Any fun browser based games which aren't pay-to-be-good?

[Jackard]

well since i just linked it in another thread

http://en.transformice.com/

[Punctilious]

www.deadfrontier.com

Great fun! Browser game and no "u need energy to do this".

Best played with a group.

[Zamte]

I second Travian. The gold buy options aren't that big an advantage, if any at all. Anything you can do with them you could do by playing or just being smart. The one big one I used a lot was the 1:1 market which lets you trade X of a resource for the same of another. However each round you start with free gold and it's enough for ten or so trades.

Travian however is very stressful and very competitive. You also have to be smart, and diplomatic. People who've built up for months are often taken out entirely, every last town destroyed, because they smart off to a neighbor in a PM and the neighbor decides to bomb them with troops and catapult waves. I've personally taken out a few such people in the rounds I've played.

However, the game is highly skill based, especially if you get in early. By the end you'll easily be managing 30 different towns, with tens of thousands of troops, sending resources all over your empire, and working with allies to secure the round victory for your side. It's the best browser game I have ever played.

They have versions of it in many languages and countries.

http://www.travian.com has a list of countries and their sites along the top if you're interested.

I'd suggest starting on a normal server. If it's too slow paced for you, see if there's a 3x speed server starting soon. 3x will start out at somewhat of a slow pace even too (at least for me), but by the time you're 2-3 months in you'll be spending hours on it.

[jgudge]

http://www.havenandhearth.com
Best free to play i've seen. It's almost browser based, and the only hero mode there is is with the hackers using macros.

[Jackard]

http://www.gaiaonline.com/
this is a pretty fun browser game i jsut found out about!! you should try it a+++ would link again

[Tacheron]

http://world-of-dungeons.net/mmorpg/ec/67167

I play that along with some friends - it's a browser based group oriented game revolving around dungeon delving - going into specific dungeons, getting loot, gold and experience and then leveling your character.

It's a pretty cool game that you can play casually or more invested, whichever way you choose. And you can play it free or premium, but this is one of the rarer games where the non-premium classes are just as important as the premium ones (each ideal group has a mage or 2, an archer or 2 and a barbarian along with the premium classes) and being a premium member doesn't give any substantial advantages over the non-premium ones.

Besides - it's your group vs the dungeons, not you vs other people (unless you challenge people to duels ofc )

You have to play the game for a while to really appreciate it, it WILL draw you in from the start, but that's just scratching the surface...

[ALWAYS]

http://www.havenandhearth.com

Pretty cool game. Doubt you've ever heard of it though.

[Zamte]

http://www.havenandhearth.com

Pretty cool game. Doubt you've ever heard of it though.

Except it's no more browser based than it was last time it was posted.

[novaalpha]

http://www.kingdomofloathing.com

This.

[bakrael]

http://www.deadfrontier.com

Great fun! Browser game and no "u need energy to do this".

Best played with a group.

good call.