When I first had the idea for a Free Game Friday segment, the first two games that came to mind were Wasteland and Maniac Mansion Deluxe. I first played Maniac Mansion years ago on my Commodore 64. It was a wonderfully nonlinear adventure game with multiple solutions to its problems, excellent humor, and a lot […]

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Skullpogo is an odd little game. You’re a skeleton on a pogo stick. Whee! Still, it’s strangely addictive. You get to stomp on pigs and bats and stuff. You can download Skullpogo here.

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Yeah, it’s another Kongregate browser game. This one’s called Colourpod 2: Dimensionpod. It’s simple, but the complexity slowly grows, and it gets addictive. It’s got the basic look and feel of Asteroids, but your pod is always centered in the screen, and the shapes fly inward at you. The goal is simple: destroy colorless blocks […]

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Truth Invaders is an aptly timed game that proports to reveal the lies put forth about both of our country’s political parties. With the elections just around the corner, it seemed like the right game to feature this week.

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I’ve always been a huge fan of Bullfrog’s Dungeon Keeper. And while the official sequel was a failure, we’ve always got Dungeon Defender to fall back on. Dungeon Defender quite obviously draws its roots from Dungeon Keeper. You play the overlord of a dungeon, which you can dig out using imps minions. You can use […]

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Portal: Prelude is a free fan-made mod of Valve’s Portal. You need to have Portal already installed on your machine to try it, but it’s free. I’ve got some issues with the game. Mainly, that while where the original Portal was about figuring out how to get through a situation, in this game, you’ll generally […]

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This game is part of the Retro Remakes project. I remember playing The Hobbit on my Commodore 64. I never really got any further than the goblins’ cells, but that’s largely because I had no walkthroughs back then, and I suck at adventure games. If you like adventure games, or retro games, give it a […]

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I’ve been avoiding listing browser games in the Free Game Friday feature, but I’m beginning to see that without using at least the odd browser game here and there, I have no chance of finding enough good titles. Fantastic Contraption is a very cool physics-based puzzle game wherein you need to assemble wheels and spokes […]

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Deaths is a brief but entertaining game. The catch is that you’re expected to die. A lot. The fifty last deaths of players all around the world is sent to your game via the web – and you’ll see the corpses on screen. You can play through the whole game in fifteen or twenty minutes, […]

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S.T.A.C.K.E.R. is a bit of an odd game: a Tetris knockoff masquerading as a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. knockoff. But it’s fairly entertaining. The blocks that drop can be enemies, weapons, armor, or other useful or harmful items. It can seem a bit complicated at first, but it’s really not a bad game once you realize what’s going […]

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