still available here: http://www.freewebs.com/alex_cortes/
Although not a flash game, how about a good old fashioned Multi User Dungeon (MUD)? One of the best (IMNSHO) is http://eclipse.cs.pdx.edu/ New Moon. It's been around for years (since 1993) and has all the best of what makes a MUD a MUD: quests, exploring, player-player interaction, AI non-player chars, skills based and a lot of fun.
Personally, I love Planeshift http://www.planeshift.it/ It's Free, fun, constantly growing, and it has a great community
I'll be the first to admit, it doesn't have quite the polish of a full-blown MMORPG, but we're working on it, (Yes, Disclaimer: I am a dev), but it is highly playable
If you like MMORPGs, and want to get your hands dirty working on one, please look and see if you want to help out, we're always looking for artists (2D and 3D), and coders
I will not give in to the terrorists. I will not become fearful.
Some websites have a game at the top of the page where you try and click this monkey. Man, I love that game.
Fetchfido has a lot of good games, but I suppose my favorite is Squares 2, http://www.fetchfido.co.uk/games/squares-2/squares-2.htm
Steve.
Wordsplay, the successor to Weboggle is a good casual game.
--You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
Though not a flash game, http://www.tribalwars.net/ is a browser-based game set in the Middle Ages. Every player controls a small village, striving for power and glory.
They have 12 worlds and nearly a half a million users. It doesn't require too much attention every day, but you do the best if you log in to play at least twice a day. Sounds like a lot but really it isn't
This is a MMO that has a time commitment that I can work around!
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours-Stephen Roberts
http://www.mofunzone.com/popups/damn_birds.shtml
best game evar!
Although its written in Ajax and not flash, ConquerClub http://www.conquerclub.com/ is a highly addictive version of Risk!
Right now my absolute favorite free online game is called Mythos. It's a Diablo-like (or should I say Nethack/Roguelike?) hack-n-slash game that is incredibly fun. If there were a Diablo 3, this game would probably be it. The game is still in beta, but it's a lot of fun, and totally free.
Check it out if you get a chance.
"When the president does it, that means it's not illegal." - Richard M. Nixon
Kingdom of Loathing
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
or
Desktop Tower Defence
http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game.asp/
I'm really not sure if KoL uses Flash, but it's worth checking out if you can.
-hps
A [url=http://lineage2.plaync.jp/l2fun/flashGame.aspx]Japanese puzzle games[/url] tangentially based off Lineage.
[url=http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/cube/index.html]Eyezmaze's games[/url], especially the Grow series.
Both are puzzle games, just FYI.
Breaking Into the Industry - A development log about starting a game studio.
Long time Puzzle Pirates player here.... It seems we have Slashdotted the servers, the installation download is really slow. Try again tomorrow. :)
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
How about volity? http://volity.org/
It's based on the manga and anime series in Japan, and I think it's still available on newgrounds.com and other sites to play.
Watermelons!
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
http://www.addictinggames.com/sheepinvaders.html ;)
Must-have if you're a Scot
thegodmovie.com - watch it
check http://www.fawzma.com/ The one is math based memory game, the other is a golf solitaire game.
Don't miss Frozen Bubble. It also run on my Symbian S60 3rd edition phone (Nokia N73).
http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
5 Minutes to Kill Yourself.
Not a flash game, but its free, and better than most flash games. www.realmsofkaos.com definitely esoteric, but it is fun and currently being developed. rather than playing a single main character, this game allows you to run multiple characters at once. the community consists of about 300 players total. check it out :)
Which ones have the best pop-ups, is what I want to know. If I'm not offered a cruise to the Bahamas, or a lottery jackpot, the game is not worth playing. Still waiting to get my prize in the mail...
Fun-Motion lists quite a few of building games and other such timewasters, most of which are free. There's also the Linux Game Tome (most of the games also have Windows and Mac ports).
I just read Slashdot for the articles.
http://urbandead.com/ Zombies and survivors in a bleak text based post apocalyptic struggle, with player created wiki and a huge number of players. http://nexuswar.com/ Angels and Demons fighting for the future of the next universe in a browser based graphically light role playing game. (Very fun, a bit like an old school pen & paper rpg with a couple thousand of your closest friends.)
