It’s a little different today but I though it would be fun, the only real “game” that you can play in your browser is the first one. The 9 other a game you play with friend using sms or any chatting service (like whatsapp)

Text and Drive: Friendship Never Dies

Text and Drive: Friendship Never Dies is a game all about texting while driving. You control both the car and your texting via the mouse, and your phone takes up half the screen, making it far more difficult to see what the heck you’re doing.

Try the trial, it’s a quick play and the end is pretty weird 🙂

Try it : Text and Drive: Friendship Never Dies

9 games of actual texting while you are not driving.

Kiss, Marry, Kill

You’ve probably played this game before. Each of you pick three people, and have to decide which one they would kiss, which one they would marry, and which one they would kill. Don’t do them a favor by giving them an easy set of choices. Make sure you either give them all excellent people, or all people you know they can’t stand. A good exemple I like to do is a Game of throne one: Who would you Kiss, Marry, Kill ? Dany, Margery & Sansa.

Story Time!

So you want to write a novel, but just can’t seem to get it down? Well with this game, you and your friend can make up an original story together, one word at a time. That how Shakespeare would have done it if he lived in our modern time.

Take it in turns to text each other words in order to compose an original story. For example, you might text the word, “The.” Your friend might then text, “dog.” You in return might type, “ate” and so on until you have a complete story! You might even spice it up a little by choosing characters familiar to both of you, like friends, teachers and professors.

Alternate: One line story

It’s time to create a crazy story one line at a time. You’ll text your friend the first line of the tale, then they’ll text you the second, and it’ll go on and on. You can create your own characters, or you can try to create a new episode of your favorite TV show. It’s all up to you two.

Would you rather?

This is a classic among my friend, give your friend two different options and see what they’d rather do. Would they rather be kill by lightning or fall of a bridge? Would they rather have the super power of invisibility or telepathy? It’s might seem juvenile but it’s a lot fun. You can be as ridiculous as you want, which keeps things interesting.

20 Questions

This classic bar game can easily be played as a text game and is a great way to exercise the brain. If you ever played Guess Who? you’ll get how it’s work pretty quickly.

Take it in turns to think of a famous person who can be either dead or alive. The other person can then text up to 20 Yes/No questions to determine who this person is. For example, “Is this person alive?” “Is this person a film star?” “Is this person a man?” and so on. If the questioner manages to guess the person with just twenty questions, they win!

Truth or Dare!

This age-old game can be highly enjoyable when played over text as you might find that you and your friend are less shy to reveal “truths” when not talking face-to-face. In addition, the camera function on your phone can reveal pictorial evidence of “dares.”

Text your friend the question, “Truth or Dare?” He or she can then reply with their choice. If the answer is “truth,” then simply text your truth question to him or her and await their reply! If the answer is “dare,” then text your dare to your friend and await photographic evidence of your friend performing the dare!

Song lyrics

Text your friend a song lyric, and see if they can remember who sings it and what it’s called. You can do the reverse and ask them the lyrics of a song too.

Unfortunately now with a Smartphone, it’s easy for them to cheat. If you don’t trust your friend, then you’re better off sticking to another game that doesn’t involve honesty.

Movie Quotes

Test your knowledge of movies, both current and past.

Simply take it in turns to text movie quotes to your partner awarding a point for the correct movie, a point for the correct character, and a point for guessing the correct actor. Like the song lyrics one, googling my ruin your fun so make it a rules or skip that game if you don’t trust your friends.

You can add bonus point when your friend guess the movies and the character or the actor who said it.

Famous First Lines

This game is superb for book worms, and is not just fun but educational too. However, even if you are a serious bibliophile, you might need to do some research first.

You and your friend should prepare a list of famous first lines from classic literature (Classic literature usually works best unless you and your friend share an interest in the same kind of books.) Take it in turns to text your quotes to each other. You can then award each other one point for guessing the correct book and a further point for guessing the correct author.

