Another day, another genre you can curl up next to a keyboard with. Point and click games take puzzles to their most basic level, challenging you to do little more than click on things to solve massively challenging riddles. Point and click games can be adventure flavored, or than can just revolve around a few puzzles starring bunnies or something. Either way, they usually don’t involve much exploration, leaving you free from worrying about getting

Space Rubbish by Dino Run and Gamma Bros. Creator pixelJAM and Daft Blox creator slakinov, is, in brief, the classic Asteroids for the modern era. The retro-looking arcade game takes place in the quiet blackness of space. You’ve got little more than thrusters and a rudimentary gun, and those careening asteroids are looking to make dust out of you. What’s a space pilot to do? Start shooting, that’s what. It’s as simple as tapping the

Adventure games were the first video game genre that made players take games seriously. With their branching storylines, cerebral gameplay, and lengthy, epic quests, players couldn’t help but lose hours of their days searching through the depths of the world before their eyes. The adventure genre has maintained its integrity in the Flash realm, despite losing some of its difficulty and length in favor of quick, casual-type experiences. Now, it’s possible to play action adventure,

In the mood for a little old school puzzle solving? GraveShift from Tangerine POP takes a trip back to the earlier days of gaming to revisit the isometric puzzle adventure. Find keys, push blocks to unlock doors, collect coins to earn cash and hearts to refill your health, and smack enemies with a shovel. It’s got just the right amount of action and cerebral elements to make it a very big winner in the browser

Not quite a platform game. Not just an action game. Not really an arcade game, but we’ll make the concession seeing as how they’re so arcade-like in nature. Run and jump games, or just plan running games, are a thriving genre on the Flash platform that rely on two things: fast-moving characters, and objects that leap in your way. The games were made immensely popular when Canabalt was first released, and since then they have