A roundup of the best games in your browser
The browser gaming scene's greatest strength is its variety. The last month alone has seen enough wildly different browser titles released to rival the diversity of a year of console game launches. The End, Tanooky Tracks and Wonderputt are all free to play and run in an ordinary web browser, but what they offer as short portions of escapism is brilliantly diverse.
Tanooky Tracks by Coolbuddy features a striking interactive painting of a house that has woven into its brushstrokes a mystery about several spirits haunting the building. This charming game presents a wealth of cryptic evidence that helps you oust the mischievous residents like a physic detective and is as visually bewitching as it is engrossing.
Wonderputt, meanwhile, is a strangely captivating pitch-and-putt golf game. Set on a small world just one screen in size, Wonderputt is something of a piñata of a video game, which can be prodded and poked into revealing exquisitely animated, hidden marvels. Made by dampgnat, it unfolds like an elaborate pop-up book.
Finally, there's The End, a game about death conceived to encourage young adults to ponder mortality, fear and notions of fate through the choices they make while playing. Made by the talented team at Preloaded, The End serves as a thought-provoking piece of interactive philosophy; it also happens to be a very fine game packed with good ideas and tight design.
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/04/tanooky-tracks-wonderputt-end-review
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