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8 Web Games Worth Your Time

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You don’t need a whole lot of money to keep yourself entertained. These eight great games are free and will keep you occupied for hours on end. So sit back, grab a beverage, and prepare to lose some time on these fun distractions.

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The game is the entire screen of one game and it will drive you insane. There is no finishing this blasted invention, it’s like the game says “You can’t win the game. It exists only to destroy your mind.” and after playing for a few minutes you’ll understand the frustration that could be caused by this seemingly harmless web game.

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Who hasn’t wanted to be in the stressless field of Air Traffic Controlling? Well thanks to the internet we now have Air Traffic Controller Simulator, so you can fulfill that dream you’ve had to help planes avoid collisions. The game isn’t overly easy, but once you get the hang of it you’ll be flying, not literally because that’s a completely different simulator.

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Do you ever get sick of the depressing feeling of playing Minesweeper alone? Well thanks to Mienfield you can now share your Minesweeper experience with other people. The internet is a wonderful place that allows us to interact with people across the globe, and play an MMO version of the game Minesweeper. This is truly the future we all wanted.

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Remember all of those great times you had playing Bowman 2? Well thankfully that game hasn’t gone anywhere. So you can just hop in here and pretend that it’s a much earlier time when things were simpler. Oh the halcyon days of sitting behind your crappy PC and playing as a stick figure shooting arrows. To be fair this was probably the precursor to Skyrim, how else do you think that guard got an arrow to the knee.

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Do you like tequila? Do you like zombies? If you said yes to both of those then look no further, because we have found the game for you. Tequila Zombies 3 mixes the fun of drinking with the fear and terror of zombies. You get to shoot, or bash, zombies to death. This may as well be Sons of Anarchy meets The Walking Dead, so enjoy this hybrid of two of the most popular genres of all time.

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Did you have a childhood? If you were one of the lucky few then you know the game Oregon Trail. Thanks to MS-DOS emulators we can take that trip to Oregon once again. Take a trip and try not to lose your party as they fend off bears, dysentery, and starvation. There are more than anyone’s fair share of pitfalls as you traverse the deadly west.

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Do you play games and just really want to engage with the environment? Thanks to the web game Magic Pen 2 you can draw on anything and make some crazy contraptions. You could make a rhombus, heck all of the quadrilaterals, there is no limit to the shapes you could introduce to the environment. So get in there and make the red ball hit those blasted flags that must have done something to deserve this abuse.

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Cats are wonderful pets, they are even more fun when you put them into a catapult and send them flying through the air. Thanks to Sushi Catapult you can now get all of the fun of cats in one web game. Send your cat sailing throw sushi to build up your bounce so that you can send them further away, try and just get them far enough away from them to avoid their sushi farts.


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