Worms Forts: Under Siege

Right now gog.com has Worms Forts: Under Siege available for free! It's a turn-based strategy game from 2004, only available on Windows. Enjoy!

PC Mag giving away Steam keys for four games

PC Magazine is giving away four free games this week. You can sign up on their site here. The games included are:

8 Bit Boy


Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! (this is a two pack)



Bionic Dues


Hat tip to Free Stuff Times.

Warlords: Call to Arms

In Warlords: Call to Arms, the idea is simple. Get enough of your people to the far side of the battlefield to conquer the enemy's territory, while keeping their people from coming to conquer you! Purchase new unit types, upgrade the ones you already have, and hone your strategy as you try to conquer each of the factions on the map. Play as humans, orcs, elves or even the undead!

Mancala Snails

Mancala is an ancient game, which has been dated back to somewhere around the 6th century A.D. or so. Mancala Snails is a great internet version with a built in tutorial. Play against the computer or against a friend. In the one player mode, you can even choose the difficulty of your opponent. If you're not familiar with Mancala, you really should try it -- there's a reason this game has withstood the test of time!

Big Fish Thursday? Jojo's Fashion Show

I'm posting a Big Fish Game on a Thursday this week because tomorrow is the Blog365 official day of rest. It's the one day this year where participants are not supposed to blog, so I'm doing all my Friday stuff a day early. So don't expect a game tomorrow. Well, at least not here anyway.

So, here's today's game; Jojo's Fashion Show. Match fashions to eras, styles, colors and patterns and then march your models down the runway to earn points and bonuses. Earn even more by creating combos. If you do well enough, you'll beat your rival, Claudio Maximo, and regain your status as a top designer!

Featured Game: Splash Back

Splash Back is a fun little puzzle game that is a lot more challenging than it appears. You start out with a board filled with little globs of green goo, and 10 drops of green goo in your tank. Adding a drop of goo to an almost full blob will cause it to burst and send drops flying out toward other blobs around it. The catch is, you will not be given more drops, unless you earn them: one for every combo of three blobs burst with a single drop, and one for every level cleared. How long can you make your 10 drops last?

Blade of Innocence

Blade of Innocence is a postage-stamp (as in really little) version of a real time strategy game. You have a tiny little city (top left) from which to make improvements and train troops, and the computer has same (bottom right) for use in attacking you. Balance economy, defense and military recruitment to take down the enemy castle before he takes you down.

Featured Game: Tactics 100 Live

Tactics 100 Live is a Turn-Based strategy game in which you lead a small army into battle against other armies. Choose warriors, archers, mages and healers and upgrade them to the level you see fit. You only have 100 upgrade points to spend, so choose wisely. Once your army is assembled, see how your choices and your strategies fare against the computer or against other players' armies.

Proximity

In Proximity, players take turns placing hexagons with random numbers on them. If your number is greater than your opponent's adjacent hex, you win his armies in that hex and they become yours. If you place your hex next to your own armies, each army it touches gains a point. It doesn't matter how many hexes you control at the end, rather how large the numbers in them. The object is to have the highest score when all of the hexes have been filled.

Motherload

In Motherload, you are plopped onto the surface of Mars with only an ore digging machine. A fuzzy transmission from the mothership explains your expedition, which is to mine all possible ore out of the ground. At first, all seems light and fluffy and exciting. Even the Mars digger machine is kind of cute and cuddly. Then, the deeper you mine and the richer the ore that you find, the creepier things seem to get. Ground-shifting earthquakes are only the beginning of your troubles.

Basic gameplay is: Dig ore to sell for gas or upgrades, like larger fuel tanks or stronger drill bits. Make sure not to run out of fuel, or your game could end like this:

Kablooie!

Budapest Defenders

As you may know, BunGirl has an affinity for Tower Defense games. Today's Featured Game, recommended by BunGirl, herself, is Budapest Defenders, where placement of roadblocks and defensive shooters is key to keeping the Soviets out of the Hungarian capital city for good. I like that this game has a real historical background, since it's set in 1956. Creeps, like tanks, enter the map from various checkpoints. Instead of building towers, I get to place individual Hungarian defense people atop buildings in Budapest. The molotov thrower is my favorite, because he gets to explode things. Now, it's your turn to play Budapest Defenders and preserve the future of Hungary!

Turret Wars

Yup, time for another TD game! (that's tower defense for those who are new here) Turret Wars is a great little game, if a little on the advanced side. In this one you get to use the advantages of the terrain to slow down your enemies while protecting your base against their onslaught. So what are you waiting for? Go! Play!

Tower Blaster

In Tower Blaster, the object is to rearrange the numbered blocks within your tower so they are in size order, before the vikings do the same. Whoever has their tower stable first blasts the other into oblivion!

Bloons Tower Defense

Ok, time for another tower defense game! (Told ya I liked these) This one's not precisely towers though. It's more like... monkeys. Cause everybody likes monkeys, right? Especially monkeys with darts! If you like monkeys with darts, head on over to Bloons TD and start defending!

Onslaught 2

Had a dentist appointment this morning, so I'm a little late with the featured game... Anyone who sticks around and reads this blog for long enough will soon learn that I have a penchant for tower defense games. Onslaught 2 is one of the better ones I've seen. You start with four basic tower types, and as you progress through the game you earn additional towers and modifiers. The key is in upgrading your towers fully to produce combos. The game is still evolving, and new features are released periodically, the most recent release included a new sound package. Be sure to check out the settings screen when you start playing, as there are some useful options there.

Desktop Tower Defense

Desktop TD might not look like much at first glance, but what it lacks in graphics it makes up for in playability. In this highly-addictive strategy game, players build mazes out of defense towers to repel invaders. There are several different types of tower, each with strengths and weaknesses, as well as several types of invaders. You can upload your score to the high scores list to see how you fare against other defenders around the world, or create a group for your friends, and try to beat each others' scores. A multiplayer version (with some fun new features) is currently in Beta testing.