Maze Games, Scary Maze, Fun Mazes. GregoryWeir's profile on Kongregate. Play Looming. The Last Website. The Best Flash Games of 2010. In between forays into the worlds of Rapture and New Austin in games like Bioshock 2 and Red Dead Redemption, I have found myself increasingly drawn to web sites like Newgrounds and Kongregate for a little bit of respite from triple-A gaming this year. Flash as a medium for games has rarely been of particular interest for me, as it largely seems like a space to port classic video game titles in a kind of “freeware” form to older gamers.
This is all well and good—playing a few rounds of Donkey Kong or Asteroids is mildly diverting—but barring the nostalgia factor, this kind of diversion fails to keep one’s attention for very long. However, Flash gaming has really grown up in the last few years. Gone are the days when simple ports dominated the scene (though these still exist) as a lot of developers (sometimes as parts of larger commercial teams, but especially of the independent sort) have managed to really create some unique and innovative titles. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
Top ten launching games. This list of games will probably get me in trouble with the Royal Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The Campaign to Save Shopping Carts and the League Against Meanness to Trucks are also unlikely to have me in their good books after reading this. The games we are featuring today are totally irresponsible. Anyone who did in real life what you can do in these games would be severely punished. And rightly so. But, in their defence, there is [giggle] something insanely entertaining about launching a hedgehog into outer space, blasting a turtle [snigger] into the unknown using a nuke or driving a truck up a ramp so fast that it flies like a bird [suppressed guffaw], before crashing destructively down on some buildings.
Sometimes it is okay to unleash our darkest (silliest?!) 1Reachin Pichin KBH Games is a latecomer to the launching game party. To say that the game is polished is the understatement of the year. 2Toss the Turtle Pity the poor turtle in this game. 3Hedgehog Launch 2. Elephant Quest (Game Battle) Stumblers Who Like Ten games that make you think about life. At the start of this year, we decided to come up with a list of Flash casual games with a philosophical bent.
To be honest, we struggled. After days of research, we could only find a handful of games that had the thought-provoking depth we were looking for. Our list (which you can view by clicking here) was therefore only five games long. Fast forward to now, and it is remarkable how much difference a few months can make. Thanks to the work of pioneers like Daniel Benmergui, Gregory Weir and PixelAnte, there is now an abundance of clever arty Flash games to pique our intellects, and as a result creating this follow-up list of games that make you think has been a doddle. In a wonderful twist, it seems it is the Flash gaming space - until now known more for the throwaway nature of its games rather than depth - that is leading the way in this exciting new area of gaming, as we hope the following games prove. 1Immortall The game starts with you crash landing on a planet.
Stumblers Who Like Ten games that make you think about life. Feed the Head. Pursuit of Hat. Thisissand.com. People in pizza slice costumes becoming pizzas - Xavier Barrade. Zork. The Web Genius. Bunni Game.
Z-Type. Play Pandemic 2. Obama loves you back. Rainy Mood. Marvelous breadfish! Chicken on a Raft. Glitch. CAT BOUNCE! Staggering Beauty.