At Best browser games first, they were considered minor products of dubious quality. With the arrival of broadband, they were progressively improving until they reached the level of not having to envy anything to the titles for consoles. So grown up they are, that the video game with the most subscribers in history is one of them. What are the Best Browser Games? Here we leave you our list.

1. RuneScape

 

There are popular games and this one. Guinness record as the video game with the most subscribers, relegating the second place to the World of Warcraft itself. 200 million registered users since it is online (January 4, 2001). 16 years after its launch, it shows no signs of wear and tear: 10 million accounts remain active (90% of which are, according to their managers, of players who pay membership), 60,000 players online, with peaks of up to 120,000 gamers interacting at the same time.

It is an easy title to play. Do not memorize tricks or secret formulas. Basic in its forms, “eternal” in terms of its development.

Tagged as a fantastic MMORPG, although it does not have a linear plot. RuneScape takes place in Gielinor, a magical universe divided into kingdoms, regions, and cities.

Guests have personalized avatars, with their own goals and objectives, with which they travel their entire world on foot or through teleportation spells. They devote themselves to agriculture or trade, they can live in peace and harmony, although it is inevitable that some conflicts will be generated that end in combats, either against monsters (PvE) or against other players (PvP).

This last option is given thanks to mini-tournaments that are staged in an area called El Desierto. Once each confrontation is over, the winner can demand that the defeated one give him gold coins or something else he wants, as a reward for his victory.

You can have a full life inside the servers of RuneScape and also enjoy all the possibilities that this title for browsers offers, without spending a Euro. But the advantages of getting a membership are remarkable.

In addition, member players can build houses, have access to new weapons and armor, much more storage space in the Bank (where objects and money are stored).

They also have no limits when it comes to personalizing their characters; they have free access to all game worlds, they can change the name of their character as many times as they want, they have no limitations when it comes to transporting land or water, they enjoy 10% discounts when buying in the store of the game and even enjoy greater quality in terms of graphics.

What a member player cannot do is enjoy his economic benefits if he decides to enter the servers of gamers who do not pay, since the matches would be very unbalanced.

To maintain the appeal of the game and to keep millions of users captive, developers guarantee new content each week, which includes new challenges.

Its creators, Jagex, a developer based in Cambridge, England ( Jagex is an acronym for Java Gaming Experts ), have been working on another Role Play for Navigators for years, but the success of RuneScape has absorbed them in such a way that they have not yet They have been able to finish it (not even that it does).

To support so many players from virtually all regions of the world, 169 servers (called “Worlds”) are located and operating in United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Low Countries, Sweden, Spain, Finland, Belgium, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, and New Zealand. Each of these supports up to 2,000 players simultaneously, giving a total of up to 338,000 gamers interacting at the same time.

Idea for Windows or Mac can also be played on computers under Linux, although there is no official support for these users. As for browsers, it works perfectly in Firefox and Internet Explorer. After multiple inconveniences with Google Chrome, the developers threw in the towel and can no longer be played on it.

2. Tribal Wars 2

The second item in our ranking with the best browser games is a project that was born as a hobby. Eike and Hendrik Klindworth, along with Michael Zillmer, for fun, published in 2003 a title that is part of the Massive Multiplayer Games of Strategy in Real Time: Tribal Wars. Two years later, unintentionally and without much effort, 50,000 registered users in Germany, the country from which they were born, we’re already reaping.

They landed where they had a gold mine in their hands and turned the hobby into a life project. In 2006 they published the international version (with which they jumped to the 200,000 users in the act) and in 2007 they founded of official way, InnoGames in Hamburg. The plan was for the new company to serve as support for the game.

Soon they also discovered that it was for much more, so while they were feeding the base project, they started developing other fun browser games: The West, an RPG set in the old west, winner of the best online browser games 2008; Grepolis, MMO strategy game, recognized as the best classic browser MMO in 2012; Forge of Empires : strategy title, recognized as the Best Browser Game 2013 by the German Computer Game Award; and Elvenar (the last two will be reviewed later).

