Kitchen 2 from Test Escape
Players must collect bottles and mixers, pieces of a map, safe combinations, and the like to find a solution and escape from what appears to be a small cozy restaurant. [Platform: Flash] Escape from Test Kitchen 2 is a standard escape-the-room game from Japan, somewhat reminiscent of a game from the gotMail folks.

the Starship from Escape
Each dot represents a floor tile on which you may land. The starship is composed of a maze of rooms, each of which is composed of homogeneous grey dots. The sound you hear, however, ultimately determines whether that tile is safe. [Platform: Flash] Escape from the Starship is an escape game that uses sound to convey the relative proximity of monsters that you must avoid.

Download Weekend
[Platform: Download (Mac, Windows)] I compose this edition of Weekend Download with the sound of leaf blowers screeching through my windows. I miss the good old fashioned, non-air-and-noise-polluting leaf rake… Not only does half my neighborhood believe leaves in their yard are evil, but apparently creating hours of noise pollution for everyone in the area is an acceptable price to pay to shove them in the street.

Dump Friday Link
Thanks to my armies of trolls, hermits, little bits of aluminum foil and people I’ve set on fire (you know who you are), we’ve come up with a nice list of games to keep your Friday from getting boring. With such an amazing week of free browser game releases, it’s a wonder anything is left over for Link Dump Friday!

Violet
[Platform: Flash] Violet is a richly engaging one-room puzzle game from this year’s annual Interactive Fiction competition. You’re a graduate student working on your dissertation, but you haven’t gotten any writing done in months. If you don’t get a thousand words written today, your relationship is over and she flies home to Australia. Your girlfriend Violet has put her life on hold, waiting for you to finish, and she’s getting fed up. The problem?

Phantom Mansion The II: Black Sea
Having found a map, complete with a glowing red X, Hector is sailing the first sea, the Black Sea, in search of treasure. The Black Sea offers 20 new and challenging levels and fun for all ages. [Platform: Flash] Spiky-haired Hector has returned in a new Phantom Mansion series, Treasures of the Seven Seas. Before he can get to the treasure, he must first find his way through a maze of locked doors, moats, and puzzles.

3: Passport to Europe Build-a-lot
[Platform: Download (Windows)] HipSoft has just released Build-a-lot 3: Passport to Europe, the latest installment in the excellent Build-a-lot series of tycoon-style real estate sims. Look for a full review this weekend. I’ve already spent some time with this game and it’s just as addictive as the previous titles. In the meantime, start playing! The series has found the sweet spot between keeping a successful formula the same and adding new elements to bring players back for more.

Violet
If you don’t get a thousand words written today, your relationship is over and she flies home to Australia. Your girlfriend Violet has put her life on hold, waiting for you to finish, and she’s getting fed up. You’re a graduate student working on your dissertation, but you haven’t gotten any writing done in months. [Platform: Flash] Violet is a richly engaging one-room puzzle game from this year’s annual Interactive Fiction competition. The problem?

2D Mirror’s beta Edge
[Platform: Flash] From The Fancy Pants Adventure creator Brad Borne comes a 2D re-imagining of the 3D action-adventure console game Mirror’s Edge. Mirror’s Edge 2D uses the Fancy Pants engine and adds a whole host of new acrobatic moves, allowing you to jump, climb, scramble and run across rooftops with surprising fluidity.

Starship from Escape the
The sound you hear, however, ultimately determines whether that tile is safe. Each dot represents a floor tile on which you may land. [Platform: Flash] Escape from the Starship is an escape game that uses sound to convey the relative proximity of monsters that you must avoid. The starship is composed of a maze of rooms, each of which is composed of homogeneous grey dots.

Oiligarchy
Explore, drill, corrupt governments, hire mercenaries, engage in covert operations, fix elections (which are clearly broken without you) and most of all: have fun. [Platform: Flash] You are the CEO of a major international oil company, your job is to make money: Democracy, environment, and global economic health are irrelevant.

Friday Dump Link
Thanks to my armies of trolls, hermits, little bits of aluminum foil and people I’ve set on fire (you know who you are), we’ve come up with a nice list of games to keep your Friday from getting boring. With such an amazing week of free browser game releases, it’s a wonder anything is left over for Link Dump Friday!

the and Golem Iron Retardo
It’s up to you to ensure that he accomplishes his mission safely. [Platform: Flash] In this brand new point-and-click adventure, the King of Moronia has sent Retardo on a mission to defeat the Iron Golem and restore peace to the kingdom. In return he is promised the hand of the Princess of Moronia.

