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Online Games List—Won't
Cost Ya Nothin'
By Phoenix
Updated January 31, 2004
The biggest list of online games on the Internet! Really.
We swear. We wouln't lie. Or even slightly mislead. Really. Okay,
except for Google, or some place like that.
3D Adventure
An illustrated sci-fi story in 25 chapters.
3D Fun House
VRML worlds—give it a whirl. Try the Human Rollercoaster
of Death.
Adventure
Games Live*
A suite of adventure games played online. These are text adventures
where you choose your next action from a list of possibilities,
rather than typing them in.
Agapito's
Crazy Adventure
Third-person with inventory puzzles. Shareware download.
Age of the Throne
A multiplayer online 17th century adventure. Set in Paris during
the reign of Louis XIII.
Alantria
A text-based multiplayer adventure game. We don't want to leave
the interactive fiction crowd out.
Altoids
An inventory-based Flash adventure game.
Arcane
An online horror/mystery serial.
ArqAngel*
Salacious online comic book/story.
Atlantzone‡
AG done with photos.
Banja
Save the world in this Flash game.
The
Beach
A free multiplayer adventure game that takes place on an island.
Don't miss the party!
Broken
Saints
Beautiful, well-constructed online story, told in chapters.
Cabin One
Productions
A few interesting games to play with. I love the fish.
Cage
An online hypertext game inspired by the Myst series. If
you are a Myst fan, this is the place for you.
Clicking
Anastasia*
A well-made online story/game. Some broken links.
Cool
Flame
BMW promo. Flash adventure game.
The
Cypher*
Beautifully done online point-and-click adventure. Requires Realmedia
Player.
The
Crystal Skull
Play the classic adventure game online for free!
Crystals
of Faradise
Practically every adventure gamer has already played it, but if
you're new to the crowd, you'll like this a lot. It was reportedly
being taken down 31 Dec 01, but inexplicably it is still online.
Crime Scene
Evidence Files
Solve an online mystery.
Cryopolis
3D online gaming community.
Cyberpond
I hope you have a broadband connection.
Donnie
Darko*
Movie tie-in. Interactive strangeness.
Drift,
Drift 2 Shaman Encagement
3D, first-person adventure gaming goodness.
Driven
the Game
A game made using Bryce, a 3D design program. Way cool, and not
at all a racing game like it sounds. In fact, it is a first-person,
point-and-click, 3D art game done in the style of Myst/Riven.
Earthworm
Jim
A text adventure. Uses hyperlinks instead of a parser.
Easter Smith
Texas Ranger
Gorebag's Interactive Browser Adventure. Buckle up, pardner.
Endsequence
Beautiful point-and-click adventure. You have to sign up to access
the game.
Fling the
Cow
Okay, it's actually arcade, but with a name like that, who could
pass it up? Flash is needed to play the game.
Fugitive
Hunter*
A text-based, online investigative skills game.
Furcadia
Online community where players interact using avatars. Features
a fantasy theme in a medieval setting, with 3D-rendered graphics,
games, and roleplaying and adventure game-style activities.
Goodnight
Mr. Snoozleburg*
Follow a sleepwalker on his adventures.
Goodnight
Mr. Snoozleburg 2
Partially completed French-language sequel.
Graal
Interesting looking online community/game.
Grammatron
Is it a game? And if so, can you win? Is it a piece of art? You
be the judge.
Houdini:
Master of the Extraordinary*
Four episodes available. Well-designed cartoon style adventure
games. French language.
Illumia
RPG*
A single-player, web-based, role-playing agame.
The
Incident
Just check this puppy out; there's no use even trying to explain
it. For conspiracy theory lovers.
I
Spy Rescue Mission
A 30-minute puzzle game based on the I Spy movie. Collect clues
and solve logic problems.
Joe Fly
Flash site featuring the main character from an upcoming adventure
and Imax feature film Cyberworld.