This is not really a flash-based game, but still an amazing one. It's a very competetive, fast-paced FPS. It's in active development and in version 0.3 at the moment, but in my opinion already an extremely robust game. Also, it only weighs about 100 megs. www.warsow.net
Not flash, but wurm online is _very_ addictive.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
You heard me. Ask the administrator of your nearest Linux-focused site; they'll tell you that ten searches come in per day looking for "bash the penguin game" just because your site mentions Tux and the Bash shell.
I say it was deliberate.
All this talk about Flash games - it's as bad as that newfangled game called "Zork".
I want to play "ADVENT". I like it best on a Prime minicomputer running PRIMOS.
Damn kids, get offa my lawn...
Are you kidding me Zonk? You usually try to hide it, but now you just sound like a cheap marketing whore.
It's in Alpha, but it's free and it's fun to play.
http://armada-online.com/
Me - Professional Computer Geek
Eve isn't "free" free, but you can pay for gametime with in-game currency, so once you get some money-making things going on, it becomes free.
U N00B IM LEVEL 61 LOL!
I can't stop playing this thing.
http://www.funny-games.biz/splash-back.html
Joe Siegler
Webmaster - 3D Realms & Black Sabbath Online
http://www.mikekohn.net/java/goatse/
:-)
Maybe not that fun, but funny for a few minutes
Very addictive game:
http://www.k2xl.com/games/boomshine/ (Boomshine)
Great little game, shoot the zombies. The skill comes from timing your reloads and also deciding when to switch to the shotgun. (With SHIFT)
Shoot them when they are coming out of the ground to only require one shot.
It looks pretty cool thanks to the animation technique.
Way more entertaining than flash games: nethack.
Wake me up when there's a native flash for 64-bit Linux.
Or let me sleep through it, the lack of flash makes my web-surfing experience so much better. Adblock? Who needs Adblock when the most annoying ads don't even run? HAHHAHAHAHAAAA!
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
My son turned me on to this platform puzzle flash game (http://entertainmentfans.com/ngame/). Its like loderunner with terrific analog control and an edge. The user community does a lot of custom levels and my son says it's his favorite game for 'getting in the zone'
Try it and you'll have a great time.
ciao
Can't decide what you want to play? No problem! Go here!
;-)
http://www.friv.com/
It wastes my time, it wastes the time of my boys, but we're such a happy family, now.
H0ek
Think you're smart? Prove you've got brains!
Thanks for giving our IT guys the URLs, Slashdot. As if they hadn't already firewalled all the good stuff already.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain
would be any poker site dot net. All the dot nets are free and you win/lose money at the dot com ones.
http://www.planarity.net/
So simple, and yet so addicting...
I'm totally addicted to a logic game designed for the iPhone (but playable in any web browser) called WordBreaker.
| Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
Why does your OS classify the very limited needs of Puzzle Pirates as "unlimited"?
It's definitely not Goatse. No sir, not a fun game at all.
It's still quite fun.
http://lord.lordlegacy.com/
Combination Lock is a fun, multi-player, non-flash game.
Here is my home page.
Yes, I'm rather biased...but...
BZFlag is still a great on-line game.
It's a real-time strategy first-person shoot-em-up action game... kinda like playing chess .. with tanks .. in a slow motion FPS style.
Cheers!
Sean
Is Gunbound. Hands down the best free online game I have ever played. It was developed in Korea, so there is quite a bit of Engrish in there. Like today: "Come play Gunbound Tourney! Starting November 1th!". Gunbound is an artillery game. Think, qBasic Gorilla with better graphics and 10 different types of bananas.
I judt got a nre Kinesis keybiartf so please excusr ant egregiou typos.
Skyrates is not really a time-killer, but it is easy to get heavily involved in it...
Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from Mediocre Minds - A. Einstein
The best!
http://www.videlectrix.com/racewalk.html
JellyBattle - A wierd turn-based multiplayer pvp strategy game. Probably the best flash game I have played
Tanks! - multiplayer pvp tank game
Insaniquarium Singleplayer but fun
Winterbells There's something very cute and appealing about this game, and it makes a nice xmas-time diversion. All of the orisinal stuff is worth taking a look at.
Worse than CNET doing these infoverts/advarticles is raising them to the level of a /. post.
Can't beat Slashvertising to raise that page count and further validate CNET's business model.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Flow (http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/)
Peasant's Quest (http://www.homestarrunner.com/disk4of12.html)
Yarrr! u gif poez?