Dump Friday Link
Thanks to my armies of trolls, hermits, little bits of aluminum foil and people I’ve set on fire (you know who you are), we’ve come up with a nice list of games to keep your Friday from getting boring. With such an amazing week of free browser game releases, it’s a wonder anything is left over for Link Dump Friday!

of Out Order
Late one night he’s awakened by a storm and goes to get a midnight snack. [Platform: Download (Windows)] Out of Order is a humor-oriented, mouse-driven adventure game in the style of the old Lucas Arts and Sierra titles. You play as Hurford Schlitzting, an ordinary human being in a green bathrobe and bunny slippers. And then the game ends… wait, no, it doesn’t, or we wouldn’t have much of a game.

Violet
Your girlfriend Violet has put her life on hold, waiting for you to finish, and she’s getting fed up. If you don’t get a thousand words written today, your relationship is over and she flies home to Australia. The problem? [Platform: Flash] Violet is a richly engaging one-room puzzle game from this year’s annual Interactive Fiction competition. You’re a graduate student working on your dissertation, but you haven’t gotten any writing done in months.

IncrediBots
[Platform: Flash] IncrediBots is a brand new physics-based webtoy from Grubby Games, creator of the Professor Fizzwizzle series. Draw shapes, connect them with joints, and tweak their basic properties to create living, moving, and functioning ‘bots that can perform any task. Much like Fantastic Contraption and Line Rider before it, IncrediBots gives you a handful of simple tools and sets you free to explore your creative impulses. You can even make movies, complete with text, than can be shared with the IncrediBots community.

2D Mirror’s Edge beta
[Platform: Flash] From The Fancy Pants Adventure creator Brad Borne comes a 2D re-imagining of the 3D action-adventure console game Mirror’s Edge. Mirror’s Edge 2D uses the Fancy Pants engine and adds a whole host of new acrobatic moves, allowing you to jump, climb, scramble and run across rooftops with surprising fluidity.

The Sea Mansion Phantom II: Black
Before he can get to the treasure, he must first find his way through a maze of locked doors, moats, and puzzles. Having found a map, complete with a glowing red X, Hector is sailing the first sea, the Black Sea, in search of treasure. [Platform: Flash] Spiky-haired Hector has returned in a new Phantom Mansion series, Treasures of the Seven Seas. The Black Sea offers 20 new and challenging levels and fun for all ages.

Friday Link Dump
With such an amazing week of free browser game releases, it’s a wonder anything is left over for Link Dump Friday! Thanks to my armies of trolls, hermits, little bits of aluminum foil and people I’ve set on fire (you know who you are), we’ve come up with a nice list of games to keep your Friday from getting boring.

Violet
The problem? [Platform: Flash] Violet is a richly engaging one-room puzzle game from this year’s annual Interactive Fiction competition. Your girlfriend Violet has put her life on hold, waiting for you to finish, and she’s getting fed up. You’re a graduate student working on your dissertation, but you haven’t gotten any writing done in months. If you don’t get a thousand words written today, your relationship is over and she flies home to Australia.

Download Weekend
[Platform: Download (Mac, Windows)] I compose this edition of Weekend Download with the sound of leaf blowers screeching through my windows. Not only does half my neighborhood believe leaves in their yard are evil, but apparently creating hours of noise pollution for everyone in the area is an acceptable price to pay to shove them in the street. I miss the good old fashioned, non-air-and-noise-polluting leaf rake…

Edge Mirror’s 2D beta
[Platform: Flash] From The Fancy Pants Adventure creator Brad Borne comes a 2D re-imagining of the 3D action-adventure console game Mirror’s Edge. Mirror’s Edge 2D uses the Fancy Pants engine and adds a whole host of new acrobatic moves, allowing you to jump, climb, scramble and run across rooftops with surprising fluidity.

the Iron Golem Retardo and
It’s up to you to ensure that he accomplishes his mission safely. [Platform: Flash] In this brand new point-and-click adventure, the King of Moronia has sent Retardo on a mission to defeat the Iron Golem and restore peace to the kingdom. In return he is promised the hand of the Princess of Moronia.

beta 2D Edge Mirror’s
Mirror’s Edge 2D uses the Fancy Pants engine and adds a whole host of new acrobatic moves, allowing you to jump, climb, scramble and run across rooftops with surprising fluidity. [Platform: Flash] From The Fancy Pants Adventure creator Brad Borne comes a 2D re-imagining of the 3D action-adventure console game Mirror’s Edge.

