Frozen Synapse sounds interesting, but I'm not willing to pay that much for it without at least a demo or trial of some nature.

Honestly, the only reason I got it was because it was on sale on Steam for like $12 or something, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered (not knowing anything about it other than the 'simultaneous turn-based tactical strategy). After playing it, I would play full price.

One thing to note is that (at least on Steam) the cost is for two copies of the game, so you may be able to find somebody to split the cost with.

Frozen Synapse is awesome.

Cat God vs Sun King - Sort of a "King of the Hill" type of game, except you're also trying to prevent the hill from being built. You get many upgradable powers and battle different types of enemies. It's good for a short afternoon of time wasting

Did everybody see Popcap has a facebook game. http://apps.facebook.com/pigupgame

A stand alone application would be better but it's still fun.

A great way to waste time is with World of Tanks. It is free to play MMO, with options to pay (you pay for gold, and with the gold you can earn XP and credits faster, buy premium tanks, buy premium ammo). It covers tanks from the Second World War and shortly after.

Your performance in each match (of 15 vs 15) determines the amount of XP and credits (money) you earn. You then spend that XP to research upgrades for your current tank, or research a whole new tank. The credits are used to purchase the upgrades or the new tank. As each tank crew gets more experience, their overall effectiveness improves until it hits 100%, then you choose which of several categories each one works on next: repairs, firefighting or camouflage.

Think of something like WoW where you just run battlegrounds all day, or Rift/WAR where you just do scenario after scenario. There are some other battle modes (such as Clan Wars, in which each clan is fighting on a persistent map to gain or defend territory), but the normal is a 15 v 15 capture the flag (or win by killing all the bad guys) battle.

My apologies, I haven't had a lot of time to waste recently (which is a good thing), so I haven't posted a good time waster in a while.

Well, with how busy I've been I've realized how nice it is to zone out and play a little web flash [or whatever] game.

Jewelanche - Oddly, I was never a fan of Bejewelled, but I love Jewelanche. Bejewelled always seemed so freaking boring to me, and this one seems to have more going on.

That is more interesting than Bejeweled.

Agreed! I can't tell if you liked that one.

Well, here's an interesting one:

Wonderputt - The real star of this one is the design of the game. I don't mean how the holes are laid out, but more the style and art of it. The real incentive for beating a hole for me is seeing how the course will change next. Aside from that it's a pretty fun putt putt game.

Awesome.

Superb - great style and animations.

I'm a colourful relaxed birdie, apparently.

If you like Risk, you may like Warlight. I don't know, because I didn't play this one. I don't like Risk that much

I played that one for a while a few weeks ago. It's gets overly complicated really quickly.

I currently play Bubble Struggle 2. This is a very cool game but some of the levels are very difficult to complete.

Okay, this is clearly spam, and the game is terrible, but there doesn't seem to be anything really malicious about it.

Misslebreak Outvaders - retro video game mashup

I really like this one :-)

For a game that looks like it was designed by someone's grandmother, Drift is surprisingly fast-paced

All That Matters - An interesting and pretty fun puzzle game.

Kingdom Rush - I guess I'm a sucker for tower defense games. This one mixes in some RPG elements that make it pretty fun. It's also available on iOS devices (who needs those millions of Android users?) for a limited time 99 cent price. Definitely worth the buck.


Also, I keep playing that Jewelanche game I linked to earlier in this thread. For some reason I'm addicted to it. I guess I see why people get addicted to Bejeweled, though I think that game has more to do with luck and there's not much to it. I keep coming back to Jewelanche, though. Here's a fun challenge: try to get through all the levels without ever failing a level. You get unlimited retries, but where's the fun in that? I've gotten all the way through without failing a few times now. It's a good challenge

Just wasted 3 hours on Kingom Rush. Thanks for that :-)

Also got sucked back into Jewelanche...

Ah, then my mission is complete!

I think it's like a curse. If I don't get others to start wasting their time with silly online games, then I'm doomed to waste my time

Ah, who am I kidding? I was up until 2am last night being a completest on Kingdom Rush...

(me too... that large yeti that freezes your towers was a problem that required some time...)

A little tip in general that they don't seem to really indicate in the game: you get stars for beating the Hero and Iron challenge modes on each level. You get one additional star for each completed challenge, and upgrading your stuff is clearly essential. They certainly don't let you get too far ahead in the game for each progressive level, that's for sure...

In case anyone here hasn't seen it yet:

MariO - It's the original Super Mario Brothers, but reimagined to give Mario a Portal gun!

New York Shark - ...is insane.

Woohoo, this is sooooo stupid and over the top, but soooo much fun!

I'm still grinning inanely.

For those keeping their rigs flash-free: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ITBmTdYds

The Love Letter - Simple, cute, won't waste a lot of time. A light Friday time waster