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Browser-based bicycle rides are few and far between nowadays.  Maybe that's the reason Fig. 8 makes us smile so much.  Its playful title serves as something of a double entendre, referring to the manoeuvring of the bicycle as easily as it does to the landscape on which you'll be cycling.  Rather than riding through picturesque scenery and charming country roads, Fig. 8 will have you cycling through technical schematics on an endless sheet of paper. Read more»

Coming out of stasis only to find the world has been destroyed in an all-out nuclear conflict sounds like just about the worst day anybody could have.  But coming out of stasis to discover this in winter, completely naked, with nothing but a much-too-tiny bicycle to save you?  That's worse.  Icycle has you guiding a very chilly, very nude man on a teensy little bicycle across some terrifying terrain in an icy cold future. Read more»

If you grew up at just the right time in the 1980's, you no doubt remember sitting around the one lone computer in your fourth grade classroom, waiting for your turn to play Reader Rabbit or Math Blasters. Now, thanks to developer Peter Groeneweg, all the fun of edutainment is back!  Unlike the 80's though, this time we mean it. Number Ninjas is fun, educational, and puts out math skills to the test. Read more»

Nudge might look like he's all big arms and brute strength, but deep down inside he's just a monster with a kind-hearted soul. Nudge just wants to make sure the poor little balloon finds its way to the exit, and he'll use his muscles to make sure that he can move any obstacles out of the balloons way. But he'll need more than just muscles -- he'll need brains too. Read more»

Wicked stepmothers have been a part of fairy tales for as long as anybody can remember, but none were as wicked as Hansel and Gretel's. Convincing her husband to abandon their young children in the woods was a dastardly deed, and now you can fill the shoes of young Gretel and try to set things right!  Gretel & Hansel is a free browser-based point-and-click adventure that embraces charming visuals and simple gameplay, and even throws in a few twists for gamers with a bit of a mean streak. Read more»

In the world of Waker, all of our dreams are a path to the stars and back. Sometimes these paths are broken and the dreamers sleep forever. It's up to you, a Waker, to fix these paths so that the dreamers can once again awaken from their slumber. It sounds like a terrific story in a beautiful world of sleep, but between the mundane presentation and terrible gameplay, Waker was one dream we were dying to wake up from. Read more»

Spelunking can be a dangerous past time, but spelunking in a cave where there's no immediate path in any direction?  That's chaos!  Cave Chaos takes a browser-based approach to the world of cavern exploration and it embraces the panicked excitement that its developer Nitrome is known for.  Caves and caverns have long been a staple environment in the world of gaming, which makes it doubly refreshing to see such a fun new take on these surroundings. Read more»

Managing a small airport is no easy task, so why not see if you're up to the challenge?  Turn around a struggling airport by mapping flight plans, opening new routes, buying bigger planes, and making sure all of your customers stay happy in an attempt to turn around the business woes of a little airport with a lot of personality. Read more»

Graveyard Shift is a browser-based shooter reminiscent of the old light gun days of games gone by. A spooky side-scroller, you'll be tasked with shooting the unholy armies of the undead with little more than a click of the mouse and a whole lot of courage to protect you. Well - courage and a shield. Read more»

Running.  Jumping.  Rescuing the princess. It's a formula that we've seen time and again in 2D platform gaming.  Super Mario Bros. first did it back in 1985, and thousands of imitators have tried to re-capture that glory since. Now a well-polished pretender to the throne is available for free in your browser.  But is Swordless Ninja different enough to set itself apart in a world of Mario-clones 25 years deep? Read more»

When I think of magnets, the first thing that comes to mind is my fridge. I have magnets shaped like every state I've visited. My fridge is covered in magnetic letters and numbers that my kids use to practice their spelling. We even have a handy magnetic clipboard we use to keep track of what we need to replace in our pantry.

 

But magnets can be so much cooler than that. Remember that science kit you had as a kid?  The one with the really strong magnetic blocks that attracted and repelled each other?  MagnetiZR is more like that than your silly old fridge. It tries to recapture the awe-inspiring sense of magnetic discovery we all had as kids, and as a free flash-based puzzler it does a great job of re-instilling that sense of wonder.