Seekers: Visions of Gold Treasure
In essence, your goal is to explore the physical objects in each scene and collect items to solve individual puzzles. [Platform: Download (Windows)] Treasure Seekers: Visions of Gold is another superb hidden object adventure game from Artogon Games, creator of The Mystery of the Crystal Portal. It’s a new and interesting take on the genre that opens up many new puzzle possibilities. Both titles share a unique design among hidden object games where you are presented with contextual search clues instead of generic lists of objects.

Link Dump Friday
With such an amazing week of free browser game releases, it’s a wonder anything is left over for Link Dump Friday! Thanks to my armies of trolls, hermits, little bits of aluminum foil and people I’ve set on fire (you know who you are), we’ve come up with a nice list of games to keep your Friday from getting boring.

Black Mansion The Sea Phantom II:
Before he can get to the treasure, he must first find his way through a maze of locked doors, moats, and puzzles. [Platform: Flash] Spiky-haired Hector has returned in a new Phantom Mansion series, Treasures of the Seven Seas. Having found a map, complete with a glowing red X, Hector is sailing the first sea, the Black Sea, in search of treasure. The Black Sea offers 20 new and challenging levels and fun for all ages.

Out Order of
Late one night he’s awakened by a storm and goes to get a midnight snack. [Platform: Download (Windows)] Out of Order is a humor-oriented, mouse-driven adventure game in the style of the old Lucas Arts and Sierra titles. wait, no, it doesn’t, or we wouldn’t have much of a game. You play as Hurford Schlitzting, an ordinary human being in a green bathrobe and bunny slippers. And then the game ends…

Download Weekend
I miss the good old fashioned, non-air-and-noise-polluting leaf rake… Not only does half my neighborhood believe leaves in their yard are evil, but apparently creating hours of noise pollution for everyone in the area is an acceptable price to pay to shove them in the street. [Platform: Download (Mac, Windows)] I compose this edition of Weekend Download with the sound of leaf blowers screeching through my windows.

Crypt Keeper
How and why did you get there? Not important. [Platform: Flash] In Crypt Keeper, you find yourself plunked down in the middle of a truly spooktastic graveyard. It’s the middle of the night, and there are creepy noises and big ominous tombstones and omigosh you need to get out right now!

of Order Out
And then the game ends… [Platform: Download (Windows)] Out of Order is a humor-oriented, mouse-driven adventure game in the style of the old Lucas Arts and Sierra titles. Late one night he’s awakened by a storm and goes to get a midnight snack. wait, no, it doesn’t, or we wouldn’t have much of a game. You play as Hurford Schlitzting, an ordinary human being in a green bathrobe and bunny slippers.

Keeper Crypt
It’s the middle of the night, and there are creepy noises and big ominous tombstones and omigosh you need to get out right now! Not important. [Platform: Flash] In Crypt Keeper, you find yourself plunked down in the middle of a truly spooktastic graveyard. How and why did you get there?

Edge Mirror’s 2D beta
[Platform: Flash] From The Fancy Pants Adventure creator Brad Borne comes a 2D re-imagining of the 3D action-adventure console game Mirror’s Edge. Mirror’s Edge 2D uses the Fancy Pants engine and adds a whole host of new acrobatic moves, allowing you to jump, climb, scramble and run across rooftops with surprising fluidity.

Escape the from Starship
[Platform: Flash] Escape from the Starship is an escape game that uses sound to convey the relative proximity of monsters that you must avoid. The sound you hear, however, ultimately determines whether that tile is safe. Each dot represents a floor tile on which you may land. The starship is composed of a maze of rooms, each of which is composed of homogeneous grey dots.

