Looking for some new gaming experiences but don’t want to cough up the dough? Take a look at these five fantastic – and free – online games.
Hotel 626
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Turn off your lights and turn up your speakers! This is a genuinely spooky experience and if you are faint-hearted, either on your own or in the company of others then do not go here! Hotel 626 is haunted and the whole set up is reminiscent of twenty first century gothic horror – if you like movies such as The Ring (original Japanese version of course!) then you will love this! This is fully interactive, combining the best of web 2.0, graphics, film and multimedia together. Be prepared to use your webcam and your speakers for a variety of different tasks as you spend the night in Hotel 626!
WITSEC Confidential
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The Federal Witness Protection Program needs your help! Your role is a US Marshal within WITSEC and it is your job to make sure that the individuals within the program stay alive. The only problem is, of course, that someone always wants them dead! Your partner is US Marshal Marshall Mann (oh dear!) and if you can cope with his name then he needs a lot of help keeping his witnesses safe and close. In order to solve the eleven cases here you will need to pay a lot of attention to the clues that you (may or may not) find along the way. Wrap this up in a beautifully designed interactive package and you have a lot of fun for a lot of hours!
Monster Lab
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This is rather lighter hearted than the previous games and rather more on the old fashioned side of things in terms of the games that you can choose to play. However, the interface is huge fun and the stuff you can do is more immediate. Make your own monster first of all and then increase its strength by completing certain tasks in three experiment rooms. At any time you can then choose to pit your monster against any of the others that online users have created to see who comes out on top. The fights between the monsters are rather disappointing but the tasks that have to be done to get to a suitable fight point as elaborate and well done. If you like your monsters mashed then this may well be for you!
Dork Dodge!
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One for the ladies – or not depending on your temperament and views on women’s’ liberation! What you have to do here is dodge the dorks and find true love! You can give your chosen avatar a name (I called mine Cindy Lou) and then you have to dodge a whole variety of dorks who try and pick you up on your travels through the college dormitory. A combination of deliberately old fashioned flash-driven graphics and video (pity the poor actors who did four years at drama school to end up doing this!). Immediate and bouncy fun, this one is bound to please if you have been dodging a dork of late and want to learn how to do it properly!
Auditorium
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This game is all about discovery as well as play. You are given some very strange looking puzzles to solve interactively on your screen. The great thing is that there are many ways to solve each problem so there is no absolute right or wrong answer.
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December 31st, 2008 at 7:50 am
wow… thank you for this, i love to play online games! im goin’ to try the hotel626! thank you! happy new year!
December 31st, 2008 at 8:30 am
I like games! I will try the WITSEC Confidential. Sounds very exciting! Thanks for sharing these games.
December 31st, 2008 at 8:35 am
Not got time to play today RJ, but will have a go at the last one, the top one looks too scary! Happy New Year!
December 31st, 2008 at 9:28 am
Thanks R J. I will recommend these to my sons and maybe have a go at the lady’s one myself. have a great New Year.
Christine
December 31st, 2008 at 10:25 am
Kewl!
December 31st, 2008 at 11:12 am
i hope i can still play online games, great list though,happy new year
December 31st, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Awesome RJ! I always dig the interactive games that bring you as far away from just using your mouse and keyboard and try and incorporate every element at your disposal when sitting in front of a computer.
Welcome Back!
December 31st, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I totally love that Auditorium game. Thanks for bringing it up!
December 31st, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I enjoyed a lot thank you.
December 31st, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Thanks for sharing.
December 31st, 2008 at 6:35 pm
I love to be scared so the first one will be my first stop.
December 31st, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Thanks RJ Evans for this article.
December 31st, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Thanks RJ Evans for this article.
December 31st, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Thanks RJ Evans for this article.
December 31st, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I think I will also try WITSEC confidential. Thanks RJ!
December 31st, 2008 at 10:54 pm
dork dodge….lol
i like dorks. haha
January 1st, 2009 at 4:17 am
I like spooky, so the first one should be up my street.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Ahhh! So addictive. Auditorium… Why R.J.? Why?! Lol!
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:00 pm
I’ll give them a try.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:22 am
Great list! Maybe should give it a try during my office hour. LOL. Anyway, you can try Runescape too. Pretty cool game but not sure whether they’re charging any fees nowadays. The last time I know, it’s still free and very popular in the online community.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
I’ll check them out.thanks RJ
January 24th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Great ideas!
Thanks
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February 1st, 2009 at 6:00 am
Darn you R J! Now I’m hooked and I can’t go back to my drawings! Next time please write a strategy guide to these games! hehehe
August 10th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
its scares me alot