Browser games discussion thread

[Panzermann11]

Inspired by this thread. With Flash being closed down at the end of 2020 and plenty of browsers and sites dropping Flash support, plenty of Flash games are slowly starting to fade into obscurity. I'd like a moment to talk about plenty of Flash and other browser games that few people know about.

 

Here are some of my examples:

 

• 聖ロマンス学園 (Sei Romansu Gakuen, St. Romance Academy): A series of games of Japanese origin where you play as a girl, and the objective is to shoot lasers out of your eyes like Superman to mind-control as much boys to your whim as possible until the timer runs out. Unofficially called "School Flirting Game".
• Rediculas (Couldn't find YouTube footage, that's how obscure it is): A platformer game that seemingly takes inspiration from Quake from the weaponry, gameplay and pacing, hell, it even uses Quake 3 SFX. There are two modes, Survival has you killing a certain amount of enemies for the exit to open, while Adventure is your typical "get to the finish". Oh, and your punches are somehow explosive aswell.
• Sierra 7: I found out about this when I was a kid because the name struck out, "Sierra" reminded me of the Sierra that published Half-Life and Counter-Strike. It's a rail shooter where you engage in counter-terrorist operations as a member of the Sierra squad. The game was later remade for mobile phones.

Edited March 16, 2024 by Panzermann11

[Mr. Freeze]

 

[Chezza]

@Mr. Freeze oh that's a blast from the past. I was very impressed with these games back then.

[Sonikkumania]

https://www.numuki.com/game/ultimate-flash-sonic/

There is a shitload of obscure Sonic flash games.

And Mario too.

And Megaman too.

[Maribo]

Hyptosis had two series of point & click adventure games more than a decade ago: the first being a twist on Wonderland - Alice is Dead, which was cripplingly terrifying to a young me at the time. The other was the Sagittarian series, which was... an overly ambitious zombie apocalypse-themed game that, up to the third in the series, attempted to continue each branched ending that the previous games offered. This was obviously unsustainable and the final two entries in the series ended up focusing purely on specific routes.

[Panzermann11]

More games!

• Spec Ops: War on Terrorism: A shooter made in the wake of the War on Terror and the September 11th incident. You go through 4 missions, two of them have you shoot Taliban militia until time runs out, while one of them is a sniper mission where you have to pick off terrorists one by one without alerting one of them. The final mission involves punching Osama bin Laden to death with your fists. It later recieved a sequel in 2002 sub-titled Defending Freedom.
• 밍밍 vs. 왕따 (Mingming vs. Wangtta): Korean stationary artillery game. In-game, each player have 4 powers at their disposal ranging from double projectile, increased damage, health boost to homing projectile, Wangtta's dog and Mingming's goose.
• Cigarette Killer: A Chinese-language anti-smoking game. Your objective is to find and snipe away all 30 cigarettes using your water rifle under a time limit. Your rifle holds up to 35 shots.

Edited November 8, 2023 by Panzermann11

[BrutalDoomisAwesome]

Super Smash Flash 2: It's basically Super Smash Bros. Except they have more characters even Some Characters like Goku, Naruto and Ichigo to name a few.

[Guff dotD]

23 minutes ago, BrutalDoomisAwesome said:

Super Smash Flash 2: It's basically Super Smash Bros. Except they have more characters even Some Characters like Goku, Naruto and Ichigo to name a few.

 

Not that obscure. It's on MacCleod gaming (Cleod9), right?

[DannyMan]

Battle Gear and Art of War 2, both of the games I remember growing up

[Coopersville]

I'm going to go way back and shoutout a Shockwave game called Alien X-- a breathtaking 3D in-browser FPS from 1999. I don't think I saw actual polygons again in a Flash file until Joe Zombie Episode 4 in 2002. 

Edited November 4, 2023 by Coopersville

[Panzermann11]

• Dancing Bush: As someone who lives outside the United States, this is one of the few games along with United We Dance that introduced me to American politics when I was a kid. 
• Material Sniper: An unfinished Japanese flash game. Three stages are available, target practice with barrels and bottles, one with moving glass targets and finally a bomb defusal stage where you have to cut off wires by shooting them. They also have variants set at night and with wind you can unlock by completing the standard day stages. You can also buy upgrades, scope reticles and menu backgrounds using points you earned from completing stages.
• Sortie en mer (A Trip Out to the Sea): Technically, this is a HTML5 game, but it's so obscure it's worth mentioning. It's a French game that pretty much serves as one big P.S.A. You get knocked off your boat and your objective is to scroll using the mouse wheel to stay afloat. There are two endings, one where you let the health bar reach zero, and one where you survive long enough.

