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To give an example of what I'm thinking of...Kingdom of Loathing, Lioden, Flight Rising.

What are some others? I'm sure there's entire genres of browser-based games I've missed.

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[–] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Universal Paperclips: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

It's a semi-idle clicker game, ala Cookie Clicker, but a bit more interactive and very cool. There is a definitive end to it which is nice for this type of game.

Looks like someone else already got to this before I did, but +1 to trying it out.

[–] swiftcasty@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I second this suggestion, one of those games where the less you know about it the better

[–] tekni5@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Universal Paperclips, epic game highly recommended but expect to lose hours of your time.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I sometimes think back to this game. I like that the theme it is going for is not always consistently the same. I don't think any other idle clicker has actually given me things to think about like this one did.

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[–] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh, man. I haven't heard of Kingdom of Loathing in for ever . I recall grinding the hell out of it back when, and getting all the way to the final stand-off with the big bad and... there was a placeholder. So, I messaged the dev and he all but told me to spend some time in the real world, the final boss wasn't ready yet, wtf was I doing speedrunning? 🤪😅

[–] Hello_there@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Try out the new PC games for kingdom of loathing. There's a fun western and a noir based one. Same humor and better gameplay

[–] half@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] ouigol@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll go for something more simple, but that you still can spend hours on.

Tetris. Jstris if you want a minimalistic version and Tetr.io if you want something more polished.

I also like to play minesweeper, minesweeper.online is the best one I’ve found. I especially like the no-guessing mode which makes the game a lot less frustrating.

In this vein, sudokuslam.com is cool too

[–] Artranjunk@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Fallen London.

It's a predecessor of Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies and Mask of the Rose.

Lots of grinding in the later game, but still highly recommended because of the fantastic text quality. I played it for almost a year.

[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I completely forgot about Fallen London. I need to go play again!

[–] hahattpro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fallen London is pretty cool . It is even better if they don't have the candle 🕯️

Pay once for full game like sunlesssea please.

I also willing to pay for more content dlc

[–] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

krunker.io

Its like a csgo game but with low poly esthetics. It runs pretty well.

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[–] Dalvoron@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love Simon Tatham's puzzles

[–] simple@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh boy, unfortunately most Flash games aren't playable on the web yet, else I'd be name-dropping like 200 games.

Everyone has to play Sonny 2 at some point. It's a genuine masterpiece of turn based RPGs despite being a 14 year old flash game. The atmosphere is amazing. The music is banging. The build variety is immense.

All the blue elephant games like This is the only level and Achievement Unlocked are also classics. Many of them don't work on Ruffle yet though.

No-one has to die is a story-driven choose your own adventure that's surprisingly good.

I could go on and on but for a start you should all try these!

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[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BrownPolarBear@lemmy.pt 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why have you done this to me

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Minor spoilers but... this is my favorite clicker game because it has an ending.

You can finish the game. And once you finish, you feel accomplished and never have to return (or you can replay if you feel like it I guess)

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Line Rider was awesome!

[–] Akip@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

civclicker a cookie clicker like game about creating your own antique empire https://civclicker.sourceforge.net/

[–] grayhaze@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Kittens Game: http://kittensgame.com/web/

I'm sorry for taking away all of your free time.

[–] ImInPhx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s been a long time but I used to play Realm of the Mad God pretty often. Looks like it’s no longer available to play in a browser though.

[–] Gamaxray@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to love that game. last time I tried to play it was filled with bots, unfortunately.

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[–] KroninJ@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

QWOP You control a track runner to get as far as you can with Q, W, O, and P which are the left/right legs and (I believe) thigh/calf motion. It's very difficult, failure is entertaining, and success feels great.

[–] non_expert@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

My 9-month-old is just starting to get into assisted walking, and I always compare his attempts to QWOP. Only a couple people have gotten the reference and it makes me very sad.

slither.io 🐍 Become the longest snek in the multiplayer pit by tripping up other players and feasting on the dead – until the inevitable moment when the same happens to you. Nothing like thinking you’re the very biggest, only to discover you’ve slowly been completely encircled by a much, much bigger snake and no amount of coiling is going to change the outcome.

[–] 9up999@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Long long time ago i can still remember... Runescape

[–] Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man, we used to occupy the computers in the school library playing achtung die kurve! Multiplayer snake, with powerups. Great times!

[–] WIPocket@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The modern online versions, Curve Fever and Curve Crash are still alive!

[–] falinter@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 1 year ago

Quick plug for the Lemmy community for it, hopefully we can get some more people involved:

!superautopets@lemmy.world

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[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

There's a browser based version of Oregon Trail I've played a fair amount of

the Vex series are pretty good parkour/platformers that even had their own level builder

red ball

one fun one was the helicopter one where you move blocks into positions that I forget the name of

I forget the exact name of the series, it's Flight or I Can Fly or something like that. The one with the penguin where you upgrade your glider and try to destroy an iceberg

A pretty good one with a rocket you upgrade and eventually get to Mars that's fun

Sorry I forget the names, it's been a while. Most probably aren't even playable anymore unfortunately

[–] variants@possumpat.io 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a game but still a good time killer learning to type faster and faster https://www.keybr.com/

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your all time top speed beats 99.42% of all other people.

Your all time average speed beats 95.57% of all other people.

Do not many people use this website, or is 105 wpm top speed and 87 wpm average speed actually that crazy? I just learned to type like this in high school.

[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As far as I understand it, most folks growing up these days do everything on their smart phones or tablets. Like, teachers sometimes have literally gotten entire essays written on a phone. (I would go crazy trying to do that...but people make do with the tech they're given when young, and get good at it.)

So, for some segment of the population--yeah, touch-typing on a physical keyboard is no longer a thing. And even when I was young, people getting truly good at it 80+ wpm was pretty rare. You had to be into writing, either as a hobby, or as an unavoidable part of your job.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's wild! I'm in my mid 30s and assumed that kids were only learning touch typing more than I had in school (it was an optional class). Conversely, I go insane trying to type something of any real length on a phone/tablet screen and I'm sure a lot of them could screen type way faster than me.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 3 points 1 year ago

A lot of people I see don't even type in their phones they use voice to text also which I haven't done because I don't like talking to myself in public haha my brother in law also now sends voice recordings instead of texts which annoys me because I can't just quickly read a message

[–] variants@possumpat.io 2 points 1 year ago

Wow that's awesome I'm still around 50 and I also took a typing class in highschool but I never really put the effort in to touch type until very recently because typing became more common with my job so I decided to finally start doing it right

[–] Potatomache@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

There's:

  • skribbl.io it's a draw and guess game, kinda like charades.

  • Transformice was also pretty fun. They have a steam version of the game now, I don't know if they still have a browser port though.

Board Game Arena is fantastic and constantly getting new games.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Paper.io is fantastic

[–] Xperr7@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure if you can still play in browser, but Town of Salem. Wasted so many hours on it.

[–] Thadrax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Fantastic Contraption. Pretty much dead now in a browser due to being based on flash but apparently they developed a version available on steam.

[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I uses to play a game called Red Crucible 2, a FPS that runs on the Unity Plugin. Game now moved to steam, but its practically a dead game now.

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FlightRising.. that brings back memories. I even backed that game on Kickstarter way back in the day.

Dragon Cave and MagiStream are two more I loved.

Can't forget Cookie Clicker!

[–] IRQBreaker@lemmy.kozow.com 2 points 1 year ago
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