To give an example of what I’m thinking of…Kingdom of Loathing, Lioden, Flight Rising.

What are some others? I’m sure there’s entire genres of browser-based games I’ve missed.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    There’s a browser based version of Oregon Trail I’ve played a fair amount of

    the Vex series are pretty good parkour/platformers that even had their own level builder

    red ball

    one fun one was the helicopter one where you move blocks into positions that I forget the name of

    I forget the exact name of the series, it’s Flight or I Can Fly or something like that. The one with the penguin where you upgrade your glider and try to destroy an iceberg

    A pretty good one with a rocket you upgrade and eventually get to Mars that’s fun

    Sorry I forget the names, it’s been a while. Most probably aren’t even playable anymore unfortunately

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    QWOP You control a track runner to get as far as you can with Q, W, O, and P which are the left/right legs and (I believe) thigh/calf motion. It’s very difficult, failure is entertaining, and success feels great.

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      My 9-month-old is just starting to get into assisted walking, and I always compare his attempts to QWOP. Only a couple people have gotten the reference and it makes me very sad.

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    I’ll go for something more simple, but that you still can spend hours on.

    Tetris. Jstris if you want a minimalistic version and Tetr.io if you want something more polished.

    I also like to play minesweeper, minesweeper.online is the best one I’ve found. I especially like the no-guessing mode which makes the game a lot less frustrating.

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      32 years ago

      Your all time top speed beats 99.42% of all other people.

      Your all time average speed beats 95.57% of all other people.

      Do not many people use this website, or is 105 wpm top speed and 87 wpm average speed actually that crazy? I just learned to type like this in high school.

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        22 years ago

        Wow that’s awesome I’m still around 50 and I also took a typing class in highschool but I never really put the effort in to touch type until very recently because typing became more common with my job so I decided to finally start doing it right

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        As far as I understand it, most folks growing up these days do everything on their smart phones or tablets. Like, teachers sometimes have literally gotten entire essays written on a phone. (I would go crazy trying to do that…but people make do with the tech they’re given when young, and get good at it.)

        So, for some segment of the population–yeah, touch-typing on a physical keyboard is no longer a thing. And even when I was young, people getting truly good at it 80+ wpm was pretty rare. You had to be into writing, either as a hobby, or as an unavoidable part of your job.

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          That’s wild! I’m in my mid 30s and assumed that kids were only learning touch typing more than I had in school (it was an optional class). Conversely, I go insane trying to type something of any real length on a phone/tablet screen and I’m sure a lot of them could screen type way faster than me.

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            A lot of people I see don’t even type in their phones they use voice to text also which I haven’t done because I don’t like talking to myself in public haha my brother in law also now sends voice recordings instead of texts which annoys me because I can’t just quickly read a message

    • Gamaxray
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      I used to love that game. last time I tried to play it was filled with bots, unfortunately.

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    Fallen London.

    It’s a predecessor of Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies and Mask of the Rose.

    Lots of grinding in the later game, but still highly recommended because of the fantastic text quality. I played it for almost a year.

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      Fallen London is pretty cool . It is even better if they don’t have the candle 🕯️

      Pay once for full game like sunlesssea please.

      I also willing to pay for more content dlc

    • at_an_angle
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      That game took so many unexpected turns when I first played it.

      Love it.

      • @[email protected]
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        Minor spoilers but… this is my favorite clicker game because it has an ending.

        You can finish the game. And once you finish, you feel accomplished and never have to return (or you can replay if you feel like it I guess)

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    Universal Paperclips: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

    It’s a semi-idle clicker game, ala Cookie Clicker, but a bit more interactive and very cool. There is a definitive end to it which is nice for this type of game.

    Looks like someone else already got to this before I did, but +1 to trying it out.

    • swiftcasty
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      I second this suggestion, one of those games where the less you know about it the better

    • @[email protected]
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      Universal Paperclips, epic game highly recommended but expect to lose hours of your time.

    • @[email protected]
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      I sometimes think back to this game. I like that the theme it is going for is not always consistently the same. I don’t think any other idle clicker has actually given me things to think about like this one did.

    • @[email protected]
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      Was a surprisingly fun way to tank my productivity on Monday.

      Honestly, the fact that you mentioned it having a definite end was a huge factor in making me click on that link.

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        Oh yes. I’ve played quite a few idler-like games, and I hate ones that just go on forever, or for an excessively long time. A good idler, to me, has more mechanics than just spam clicking and incrementing numbers (even though it should incorporate these as core mechanics) and has something that sets it apart from the others, whether that be novel mechanics or some sort of story.

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    I uses to play a game called Red Crucible 2, a FPS that runs on the Unity Plugin. Game now moved to steam, but its practically a dead game now.

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    FlightRising… that brings back memories. I even backed that game on Kickstarter way back in the day.

    Dragon Cave and MagiStream are two more I loved.

    Can’t forget Cookie Clicker!