What is the best life simulation games ever? It’s a tough choice There are a lot of good ones. The first life simulation games, which came out in the early 1980s, when this old man writer was just a wee ickle baby. And there have been many good life simulation Read more…
Put your hands up if you remember the first ever strategy game, 1972’s Invasion on Maganvox Odyssey (yes, retro games consoles had amazing names). No? Me neither, I’m not quite that old. I was born in 1982, so I missed a good 14 years worth of strategy games, and some Read more…
It was a real pleasure creating this list of the best interactive fiction games of all time. As a novelist and games journalist, I’m naturally inclined towards Interactive Fiction, which is why I write a lot about it here on FictionEarth.com. Interactive Fiction is a unique challenge for a game Read more…
CLOSERS ONLINE
PLATFORMS: Browser
OFFICIAL SITE
Closers Online is a 2.5 side-scrolling RPG that plays more like a hack and slash. This game is a total blast. It’s constant action. The enemies keep coming at you thick and fast and you have to beat them away like in a classic beat-em-up game. But Closers Online also adds tons of great RPG elements like leveling that make it really engrossing.
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MORE GAMES LIKE CLOSERS:
Agar.io and Slither.io
Agario and Slither are two really great puzzle games that you can play for free online in your browser. They’re puzzles game in which you play as a snake that must move around a maze collecting objects in order to grow. Did you ever play Snake for the old Nokia phones? Same deal. And just as much fun. These classic-snake style games will take you back to the time when phone screens were shockingly green and when phones could only do two colours (one a sort of gone-off-lime style green). Awesome stuff.
Alice Madness Returns is the sequel to the PC game Alice by video game designer American McGee. Released for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in 2011, Alice Madness Returns earned a cult following for its unique game design.
Alice Madness Returns is about Alice Lidell, who went made after her parents and sister were killed in a fire. Madness Returns begins several years after Alice was released from the mental asylum. Alice seeks to return to Wonderland, her refugee, but it has been corrupted by an evil force.
GAME: http://amzn.to/2hgge9G
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Ameba Pico Ameba is a Japanese website that offers social networking. Released in 2009, Ameba Pico allows you to create your own avatar and socialise with other gamers. It is a virtual community in which you can create your own character, decorate your own rooms, and socialise with other characters around virtual replicas of real life landmarks like the statue of liberty.
There’s the Star Wars rip-off that did Star Wars with a Playboy Playmate. There’s the Star Wars rip-off that almost created a weapon as cool as a lightsaber. There’s the Star Wars rip-off that you probably still have toys from somewhere in your garage. But what is the biggest Star Read more…
IMVU is an online based multiplayer social website that was started in 2004 and soon became one of the most popular online games. In IMVU you play as a 3D avat which you create yourself. You then chat, create and play various games with other people. IMVU has burgeoned in popularity to have more than 3 million online players.
Let me paint the picture for you. A couple of weeks ago I was consistently hitting the top of the news aggregation website N4G. Visit the site between November 10th and 14th and you’ll see that in the first few days I used N4G I was at the top consistently. Read more…
Knights and Dragons
PLATFORMS: Windows
Gree’s Knights and Dragons is a free to play game that has earned an absolute ton of popularity over recent months. It’s a traditional fantasy RPG that also incorporated elements of city building into the mix. Then it adds a ton of polish to create one of the most well executed games of recent times.
If you take the traditional RPG and splice it with a city building game, you’re pretty much left with Knights and Dragons. You build your city. You then get lots of different resources that help your characters to level up. Then you head into combat against all different manner of beasties. Or, if you can’t be bothered to wait, you can just hop into the game’s store and purchase stuff.
GAME: knightsdragons.tumblr.com/
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Banished
PLATFORMS: Windows
Banished is a game by independent video game developer Luke Hodorowicz, and was released in February of 2014. The basic concept of Banished is that a group of travelers have been exiled out of their old homeland and have only a minimal amount of supplied that they can carry with them. They must find items in the wilderness to establish a new settlement so that they can survive.
GAME: www.shiningrocksoftware.com/game/
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Blade and Soul is all about creating a traditional MMORPG but based around the theme of martial arts. As such there is a lot of fighting and combat that takes place in the game, including some awesome QingGong action. The game takes place in an open world environment in which you must explore the world, completing various missions assigned to you by NPCs.
Throne Rush has become one of the most popular games of recent times and, we know, you all want more games like Throne Rush, right? We’re going to share the absolute best Throne Rush style games in just a sec. First, thought, let’s take a sec to look at just why Throne Rush is so flipping awesome.
Throne Rush is the highest rated of all Facebook games. . . that’s saying a lot. There are tons of games very similar to Throne Rush, including Clash of Clans and League of Warriors.
Wild Ones Classic Lemming’s style Facebook game that was hugely popular a couple of years ago.
The “Fiction Earth” has been ruled by vampires over the past decade. It’s hard to think of any species that’s been more dominant than vampires. But it’s almost always Drakula. That guy runs a mock. And other vampires, like Angel and that creepy Edward Cullen guy; they struggle to keep Read more…
In this article we’ll be celebrating the most interesting games in the world. You won’t find RPGs, First Person Shooters, Fighting Games and other conventional genres of games here. You will, however, find games about such diverse and interesting subjects as homelessness, depression, ethics, politics, fashion and other subjects? Comparatively Read more…
Though games with female protagonists are not as commonplace as their male counterparts, there still are many fantastic female games characters. Over the years, we’ve seen games with female protagonists like Juliet Starling from Chainsaw Lollipop, Candy Suxxx from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Mai Shiranui from Fatal Fury 2 Read more…
Age of Empire is one of the most popular online real time strategy games and was created by video game developer Ensemble Studios. The original Age of Empire was released in 1997. With excellent video game design, the Age of Empires series achieved a huge following with thousands of players online at any time.
Some Youtube videos blow your mind and make you gasp with disbelief. This is one of those times. The Domino King wanted to show his love for Zelda. So he took countless painstaking hours to create a beautiful Zelda domino circuit showing all his favorite characters. There’s Link, Zelda, The Read more…
A Halo 15 Anniversary teaser trailer was released on Youtube yesterday. The trailer celebrated the amazing 15 years of Halo.Fans were immediately excited about the possibility of a Halo 3 Anniversary edition. But, damn, it turns out we all god ahead of ourselves. Halo fans believed that 343 Industries would Read more…