Game: Pillage the Village

Defend Your Castle is one of the original -and best-remembered- castle defense games on the web. While it was certainly a ton of fun to take out the invading forces, story was never the game's strong suit and we never did learn why the rampaging stick figures were so angry at us in the first place. Pillage the Village, accordingly, serves as a prequel to the seminal web game: according to the plot, the disembodied god hand from Defend Your Castle started ticking off everyone in the land by randomly destroying villages and killing their inhabitants