 

Some news, I'll be allowing non-Flash browser games on this thread from now on, and I'm renaming the title to reflect this.

Edited November 8, 2023 by Panzermann11

[rita remton]

if you want to play doom etc on any pc/laptop with browser and internet access to pass the time. available games/maps: 2002 a doom odyssey (freedoom), alien vendetta (freedoom), base ganymede (freedoom), doom (shareware), doom the way id did (freedoom), eternal doom 3 (freedoom), freedoom phase 1, freedoom phase 2, hacx, heretic (shareware), hexen (demo), icarus alien vanguard (freedoom), memento mori 2 (freedoom), momento mori (freedoom), requim (freedoom), revolution (freedoom).

 

http://browser-doom.io/

[Panzermann11]

On 11/9/2023 at 6:26 PM, rita remton said:

if you want to play doom etc on any pc/laptop with browser and internet access to pass the time. available games/maps: 2002 a doom odyssey (freedoom), alien vendetta (freedoom), base ganymede (freedoom), doom (shareware), doom the way id did (freedoom), eternal doom 3 (freedoom), freedoom phase 1, freedoom phase 2, hacx, heretic (shareware), hexen (demo), icarus alien vanguard (freedoom), memento mori 2 (freedoom), momento mori (freedoom), requim (freedoom), revolution (freedoom).

 

http://browser-doom.io/

Umm... this thread is about lesser known browser games, I'm pretty sure this isn't a good place advertising a browser port.

Edited November 12, 2023 by Panzermann11

[rita remton]

13 hours ago, Panzermann11 said:

Umm... this thread is about lesser known browser games, I'm pretty sure you shouldn't be going around advertising a browser port in a thread like this.

ok. my bad. sorry :)

[Cosmic79]

The Infinite Ocean: Point & Click game can't go through any details without spoiling its premise.

 

A Grain of Truth and Trader of Stories: Point & Click game, you play as an amnesiac traveler who collects stories from around the world in hopes that they'll stumble upon their own.

[Artman2004]

Red Planet: A top-down shooter set on a red planet where you shoot aliens. Also Rick Astley references.

 

Ectology: A semi-realistic take on ghost hunting. You catch ghosts at various locations before the sun comes up. You do this with an "ectotron" which you have to time in order to catch the ghost, otherwise you kill the ghost.

 

Planet Wars: You are a space marine and you shoot headcrabs and mini-gonarchs. I love this game for its weapon customization.

[DogsRNice]

There's a few I remember from years ago I played a lot of that i cant find anymore, I've looked on some flash game archives but didn't see them 

 

vector td and bubble td were some tower defense games i liked, and there was one with asteroid mining that i think was just called "the space game"

[Wadmodder Shalton]

The Nickelodeon Clickamajigs series, an old set of Shockwave and Flash games made in the mid-1990s and early-2000s that were made available on Nick.com back in the day until they were removed sometime during 2020, though thankfully all of these have been archived by Flashpoint since then. I played these alot as a kid during the 2000s.

 

Edited November 12, 2023 by Wadmodder Shalton

[Panzermann11]

Sherwood Dungeon: As a kid, I discovered this game when I was skulking around ArcadeTown. It was my first MMORPG I played, before I virtually knew of the big ones such as World of Warcraft and RuneScape.

 

Edited November 20, 2023 by Panzermann11

[Wadmodder Shalton]

The FPS/First Person Shooter in Real-Life series - five games made in Flash meant to mimic the FMV Light Gun games of the 1990s, like Mad Dog McCree, Crime Patrol and Space Pirates. Its has FMV in the quality of Low-Budget and/or No-Budget amateur camcorder footage, and the only Flash games that can be considered "so bad, it's good".

 

Edited November 20, 2023 by Wadmodder Shalton

[LoatharMDPhD]

// "Mystery At the Museum" 1993

an obscure game, but not a browser game.

 

 

"Xiao-Xiao" 2001

 

 

Edited November 20, 2023 by LoatharMDPhD

[SupremeBioVizier]

In the early 2000's there was a game you could play without downloading where you just chuck snow balls at the other kids across from you, that was good fun. Was around the time the coconut monkey ruled PC gamer.

[Rudolph]

No mention of the Warner Brothers-produced Steppenwolf: The X-Creatures Project?

