Browser Games

Once a day may not be enough. Try these 14 alternatives.

Play old-school titles and video chat with up to three friends in the same browser—for free.

Elemental reactions, like shooting a dynamite-filled barrel or using an ice spell to cross a stream, are an important way for designers to bring worlds to life.

Finally, you can live out your procedural crime drama fantasies—thanks to Nicole He.

Part game, part viral marketing, the brief interactive fiction examines how stories reshape the world around us.

Some fascinating, subversive, and downright hilarious Flappy Bird-inspired games have come into existence. Our favorites, that you can play in a browser.

It's fun to think about a mashup of Sesame Street and Street Fighter, with Elmo's face on M. Bison's head, but what sort of game would that even be?

In the free-to-play, browser-based shooter SUPERHOT, time only moves when you do.

Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson revealed a new free-to-play game for browsers, a simple typing game called Drop.

Random House, the world’s biggest book publisher, is dipping its toes into the wild world of interactive fiction.

The Best Amendment, a satirical PC game, aims to shoot a few holes in the NRA's argument that "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

Ready your enchanted browser tabs and equip your clicking hand with your sturdiest gauntlets, Game of Thrones fans. Westeros just got social.

What do you get when you combine Legend of Zelda with dubstep DJ Skrillex?

From September 14-17, nearly 700 game designers participated in “The Adventure Time Gamemaking Frenzy,” an online “game jam” organized by indie developers in Texas and officially blessed by the show’s creators.

In FarmVille 2, almost every element in the game is carefully designed to either keep players addicted, encourage them to spend real-world money or get them to invite their Facebook friends to install the app, too. The game works tirelessly to either monetize its users or expand its player base, which then feeds the game more players who can be further monetized.

Homestuck is a book/webcomic/Flash animation/video game hybrid, all created by one man named Andrew Hussie. Fans helped him meet his $700,000 goal within just one day to Kickstart a videogame version.

On Wednesday, Zynga launched its bid to recapture the original FarmVille magic with the release of FarmVille 2, which upgrades the game's visual look with polygonal 3-D graphics.

Death is a feature all but absent from modern virtual pets, the vast majority of which exist as smartphone apps or Facebook games. Despite the well-established precedent that "death equals devotion," modern developers file the feature under "dangerous: do not use."

Both game industry giants claim the legal high ground, but who actually has it? To hear some experts in gaming law tell it, nobody really knows. And if EA v. Zynga makes it all the way to court, the judgment that gets handed down could have a huge impact on the game industry.

The guy behind Flash game hit Super Mario Bros. Crossover is now creating an original game, and he's using Kickstarter to fund it.

I was impressed by Gameglobe's level creation tools, and I have no doubt that users are going to pile on and fill the game with great content, but by far the smartest thing it does is made possible thanks to the fact that it's a browser game.

The arcade classic Xevious is now playable online at no cost, thanks to a Japanese campaign for Sprite.

By ditching everything but the essential elements of an RPG, Parameters plays like a commentary on the RPG genre.

Put aside whatever you're doing for the next three minutes and play this ridiculous Flash game based on the once-popular television sitcom Perfect Strangers.