On my system puzzle pirates runs in the browser web-start environment, with somewhat limited access to the filesystem etc, barring java implementation bugs.
Is flash-in-browser really "more limited" than java-in-browser?
-josh
Check it out at http://www.quadradius.com/.
It's chess on steroids - power-ups include invisible pieces, teaching powers, recruiting enemies. It is an incredibly rich game played head-to-head against others online.
Here's what others think about the game: http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t324856.html
I have no affiliation with the site, but I'm about eight months into my addiction....
Well this allows loads of game modes and true multiplayer action!
It's totally great - get it here : http://www.jsw.ovine.net/
I'm not associated, just that this is an awesome game.
LOL when looking for the link I found a myspace page with some youtube videos as well: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=123476491
Fo sho!
Crank the volume waaaaay up when playing this fascinating (and greusome) game.
Hearing a cannon firing and a cat screeching "MrrrreeeeoooOOOOoOOOWwwwwrrrrrr..." will get you the most bizarre looks from fellow employees.
Karma: NaN
griddlers.net has thousands of nonagram puzzles.
I rather like the Ugly Friend game.
--
"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
I'd love to find such a place...
Official Pi Ambassador -- inquire for details!
Word of warning regarding notpron, the puzzles largely depend on the medium: lots of http and html wankery. If you're a web designer or something and also into puzzles you will probably eat it up. If you've read enough html source in your life and doing it "for fun" doesn't sound exciting, then move on.
I'm a firm believer that all puzzle elements should be "in front of your face". It's okay if they're not obvious, like a puzzle in a park that ends up using the trees right next to you (and hints to trees!). It's not okay if you have to cut the image into bits, feed it into photoshop, and then do manipulations of the data. It's not okay if you have to write a program to pull the numeric values of the colors out of the bitmaps. This kind of puzzle is just computer fetishizing, as far as I'm concerned. It's *really* hard to make puzzles that are both challenging and do not include lots of tedious dead-ends that people will go down, smart or dumb. Adding elements to your puzzle that amplify this problem I think is simply bad craftsmanship.
-josh
http://www.station.sony.com/casualProduct.vm?Id=039
I've been playing this game since before Sony bought it, stuck it up as Pay-to-Play, let it die, then made it free again. Now it's gaining popularity again and I think it's worth checking out. Think of it as a massive, multiplayer SMASH TV, with different game types like Capture the Flag, King of the Hill, Mechanized Skirmish, Warzone, and even an RPG.
www.eyezmaze.com
incredible stuff
Sometimes, life itself is sarcasm...
Fly the Copter is a classic. I love this game check it out http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/copter
This is just one of many links search google for "fly the copter" for more.
Mod parent up. It's free again! Great game.
Nanaca Crash
Both 2 and 5 have some sort of fecal component to the game. Not to mention in 5 they seem to cry like little bitches every time the game ends. An excellent message for children. Watch out for fly shit, but no matter what you do you'll end up crying in the end.
I often play Tremulous (GNU GPL) and Enemy Territory (freeware).
I passionately hate all things flash. Ackkk!
...are all available (legally) for free online. EA released C&C as part of its 13th anniversary, and Tribes and its sequel Tribes 2 was released
Mainframe/UNIX Bit Twiddler and long time Windows/Linux Hobbyist.
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.
IS MUME (mume.pvv.org 4242 from memory) still running? Geez that MUD just about killed my college career back in the mid-80s and was still running into 2000 last I looked.
Once bitten, twice shy.
I love Deliantra http://www.deliantra.net/ very much, it's a bit retro-style and has quite some depth. At least I got addicted to it quickly... Another nice thing about Deliantra is that you can also make your own maps and monsters and contribute them. Also, in contrast to many other free online games, it's completely free software, and everything is available under the GPL. You can get the whole code and gamedata anytime and do your own stuff with it.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
It might look like it at first, but while it does share many similarities with the genre, it's not a roguelike game. It's a sandbox-style kingdom-building game of absolutely incredible complexity. They just released a huge update about a month ago that gave your digging a z-axis and, combined with a fluid dynamics engine, you can do some pretty hilarious things to defend your fortress.
