What are the best browser-based multiplayer games?

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Best browser-based multiplayer games	Price	Steam Rating	Genre
94 Town of Salem	$4.99	Very Positive	-
92 Realm of the Mad God	Free	Very Positive	Bullet Hell MMO
-- Freeciv [Free]	-	-	-
-- Tribal Wars	-	-	-
-- GTA San Andreas	$6.99	-	Open world sandbox

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Realm of the Mad God

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Easy to learn, hard to master

The game is built with 8-bit retro style in mind. Such design choices made the game feel and look simplistic, and not overwhelming right from the start. The game is simple to pick up with a helpful tutorial aiding you at the beginning of the game. A few minutes in you will find yourself accustomed to controls, interface and the abilities of your character. If you play for a while, you will encounter more dangerous enemies that will force you to flee and to face them once again until you are able to fight against them properly. See More

Top Con

Pay-2-Win

The game uses "Coins" as a currency to purchase both cosmetic and fundamental items to the gameplay. Coins cannot be earned and are only obtained through real-world money. Although you can grind your way to all of the items without paying, it will be harder and will take longer than paying a few bucks for one of the best items in the game. This can be felt when you have to pay to not run out of vault space (permanent storage for your items) or have another character slot without sacrificing your initial character. Moreover, in the Nexus (game's town safe area) you can buy one of the strongest items in the game. A prime example of this would be maximizing pet skills which help you in combat. It takes months taking skills to the maximum level, if you are not willing to spend any money. On the other hand, if you pay a significant amount of money, it will take you less than a day. See More

KnowledgeableKhepri's Experience

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Steam Rating:Very Positive

Genre:Bullet Hell MMO

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Fast-paced combat

With a spell and a weapon equipped you aim and shoot at enemies and dodge their incoming projectiles. Sounds simple, but it is not when you have over 100 different missiles coming at you. This is the essence of Realm of the Mad God (RotMG). You are supposed to evade enemy attacks and strike back yourself to countless numbers of enemies. Just as when you feel that you have beaten the last enemy, another one starts firing at you. All of this comes varied as different enemies, have different attack patterns, projectile speeds and intricacies to them. See More

Top Con

Sometimes lags

There are various issues that can cause lag within the game. For some tips in dealing with it you can read here. See More

Top Pro

Huge fights

Realm of the Mad God features massive fights that occur between players and Oryx's minions. Some of the most exciting and terrifying enemies are not beatable alone and it requires co-operation between the players. As a result, you will see yourself teaming up with other 85+ strangers and trying to beat the boss. See More

Top Con

Glitches back to the main screen

During massive brawls, where there are a lot of enemies and other players, the game starts lagging and glitching. Worst case scenario, the players are sent back to the login screens. See More

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Permadeath

Permadeath is what adds spice to this game that makes it what it is. If you die, you lose your beloved character and all the items you had with you. You start over again. This is what draws you in to play more as you want to get back where you were. See More

Top Con

Repetitive

In order to take your character's skills to the highest levels or obtain strongest items in the game, it will require grinding. Grinding means doing the same thing over and over again to gain something of value. This is where repetition comes in. Usually, this is felt when players are trying to make their characters strong enough to compete with end-game content (strongest bosses). This requires maximizing the skills and obtaining items which sometimes could take a while. For instance, the chances of getting one of the strongest bows in the game "Doom Bow" is 1%. See More

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Variety

The game offers multiple settings, hundreds of different items and monsters. Over a dozen of different classes with different powers, abilities, perks and playstyles are available to try out. See More

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26 Other Games Considered

Freeciv [Free]

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Free, open-source & does not require a plugin

If your browser supports HTML5, just go to play.freeciv.org to start playing. See More

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Intelligent AI

Even on lowest difficulty, Artificial Intelligence of Freeciv will give you a run for your money. See More

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Excellent depth

In Freeciv you have to take into consideration terrain, resources, cities, economy, units, combat, diplomacy, governments, technology, wonders and many other things both for your and all competing civilizations. See More

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Observe public games

You can observe public games currently being played and even take control of an AI civilization to jump into the fight. See More