Joe
Terror, Private Eye*
A private eye mystery game.
Knight's
Quest*
A free, single-player online RPG.
Laigen
A mini-adventure game. Find the red and green crystals to escape.
Last
Half of Darkness
Spooky online adventure. A CD version can be purchaed from the
site. The online and CD versions are two different games; same
overall idea and design, though.
Legends
of Min'Taut
A little adventure game download for Mac.
Lozenge
and Hampshire
Three HTML graphic adventures. Comedic murder mysteries.
Materia
Magica
A massively multiplayer online adventure game.
The
Maze
See the FFC review of the CD-ROM version here.
Mazes*
Internet mazes for the gaming masochist.
Mercenaries
of Astonia
An online game for the RPG lover in you.
MonkeyFun*
Some strange Flash things.
Mulholland
Drive*
An online movie tie-in to strangeness maestro David Lynch's 2001
film. Requires Flash and Quicktime.
Panda
Adventure
Fun little game.
Planetarium
A twelve-installment puzzle story.
Resident
Evil
An online maze using the game's screenshots.
Richard
Cory Interactive Adventure
Based on a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson—read the poem,
play the game.
Samorost
A cute little Flash point-and-click.
Sarkaban*
This site features a series of very well-designed Flash games.
- Don't
Do That
15 webisodes available. Interactive cartoons featuring animation
with a 50's feel to it, and Looney Tunes-style music and situations.
- That's
a Fact Jack
50 online episodes available. Topical and political humor slanted
non-interactive cartoons.
Screen
7 Entertainment
Two point-and-click adventure games available for free download,
The Journey Home and Kidnapped.
Selam:
The Online Game
A secret agent game by the makers of Byzantine.
Shine
A strange little online point-and-click.
Silent
Witness*
Online cartoon-style adventure game using Flash.
Sir
Randolph and the Hideous Ogre
A point-and-click graphic adventure game.
Sonny
Bono Adventure
The name really says it all, doesn't it?
Spectris
2
Free three-minute demo; costs $10 for unlimited registered version.
Shockwave remake of Columns, similar to Tetris but with colors
instead of shapes.
Steppenwolf
Big corporation online gaming goodness. Cartoon-style, episodes.
Stickman
Murder Mystery
Online interactive adventures. Five cases available so far.
The Stone
Yeah, yeah, yeah—you have to buy this one. But there are
some free puzzles at the site.
Suspicion
of Murder: Murder Without Escape
In a lonely mansion, a murder happens during a family celebration.
Immediately after the last scream, the butler enters the room.
But he finds only the victim. Strangled. How could the murderer
escape?
Teen
Agent**
An old-school adventure game. Free download.
Terra
Realms*
A traditional point-and-click, first-person adventure game, online.
Tranquility
Not really an adventure game, but interesting enough to include.
The
Trans-Morbid Adventure
Another online adventure. You can die in this one.
The
True Grim and Attitude City*
Four small homemade flash adventures.
True Love††
An online adventure game sponsored by the Greek chocolate company
Lacta.
Tsarevna
Okay, this one's a shareware download, but it's a good, solid,
third-person adventure game at that.
Underworld
With a friend, defeat all of the monsters and save the princess
in this fantasy RPG.
The
Unending Addventure
A "choose your own" game, with a twist.
Unofficial
Tex Murphy*
A favorite of the Tex fans.
Whole Wheat
Waffles
What the heck is better than a traditional adventure with a name
like this?
Wind
at My Back†
An online mystery game with a TV show tie-in. Play as reporter
Grace Baily in four separate stories.
The
X-Files Adventure
No, not the FMV one. This is an online adventure homage to the
popular series.
Yoppi
the Alien
A flash adventure game, cartoon-style.
*Contributed by reader Lakerz.
†Contributed by reader Hiro Protagonist.
**Contributed by reader ClockWise.
‡Contributed by reader Dorie. 
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