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Curious Expedition: Rivals is a free-to-play MMOish version of 2016’s best roguelike
"If Spelunky were a slow-paced top-down exploration game, it’d be The Curious Expedition." Adam (sob) said that back when we declared it the best Roguelike of 2016, and I can see where he's coming from: they're both games about weaving stories from procedurally generated calamities. In the beta for Curious Expedition: Rivals, other players can wriggle their way into those stories. I've been exploring new…
I move the pawn on the far right side forward two spaces. That's my go-to starting move. It frees up my castle guy. I know many things about the Chess, including the names of all the pieces. Like Castle and Horsey and Pointyhat. I know things. That's why I know that something has gone wrong when the Kingperson piece on my opponents side of the…
Angelina is an AI that makes games, and now you can play some online
Have you heard the good word about Angelina? It's the spawn of AI researcher Mike Cook, which he describes as "an artificial intelligence-powered research project that designs videogames". He's been tinkering with different versions of the system for eight years now, and yesterday he uploaded a collection of Angelina's best hits to Itch. They're all free to check out, and for my money that's definitely…
Failbetter Games have launched a shiny redesign of Fallen London, the browser-based alt-history Victoriana horror RPG which spawned Sunless Sea then Sunless Skies. Failbetter last updated the site's look in 2009, when I'm not sure computers even had came in colour? Now it looks fancier and it works better on different screen sizes too, so I suppose you can fill your pocket telephone with horrors…
Google have reverted a recent change to their Chrome browser which was intended to block annoying auto-playing sound and video on websites but had the knock-on effect of silencing many browser games. After outcry from developers, players, conservationists, and the ol' paper-shaking press, Google have temporarily undone the damage - but only temporarily. Google plan to reimplement the change later this year, saying the problem…
Every silver lining has a cloud. While much of the internet may be jumping for joy at Google Chrome's latest update disabling auto-playing video and audio by default, the new feature may have a rather nasty knock-on effect on many older sites, including a multitude of art and game-related projects and many newer HTML 5 pages being left partially broken. Many sites and some games…
Sometimes, all you need on that first day back at work is something to make you smile. I've yet to wipe the big daft grin off my face from playing around with Froach Club's Titonic Fisherman, a little browser-based software toy/music synthesizer with an adorably doodled aesthetic, and a very silly range of samples to annoy the neighbours with.
Y'know those browser games where you click things and numbers get bigger and bigger - you like 'em? If so, you might enjoy a spell of clicking on Dunno Dice Incremental ("I didn't know what to call the game", says creator Psidereal Games), which has us rolling dice and hoping to hit combos which each big bucks. We start with only one dice and ten…
I'm hiding in a bush with my AK at the ready. There are only 6 players left, and the encroaching zone of death has left us all with very little room to manoeuvre. Someone approaches. They could spot me, if they looked hard enough. I hold my breath as I let him draw just a little closer, then pounce out and secure my place in…
Go deep down the hole with the strange and wonderful Rabbit Game
I'm a cat now. I used to be a rabbit but I went into a hole despite being warned that it was a bad place to go, and then I think I was in something's guts for a while. There seemed to be a ribcage around me, but I can't be entirely sure. Then the cat ate me so now I am the cat as…
Jack King-Spooner wishes us a weird and frostbitten Christmas
Technically this was released last Christmas but it feels every bit as fresh and relevant now as it did then. Media-collage-abusing developer Jack King-Spooner (creator of Dujanah) wishes to share with us the tale of three shepherds on a long winter's night, awoken to share stories gifted to them by the heavens above. And it all begins with the most grungy, urban retelling of The…
Hupsi is a musical children’s picture-book for the digital generation
Whether you're an old and creaky adult or a precocious tyke that has somehow found themselves on this dark and scurrilous corner of the internet (Run while you still can! Crawl if you can't!), you should give Hupsi - an interactive musical storybook from 5pm Kids - a look as your free browser pick of the day. It'll put a smile on your face, I…
Forget 'God Games', because Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh has come up with something that that shows you what it's really like to be a deity. Constellation is a free game with a five word premise: type stuff, see what happens. You can run it in your browser, and while it's designed to be played at events I've been having fun poking at it on…
It's grim to have sunset fall while I'm still working, so I sacked off the afternoon to cheer myself building virtual sandcastles. I build sandcastles up out the sand, I admire my little castle village, then the tide comes in and washes them all away, and I start over. That's how it goes in Sandcastles, the latest from Windosill and Metamorphabet creator Vectorpark. It's a…
Fancy driving a tram through picturesque mountain villages populated by cats? Course you do! What you want is Short Trip [official site], a new free browser-based game from Alexander Perrin. It's a delightful hand-drawn tram simulator rolling through hamlets and forests, over streams and up hills, taking in the sights and sounds. Just the ticket on a Monday!
The Evolution of Trust is a cute explain-o-game about cooperation
Here's something nice, but also depressing. I started playing The Evolution of Trust [official site], a short browser-based game, expecting it to show me why trusting other people is a good thing. Ten minutes in, it's taught me that I need to cheat more. It has you playing a quick 'Game of Trust'. If you stick a coin into a machine, the person at the other…
I should've posted about an hour ago but, to be honest, I was too distracted by It Is As If You Were Doing Work [official site] to do actual work. Pippin Barr's free browser-based game offers a virtual desktop with all the thrills, chills, and Windows alert trills of actual work - but purely for funsies! Mash your keyboard to fill out nonsense e-mails, click…
EEEEE! The Google Doodle celebrating the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy [link] is such an adorable little cricket game! You control a pair of little crickets who have ventured out to bat while the fielders are all snails!
Today feels like a day for small games and quiet games so I have been keeping Brendan Keogh's Pond [itch.io page] open in a browser and skimming stones along its surface as a reward for each email I send.
I've lost entire afternoon's to GeoGuessr, hitting the button again and again to teleport to a random place in the world in Google Streetview and then try to work out where I am from the scenery. Now I've spent a similarly long afternoon making Google do the guessing. Quick, Draw![ official site] is a sort-of game, sort-of web tool in which you doodle images upon…
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