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Online Games
This page is your map to the treasure of online games on the web.
The web contains such a wealth of games including free online
games, monthly subscriptions, "Play By EMAIL" (PBeM),
online versions of boardgames, and free games to download. I'll
be adding new ones regularly as I can check them out, so let me
know of ones worth adding, email
CaravanMaster.
Our Free Online Games page
lists nearly 3000 online games assempled from a network of game
websites. They have assmebled the largest collection of free
online games I have seen. Have fun and give the page a minute
to download its 3000 game links.
This is one of the best websites I've found. It has
free online games with versions of more than 40 great boardgames and
its regularly growing with more games and more players. You
play against other players from around the world any time of the day
of night. The online versions are very well done and frequently
having the computer handle the bookkeeping speeds things up and ensures
accuracy. Games include: Carcassonne, Princes of Florence,
RA, Tichu, Lost Cities, Bluff, Settlers of Catan, a variety of card
games, and more. This German site also offers an English interface,
game community, and some rules. Its easy to jump right in, especially
if you already know the game. Whenever rules aren't available,
other gamers will help you learn the game. Did I mention that
its FREE.
This is my favorite site for playing online casino
games. The site offers free flash versions of online blackjack,
progressive slots, video poker and roulette casino games. Online
Casino Suite is a great source for casino ratings and reviews.
Free online game giving you a multiplayer Civilization
II clone. Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy
game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting
to obtain the ultimate goal, world domination. Sid Meier's Civ
II is one of the greatest games of all time. Now you can play
online without having to round up your own opponents.
Several FREE massive multiplayer online games including Galactic
Conquest and Unification Wars. Appears to be strategy games
similar to Masters of Orion and Civilization.
Free online game similar to RISK. Global
Combat is a web based game in which turns are taken simultaneously.
This leads to a very natural playing pattern which is rich in strategic
options as well as tactical battles. Since it is played over the Internet
in a web browser (without any Java or flash) the actions of the other
players are hidden until the turn is ran.
There
is also a large political side to Global Combat, in which
players must sometimes forge alliances. Global
Combat has a WW1 era motif and contains
a Elo based rating system that rewards players depending on their
place in the game, not just whether the win or loose.
Global Conflict is a free on-line military strategy game where up
to ten players contest world domination. Players may play one
turn per day and may participate in multiple games. Game features
include fog of war, technological advancement, different types of
military units, and changing weather. Global Conflict
is easy to play, but the rules are sophisticated enough to appeal
to experienced war gamers.
This site has a couple of free games you can download
and play online with other players: Castle Danger is a two
player tile playing game; Keeps and Moats Chess is a four player
variant of the classic.
MOG brings a new twist to the usual assortment of free online games;
its a "community tagging" site where players add links to
their favorite games, rate them, view the most popular, and see what
other links exist for similar games.
Orisinal: Morning SunshineGames
made from Macromedia Flash that are beautiful as well as fun. You'll
find dozens of beautiful, fun, and free games at Orisinal: Morning
Sunshine, where Fresno, California-based artist Ferry Halim demonstrates
the power of Flash technology applied to beautiful form.
Taking a few minutes to install the FLASH player
will pay off in spades when you feel the heat of battle in Swordsman,
help a little girl catch the nighttime stars with her soul in Pocketful
of Stars, or try to save baby chicks from falling to a grisly death
in Chicken Wings Are NOT for Flying, among many others.
Orisinal calls for as much experimentation as it
does discovery and offers up uniquely designed games with compelling
effects, animations, and text creations. Visit Orisinal and take
a vacation on the right side of your brain.
Peter Lindstrøm has developed three, free online games you
can play thru your browser. In GANGWAR, you control a gang of
criminals in a city. Your goal is to grow as powerful and rich as
possible and control as many city blocks as possible. In SPACE
CONQUEST, you control a space faring empire, possible actions include
building
various space ships and buildings, forming federations and attacking
other players. This is a very simple strategy game. In STRIVE
FOR POWER, you start out with a party of 5 adventures to explore the
vast world, solve quests, find unique items, and much more.