Oiligarchy
Explore, drill, corrupt governments, hire mercenaries, engage in covert operations, fix elections (which are clearly broken without you) and most of all: have fun. [Platform: Flash] You are the CEO of a major international oil company, your job is to make money: Democracy, environment, and global economic health are irrelevant.

SeppuKuties
To escape to Paradise Meadows, they need to collect a golden acorn from each level (obviously). Regrettably, some of the adorable animals must be sacrificed along the way… [Platform: Flash] A pack of cuddly woodland creatures suddenly find themselves homeless at the hands of Big Brother and his menacing chainsaw.

Visions Gold Seekers: of Treasure
Both titles share a unique design among hidden object games where you are presented with contextual search clues instead of generic lists of objects. [Platform: Download (Windows)] Treasure Seekers: Visions of Gold is another superb hidden object adventure game from Artogon Games, creator of The Mystery of the Crystal Portal. It’s a new and interesting take on the genre that opens up many new puzzle possibilities. In essence, your goal is to explore the physical objects in each scene and collect items to solve individual puzzles.

Phantom II: The Black Mansion Sea
The Black Sea offers 20 new and challenging levels and fun for all ages. [Platform: Flash] Spiky-haired Hector has returned in a new Phantom Mansion series, Treasures of the Seven Seas. Having found a map, complete with a glowing red X, Hector is sailing the first sea, the Black Sea, in search of treasure. Before he can get to the treasure, he must first find his way through a maze of locked doors, moats, and puzzles.

Dump Link Friday
With such an amazing week of free browser game releases, it’s a wonder anything is left over for Link Dump Friday! Thanks to my armies of trolls, hermits, little bits of aluminum foil and people I’ve set on fire (you know who you are), we’ve come up with a nice list of games to keep your Friday from getting boring.

Golem Iron Retardo and the
In return he is promised the hand of the Princess of Moronia. It’s up to you to ensure that he accomplishes his mission safely. [Platform: Flash] In this brand new point-and-click adventure, the King of Moronia has sent Retardo on a mission to defeat the Iron Golem and restore peace to the kingdom.

1 Episode Tortuga
[Platform: Flash] Tortuga Episode 1 is an escape-the-room game set on a pirate ship; the first installment of a series, from Mateusz Skutnik and Marek Frankowski, that promises to be adventuresome, if not epic. Parrots, treasure, peril and puzzle awaits those intrepid enough to brave the pirate ship.

beta 2D Mirror’s Edge
Mirror’s Edge 2D uses the Fancy Pants engine and adds a whole host of new acrobatic moves, allowing you to jump, climb, scramble and run across rooftops with surprising fluidity. [Platform: Flash] From The Fancy Pants Adventure creator Brad Borne comes a 2D re-imagining of the 3D action-adventure console game Mirror’s Edge.

IncrediBots
Draw shapes, connect them with joints, and tweak their basic properties to create living, moving, and functioning ‘bots that can perform any task. You can even make movies, complete with text, than can be shared with the IncrediBots community. [Platform: Flash] IncrediBots is a brand new physics-based webtoy from Grubby Games, creator of the Professor Fizzwizzle series. Much like Fantastic Contraption and Line Rider before it, IncrediBots gives you a handful of simple tools and sets you free to explore your creative impulses.

Sea II: Mansion Black Phantom The
Before he can get to the treasure, he must first find his way through a maze of locked doors, moats, and puzzles. [Platform: Flash] Spiky-haired Hector has returned in a new Phantom Mansion series, Treasures of the Seven Seas. Having found a map, complete with a glowing red X, Hector is sailing the first sea, the Black Sea, in search of treasure. The Black Sea offers 20 new and challenging levels and fun for all ages.

Download Weekend
I miss the good old fashioned, non-air-and-noise-polluting leaf rake… [Platform: Download (Mac, Windows)] I compose this edition of Weekend Download with the sound of leaf blowers screeching through my windows. Not only does half my neighborhood believe leaves in their yard are evil, but apparently creating hours of noise pollution for everyone in the area is an acceptable price to pay to shove them in the street.

1 Episode Tortuga
[Platform: Flash] Tortuga Episode 1 is an escape-the-room game set on a pirate ship; the first installment of a series, from Mateusz Skutnik and Marek Frankowski, that promises to be adventuresome, if not epic. Parrots, treasure, peril and puzzle awaits those intrepid enough to brave the pirate ship.