 

Let me tell you, this Flash-based action-adventure game was awesome, albeit rather difficult and downright terrifying at times. Think of the anime-style Resident Evil clone Fear Effect for the Playstation 1, but with a much greater emphasis on puzzle-solving and (almost) no shooting whatsoever; instead of zombies and bio-engineered abominations, you would have to deal with death traps, wild animals (including the eponymous "X-Creature", i.e. cryptids), racist stereotypes, an Agent 47-esque assassin, terrorists, corporate mercenaries, deadly security systems and robot sentries and, well... okay, it does feature some bio-engineered abominations as well.

 

If I recall right, it was released on a monthly-or-so basis and is now unfortunately no longer officially available. Sarbakan, the studio behind it (which still exists up to this day), also made the similar Arcane: Online Mystery Serial, which is based on H.P. Lovecraft mythology, but that one was way too scary for me back in the day, in addition to being even less forgiving than Steppenwolf somehow.

 

Now, I do not know just how popular it was back in the days, but the fact that it was produced by Warner Brothers makes me wonder if it really belongs in the "Obscure Browser Games" category. Then again, given how tragically forgotten it has become (Sarbakan does not even list it on its current website!), I suppose it is obscure now.

Edited November 20, 2023 by Rudolph

[Panzermann11]

I 'sppose it couldn't hurt to bring this thread back.

• Sharp Trigger: A rail shooter from the creators of Sift Heads, inspired by Call of Duty. Suprisingly, this game also got who said the "Only the dead has seen the end of war" line right (George Santayana), which Call of Duty still couldn't get it right after a decade.
• Endless War: A top down shooter game series. While 1 to 3 focuses on various different scenarios such as WW2, modern day, and 2 scenarios based on Blood and Fallout respectively, entries after 3 started to focus primarily on WW2.
• Ray: A "choose-your-own-adventure" game series. A third part was in development, but was later cancelled. The creator, Phil Collins, would later go on to make Repella Fella.
• Creative Kill Chamber: A point-and-click game where the objective is to find and choose the correct method and tools to deal with enemies.

Edited March 14, 2024 by Panzermann11

[OnionTaco22]

I'm not sure if it was also browser based, but I had a game on my xbox 360 called N+ which from the limited knowledge I have about the game, it was a flash game (or at least the original version which was just called N as also from my limited knowledge N+ was essentially just an xbox port). I haven't seen almost anything or anyone even mentioning it, although I haven't actually gone out of my way to look for people talking about it. I remember enjoying it quite a bit when I had it, even though it was just the demo version.

[Panzermann11]

On 3/13/2024 at 1:36 PM, OnionTaco22 said:

I'm not sure if it was also browser based, but I had a game on my xbox 360 called N+ which from the limited knowledge I have about the game, it was a flash game (or at least the original version which was just called N as also from my limited knowledge N+ was essentially just an xbox port). I haven't seen almost anything or anyone even mentioning it, although I haven't actually gone out of my way to look for people talking about it. I remember enjoying it quite a bit when I had it, even though it was just the demo version.

If I remember correctly, I played N on StickPage so yes, that was originally a browser game. I believe there are plenty of Flash games that were ported to consoles, such as Alien Hominid and the Fancy Pants series.

Edited March 16, 2024 by Panzermann11

[Panzermann11]

I figure I'd turn this thread into a general discussion thread about browser games, since there's a not-so-obscure Flash game series I wanted to talk about.

 

There's a popular game series called Sift Heads that I recently played. I knew about the series for a long time seeing some of the games on StickPage, but never had the chance to play it as a kid. I guess because I wasn't interested enough, there's so many games on that site.

 

I thought the World sub-series was interesting, mixing point-and-click adventure with first-person-shooter mechanics, seeing the former isn't normally my thing and the theme and tone felt pretty unique to me. The music choice is also above decent to me, and it introduced me to some obscure music artists, particularly Blue Sky, Black Death. I was thinking about making a game inspired by the Sift Heads series if I had game-making expertise.

Edited March 16, 2024 by Panzermann11

[Scoutdy]

Funny thing about browser games, that's actually how I first played doom. Via doom triple pack on new grounds. I wasn't allowed to download things on the computer without permission so browser games were my best friend.

 

I did eventually get doom 3 bfg to play doom 1 and 2 and of course got it on PC and played many source ports but the doom triple pack still nostalgic to me.

[Sonikkumania]

Staggy the Boyscout Slayer 2 anyone?

[Panzermann11]

Samurai Warrior: A fighting game by Miniclip. There's no story mode whatsoever, you just pick a character for you and your opponent, a level, and kick some ass. For a game which is supposedly Japanese-themed, only 2 characters fit the theme, a martial artist and a ninja. The rest are of American origin and is comprised of the following: a USMC colonel, biker gang member, mutant scientist and a street gangster.

Edited June 20, 2024 by Panzermann11