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.

Comments

Kitten Cannon

[hodagacz]

http://www.addictinggames.com/kittencannon.html

Missing Options?

[ScuttleMonkey]

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. :)

Re:Portal

[TheRaven64]

The flash game can be completed in a single sitting quite easily. If you quit it and come back later then it allows you to skip to the last level you were on, which is as much saving as I cared about (I don't remember if it keeps any kind of score for you). Definitely a fun game, but not much replay value.

My choice

[firstojune]

http://www.orisinal.com/

Cutest amongst the cute.

9 Billion Miles from Earth

[ultravibe]

http://www.adultswim.com/games/ninebillion/index.html

Hapland,

[Cedric Tsui]

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.

fl0w

[Jaysyn]

I love me some fl0w.

http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/

Re:Portal the Flash Version

[Anxarcule]

The flash version doesn't do justice at all to the real Orange Box version. Plus it's only $19.99 for Portal standalone.

Re:This is your boss speaking

[ShieldW0lf]

I've been playing a fair bit of OpenArena:

http://openarena.ws/?about

Open sourced Quake III code with new models and textures and whatnot.

Battle for Wesnoth is a good networked turn-based strategy game, my girlfriend likes it too.

http://www.wesnoth.org/

Zombies is a fun single player game that's open source (Windows and Mac only):

http://www.codenautics.com/zombies/

For anyone who liked Tron, there's a maddeningly difficult game called Armagetron Advanced that lets you race the bikes:

http://www.armagetronad.net/

There's a good list of open source games for windows here:

http://osswin.sourceforge.net/games.html

And a big list of general open source games over on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games

They're not Flash games, but they're Free.

Muds, yo!

[Mongoose Disciple]

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.

Grow.

[meringuoid]

Grow.

That is all.

Planarity

[Cap'n.Brownbeard]

http://www.planarity.net/

So simple, and yet so addicting...