Aunts and Butlers embraces this anachronism like no other text game I’ve found. Damn you, cruel irony!īest text-based game: Text-only games-beloved by those who spent their high-school math classes playing Drugwar on their TI-82 calculators-are still around, even though they’re now as anachronistic as floppy disks. A paradox: This is the one game in this list that you can play openly at work, but you might find actual work more entertaining than this game. Choosing the best one of these games is sort of like choosing the best type of heart surgery, but if I had to choose, I’d go with Miss Management (requires download), which puts you in the role of a harried office manager tasked with, um, managing an office. (To read more of my thoughts on the perils of such games, click here.) I’m not sure whom this stuff appeals to, but I suspect there’s some sort of global conspiracy afoot involving Aramark and Tricon Global Restaurants. 2008 is the new 1985!īest simulation of your boring life: For some reason, there’s a wildly successful subgenre of casual games that simulates the completion of mundane service-industry tasks: making and serving pizzas, for instance, or hamburgers.
Best played in leggings, Zubaz, or an Ayatollah Assahola T-shirt. You’re a spaceman who has to fight an unending fleet of pixelated enemy starships. brings back memories of Galaga, Centipede, and similar Golden Age pizza-parlor arcade classics. Mamma mia, this is a great little game!īest retro lo-fi game: Gamma Bros. Sound familiar? It should: It’s pretty much Super Mario Bros., but with paper hats and cacti instead of plumbers and broad Italian stereotypes.
Rejoice as you navigate through a charmingly cartoonish land of passageways, tunnels, and tubes, jumping, shooting, and collecting coins in an attempt to free your girlfriend from her pink candy prison.
(Also, a big thanks to, the Internet’s undisputed leader in casual gaming information and home to many, many people who know more about this stuff than I do.)īest old-school side scroller: No, the Tall Stump does not have advanced texture modeling, but its charms are plentiful. Don’t expect fancy graphics, though-if a game is called the Tall Stump, you’re probably not getting advanced texture modeling. Most of these games are built in Flash, which means you can play them on pretty much any Web browser. Some notes: The designation “best” is obviously subjective and incomplete, given that I have not played every single game available on the Internet.
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