The more you play ‘em, The more you love ‘em: online browser adventure games. These are not games to play at lunch, rather you sit down to play them and waste your evening, when there’s nothing on TV. Amazing what great games are available. Click on the links to play.

Harry Quantum: Episode 1

Get your own Inspector Gadget, the creator of this game must have thought. Well he did. And the first person you meet in the game is B.A. Baracus. What, a look alike? Shut up you fool! Harry Quantum is one of those adventure games which – they say, is different than other adventure games. I got stuck at one point, where you need to use an inventory item on an object, while I already lost it in another scene to another object. So this is one of those adventures which you can lose. The creators put a lot of humor in to the game, which makes this game very nice to play.

Create a crop circle, to attract an alien ship

Find all hidden TV-signals within 30 steps, minesweeper but now different

The Fog Fall 3

Very atmospheric adventure game. The art and sound effect really give an intriguing and mysterious feeling while you play. I didn’t have a clue what the objective is, which is a big positive point. The game is about finding out, what the game is about. This game has an autosave function, so that you can return at a later moment. Very cool feature!

In a mysterious house, just browsing..

Somewhere under the ground, you find a broken bicycle

The controls can be somewhat unnatural at times. However the story, the graphics and the way objects are hidden in the scenes make me really appreciate this game.

Morning Star

You crashed your spaceship onto the planet and you friend has been speared in the cockpit. Great game, with great graphics. The objective, as far as I’ve played, is to repair the ship, rescue the speared captain, and get the spaceship back in the air. I think. This addicting game has a save game feature, which is really useful.

Entered the engine room with an electric doll

The suit sealed the speared captain’s wounds

Cargo blocking your way

Here are a couple of very interesting pixel games. Pixel games are to give you a retro-nostalgic feeling. Click on the links to play.

Color Theory
Brilliant pixel platform game. You need to find your way through this, well, sort-of maze and get to some wormhole thing. The funny thing is, when you touch colored items in a level, the platforms change. Some platforms disappear and others appear, changing the rule of game.

Jump on that red plus-sign to get rid of the red platforms

Pixel
A very good chain-reaction clone. You pick your own avatar and then you shoot enemies. These enemies explode pixels, which can kill other enemies. The fun with this game is that it has continues play. Most chain-reaction clones give you one shot and you must kill a percentage of all enemies. In this game you keep on shooting. The level-transformation is smooth. While you are aware of the next level, the playing is hardly interrupted.

I played the footstep symbol in the center-right, dodging enemies and collecting pixels

Different colors, different enemies and a great mess of pixels to look at

One Button Bob

For your authentic retro-game feeling. It even has a C64 load screen! I’m not sure whether this game is for real, or it is a parody on the discussion that games should be even easier to control. You control the character with the left mouse-button only. In each level, clicking the button has a different function. In one level it the button is to throw a boomerang against a bat. In another level the button stops the player from walking, so that you can avoid a falling spear from the ceiling. Parody or not, this is a very creative game.

In this level, you need to press the button to start walking

I found some great puzzle games on the internet, well worth playing. Puzzle games are probably the most popular games on the internet. Click on the links to play the game.

Waterfalls 2
In this game, it is the objective to lead floating colored stuff to the correct symbol. You use forces to push the direction of the floating stuff. Certainly a good puzzler to keep you busy all night!

Those orange things go to the circle, the purple to the star

First discover what goes where…

Vessel
Tangram is hard, Tangram with physics is even harder. Even if you see the solution to place the figures in the vessel, then still it is hard to place them because you move them with a handicap: physics. You click a rope on the segment, and then you carry it to the vessel, but influenced by gravity and free rotation, it is very hard to get the figure into position. A game for those with lots of patience!

Sorry, no patience here I’m afraid

Twist Bang
Another Jewel Case game, but the controls are limited, making the game harder than most Jewel Case clones. It has nice graphics in the Pirate theme.

Cute graphics, but the game is still hard though

For those of you who like games with unlimited lives, look here! Click on the links to play the games.

Space Dexterity
This is one of those gravity games, with its own style and graphics. Although I do like the graphics, something is lacking the game. First, it does not count down for the lives you’ve lost, it counts up the times you died. Now beating the game with at least deaths can be challenging to some. The game is also not fair. Many times when you enter a level, you die immediately, because your spaceship is moving in the wrong direction. To make matters worse, between dying and starting over the level, you do not have time to pull yours fingers of the keyboard, so you’re thrust easily against the border of the screen or some spacerock. Besides that, the game is somewhat fun to play.

I keep bouncing into those rocks, but it doesn’t matter…

Llama rescue
Fun Gianan Sisters or Mario Bros clone. You are a yellow blob and you can kill green blobs by jumping on them. However if you touch a green blob, you lose a life. If you’ve missed the life counter, then you don’t know you have died. You start a level with three lives and if you lose all, you restart the level with three lives again. Well, that is just plain unlimited lives. You can also kill green blobs by riding a Llama, which appear if you jump against boxes with a question mark. Okay, not perfect, but still fun to play.

Moving platforms help you through the maze

Zombie Outbreak
Well, no unlimited lives here. But sure good game to mention. It has difficult controls, but the graphics are great. And what is better to spend some time on killing zombies if you have some spare time right?

Very dark game, but great graphics

There are many shooting games out there. Here are some great games I found. Click on the links to play the game.

Space Madness

This is not really a shooter game in the classic sense. It is actually one of those gravity games, where you need to move your ship from platform to platform, while gravity is at your disadvantage. But this game has a maze with shooting things. So if life is not bad enough with the gravity factor, you now also need to aim and shoot bad stuff. Good game to kill some of your time.

Watch that shooting turret, which blocks your way

Sniper Duty
A good old First Person Shooter. Yes! A first person shooter. But in contrast to all those advanced 3D games, you do not move. This is a typical eighties and early nineties first person shooter. I really loved these games. You need to shoot bad guys which walk around. You need to be quick otherwise they disappear. Kill all enemies to advance to the next scene.

Great scene, you can also use target view!

Deep Sea patrol
Space, air and water have something in common: you can float to anywhere, from any position. Who would say a classic 2D horizontal-scroller shoot ‘em up needs spacecraft or planes. In Deap Sea Patrol you are a submarine, dodging and shooting stuff under water. A fun bit is that your movement space is limited to the water, while you can be attacked from above surface and from air.

A boat with an underwater gun..