And to get you started, check out the "my first fortress" and other starting guides in the game wiki:
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Main_Page
I waste hours of my life at kongregate.com
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
Lots of original web games: www.inertiasoftware.com/arcade
Come on, this is the best multiplayer ever....
http://www.battleon.com/
Three big Flash RPGs and a handful of smaller games. You can play all the games for free, though the best stuff in the RPG costs. It'S only a one-time fee, not a monthly payment, though. Updates weekly, grand community
-- Put crudely, the world is an extremely large problem instance. (Russel/Norvig Artificial Intelligence)
You want flash games? YOU GOT 'EM!
:p
I have probably a gig of flash games I've downloaded to my computer. A lot of it is crap, actually. But there are several that are quite addictive and I thought I would share.
Most of these you can grab and save locally. Since I had most of these saved, I just Googled for the game names and linked the first or second or third result that came up. Most I checked to make sure the site would load without popups and teh game was still there and would load. I included the name in case the result doesn't work as it should (such as a site getting slashdotted! - I could have used coral cache [.nyud.net] on these, but I was unsure if it'd work with the flash files as well. So, if one doesn't work, you can always Google the name.
Also, if you saved the flash files locally, you can also download a standalone flash player, courtesy of Adobe, so that you can play the games on your home PC as well. Standalone debug versions are apparently available for Mac, Linux and Windows.
Below is a list of some games I thought I'd share with y'all. Some have probably been mentioned (n, dice wars), but those that were in the main article (portal flash version) I've skipped.
Unreal - http://www.armorgames.com/games/unrealflash_popup.html
Unreal 2007 (Newer version of above) - http://www.addictinggames.com/unrealflash2007.html
Tactics Core (isometric turn-based rpg fighter) - http://www.ugoplayer.com//games/tacticscore.html
Tactics 100 (Newer version of above) - http://www.gamebrew.com/games/blogs/tactics100/play.php
The Batman: Cobblepot Captor (side scroller) - http://www.unoriginal.co.uk/batman.html
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (side scroller) - http://www.arcadestreet.com/play-batman-mystery-of-the-batwoman.htm
Russian Affairs (side scroller) - http://russian-affairs.freeonlinegames.com/
Space Bounty (side scroller) - http://www.diggygames.com/play-4434-Space_Bounty.html
The Professionals II (side scroller) - http://www.flasharcade.com/shooting-games/the-professionals-ii-game.html
http://neave.com/games/ (which includes cool old school games like Space Invaders, Tetris, Asteroids, Snake, Frogger, Simon Says, Tic-tac-toe, and... Hexxagon ? )
Tetris (Kind of like Tetris Grand Master, from what I can tell) - http://www.gdward.plus.com/site/flash/tetris/
Bubble Shooter - http://absolutist.com/online/bubbles/
PacXon - http://www.addictinggames.com/pacxon.html
Deal or No Deal - http://www.nbc.com/Deal_or_No_Deal/game/flash.shtml
Plumber - http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-1082.htm
Bunch - http://www.miniclip.com/games/bunch/en/
Tanks - http://www.2dplay.com/tanks/tanks-play.htm
n game - http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/n.html
Dice Wars (Risk) - http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html
Oh, sure, it's a bit of shameless self-promotion, but I encourage anyone who enjoys turn-based pseudo-RPGs like LORD or KoL to check it out. It's a free casual RPG I'm writing in my spare time, at least in part as an exercise in stretching what's possible to do with PHP and AJAX. So... maybe not a "flash game" per se, but fits the general theme of casual games one can play over their lunch. ;)
Now go kill some slimes! http://www.pseudoquest.com/
That green slime had it coming.
How could Kingdom of Loathing be left out? That's one addicting game.
http://www3.kingdomofloathing.com/main.html
check out travian.com for a real-time, massively multiplayer, simcity/civ/diplomacy (sorta) free online game.
server 6 (s6.travian.com) just started yesterday, so now is the time to start!
Here's one that definitely should have made the list: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/launchpad/launchball/
Very very addictive. I just wish there were more levels to play.
http://www.corwin.ca/gridlock/...
Would be addictive if there were more than 40 levels.
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"
If you like Risk, go to . Highly addictive, lots of play variation possibilities. Not Flash, but DHTML/AJAX (even better). Good playability.
I don't have a link handy but Freespace 2!
Good enough to be made into a commercial game on many platforms, but the original Flash game can still be had at NewGrounds.com.
Hans
I've been playing games at http://www.kongregate.com/ lately. Most of the ones mentioned in TFA are online there.
