They may not have as many features or be as technologically advanced but a great Flash game can be just as entertaining and addictive as a full fledged console or PC title. Best of all, they're free and can be played right in your browser, making them a great way to pass the time at work or in class (just don't let your boss or teachers catch you). So we scoured the Internet and found ten notable Flash games that every gamer should keep handy. Just make sure you don't have anything productive you have to do before you start them up. And once you've played these, search around because these are plenty more amazing Flash games out there.
1. Desktop Tower Defense Brought to you by Kongregate, this is a puzzle / strategy game where you have to protect your desktop from invaders by spending money on attacking pieces and building a maze for them to follow. You then go from level to level seeing how long you can last and how cunning you are in your strategic defense.
Desktop Tower Defense
2. Portal Flash Armor games brings us this 40 level flash version of everyone's favorite puzzle game Portal. Its 2d style of gameplay brings it back to a standard puzzle game. But essentially it is the same game as before. You need to find a way to get to the end of the maze by using your two color portals (blue, yellow/orange) to move about overcoming obstacles.
Portal Flash
3. The Last Stand 1 & 2 Armor Games brings you this survival horror title with a puzzle twist. Can you survive an onslaught of the undead behind a barricade? Can you survive with setting traps and using weapons to take down the undead? All of these are what you have to do in order to survive the 40 days until you can get out town. You lay traps and use numerous weapons to take down the undead in order to keep your barricade alive and standing, mess up and suffer infection. This is definitely one horror title that needs to have a place in your bookmarks.
The Last Stand
4. N N is a simple 2D/action platformer developed by Metanet Software, with some great physics and some challenging puzzles. Here you play as a stick figure ninja who has to survive in a puzzle world and tries not to explode! Different enemies will try and thwart your quest for the almighty door in a numerous ways. And with tons of user created content, and more on the way, this is a must play for everyone.
N
5. GemCraft Similar to the hit game Pixel Junk Monsters, this title developed by Armor Games, puts you in the shoes of a wizard sent to protect the land from monsters. You will need to use your powers to create and set up gems in towers in order to stop this monster invasion and send these bad boys back to the depths of hell where they belong. With numerous ways to build, create and define the way that you defend the countryside. This is a great game to load up and play to get the old brain going.
GemCraft
6. Bowja The Ninja 1 & 2 Bowja is a point and click adventure game from Pencil kids, where you play as a ninja who, with bow in hand, has to defeat enemies in order to save the day. This is a quirky fun game that doesn't do much more than have you solve some sort of order of events in order to progress.
Bowja the Ninja
7. Line Rider Inxile bring you this simple littlephysics game. In Line Rider the player draws their own landscape with a pencil tool creating as many ramps, hills, and jumps as they can. Then they send a virtual sledder barreling down the course until he wipes out. While sounding very simple you can get very complex and have a very unique downhill slope.
Line Rider
8. Chimgam I don't know who Nartbox was trying to appeal to but if you feel you need to plug someone's butt up to stop them from pooping on you then this is right up your alley. But that is pretty much all you do in this kooky game. You can power up your hands and do an ultimate pinch of the cheeks and drain the life of your enemy. Just watch out because the farther you go along the more he tries to poop on you.
Chimgam
9. Winter Bells Orisinal has some of the most soothing flash games I have played in a very long it me. Winter bells put you as a little bunny who hops on bells in order to jump higher to pursue that high score. The real catch her is the soft symphonic violin/piano mix that just relaxes you. Even when you lose you can't feel too bad because the cute little bunny wants to go again.
Winter Bells
10. The Crossing Another orisinal title that will melt your hearts and sooth your soul is The Crossing. Controlling a platform you need to make sure all the deer make it acreoss this small river to the other side. The soft music makes this a delight to play, where you get so wrapped up in it that you may forget what you are doing or simply fall asleep.
The Crossing
