Lately I've been having a craving to play games, but nothing too high commitment like a massive RPG or anything since I've been pretty busy lately, so I've been playing some old flash games from my youth.
Unfortunately I've found a lot of them don't work, or have gated exclusive content to certain websites that don't even function properly anymore, but its nice when it works without hassle.
Right now I'm playing Epic War 1 and 2, Age of War, and recently finished up Sin Mark (suffers from the exclusive problem) and dropped Warlords because damn, its harder than I remembered, I must've went hard in beating that game as kid. Recently played The Last Stand 2 which was alright; wanted to play Gemcraft but way too much content was locked so I stopped.
Anyone got any great recommendations from the old days? (Or new ones too I guess, but the new ones I've seen so far look... off)
The Last Spell is low comitment and I had lots of fun with it. Feels like the most glorious Flash game possible, but it runs like a normal PC game ( a mid-range laptop without a dedicated graphic card will run it flawlessly ).
You hire a bunch of random adventurers to defend a town in a dying world devoured by magic corruption.
In the town center, mages are casting The Last Spell in an attempt to save whatever is left of humanity from getting devoured by magic. If they succeed, magic is purged from the area.
There are multiple areas you unlock in a light story that dosen't get in the way. The different towns have different layouts and last-night boss. Each night in a run, town is attacked. Each day you can build and shop with ressources you got.
Each "run" is anywhere from less than 15 minutes to over an hour depending on difficulty. It is normal to "lose". I think tou are supposed to lose at some point ( I did. Often. ) You gain stuff for metaprogression even if your town center casters ring gets killed.
Graphics are rather cool, music awesome, sound effects and skills very fun. The metaprogression is well done. You can costumize difficulty as you wish. You can stop and resume later at any moment.
Advice : You're there to have fun. Click the "Limitless" mode once it's unlocked. You earned those bonuses. Use all the ones you want. ( "Normal" mode only allowes a few bonuses at once. There is no penalty for picking Limitless. ).
You can costumize your team's cosmetics and skin color ( you don't have to simp for diversity in Medieval gore fantasy ).
Sail the seven seas if you want to try it without buying.