Pick up your phone and contact one of your buddies. They’re probably as bored as you are, so it’s your chance to save the day. Do you and your friends have any other fun texting games to play?

Take no prisoners!

Kill the crew of 20 ships by sector 6 in the Mantis Cruiser.

This one is probably the easiest achievements to get. You need to kill the entire enemy crew of each ship to be killed and leaves the enemy ship intact. Destroying to ship with crew inside doesn’t count.

"By sector 6" means the crews have to be killed by the end of the sixth sector, not by the beginning of it.

Avast, ye scurvy dogs! 

Kill 5 enemy crew in a fight without taking hull damage or losing a crew member while using the Mantis Cruiser.

The easiest way to do that achievement in when you encounter a ship with Clone Bay system. Disable their weapon or if you have enough shield to prevent them from doing you damage. Board the ship and kill everyone with your mantis. wait for them to re-spawn and kill them until you get the 5 kill.

Another way to get that achievement it’s when people board you at the same time you are attack by a ship event though there no teleport on the ship. Finish the boarder then board the ship. If you’re lucky like me there will be 3 boarder and 2 on the ship.

Besides a fight against an enemy ship, this achievement can be won from a shipless boarding event with five or more attackers.

Note that Boarding and Anti-Personnel drones can be used to help unlock this achievement.

Battle Royale 

While using the Mantis Cruiser, kill the last enemy with your last crew member on their ship.

This is the hardest of the three mantis achievement to get. I manage to get it with the layout B. I’ve sent my 2 mantis while fighting a nearby sun (not recommended) and their crew was harm by the fire, but one of my mantis had fallen in combat, the other one manage to kill the last one while having just a few hp left.

Note that this achievement can be unlocked with the assistance of a Boarding drone, has long it doesn’t get the kill. The final blow must be dealt by the crew member sent to board the enemy ship.

You can cheat to achieve this one. In the first sector board an enemy ship and kill all the crew except one and bring the last crew to almost no health, then teleport back your crew back. Then you put one sole crew member in the teleporter and kill your other crew members with asphyxiation. Finish the last enemy off with your remaining crew member.

Faif

Faif an is a battle puzzle game with an element of luck in it. You need to select 5 tiles in a row and then the game will selects randomly one of the selected tiles. Each tile have different effect and the tile you selected can have a effect on the tile you end up with. Heart heal you 1 life, skull make you lose 1 life, gem give you 1 gem for each gem selected (so 5 gems selected =+5 gems), sword will hurt your opponent the amount of skull you selected (so if you select 3 sword and 2 skull you will deal 2 damages to your opponent if you get a sword but loss 1 life if you get the skull.

Faif is available to play now on your browser at Beavl’s site. The Android version can also be downloaded from Google Play for a pre-release discounted price of $0.99.

Related: Browser Pick: Faif

Swap

Swap is a puzzle game winner from the GitHub Game Off. Swap is not the average puzzle where you have all the time in the world to think, some of the levels require fast thinking, coordination, and good reflexes.

At any given time, you control a blue circle. You can move it using the arrow keys, and if there are two or more blue circles, you can swap between them by pressing the space bar. Your goal is to get one of the blue circles to the green square while avoiding red ones. Squares of other colors have different properties that you learn to deal with as you go through the levels. Sometimes the controllable blue circles have special properties which can only be uncovered by playing the game.

Play Swap

Related: Swap

Chesskoban

Two classic finally meet, Sokoban and Chess come together to create Chesskoban. Sokoban (倉庫番 sōkoban^?, warehouse keeper) is a type of transport puzzle, in which the player pushes boxes or crates around in a warehouse, trying to get them to storage locations. When you integrate it with chess you get to push around box with your chess piece and solve the puzzle. Like in chess each piece move differently and that mean it push the box differently too, which can give so really mind blowing puzzle. Give it a try it’s actually quite fun.

