After discussing Free Online Simulation Games, I figured it would be nice to talk about some of the non-simulations out there. Sometimes you just want to push buttons and blow stuff up!
BowMaster
You start out with a simple bow and arrow, dragging the mouse back to control the angle and strength of your attack as you defend against various enemies who march or fly toward your castle. As you kill them, you gain points that you can spend on all kinds of different upgrades. You can buy fire arrows, ice arrows, archers who auto-attack for you, and quite a few other things, or you can spend your money on upgrades that allow you to fire faster, do more damage, shoot your arrows farther, or plenty of other options.
GunMaster
Here you are, a soldier too homocidal to leave the screen where constant bad guys rush in or parachute in trying to kill you. Kill them first! You aim with the mouse cursor in 360 degrees but you move with the keyboard (standard “wasd” movement). You also have poximity mines and grenades with which to blow up your enemies. If you couldn’t tell the relationship between this game and BowMaster, maybe you will figure it out when you switch to exploding arrows, which are fired in the same way as the arrows of BowMaster. For some added entertainment, pay close attention to the way the characters’ arms flail around, especially when hit with an explosive.
Defend Your Base
This game is similar to BowMaster in that you are defending a base, killing the bad guys, and upgrading after each round. Here you have a gun and click where you want it to fire. Early on, it will take two shots to kill each of the normal stick men who rush you, but you can upgrade your weapon. You can also increase your clip size (you have to reload when you use up your magazine by pressing spacebar), upgrade your wall, hire a gunman, and a few other options. Early on, I suggest double-clicking the enemies and reloading as often as possible. This game can become pretty hectic after just a few rounds when your base is being rushed by a screen-load of stickmen.
POOM!
If you want a break from all the violent games above, you should check out this one. All you have to do is bounce a ball back up into the air with your tiles. Sounds simple, but each bounce randomly changes the layout of your tiles and what kinds of tiles they are. Regular tiles bounce the ball a little lower than all the way to the height of its drop. Springy tiles will make it go higher, but some tiles simply break. It’s a bit tricky since the game is 3D, but it doesn’t take long to get the hang of it. Just don’t expect to master it early on.
Heli Attack 2
Oh okay, another violent game… All you have to do is blow up the helicopters, but the game has the added twist of a time distortion (slow-mo by pressing Shift), HypderJump (jump really high by pressing control), and various power-up weapons that drop down (switch with the End key). Since you control your character with the arrow keys, the controls aren’t too strange on most keyboards. There is limited terrain, but you can scroll a few screens over. Hold down the mouse button for automatic firing.
Hopefully that is enough to keep you entertained for a while!
I had a look at some of them and I like them
Very nice thanks!
Glad you liked them. I used to just play flash games that I randomly stumbled across all over the net, but now I have an account at Kongregate where they have a bazillion games and there are “badges” that you can earn for completing specific challenges (e.g., kill 50 enemies, score 5,000 points, etc.). It’s a lot of fun, but it has definitely caused me to waste many hours!