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Katamari Damacy is great, and so are side-scrolling shooters.
So what happens when you combine the two? TUMIKI Fighters, that’s what.
You shoot things, they die, you try and catch destroyed enemies as they plummet off the screen, you get bigger, it’s fun. That’s about all the explanation we can offer, so instead – as a special treat – here’s a video of it with some excellent music:
Get It Here:
It’s nice to find a free game that craps all over many of those commercially available.
While Masq may not be one of the best lookers out there – though it is home to a distinctive style – it manages to captivate in the small doses it offers with some fine, branching storylines and a level of freedom most games can only ever dream of.
In fact, the best way to put it is exactly how PC Gamer said it:
The Deus Ex of comic-strip soap operas. Get shot, divorced, incarcerated, all three, and more.
And that’s bloody high praise. A great timewaster and fantastic game in its own right.
Play Masq Here:
Being a bodyguard is one of those jobs that would be – as those kids tend to say – ‘awesome’.
It’s just a shame that you’d probably end up getting shot and killed. But wait! For you – yes you – can still be a bodyguard without having to put your actual, real life on the line! Plus you won’t have to get embarrassed should you decide to do a runner instead of looking after your VIP.
How? By playing Black Shades, the bodyguard game.
You are a bodyguard and you have to protect your VIP, playing about in an infinitely generated city full of blocky little people, half of which seemingly want to shoot the man in white you’re looking after. Kill them, disarm them, knock your VIP out of the way – you decide how to deal with the attacker.
It looks shonky but it still plays really well, and is oddly compulsive – as with a lot of freebies. It is a download, mind, and not a browser-based timewaster, but it’s well worth the 1MB file size.
Download Black Shades Here:
Having a strong memory is one of the most worthwhile assets in a person’s life.
It means they can remember… things… about stuff. And not… forget them.
Anyway – Basho Kioku is a simple memory game that is sure to test your ability to the fullest. Simply click on a square – that’s a level done. Repeat until the end. That’s it. Oh, but if you happen to click on a square you’ve already tagged before then you lose a life.
It starts out simple but soon gets that grey matter working, we can tell you that for a fact. It also manages to be as captivating as it is frustrating, so try not to play it for too long when you should be working. ‘Just one more go’ syndrome has been known to kick in often with Basho Kioku.
Play It Here:
Tremors was excellent – everyone knows that.
As was Dune – well, the game at least. Well, Dune II at any rate. Basically, things with giant subterranean worms in them are great, though usually because you get to see Kevin Bacon stoving their heads in over a couple of hours.
But what would it be like to actually be one of these underground annelids? Death Worm aims to answer that question, along with ones like ‘how many camels could I eat in one jump if I were one of these worms?’ and ‘how much forward momentum is necessary to eat that stupid bird flying around up there?’ or the ever-popular ‘could I really take down that helicopter?’
Yes, you get to be a giant worm. You get to scramble around underground and fly out of the surface, eating those overland-dwelling scummers that we all hate so much. Do enough damage, armed enemies come along. Survive, eat, throw yourself in the air using your momentum – it’s all fantastic fun and well worth wasting some time on.
The game can be played online or can be downloaded to play it later if you like.
Play Death Worm Here:
Death Worm
Sorry kids, we’ve opted out of a browser-based time waster here. But when it’s this good, who cares?
Yes, Mu-Cade. Incredible. It’s a 6MB download and you need a PC built within the last 30 years to be able to play it – just a warning. So what is it? What do you do? Let’s have a look at the documentation on the game’s official website:
The Physics Centipede Invasion
Smashup waggly shmup, ‘Mu-Cade’
It really doesn’t get much better than that. But how to play? Look:
Keep your ship from falling down and push enemies out of the way.
Simply stunning. It’s actually fun, too, which is something of a bonus.
PLAY IT NOW (well, download it now):
Mu-Cade
So here’s the final SLACKERJACK entry of my brief tenure at the top, and by golly is it a doozy.
Warning Forever is another download-and-install jobby for you technophobes to be afraid of, but it’s yet another one in the list of ‘jesus H everything this is bloody brilliant’. One of the most addictive experiences you’re ever likely to encounter, this is pure, all-out scorewhore fun.
In a manner not too dissimilar to that of Futurama’s TV chef Elzar, we’re going to take it up a notch here: BAM!
The world of free games just welcomed a new son into its midst, one full of psychics, violence, a crap story and some of the best pure fun you can have in a game – Psi Ops is being given away for free. This, friends, is a wonderful thing.
