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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»

Tired of the usual tower defense games?  While GemCraft isn't a revolutionary effort, it adds some new wrinkles into the usual "build, defend, build" cycle in the genre re-popularized by Desktop Tower Defense. Read more»

The best aspects of Droplets by Nitrome are apparent immediately from its title screen.  As soon as it loads, you are hit by twinkling, ethereal music and somewhat-clunky, blocky and retro-cute graphics.  Droplets bears the stamp of MTV Networks, and this initial presentation immediately made me think of the days when MTV actually, gasp, showcased music as its primary product. Read more»

Now that Twitter has gone mainstream (or as a very few detractors would say, has jumped the shark), it is only a matter a time before we would see casual games emerge on Twitter.

140 Mafia is a Twitter game where user collect their Mob or "followers" by fulfilling tasks, attaining property, and collecting or purchasing equipment.   The game is similar to Zynga's Mafia Wars on Facebook so it's for mature audiences only (in Movie-speak, it would be a PG-13 rating).

Tweet Bricks is a Twitter game designed to be played by everyone.  You literally play a game of Tetris with shapes created out of your or your friend's tweets.  It's a little wonky, but cool.  If you want to play Tetris with Gamezebo's tweets, be sure to follow Gamezebo on Twitter. Read more»

Puzzle Defense is a free Web game from Armor Games and Lazy Peon that combines tower defense gameplay (think Plants vs. Zombies) with match-3. The goal is to strategically place towers and traps to stop your enemies in their tracks, but in order to build you need to gather enough resources by matching three or more colored runes. Click here to play Puzzle Defense for free. Read more»

 

It's almost impossible to believe, but Bipole was created in just 48 hours as part of the 2009 Global Game Jam - a two-day game design marathon that attracted participants from all over the world.

 

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In honor of Earth Day we’re letting you take revenge on some rainforest-invading loggers by lobbing oranges at them in Rainforest Rescue. You’ll use the mouse to set the catapult’s power and direction, then click to release the monkeys' oranges over the treetops in the direction of the loggers and their vehicles. Try aiming at the toucan flying overhead – he’s there to help! Play Rainforest Rescue for free. Read more»

As a big fan of vinyl toys, I've been getting a kick out of Scarygirl, a free Web game based on the slightly twisted creations of Australian-born artist and toy designer Nathan Jurevicius. Part adventure and part action platformer, the game begins after Scarygirl wakes up from a bad dream and decides to try to find out the dream's meaning. Read more»

We’re taking our most popular forum game, Word Association, to Twitter, and offering you a way to win a free game!   Click “read more” to learn how to play, have fun, and good luck!  Read more»

Nitrome has followed up its nordic puzzler Ice Breaker with a sequel, Ice Breaker - The Red Clan.The goal is still to rescue vikings from frozen blocks of ice, but the 40 new levels have taken some bizarre new twists including a magical ice-grasping hand, crows tethered to ropes, balloons shaped like buxom viking ladies, and mist that prevents you from cutting. Play Ice Breaker - The Red Clan for free.

 

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Tri Towers Solitaire is TriPeaks-style solitaire with a fantasy twist: when you clear each peak, a castle sprouts up in its place. Each time you clear a layout, you'll move on to the next round, but lose a round and it's Game Over. High scores can be shared with friends online if you add the application to Facebook. Play Tri Towers Solitaire for free. Read more»

A girl's mind starts to wander during class, and her daydreams take her to the land of the fairies. Dreams is all about what she sees on her journey - presented as a collection of colorful spot-the-difference puzzles. Play Dreams for free by clicking here. Read more»

In this puzle game you play from the unique point of view of a virus trying to spread yourself across the entire playing field before you run out of moves. The board is broken up into blocks of randomized colors, and by changing the colors of your virus, you absorb neighboring blocks of the same color. The number of moves you get to work with will decrease with each level. Click here to play Virus 3 for free. Read more»