An excerpt from Mr. Smith's article:
Mateusz Skutnik's Official Site: http://www.pastelstories.com/
JayIsGames.com Reviews: http://jayisgames.com/tag/mskutnik/
http://64.72.125.183/~yoarcade/flashgames2
Repository with a bunch of great (and not-so-great) Flash games, with the added advantage of not being blocked by my work proxy like all the other gaming sites. I highly recommend Bowmaster Prelude, and Tactical Assassin is fun, if short. Enjoy!
http://megami.starcreator.com/nanaca-crash/ Crash into a pervert with your bicycle!
...thus spoke the waffle. and thus it was so.
That's a good list you have there. The Battle For Wesnoth is verry good, and that is right next to the one I am about to introduce to whomever...
A good one that is better than Diablo-1 is The Mana World. No relentless gore and unsensable character in that title. It's opensource/GPL in C++. Has an average of 25 accounts actively in the server at any time of the solar day. Clean environment of people and quick server. Doesn't need system high requirements for 2D, but a openGL accelerator and modest resources (133MHz of free processor execution) would allow some neet grahics effects that don't interrupt or improve gameplay over 2D mode. Gets perceivably better with each version, and no gameplay screw-ups like how Blizzard has done.
The Mana World
Join as soon as possible while the Halloween mod is still active, collect 5 dark crystals from killing the flaming skulls, ask a cult member to summon the Pumpkin devil, and get some items.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/ Who needs colors? BAH!
He either comes off as a real interesting guy with encyclopedic knowledge,or a pathological liar with an ax to grind
YPP's "launch from the web page"'s current version uses application local storage to hold the game program and data files. Yes, it asks you if you trust the publisher.
I haven't seen it ask for unlimited computer access in many versions.
Flight of the Hamsters
Now no one will see this. :P
http://www.globulos.com
Globulos is a great collection of multiplayer flash games. It used to be completely free, but now it only allows restricted play for guests (after the 15 minute limit, you can just refresh the page and play another 15 minutes). They will rotate which game modes guests are able to play. "Foot" is the classic football (soccer) style game and is the best in my opinion; I don't think guests can play it at the moment, so don't judge the game until you've played foot. I've come very close to subscribing many times... I wish they'd port this to the DS sometime.
Rotation ( http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=6314 ) is a real mind-bender. Genuinely hard, in the way that a Rubik's cube is hard at first. But it rewards the careful thinker...
Tanarus is a great tank game that Sony recently opened up as a freebie:
Tanarus Home Page
There's always "Ouverture Facile", with a slight drawback - it's in French - yeah, yeah, I know.
Actually, it's - amazing - bilingual: http://www.ouverture-facile.com/riddles/index.html
Check it out and enjoy!
On the one hand, Puzzle Pirates uses the registry to store account information (so that you don't have to re-enter preferences each time). Similarly, it does download and store new assets as needed. And the interplay between the Java runtime and the game is a bit messier than a usual program.
I suspect the real reason it wants full access, though, is that it was developed on Windows in a time before usage restrictions had any meaning on that platform. It predates Vista by a good chunk of time, and you can't say that XP had any meaningful protection.
Great game, though. It's still one of my favorite after all these years.
The ______ Agenda
I don't have much of an opinion of free flash games, having played only one or two very long ago. Just to get free games or info on them in general, I strongly recommend Home of the Underdogs www.the-underdogs.info as the best out-of-trademark and free games listing and download site on the internet. It may not be as well maintained as ever due to its keeper's busy schedule but it is chock-a-block with more enterainment than a sane player could exploit in a lifetime. Run through it and pick your favorites out of there.
They're getting better, and I'm enjoying it more, but... Man, this first week or so has not made me want to subscribe.
My own pointless vanity vintage computing page
Shards of Dalaya, uses the engine from a popular game engine with all original content and improved mechanics.
Bowmaster Prelude would qualify (Bowmaster 2 coming)
This is not news. This is useless bullshit.
Boooooooooooooooooo. Gtfo.
Home of the Underdogs has quite a few games that are either freeware or are now free, like Freespace 2.
Liberated Games has many now free games that were once commerical offerings.
Rockstar has also made GTA2 and 2 other games free.
...cyrkam airtos? It's an excellent game where you have to throw crumpled paper balls into a wastepaper bin! It appeals with its simplicity. http://games.sticky.tv/cyrkam_airtos/
Nanaca crash is far superior, actually interactive, and waaay more fun than this!