In 2013, already with 34 million registered users only with Tribal Wars , 100 million added among all their titles, published on the occasion of the 10 years of the launch of their “Project Hobbie”, Tribal Wars 2 , title that keeps intact the spirit of its predecessor, but thought now, as a large-scale product.

Second parts that are good

The “plot” of the game is basically the same: the gamers who enter the universe of Tribal Wars 2, they have to found a town and make it grow as much as possible, to form a kingdom. Of course, to reach the maximum level (and build a reign) requires patience and persistence, as well as skills that go far beyond winning in PvP matches.

Among the first tasks that players must undertake are: recruit and train members of their army and fortify their castle to minimize vulnerability in case of attacks, which will surely happen.

Attacking is an essential part of the game. To triumph in Tribal Wars 2 , you must first adhere to a tribe, which means establishing pacts and negotiations with other players. You can fight alone, of course, but it’s more complicated.

In order to provide the necessary goods to support the population and the armies, it is necessary to plunder other towns and castles, as well as to appropriate the areas that are most suitable for the production of food.

The players of the superior levels of the game that by means of the war and establishing strategic alliances have been expanded enough, can be proclaimed like Kings. Likewise, these gamers can grant titles to their partners, such as Spymaster.

Each “real” title grants a series of unique abilities that are decisive for the development of the story.

Betrayal, as in any war, is another element that is always present, so no one can fall asleep on their laurels.

Better everything

At a visual level, Tribal Wars 2 gave a great leap of quality compared to the original version. With a very robust wallet and with the experience of 10 years and several games under his belt, InnoGames did not skimp on the sequel of the “Hobbie Project” to match any video game.

Within the gameplay of the game included, as one of the novelties, a Spy Mode to know what rival players plan. In addition, the participants also have a Strategic Map where they can follow in real time the movements of their troops, as well as discover the best areas for the production of resources.

Available to play in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera, its designers guarantee that the game will work well in any modern browser. And as an addition, you can also play on Android mobile devices that have operating system 4.0 or higher, and on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that have iOS 7.0 or higher.

3. Forge of Empires

Another title signed by the Germans of InnoGames, the multi-awarded Forge of Empires. This is a Real-Time Strategy Game for browsers that, like Tribal Wars 2, can also be played on Android and Apple mobile devices.

It officially debuted on April 19, 2012, since then more than 10 million users have registered.

The players have to found a village and make it grow into a large metropolis (also defend it from attacks by other players). But unlike Tribal Wars, here as you grow, you will be traveling to a New Age.

The gamers start from the Stone Age, to progressively go up to the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the High Middle Ages, Full Middle Ages, Low Middle Ages, the Colonial Age, the Industrial Age, the Age of Progress, The Age Modern, the Post Modern Age, the Contemporary Age, the Morning Age, the Age of the Future, the Age of the Arctic Future and the Age of the Oceanic Future.

From a villa to an Empire

To gain positions within the game, each participant must perform “technological investigations” and obtain results. At the same time, he must maintain the tribe of which he is a leader. To expand physically, they must also conquer new territories, so the fight plays an essential role in the development of this fantastic world.

The battles can be the traditional PvP or even PvE (in this case, the AI assumes the defense position). In the real-time matches between two players, whoever is victorious, can claim the defeated some valuables in compensation (later we will review what these are).

A player can only challenge another 1 time every 24 hours, to avoid imbalances and cruelty.

But the above is not all in terms of fighting: in one of the latest updates, a game mode called Brotherhoods Expedition was included. And is that players have the option to join these groups, with the purpose of exploring and conquer more domains, but now cooperatively.

The brotherhoods can face each other, giving rise to what the developers of Forge of Empires baptized as GvG (the G corresponds to Guild ), or what is the same: Brotherhood against Brotherhood. But these are not fought to control towns or cities, but to control areas and large tracts of land. The more areas that have a group under their control, the greater their power, status and prestige, parameters that serve as a reference for the elaboration of the Brotherhoods Ranking.