Play it here

Related: Chesskoban 

One Tap Quest

Shimage’s One Tap Quest is a small role-playing game based on the idea of using just one mouse click to play an entire adventure. Don’t expect much of this game, the only action you do is a click of your mouse and your character will move forward grabbing all the items and attacking all the enemies in is path. Enemies might kill you if you are not strong enough, so “plan“ to beat some lower level monster first to gain some level. Some item give level (sword and shield) extra brother in arms (beer). Once you manage to pass the level you are confront with the boss, an evil mage. You can only beat him if you manage to be level 10. 

Play One Tap Quest

Related: Browser Pick: One Tap Quest (shimage)

The Mantis Cruiser follow the same theme has the race that designed it, an efficient boarding ship (specially the layout B and C with 4 boarder teleport) that tend to lack fire power at the beginning. Unmanned ship might be a problem, but remember that with a level 2 teleport the teleport will be up just in time before your border die of asphyxia.

Layout A

Unlock

See Legendary Thief KazaaakplethKilik random event.

Alternatively, defeat The Rebel Flagship with the Zoltan Cruiser.

• Default name: The Gila Monster
• Starting Crew: 3 Mantis, 1 Engi
• Starting Augmentation:
  • Mantis Pheromones
• Starting Weapons:
  • Small Bomb
  • Basic Laser
• Starting Resources:
  • 16 Fuel
  • 16 Missiles
  • 0 Drone parts
• Slots: 3 Weapon, 2 Drone (requires system)
• Two man crew teleporter

The Mantis Cruiser layout An is one of the few ships that have no starting Sensors on board, which can be annoying when boarding since you don’t see what is in the other ship. You can buy a Sensor system in a store or try to grab a slug crew since they detect life form that are on the other ship.

This ship is quite a force to recon with, 3 mantis with a teleporter at the beginnings make taking out most ship with boarding easy for the first few sector, giving you extra scrap to later buy weapon to compliment this ship strength. AI ship can be take out with a small bomb on the shield and basic laser to finish the job, Zoltan supershield can be taken down by the basic laser and then precede has normal.

The small bomb can be quite useful to take out the med bay, clonebay or piloting if they are trying to run. In other case weapon are a great target since it will prevent the enemies from damaging you.

Most bombs are great addition to this ship, ion weapon too to take down annoying subsystem. You can good offensive weapon in case you’re face with rebel trying to run away, AI ship with too much shield. Drone can be a great add too to minimize damage to your ship via defense drone or to send boarding drone with your boarding crew. Mind control can be cool too, adding an extra crew fighting for you, hacking can be useful too, disable weapon or hack the med bay which will reverse the effect of the medbay.

Layout B

Unlock

Earning two of the three Mantis Cruiser achievements will unlock Layout B.

• Default Name: The Basilisk
• Starting Crew: 2 Mantis
• Starting Augmentation:
  • Mantis Pheromones
• Starting Drones:
  • Boarding Drone
  • Defense Drone I
• Starting Resources:
  • 16 Fuel
  • 0 Missiles
  • 15 Drone parts
• Slots: 3 Weapon, 2 Drone
• Four man crew teleporter

This ship start with something really awesome, a four man crew teleporter. once you get enough member you can board a whole ship with 4 crew.

Early game : This ship start with 2 shields and a defense drone, but has no weapon, the piloting and engines only have one bar. It’s unlikely that many enemies early on will be able to pierce your shield and you can always pop a defense drone vs a ship with missiles weapon. The main issues are AI ship and zoltan-shielded ship. Taking AI ship them on with boarding drones are impractical and not worth it early on, unless it is the AI variant with doors linking the 5 rooms. However you can get the teleport level 2 and jump your crew on the ship, the teleporter should recharge before your crew health is down to 0. Repeat until the ship has one bar and send the boarding drone then. AI system will slowly repair and your drone will takes them down and give the final blow. For Zoltan sheild you really need to get weapon to remove the shield or use a zoltan shield bypass augment.

