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

This is your boss speaking

[psychicsword]

I also enjoy the portal game...
I mean get back to work

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.

Nethack

[Hatta]

Try Nethack. You can play online at nethack.alt.org. All you need is telnet.

First post---doh!

[Anonymous Coward]

Trying to get first post on Slashdot is one of my favorite online games. As you can see I kind of suck at it.

slashdot: the game

[mcmonkey]

"The only winning move is not to play"

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. :)

My choice

[firstojune]

http://www.orisinal.com/

Cutest amongst the cute.

N?

[davek]

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.

fl0w

[Jaysyn]

I love me some fl0w.

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

The ten most addictive??

[More_Cowbell]

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"?

Grow.

[meringuoid]

Grow.

That is all.

Great - 10 more sites blocked

[The Fun Guy]

Thanks for giving our IT guys the URLs, Slashdot. As if they hadn't already firewalled all the good stuff already.

Planarity

[Cap'n.Brownbeard]

http://www.planarity.net/

So simple, and yet so addicting...