Far Cry. Not Flash, but now free (ad supported). Definitely one of the best FPS games.
*cough* http://www.fantabulousflashfun.blogspot.com/ *cough*
http://www.g4g.it/
A great site for free games
http://games.sticky.tv/cyrkam_airtos/ http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/bloxorz Rock on !!
Check out Narbacular Drop. It's the Digipen Institute senior project that got its creators hired by Valve to remake it as Portal.
How could anyone forget ROFLattack? http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/172015
647 feet so far....
Download: http://crimsonland.reflexive.com/?menu=downloads [6.4M]
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimsonland
QUOTE wikipedia:
"The player must defend himself against thousands of aliens that surround him. This objective is accomplished using a variety of weapons, perks and bonuses."
ENDQUOTE
Top-down view, gorgeous DirectX 8.1 graphics. Must try.
I like playing Frantic Fish at Gamesville.
It's like Bingo after it's had a few Red Bulls.
Funny name notwithstanding, it's a pretty cool little MMORPG that's done entirely in flash.
It has free to play and pay to play modes.
Look out honey cause I'm usin' technology
Ain't got time to make no apologies
Pandemic is fun for a random-number driven flash game of global destruction.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Funny name notwithstanding, it's a pretty cool little MMORPG that's done entirely in flash.
It has free to play and pay to play modes.
http://www.dofus.com/
Look out honey cause I'm usin' technology
Ain't got time to make no apologies
one of the best sports flash game around! Also try www.powerchallenge.com
I'd mod you up if I had points. Grow and the other Eyezmaze games are amazing.
The single greatest online game is the Korean Arse Shooter.
Da Blog
It's not Flash, and it's not fancy, but it is massively multi-player, free and ad-free. Give WEBoggle a try, and maybe throw something in the tip jar if you like it - I could really use it right now.
The Crimson Room (http://www.fasco-csc.com/index_j.php) and its ilk are pretty good. I didn't remember the link, so I found this one via googling. I hope it's correct.
-- "This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
http://warfish.net/war/home I'm finally down to one game at a time after playing an average of 10 at a time for over a year. One of the great parts: getting emails to remind you to go procrastinate. It's turn based strategy, so you can hide it whenever your boss walks in without affecting your game.
Flash based, the source of an office competition... http://onslaught.playr.co.uk/
Wanted: A better sig than this one. I have neither the wit nor motivation...
Neat MUD based on Magic: the Gathering. Well, we like it, anyway, YMMV! http://dominia.egn.com.au/ Or to connect, telnet to dominia.egn.com.au 3333
If, like me, you miss the oldschool BBS games, and want something that is more than just a five minute distraction but a persistent world, try Colony Wars or Legend of the Green Dragon. My fave flash game at the moment is Dicewars, a simplified risk style game. Enjoy!
can be found here -> http://goodexperience.com/games/
nquake is great! Original quakeworld
http://nquake.sourceforge.net/
Although not flash isketch(www.isketch.org) is a very original game where players basically play a new version of pictionary in a huge online community in various rooms ranging from English(uk/us) to warcraft to science and mathematical topics. I think its awesome and id like to see more people on it!
Don't forget the first real MMOG subspace/continuum been going 10 years strong now!
http://www.getcontinuum.com/
Wee War is a great free to play online strategy game. It's a lot like Advance Wars, on a hex board. http://weewar.com/?referrer=joelodom
maple story is still free since i started playing january this year
Word Sandwich
Simple, but mildly addicting.
I learned about it from the blog of an avid Lingo fan.
There is a Java based take on the old Asteroids game called Basteroids. You can register and submit high scores, as and when, or play anonymously. This has taken up far too much of my time over the years. There are also a bunch of other games, some Flash based, some Java, and some for Linux and Macs. Some more games, including Pacman clone.
Trying to associate Microsoft with "fun" is like trying to associate Satan with aromatherapy. -Tycho
Here's a Manic Miner clone I wrote a few years ago entirely in JavaScript: http://www.ellosnuncaloharian.com/online/mm/manicminer.html No plug-ins required and it should work in most browsers.
After about three months of relentless Willy action I reckon I'm now as good as when I was 10.
but Diablo, Diablo II, and Star Craft were all free to play online unlike Everquest, World of Warcraft, and other MMORPG Junk that requires that you pay ever month.