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Tribal Wars

Top Con

Pay to win

This game used to be great but now it's a cash sink. See More

Top Pro

Time management and diplomacy based gameplay

Tribal Wars requires making long-term decisions and choosing allies carefully. Decisions made will often show results many days later and to conquer the world you'll need to make smart allegiances to create powerful tribes. See More

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Longstanding, active community

Tribal Wars started back in 2003 as one of the first free-to-play games, yet still has an active and very vocal community that inhabit over 50 servers. See More

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Mobile support

In addition to being able to play in a browser, there are apps for iOS and Android. See More

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GTA San Andreas

Genre:Open world sandbox

Co-Op:None

Controller Support:HID

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Agar.io

Top Con

Random respawns can lead to instant death

The game often sees players respawn right next to a large enemy which leads to them instantly dying, this can be frustrating when it happens a lot to a player. See More

Top Pro

Fun and addictive

The mechanics of navigating the screen area aren't all that easy to understand, so it's as much about figuring out the limitations of the board as it is about running away from the big guy. See More

Great Hero J's Experience

Ever since the Miniclip acquisition the game has become freemium See More

Top Con

Frustrating gameplay

It can be frustrating when you get really big and get eaten by someone either when they pop you with a virus or are just even bigger than you are. See More

Top Pro

Players can customize their cell

For those that register for the game they can customize their cell in order to have specific words or even use pictures. This allows one to stand out in the game and other players may take notice if you are often playing. See More

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Deep gameplay

While looking overly simplistic there is a good bit of strategy to the game as players can split their cell in order to confuse or surprise attack foes as well as spit out excess cells in order to change ones size. See More

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Everybody Edits

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Delightfully cruel

Levels can be changed on the fly in the most frustrating ways possible (disappearing floors, changed goals, altered layouts, etc) while you alongside other people are trying to reach the end. See More

Top Con

Very few players

Everybody Edits is dying. See More

EmpatheticKuiXing's Experience

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Design your own levels live

As the name of the game implies you are given the possibility of editing. You can start with something already made and make it your own or build something from scratch. And you can do it all in real time, while you and others are running around in the game. See More

Top Con

Requires flash

Needs Flash in your browser. See More

DecisiveHecate's Experience

Had a hard Time with Trial and Terror but still a good game. See More

Top Pro

Very Challenging

They frustrate you, but if you can handle it, you are rewarded. See More

Taco Bell's Experience

Have been playing this game for quite the while and still love it. Lots of customization to let you build music levels, technical levels, story levels, auto levels, zombies levels, art levels. The only limit is your imagination and time See More

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King of towers

Top Con

Loads slow

skribbl.io

Top Pro

Fun with friends

Can be very funny with friends, and even funnier if they suck at drawing. See More

PONGIS

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Fun

Super fun to play. See More

ProudLemminkainen's Experience

Your Pongi will follow you wherever you tap on the screen. Double tapping will make your Pongi run faster. You can also swipe to move – your Pongi will go wherever you place your finger on the screen. You can pick to play with a team of your choice. Pick any English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, or Portuguese team. You can also choose one of 25 country teams and play your own little World Cup. With every match you play you earn Pongicoins that you can use to play with higher ranking teams. You earn 1 Pongicoin for each goal you score. You get 3 Pongicoins for match victories, 1 Pongicoin for draws, and 1 additional Pongicoin for each completed match. See More

WittyEnyo's Experience

Very sweet!!!! See More

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Dead Frontier [F2P]

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Survive the Post-Apocalyptic horror your way

You are left to survive in a world taken over by the living dead. With a plethora of weapons, armor, and skills, take to the streets of the undead nightmare with your own choice of fighting whether it be rifles, machine guns, or even a nice, sharp object. Player run economies allow you to trade for the weapons/armor, medical items, and food you'll need. Of course, you could just loot your food, meds, (and if you're lucky) weapons/armor. See More

Top Con

Difficult if you don't know what you're doing

This game has RPG stat elements via leveling up. Your play style and how much you're planning to play this game dictates your stats. If you mess up your stats in the beginning, you'll have a much harder time down the line. Try googling "The Ultimate Dead Frontier Guide" online for a general idea of how to build your character. See More

Top Pro

Stable

Works reliably and has almost no bugs. See More

Top Con

Lag (on occasion)

