Maldita Castilla

Was bored today and browsing through a thread of LPs of "hard games", thus stumbling across this little gem, inspired by Ghosts n Goblins (which I never actually played)



Anyway, it looks pretty neat and is apparently free so should be checked out!

colorful squares

Incredibly simple but hey, sometimes that's all you're after.



Game Page

the floor is not always your friend

... but I like leading Bob to a horrible doom!



I think it's a student IGF game? Dunno. There's a browser playable version at least, and it's all very Surreal Art entertainment. The 'sleep' bit before each level is too long though IMO.

Go back to bed.

since I don't do the tumbling thing

a link to a list of freeware games. Largely 2d/pixelly, tending to platformers, adventures, and horror. But trying to quickly sum it up will always get it wrong, so go look for yourself.

now that's what I call casual

Mochi Stacker - It takes about three seconds to play. But those three seconds are oddly entertaining. Casual in a nutshell.

(Trying semagic now as scribefire worked to post with but broke my version of firefox in other ways. Google, We Could Have Avoided All This if you weren't being such total jerks!)

this interface still sucks, blogger

On freemium, and on how a wildly popular game can continue to be a numbers disaster if you're not very, very careful with how you organise your income streams...

Outwitters

and dear god blogger WHY? WHY do you put all my labels in a hidden panel and then when I unhide them, display them all jumbled together and broken mid-word across line boundaries so they're incredibly hard to read and I can't find anything? GOOGLE WHY DO YOU SUCK SO HARD AT USER INTERFACE DESIGN????

oops

So I realised that Spiky had never played Anchorhead. And as I love story-based games and he digs Lovecraft, I had to bully him into playing RIGHT NOW.

Admittedly we did not download the new fancy deluxe version of the game. And maybe the linux interpreter he's using is fiddlier than some. But we seem to be having a lot more parser trouble than I expected, with a lot of need to frustratingly rephrase things in order to get commands to be accepted (I don't mean wrong verb, I mean disambiguation problems.)

And while it was partly his fault for wrestling with an object that clearly wasn't meant to be used that way, he seems to have managed to make a useful object actually disappear from the game. He took a box containing Stuff and tried to put it inside another box, which failed, but the Stuff went silently poof at this point. No indication given, so it took a very long time to realise that the Stuff was gone...

But don't let this dissuade you. If you haven't played it, you still ought to. Just don't try to cram boxes inside smaller boxes!

Unspeakably Epic

While I have somewhat fallen out of the old IF scene, I do occasionally manage to read a game or two, and I have very fond memories of games experienced only through reading reviews.

This review is worth whole new kinds of gold stars. Warning, though, the game in question involves adult content, and the review itself contains some language that will set off a few Safe For Work filters.

Rune Raiders

Little fantasy turn-based tile-based action thingamabob. I couldn't quite call it an RPG even though I know it gets filed that way sometimes, but it's cute and you have wizards and dragons, isn't that enough?



Game Link

(Also available as an app for iphone or android but I don't have those phones so it means nothing to me.)

go north. get hat. wear hat.

New interactive fiction website of some stripe

get loot. get more loot.

Wasted a few minutes playing BrowserQuest. Well, it's free...

if wishes were courses

Today's google logo is a little ink-doodle playable adventure game in honor of science fiction author Stanislaw Lem.... Unless you're in the US in which case it's probably overridden by Thanksgiving.

Hyper Princess Pitch

It's about a bratty princess (clearly slightly punning Super Princess Peach from name and design) who was always a naughty girl and never got presents from Santa.

So she BLOWS STUFF UP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.



(Not quite out yet. Is due to release next month for Christmas.)

alien crash

http://roman-ss-squall.deviantart.com/art/Alien-Crash-266834321

Solve simple platform puzzles with the use of items. Just a little bit of fluffy fun.

wonderputt

Yes, it's just a miniature golf game and there are plenty of those, but the graphics and hole design of this one is really darling.

Try and see

Netpack

It's Nethack Meets Pac-Man.



An idea I just have to find amusing, even though I haven't actually taken the time to play it yet.

Morningstar

No, not the one with the magical school (popular name eh?) This is a free flash scifi adventure game. I'm still playing it myself but it seems worth checking out.

http://www.bubblebox.com/play/adventure/1362.htm

Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom

I have no idea what this is.

In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! Having escaped the clutches of the Slaver King, he has vowed to pillage the wealth of the kingdom ... then bring it to its knees. YOU are this barbarian.

I have no idea what this Encounter Critical thing is about.

... this is Encounter Critical, which means it's designed to be a very good game while providing a thrill-ride simulation of a very, very bad one. If that sounds like a stupid idea, well, yes. Yes it is. And if that sounds great: welcome, friend, to the world of EC.

... But it sounds like it could be fun, doesn't it?

Realm of the Mad God

I stumbled into this by accident and know nothing about it, but without having to take any time to sign up for anything and a tutorial of, like, a minute, you can be wandering around the world blasting things.



I don't know if there's a point, but it was fun for a few minutes at least!

Alternate Reality

I played these when I was a kid! Well, the first one at least. I don't remember much except potions and learning the word 'greaves'. And getting attacked by wraiths.

Don't know if they'll hold as much fascination now, but it's worth a look...