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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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Trying to get first post on Slashdot is one of my favorite online games. As you can see I kind of suck at it.
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http://www.addictinggames.com/kittencannon.html
Dwarf Fortress has been a decent time waster for offline play (great for airplane rides as it turns out).
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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.
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.
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Cutest amongst the cute.
http://www.adultswim.com/games/ninebillion/index.html
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Free, flash, but you play offline on your own computer.
Of course for the online competitive people you can still submit scores online.
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Hapland is one of my favorites. Not abundantly popular, but it makes for a really good think.
http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/hapland/
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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.
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.
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Phosphor. a shockwave based FPS. yes, that's right, an FPS. pretty good graphics too.
The flash version doesn't do justice at all to the real Orange Box version. Plus it's only $19.99 for Portal standalone.
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.
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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"?
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for good old fassioned runescape (.com) cant beat a free MMO that plays in the browser with half decent graphics.
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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.
Check out BattleMaster
It's kind of a mmorpg web-based feudalism simulator.
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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.
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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.
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Not just the best Flash game, but possibly the best use of flash in the history of time!
http://www.homestarrunner.com/disk4of12.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!
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Flash and best in the same sentence? Ick.
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Habbo was fun back in the day, but it's not been the same since they closed the pool.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Great for a lonely/drunk Friday evening, when complex games are too mentally exhausting.
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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
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
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http://www.planarity.net/
So simple, and yet so addicting...
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.
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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
That's perfectly understandable. Take Hellgate:London. It's pretty much a 3D Diablo, but it's just not the same as that isometric classic. I think it's harder to play, control, pick up items, etc. Maybe if they patched a locked camera mouse activated control scheme into HG:L it might actually be fun to play.
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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.
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Would be addictive if there were more than 40 levels.
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If you like Risk, go to . Highly addictive, lots of play variation possibilities. Not Flash, but DHTML/AJAX (even better). Good playability.
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.
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