Can lead to unfortunate circumstances like disconnection from multiplayer to single player mode during heated situations, enemies may not register hits, etc. This is especially dangerous when you're looting inside buildings in closed spaces. See More

Top Pro

PvP

You can fight other players in an arena or boast your true player killing skills in the Inner City itself. See More

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Jump in and play multiplayer

All players can be in the same world. Just set your 'instance' to a player and you can form a multiplayer group without a queue. Hunt zombie bosses, finish missions, loot, or just kill hordes on the fly. See More

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Chi Land

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Free

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Town of Salem

Top Pro

Fun bluffing based gameplay

The main aspect of the game is that you never know if anyone is lying to you at any particular time. This also goes for the player as well, as you can lie to anyone anytime. Which makes for quite the guessing game that asks of the player to use their deduction skills. When doing this with large groups and especially groups of friends this can make for a fun time trying to figure out who is doing what in the game. See More

Top Con

A lot of renegades

There are players that like going on their own and killing innocent people without any clue or strategy. See More

Vali Barna's Experience

If you want to feel relaxed for just 3 minutes,then play this game.Go ahead. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Top Pro

Dedicated player base

Tons of people are playing Town of Salem and its different game modes, so you won't have a problem finding people to play with. See More

Top Con

Uses Adobe Flash

Most browsers are starting to deprecate Flash as a plugin, (unless you have a browser like Google Chrome, which uses its own fork of Flash) you won't be able to play this game without having to purchase it on Steam. See More

Top Pro

The game keeps you playing, it's actually original

You can't find a game where you are this involved with other players anywhere else on the internet. See More

Top Con

Gamethrowing

Sometimes, players act against their goals to win. For example, a member of the Mafia may end up purposefully revealing the whole Mafia. At that point the game is practically over. Luckily, you can report people who are gamethrowing within the game itself. See More

Top Con

High learning curve

It may be best to read up on this game and familiarize oneself to the rules and mechanics as well as common abbreviations. One particular aspect to learn about would be the 29 different roles found in the game, as you may be any one of them at the beginning of a game. See More

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The 2 must play gamesWhy?

My Recommendation for Town of Salem

My Recommendation for Town of Salem

Fun bluffing based gameplay

A lot of renegades

Dedicated player base

Uses Adobe Flash

The game keeps you playing, it's actually original

Gamethrowing

High learning curve

My Recommendation for Realm of the Mad God

My Recommendation for Realm of the Mad God

Easy to learn, hard to master

Pay-2-Win

Fast-paced combat

Sometimes lags

Huge fights

Glitches back to the main screen

Permadeath

Repetitive

Variety

26 Other Games Considered

My Recommendation for Freeciv [Free]

My Recommendation for Freeciv [Free]

Free, open-source & does not require a plugin

Intelligent AI

Excellent depth

Observe public games

My Recommendation for Tribal Wars

My Recommendation for Tribal Wars

Pay to win

Time management and diplomacy based gameplay

Longstanding, active community

Mobile support

My Recommendation for GTA San Andreas

My Recommendation for GTA San Andreas

My Recommendation for Slither.io

My Recommendation for Slither.io

Not a lot to do other than eat, eat, eat

Simple to get into hard to master

Short game

My Recommendation for Transformice

My Recommendation for Transformice

Pure, hilarious chaos

Lots of puzzles

My Recommendation for Pokemon Global Showdown

My Recommendation for Pokemon Global Showdown

Fast gameplay

Steep learning curve

Strategy

My Recommendation for The Settlers Online [F2P]

My Recommendation for The Settlers Online [F2P]

Not truly F2P

Colorful design

Good depth

Great community

No plugin required

My Recommendation for The West

My Recommendation for The West

Big community

Many classes to choose from

Helpful and friendly players

Has too many quest telling the west

My Recommendation for Agar.io

My Recommendation for Agar.io

Random respawns can lead to instant death

Fun and addictive

Frustrating gameplay

Players can customize their cell

Deep gameplay

My Recommendation for Everybody Edits

My Recommendation for Everybody Edits

Delightfully cruel

Very few players

Design your own levels live

Requires flash

Very Challenging

My Recommendation for Candy Crush Saga

My Recommendation for Candy Crush Saga

Gets boring after a while