Candy Bricks is literally the classic puzzle game Tetris turned upside down. Instead of blocks falling from the top of the screen, they float upward from the bottom. The same rules still apply: fit the different-shaped blocks together to clear rows from the board, and if the stack gets too "high" and touches the bottom of the screen it's game over. Oh, and as if things weren't disorienting enough, the ceiling is slowly caving in on you. Click here to play Candy Bricks for free. Read more»

How good are you at understanding shapes and patterns? In Through Walls you'll start with a 3-dimensional object floating in air, and a white wall off in the distance with a shape cut out of its center. Your goal is to rotate the object until its shape is the same as the hole in the wall so that it can pass through. A grid in the lower right corner helps you - once all of its squares are green, you're good to go. Click here to play Through Walls for free. Read more»

If you're a fan of Blackjack, check out Stack Cards. Like Blackjack, the goal is to create card stacks that add up to 21 by turning over one card at a time - go over 21 and you're "busted." You can have up to four stacks on the go at once, so try to create multiple stacks of 21 in a row for bonus points. Play Stack Cards for free.

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Flashcat is a neat racing game from Nitrome where you get to guide a kitty riding atop what appears to be some kind of wriggly spider through various courses strewn with obstacles and baddies. (Read more.)
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It's Man vs. Vending Machine, and only one will be left standing at the end of Ultimate Vending Machine Challenge. Your goal: to beat the vending machine into submission through a series of well-timed mouse clicks in order to grab the sweet snack inside. Read more»

 

Some exploring Vikings have run into trouble, and they need your help to break through the ice so that they can get back to their homeland in Ice Breaker, a Web-based puzzle game from Nitrome.

 

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Control an alien hopping from rock to rock in space as it tries to reach Jupiter. Owing to floaty physics you'll have to use the mouse to adjust the angle and velocity of your jump just so, or you'll overshoot (or undershoot) the target. You have 10 lives to make it to the goal. Think you can do it? Play Mission to Jupiter now.

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There's nothing quite like helping a giant flamboyantly-colored robot destroy watermelons and apples by guiding his arm download in a chopping motion - all in time to the beat of the music that plays in the background. That's just the start of the fun with Nitrome's Pixel Pop, whose ten levels all serve up a different quirky scenario to wrap your head around. (Read more.) Read more»

Earlier this month Mochi Media released its list of the 10 most popular flash games of 2008, and Bricks Breaking was number eight. It's a simple puzzle game where the goal is to clear a grid by clicking on groups of like-colored bricks to destroy them. Other bricks collapse in to fill the space, so there's a fair bit of strategy involved in planning ahead and predicting where the bricks are going to fall. If you get stuck, you can use a limited supply of magic wands to remove single bricks. The game ends when you can't make any more moves and have run out of wands. Click here to play Bricks Breaking for free. Read more»

Dear Santa:  This year, all I want for a Christmas is a free flash game where you splash monkeys with water balloons. 

If this item is on your Christmas List, then congratulations!  You've been a good boy or girl this year and allow me introduce to you to Balloono.

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In Frost Bite 2 you're a climber trying to get to the top of a mountain using the arrow keys to move, and your trusty grappling hook to propel you to hard-to-reach places. On the way to the top, you'll collect goodies for points, and encounter obstacles like monsters, dark rock that your grappling hook can't stick to, and rotating elevator lifts. Play Frost Bite 2 now for free.

 

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Let's Get Cookin' is a Web game that follows in the tradition of Cooking Mama and Top Chef. You'll get to prepare 10 meals including Stir Fried Vegetables, Pasta Primavera and Salmon with Tomato Risotto by following recipes that you can later print out and use in your own kitchen.

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When it's Wednesday and in doubt on a Web game to pick, check out what Nitrome is up to is my mantra. Nitrome and MTV Arcade has just released Toxic 2, a robotic side scroller flash game more intense than its predecessor.  Controls are simple:  Use your arrow keys to move left, right, jump and duck.  Use your space bar to drop a bomb (and take cover).  Toxic 2 features 20 new robot infested levels, new bosses to fight, and machines to overthrow.  Play Toxic 2 for free on MTV Arcade. Read more»