Mid-Late game: You should rise your engine and piloting, grab some decent crew, mantis and rock for the teleporter and other to man your ship. Bomb are a nice addition to suppress weapon or med bay that can cause trouble, have a least some weapon that can takes care of the zoltan shield and to finish those AI ship without sending a boarding drone. Reconstructive teleport and shield bypass augment can really make your boarding crew your ultimate weapon. Just don’t forget your 4 crew members on a fleeing ship or shoot them with your cannons.

Layout C

Unlock

Reaching Sector 8 with the Mantis Cruiser B and Advanced Edition Content enabled will unlock layout C.

• Default Name: The Theseus
• Starting Crew: 1 Engi, 1 Mantis, 1Lanius
• Starting Augmentation:
  • Mantis Pheromones
• Starting Weapons:
  • Lock Bomb
  • Stun Bomb
• Starting Resources:
  • 16 Fuel
  • 20 Missiles
  • 0 Drone parts
• Slots: 3 Weapon, 2 Drone (requires system)
• Four man crew teleporter
• Clone Bay

Another Mantis ship with a four man teleporter, the main difference here is you have a clone bay instead of a medbay, some weapon, a Lanius in your crew and only one shield.

Like the layout B you might have some problem early game with A.I. Ships and ship with assault drone (anti-ship & beam drone). I particularly had problems with ship with ion + beam weapon or beam drone at the beginning.

Luckily your Lanius can board A.I. Ships without a problem and slowly destroy their system. Once the A.I. Ships is destroy your Lanius will be reconstructed in the clone bay. Lanius are excellent boarder, you can wait for your lock bomb & stun bomb to charge then send the lanius in the oxygen room and lock him there alone. By the time the lock is done your Lanius will have emptied the room of oxygen and most crew will be 2 stupid to go fight him. Once the oxygen is out, each room you walk in will be emptied of oxygen forcing them to die of slow death. You can stun them once they are in a room without oxygen to force them to die of asphyxia. This ships will have problems against Zoltan Shields if you don’t get Zoltan Shield Bypass or some weapon to destroy it. Another notable augment to have Reconstructive Teleport & backup DNA, especially Reconstructive Teleport with a clone bay.

Who doesn’t love pirates, they roam the sea in search of adventures and treasures, they fight ship and steal merchants every thing you need for a good game. We are going to look a what cool pirates games are out there in the mobile market

Age of Booty Tactics (iOs)

If you played Age of Booty on steam you will be very happy to know there a new version on iOs. Age of Booty: Tactics is free to play and only playable in two separate options of turn-based multiplayer: you can either go the traditional asynchronous way and submit a turn and want for your opponent to make their move, or you can play with a local friend on a shared device using a pass-and-play interface. Victory will earns you a pile of booty which you can use to upgrade your fleet and buy upgrades.

Play it it’s free: Age of Booty: Tactics – Certain Affinity

Official site: http://www.ageofbooty.com/

Related: Multiplayer piratical RTS Age of Booty Tactics

Bouncy Pirates (iOs)

Bouncy Pirates is an adorable arcade game where you need to juggle pirates from there ship to a island to help them steal treasure from a chest.

They’re launched from your ship by shooting them with the cannon You then tap the barrels floating in the sea at the right time to jump them around up to to the island where the treasure lies. Once they reach the treasure chest you need to bounce them back to your ship until the treasure is empty.

pretty easy game at the beginning with one pirate but its get harder the more pirates jump off you ship. Give it a try it’s free 🙂

Play it it’s free : Bouncy Pirates – Nathan Malville

Related: Bouncy Pirate

Bird of Prey

Destroy a ship at full health during a single cloak in the Stealth Cruiser.

To earn this achievement, the ship must remain cloaked from the start of the volley until the battle is over and the after-battle text pops up.