If you like the games, he accepts donations which is a great encouragement
to continue his efforts.
WarOnline.Net is a set of free, online, war-strategy
games. WarOnline is an online, web-based war-strategy game like no
other. Using a Flash driven graphical map interface, a first for web-based
strategy games, you can actually see your armies do battle, build
massive empires, traverse different terrains and wage all out war
on your enemies.
The game is set in mediaeval times. Gameplay
is semi-turned based. While some things are purely turn based
(income, score updates,etc.), other things are of a turn-length
time-based mode (combat actions, battlepoints regeneration, movement,
etc.). Thus it's somewhere between turn-based and slow-RTS,
and continues even when you're not there.
There are hundreds of active players playing in
games of 20-60 players with larger numbers of people playing on
bigger maps. Games can last anywhere from 20 days in the fast
games to a few months in the Tournaments. Games run at different
speeds, sizes, lengths, and run continuously.
This Yahoo section lets you play a variety of classic
online games such as Chess, Go, Checkers, Naval Command, card games,
fantasy sports, partner games, and a couple dozen more.
A new multiplayer online somewhat like somewhat like Sid Meieir's
Civilization. You have multiple ways of winning, either by capturing
all cites or destroying all armies. But you can play a game in a few
hours.
The GAME
TABLE ONLINE is a new site offering online multiplayer board,
card, and dice games. It has been in beta-test and goes live
in May and looks promising. Its first games include Nuclear
War by Flying Buffalo, Lord of the Fries by Cheapass Games, and Cosmic
Wimpout by C3 Company with many more in beta test or development.
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This review on the Wargamer.com website reviews and
compares four of the "Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing
Games", Everquest, Age of Camelot, Asheron's Call and Anarchy
Online.
The RPMworld online game enables
gamers to build and race one of 40 virtual muscle-cars, allowing
them to trade parts and vehicles, tune their engine, and challenge
online opponents to a real-time drag race. The Virtual Drag
Race game enables players to play the sport of drag racing with
opponents thousands of miles apart with instant results. There is
more than the races themselves as this site is rally a drag race
community. Much of the fun is building your dragster, checking
the standings, and dealing at the swap meat.
Players win points for having the faster ET, or
elapsed time in the drag race. As a player's score increases, the
points can be used as currency in the "Swap Meet". This
component of the game is really the key to making RPMworld unique
every time. It's an environment similar to an online auction. No
real money changes hands in the game, but players exchange points
for faster parts and cars. With daily traffic at around 5,000 users,
the swap meet has developed into a fascinating micro-economics simulation.
You can try it for free to see if racing is really
in your blood.
Games to Download
Abandon Games is a treasure trove of old computer games
that are no longer published and thus made available here for free
download. There are many of these sites and this one shows you
which game is available from whom.
Contains dozens of old "abandoned" computer
wargames you can download for free. There are many of these
sites on the web, but this one is devoted to wargames.
Free download of a 3-D PC wargame covering Napoleonic
and American Civil War battles. The designer, Peter Turcan, has designed
several commercial PC wargames.
This site offers a variety of mini-games you can download, print,
cut out, and play. It has a variety of family, party, and basic
strategy games from free to a small fee.
The Wargamer.com sponsors this site with two free DOS
games to download. The SP Camo Group has produced two games.
Both games are based on the very popular classic 1995 Gary Grigsby/SSI
DOS based modern tactical game entitled Steel Panthers II (SP2).
The first game produced by SP Camo was a World War
2 version of SP2. The second game covers the post WWII era
to modern times. The games look promising even tho they are
DOS games and its sometimes difficult to access the site.
The Wargamer mostly covers PC wargames, but also war boardgames.
They have a variety of free wargames to download such as "Steel
Panthers" and "Blackhawk Down".