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If you've ever been to art museums like the Louvre, you've likely seen the artists standing in front of a masterpiece with their own canvas and brush in hand.  Artistic reproductions are an art form all to themselves requiring a great deal of talent, ingenuity and skill.  Copy Cat: A Painter's Puzzle recreates this challenge with the accuracy that such reproductions strive for. Read more»

Perspective is an interesting thing. In the real world we tend to view things as three dimensional. Objects have depth. They have texture. We can touch and feel them. We're also used to the idea of a two dimensional world. Paintings. Literature. All of these things are flat. But what about the dimensions we so rarely explore? What about the fourth dimension? In Sophie Houlden's recently released mind-bending puzzler Boxgame, you're going to have to think about thinks in a perspective that will rock you right out of your comfort zone, and we love it. Read more»

If you were to stop me on the street and tell me that someone had created a LEGO Star Wars browser-game that was completely free, took hours to complete, and was even better than the originals, I would have laughed until I fell down. And yet here I am, about to tell you these very same things.

 

Set during the Clone Wars saga, The Quest for R2-D2 tells a new story in the Star Wars universe. Lost in space, R2 is transmitting a distress call in the hopes that he'll be picked up by a nearby ship. What he doesn't realize is that this signal also contains the blueprints to a powerful new starship. Whoever finds the droid, finds the blueprints. Both the Republic and the Sith are in a race to find R2 first.

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Have you ever wondered if you have what it takes to raise the undead?  Find out at the world famous Weardd Academy!  This turn of the century flash game offers a darkly fun twist on puzzle games that fans of the real time strategy genre will love. Embark on an adventure to find out who burned the school down as you send your undead army to do battle with your classmates. Read more»

Creatures made from drippings of ink may be as adorable as can be, but that doesn't mean they're very bright.  In Scribble you'll be responsible for the safety of group of ink blots, a family of cute little creations that just don't know how to stop walking.  How do they expect you to protect these pen-dripped people from the predators and pitfalls that permeate the panorama?  By scribbling, of course! Read more»

There's a certain level of insanity to be found in Multitask that you're not likely to find anywhere else. The tasks you'll be assigned to do in Multitask are so simple a child could do them, but you won't be asked to do them one at a time, you'll be doing them all at once! Multitask is quite literally four games in one, and you'll be playing them all at the exact same time.

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Bunni: How We First Met is an incredibly simple resource management game that never really gets too busy or complicated. The mechanics in the game are easy to pick up, and the world size and variety of items offer just the right amount of variety to keep you bouncing from one area to another to check on your workers and further expand your dominion. It may seem simple by genre standards, but simple is something that's certainly welcome in a world of traditionally all-consuming resource sims. Read more»

Rabbit sure wants that cake, and who can blame him?  As a robotic rabbit, he'll need you to help him reach that delectable desert.  But you won't be guiding this little bunny first hand - instead you'll need to map out his route for him, telling him which way to go and when.  Can you record the right moves into the robot rabbits programming to help him get that yummy cake? Read more»

Is Use Boxmen a platform puzzle game that examines the duplicity of man?  If by examine you mean "plays with," and by duplicity you mean "cloning," then there's no better explanation for what Use Boxmen has to offer.  Using advanced cloning techniques (like holding down the shift key), you'll need to make your way across treacherous landscapes to gather up your missing boxes and make your way home.  Read more»

Less a point and click adventure game and more an interactive storybook, Little Wheel does one thing and it does it tremendously well: Little Wheel blurs the line between art and gaming, challenging our notions of what an interactive experience can be. Read more»

Crush the Castle is initially a sweet and appealing thing, much like a Cadbury creme egg.  The oozing, sugary concoctions are a rite of passage during Easter, but after three or four (or in my case, a dozen), you realize why they are confined to a single two-month portion of the candy calendar. Read more»

Self-parody as a genre may seem like a strange idea, but it's one that's crept up rather successfully in gaming over the past year.  Taking standard gameplay concepts and exploiting their ridiculousness for our amusement has proven highly successful in the world of flash games.  Web-based parodies like You Have to Burn the Rope or Super Press Space to Win Action RPG 2009 have made us chuckle more than we'd like to admit, but they all seem to suffer from one fatal flaw: they don't offer much more than a punchline.  That's where Upgrade Complete is different. Read more»

Finishing a construction job on a tight deadline can be a real challenge, but what if you had to assemble an entire building in seconds? That's the challenge presented by Stackopolis, the classic flash game of tile-based construction from Bloc Media. And while the art style borrow heavily from Habbo Hotel, don't expect any type of social interaction from this puzzling masterpiece. On the Stackopolis construction site, it's all hotel and no Habbo. Read more»

Electric Box, as the name might suggest, is a game about electricity.  Specifically, it's a game about conducting electricity.  You'll need to use a variety of objects and devices to move power from one point in the puzzle to another, but the most important tool you'll use is logic.  It's been a long while since we've seen a game that put our basic reasoning skills to the grindstone so intensely. Read more»