The gamers who want to be part of these associations can be attached and keep them through donations or fighting wars as a collective face.

Not all are combats: negotiation is also key to advance the game, allowing players or brotherhoods to reach agreements for mutual benefit.

The valuables of Forge of Empires

There are several items that serve to “finance” everything concerning the game. The first one is the Forge Points, a kind of vouchers that the game gives to the participants, with a frequency of one per hour. There are also coins, which are obtained through the construction of large buildings; supplements, necessary for the construction of buildings; medals, which are obtained by victories in PvP combat; goods, these vary according to the period in which the player is located. Some of them are gold, wine, and jewelry, among many others. Lastly: diamonds, which are the heaviest.

Participants can complete all their missions without spending a single Euro, although they can also speed up the process through microtransactions (some not so “micro”), investing in packages whose cost varies from 4.99 to 79 Euros (a package of 1000 diamonds).

Buildings

The buildings that make up the cities are classified as follows:

Residential: these give the city workers necessary for the production of goods and supplements, as well as to be part of the military force. They generate coins with the frequency of 1, 2 8 or every 24 hours. To build or expand them, coins and supplements are required. There are also Premium Residences, whose construction must be paid with Diamonds.

Assets: here they are produced from cookies to wines, passing through jewelry, gold, and textiles. The goods can be used to acquire new land or unlock technological advances.

Production: generate the necessary supplements for the construction of anything in the city.

Military: these are the buildings of defense and protection of the cities. They are also used as a training place for battle units.

Cultural: cultural activities give happiness to the inhabitants, which translates into an increase in the production of goods and supplements.

Decorative: these facilities also serve to raise the welfare of citizens, a value that significantly affects production.

Battle Units

To expand, like any empire, in addition to a skillful political management, it is also necessary to have an army that imposes by force those objectives that could not be achieved through diplomatic channels. For this purpose, the armies are divided according to the following classification:

Light units: they are balanced. They offer strength and versatility on any type of terrain. They have the same ability to attack as to defend.

Units at a distance: as the name implies, the more distanced they are from their attack target, the more lethal. However, they are extremely vulnerable and if the enemies get close enough to engage in melee combat, there is no way they can win.

Fast units: of excellent mobility, they can become undetectable by enemy forces.

Heavy units: ideal for defense strategies in large skirmishes.

Artillery: ideal for remote attacks. In fact, this is their only strong point. In everything else, they are the weakest of all the units.

Special events

Throughout the year, several special events take place within the game, according to traditional celebrations such as Halloween, Christmas, the change of seasons, the anniversary of the game, carnival, among others.

In short, Forge of Empires is a title that keeps its legion of followers happy and has not stopped growing since it began to “navigate”.

4. Drakensang Online

The next title of our ranking with the Best Online Browser Games takes us to Duria, a world very much in the style of Medieval Europe, where gamers must chase and hunt dragons.

Drakensang Online is the continuation of Drakensang: The Dark Eye and Drakensang: The River of Times, titles that were developed for Microsoft Windows by the Berlin-based Radon Labs. Shortly after the publication of these RPGs, and despite its success, the studio was declared bankrupt and was absorbed by Bigpoint , other Germans but from Hamburg, one of the world’s largest browser game developers, whose The shared package is divided by General Electric and NBC Universal. This is how in 2010 Bigpoint Berlin emerged and since August 11, 2011, one of the few MMORPG games produced in the European Union is online.

Diablo III?

Since its publication, the game has been repeatedly compared to the renowned role-playing game Diablo developed by Blizzard Entertainment. The visual aesthetics, elements of the plot and above all, the isometric perspective, are some of the points in common. And although the influence is quite obvious, Drakensang Online has made its own place, with more than 35 million registered users.

Written under the architecture of Open World, players can travel freely to the cities, dungeons and deserts that make up the world of Duria.