This achievement is easier to get done in the first two sectors on the easy difficulty with a level 2 cloak (that is due to the 5-hull points drones only appearing on this difficulty). Charge the weapon, cloak and fire lasers and align the beam to cross the pilot room (and the ones beside it). When I managed to do it I had the Weapon  pre-igniter, Pegasus missile, flask and dual laser. Cloak when starting the fight, launch the Pegasus on the shield and then aim the pilot with dual laser and flask (or a large room with the flask). Level three cloak should enable the dual laser to charge again before the cloaking end. You can probably do the same thing I did with the glaive beam remember if it did not work it’s maybe that the cloak finished before the after-battle text pops up.

Note: Anti-Ship drones can be used to help unlock this achievement too. 

Phase Shift

In the Stealth Cruiser, avoid 9 points of damage during a single cloak.

You can manage to get this achievement can be while fighting the Rebel Flagship’s third form.  Simply cloak during the Power Surge attack, which should deal out more than nine damage.

It is also possible to unlock in an asteroid field, if you can stay cloaked long enough.

Tactical Approach

In the Stealth Cruiser, get to sector 8 without jumping to a beacon with an environmental danger.

This achievement is the third but is actually the easiest to earn as long you keep the Long-Range Scanners augmentation and are a bit lucky. Note that Neither Rebel-Controlled beacons nor Nebulae nor Anti-Ship Batteries count as environmental hazards, but Plasma Storms, Asteroid Fields, Red-Giant Stars and Pulsars do.

Sometimes due to beacon placement you will be force to go to an environmental hazard if there is no alternate route.

Why not to lobby your farms ?

You shouldn’t lobby your farms. Not that you should lobby somebody elses farm, your league probably have rules against that. What I mean is that if a city produces enough to make it worthwhile for you to plunder (everything fully built with 2 oases), then lobbying it to make it your city will not give you any increase in your resource production. All you will be doing is trading in a farm for another sub-city that you have to manage. A better alternative that will increase your production is to find a city that is too small and undeveloped to farm but is an ideal location – a 9c/15c with 2 50% Grain in the 7×7. This way you get a new city without losing a productive farm.

How to find the growth rate of your farm ?

To find out the hourly resource production of a city, send an attack large enough to plunder all of the resources (battle efficiency 98% or less). After you deploy this attack immediately send out a small one from the same city. Click Scheduled Deployment; add 1 hour to the current time, then select OK. The amount of plundered between attacks will be equal to the hourly production of the city. This can be used to see how much a sub-city produces and if it is worth lobbying (a 15c sub-city making 10k+ food is not going to improve much when lobbied). You can also use this to estimate the resource field levels of a Main city. I have seen too many players take an oasis off of a Main city farm, resulting in lower total food production. A 6c Main only needs level 13 farmlands to produce the same amount of food as a 15c sub-city. Taking a 50% oasis off of a 6c with level 15 farmlands equals -3,600 food/h for that city. Make sure you get a production increase with every action.

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The stealth cruiser is a pretty fun ship to play with. While it lack shield its start with cloaking to compensate and if you manage it well it can have devastating effect. You can always buy the shield at a shop for 125 scrap.

Layout A

Unlock:

Defeat the right rebel in the Engi Fleet Discussion random event and head to the final quest marker and defeat the Mantis ship. The engi will deliver you the tech to build a new ship and unlock the stealth cruiser. For more info see the Engi Fleet Discussion random event.

Alternatively, if you defeat The Rebel Flagship with the Rock Cruiser that ship will be unlock.