Entropia is technically free to download and play, but all you can do with a free account is "sweat" and run around getting killed so that you get evade, courage, and other defense related skills. After you get 1000 sweat, you should be able to trade it to another player for 5-10 peds. 10 peds = 1.00 USD. Getting 1k in sweat will take a while (probably a weekend or so)
Sumo Volleyball (hosted at several sites, with some different rules. Try different versions to find the best)
Nanaca Crash (http://storage.act-9.com/2005/0222/nanaca.htm)
Typing Game (www.2addicted.com)
Cube Basketball (http://www.robkamphausen.com/throwpaper.html)
Grand Mastermind (http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~andrew/gm/)
can you easily manipulate spatial data in your head?
BLOXORS! so far on 5 people have completed the game up to level 35, challenging and fun.
http://www.miniclip.com/games/bloxorz/en/
full screen
http://img2.pconline.com.cn/pconline/0708/28/1091170_28turningsqure.swf
An engineer is just an intricate machine that turns coffee into money.
http://www.homestarrunner.com/disk4of12.html ... all your base has belong to I
... sometimes I feel like an evolutionary reject
I go back to this one about once a month for stupid retro-style simplicity... kinda funny too...
http://www.1mho.com/invade
Dice Wars is another good time, I found it looking for a replacement for RISK. Simple yet addicting. http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html/
The seekers do no need truth, the seekers do find truth and the finding do be painful
http://kdice.com/
It's like risk, only instead of army pieces, they are replaced with dice. When you attack an adjacent territory, the number of dice you have roll against however many dice are in the defending territory. The highest sum wins the roll.
At the end of your turn you gain a number of dice equal to contiguous territories you controll and they are then randomly distributed to your territories.
It's got a ranking point system and is incredibly fun.
I like doing the jigsaws at jigzone.com. You can change the piece cut to some pretty cool shapes and make the puzzles as hard or easy as you like. They're also timed so you can see how you compare against others.
MPDTD, http://www.casualcollective.com/
Slightly addictive, highly recommended. The goal is to built towers that kill creeps faster than your opponent. It's pretty fun...kind of like multiplayer tetris.
www.travian.com
;)
also, www.travian.(insert your 2-letter country code here)
not flash, but browser-based... which, imho, is better
oh, i guess i should describe it a bit... it's like civ, but slower, and in your browser.
www.harveycartel.org/metanet/n.html
N is the BEST implementation of modern technology using retro inspiration and kick-arse physics.
Two thumbs up.
Dan. -- So what if it's spelt wrong, nobody's perfect
dungeon runners is a free online mmo.
Operation Emergent Evolution is also a cool website with lots of free games for you to play. Interesting interface, I must say. Even though it is not a commercial website, you get almost immediate support as it is maintained by a game enthusiast.
Marking for later.
[Disclaimer: I work on this game. Not a marketing shill, I just make art for it and actually enjoy playing the game for free.]
Dungeon Runners is a totally goofball free-to-play casual MMORPG for people that don't have 8 hours a night to devote to WOW raids. :) It's designed to be fun to play in 15 to 30 minute chunks if that's all you have. There's an optional $5/mo subscription for stacking potions, a bank and premium items, but all the actual world content and dungeons is available to everybody. We have a large amount of free players that enjoy it without ever paying a dime.
Don't shoot the puppy!
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
my website bar none will have the best free online games, just give me about twenty to develop it into reality!
I'm surprised nobody said this but http://nabisco.com/ has some fun games.
:)
Me and my co-workers would play pool and table tennis for fricken hours. That girl erica on there is a table tennis BEAST!
And they're free, and fun
This is a simple game that once you start you just wont be able to stop! Just build a few towers to that shoot to stop monsters from reaching their destination..... Yea right. Get yourself a group scoreboard and try to perfect your maize. You will kill a lot of time with this game. I have created a damage vs cost table for all the towers at their different levels - just for those of you that obsess. http://www.gozlit.com/blog/index.php/Nigel/2007/11/cost-vs-damage-matrix-for-desktop-tower- The game is at http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/ The table I have created is for version 1.5; which was the latest when i wrote this. Enjoy
My favorite free games are on rinkworks.com; but be warned that these are adventure and RPG style games, not shoot-em-ups.