Hi I am looking for a **free ** game with simple mechanics, competitive and online is a plus. plus suggest games that don’t require steam, I don’t want to install that software

I used to play vanis.io but people spoiled it by playing in teams while I like playing solo, while other games of the genre (slither, agar, paper.io) couldn’t stick with them

I played mindustry, and wasted tens of hours, until I found out That I was playing campaigns without having unlocked enough research to beat the master, the game didn’t have the right mechanisms to orient me to the winnable campaigns, and I ended hating it for that.

I am a simple guy looking for a simple game to distress (not candy crush simple)

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Crawl stone soup is a classic style rogue like you can play in the browser. It has depths (that’s a pun you’ll see if you get far in it), but a minotaur berserker is pretty straight forward.

    There are tournaments every so often where you can compete with the community for high scores and winning different combinations. You can also play offline if you prefer. It’s single player aside from this aspect, and meeting computer controlled ghosts of other players.

  • pikasaurX4@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Super Auto Pets is simple and can be played for free in a browser. It’s a team building game that puts you against other players’ teams, so it’s competitive in that regard.

    If you like Pokémon and consider that simple enough, Pokemon Showdown is a free online battle simulator for competitive battles against other players. You can even do “random battles” that just instantly throw you into a match without requiring you to make your own team

    • erranto@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      I am not a gamer. very rarely game, and when I do, I use it to distress.

      I’ve seen it on my brothers laptop forcing updates at (almost) every system start-up, taking up more and more space, so I don’t want to clutter my PC with more stuff I don’t frequently use. or with a software that acts rogue on my pc. (I dislike auto-update) that I disabled them on windows even at a security cost.

  • Orbital@infosec.pubEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    Consider Chess. LiChess, the site I linked, is free with no ads. You can play on the website or in their mobile app. They will match you against players of comparable skill, so you shouldn’t get annihilated too often. Or you can play against the computer to practice.

  • QuietStorm@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    krunker.io is a fast based shooter game with alot of jumping that can be played in the browser.

    also have you considered mmorpgs? ill list some that are light? realm of the mad god. runescape/old school runescape. albion online tibia

    yeah those are the only lightweight ones i know about that dont take up too much space…