• Default name: The Nesasio
• Starting Crew: 3 Human
• Starting Augmentations:
  • Titanium System Casing
  • Long-Ranged Scanners
• Starting Weapons:
  • Mini Beam
  • Dual Lasers
• Starting Resources:
  • 16 Fuel
  • 0 Missiles
  • 0 Drone parts
• Slots: 3 Weapon, 2 Drone (requires system)
• Cloaking system

I had a hard time figuring out this ship when I started. When you look closely this ship is all about timing. The lack of shield force you to be imaginative with your cloak and you weapon shots must be timed to maximum efficiency. When encountering a enemies. Either cloak right away to let your weapon charge or wait for him to shoot and at that exact moment cloak to dodge the shoot. With the dual beam take down the shield and let you mini beam either disable the weapon or drone. Upgrade you should try to get are the shield (sold in some stores for 125 scrap), a weapon to take down shield/weapon (bomb or missile) and upgrade cloak.

Layout B

Unlock:  Unlock that ship by earning two of the three stealth cruiser achievements.

• Default name: DA-SR 12
• Starting Crew: 2 Human, 1 Zoltan
• Starting Augmentation:
  • Long-Range Scanners
• Starting Weapon:
  • Glaive Beam
• Starting Resources:
  • 16 Fuel
  • 0 Missiles
  • 0 Drone parts
• Slots: 3 Weapon, 2 Drone (requires system)
• Cloaking system

This layout is super hard at the beginning, no shield, probably the best weapon in the game but it takes 25 second to charge and if your weapon system is hit it will completely discharges leaving you completely vulnerable (you basically have to run or you’re dead at that point). Drone are specially a problem, the beam drone is the worst it will tear your ship apart while you are try to charge your beam. Once the Glaive Beam is charge you will probably tear down most ship in the first 3-4 sector. It can do 9-15 damage (3 damage per room × 3-5 rooms) in a single shot (depending on the enemy ship layout) and has a good chance of lighting enemy rooms on fire. For the first few sector here what I did: first avoid asteroid field and probably ion storm too. When fighting other ship, hopefully they don’t have any anti-ship or beam drone, these can really be problematic. If they have boarder or drone (with anti-ship only) or hacking, it’s probably better to cloak right away. If they don’t have any of the 3 systems mention, wait for the first volley to be launch and cloak that should give enough time for the Glaive Beam to be completely charged and tear them apart.  Hacking can be very useful to drain the shield, if you can get the weapon pre-igniter do it , it will give you an insane advantage and probably help you stream through the game without much worry for the first sector.

Layout C

Unlock: Get to sector 8 with layout B.

• Default name: Simo-H
• Starting Crew: 1 Human, 1 Rockman, 1Slug
• Starting Augmentation:
  • Long-Range Scanners

• Starting Weapons:
  • Laser Charger (S) (special upgraded version, uses 1 less power, has .5 second cooldown reduction)
  • Mini Beam
• Starting Drones:
  • Shield Overcharger (special upgraded version, uses 1 less power)
  • Anti-Drone
• Starting Resources:
  • 16 Fuel
  • 0 Missiles
  • 16 Drone Part
• Clone Bay
• Slots: 3 Weapon, 3 Drone

That layout is actually really weird, there no shield likes the other Stealth Cruiser but there no cloak too. So what the point of this layout ? It as amore power efficient version of the Shield Overcharger, it’s also the only non-engi ship to possess a 3 space drone bay, giving greater versatility for Drones to be used, either defensively or offensively and finally it has a slightly improved version of the Laser Charger (S).

With this specialized Shield Overcharger and 2 Defense Drones Mark II (for a total of 6 power – the max) you could almost render a normal shield system useless – granting near-invulnerability to hacking, (non event) boarding, and a large number of projectiles, provided your drones are up as soon as battle starts and enemy weapon systems are targeted first. I would still try to grab the shield sub system since it’s doesn’t discharge when they attack you with beam weapon.

Cloaking it a great asset too, it can give you the time to put you drone up, let the Shield Overcharger  build up the super shield and let the Laser charger to charge.

As this build is so drone-heavy, acquire a Drone Recovery Arm – and your defences become free! It can easily be swapped out towards the end of the game (Sector 6+) when you should have stockpiled a large number of drones.