From the start, the participants have to select below which Class they are going to take part in the adventure:

Circle Wizards: characters that perform attacks based on the manipulation of the elements, plus, of course, multiple spells.

Warriors of the Dragon: specialists in close combat. They are the toughest and most vital characters in the game.

Hunters: with bows and arrows, lethal in long distance attacks.

Steam mechanics: with weapons that work with steam, performs deadly attacks.

Players can also choose whether to launch the campaign alone or as part of alliances or guilds, which marks a cooperative style of play.

Inside the game, gamers can communicate through a chat.

Drakensang Online: an easy-to-understand Premium, paused in its actions

Those players whose characteristic is the one to enter adventures of fast action and vertiginous, in which without respite must press the half of the buttons of the keyboard to survive, they will not feel too comfortable.

Although, if the progression is too slow, you have a virtual currency called Adermant, with which the characters can teleport from and to any point on the map, as well as acquire weapons and other useful objects.

These coins can be obtained as a reward after completing missions, defeating monsters, coming out victorious in PvP or rails organized by the sponsoring brands. The game, which works under the principle of Free to Play with microtransactions, also allows you to acquire them with “real” money, so that everything turns out even faster.

To ascend the level, the participants must kill monsters and complete the missions offered by the inhabitants of the different cities they visit.

Praised by critics and by most players, one of the aspects that stand out is its graphics and visual section, on a par with any title developed for consoles.

Winner in the category of Best Browser Game 2012, in the German Video Games Awards.

5. Farmerama

Another project advanced by BigPoint, specialists in video games for navigators based in Hamburg, Germany.

Farmerama is one of the many titles where players must sow and harvest, care for animals, make them grow, cut the weeds …

Each player starts with a small farm that must adapt to work properly. From there, they follow the tasks “of the field”. It is upgraded by overcoming missions and completing tasks, which gives access to increasingly strange animals.

Those who make life in this world, can be constituted as “neighbors” and thus help in the “everyday” tasks, this in exchange for extra points that can serve to level up or obtain gifts that can be of vital importance for growth within the game.

The gamers should go to the city to swap, sell or buy products produced and obtain the necessary supplements.

There is not much more to add, simply that it is one of the best browser games, with more than 30 million registered users in more than 30 languages.

6. Agar.io

It could not be missing from our list with the best online browser games, one that is called by some as “the game of the balls”. It is Agar.io, a project developed by the Brazilian Matheus Valadares.

According to the story told by Valadares, a veteran man in the world of video games, the conception and subsequent execution of the title did not take him too long. In fact, on April 25, 2015, through Reddit, the designer himself announced to the world that he was beginning to work on the project. On May 3, the Free to Play version was already online and on July 8, it was online. the versions for iOS and Android were launched on the market. The success was instantaneous. 10,000 million downloads on mobile devices in just one week.

Eat and get fat

Players begin their adventures within this Massive Action Video Game for Navigators as a small cell, with the goal of growing as much as possible, without other larger cells using it as food first. They must move at great speed throughout the map to eat different points of colors (Pellets), which are scattered randomly everywhere.

As the circumference of the player’s ball becomes wider, it can also take other players (other cells) of smaller size as food. But the larger the smaller the mobility, so it will be more difficult to “hunt”.

In addition to the cells and Pellets, on the map are also scattered Viruses, which unlike the other non-playable elements, get large cells to separate into multiple pieces. The small cells also serve as a hiding place to slip away from obese and gluttonous balls.

Players can divide their sphere at will, using the cursor for that purpose. This serves to remotely attack other players, to lose weight and to move faster within the map or to use small pieces as bait and catch unsuspecting.

One of the attractions of the game is that gamers can change the appearance of their cells through the Skins, which are different words or phrases for that purpose.

Mostly positive reviews, considered by many as highly addictive. Although it seems that already a sector of the public begins to tire, claiming that the game is extremely repetitive and slow.

Currently, Agair.io is ranked 1,987 in the Alexa Ranking. He came to sneak into the top 1,000.

7. DarkOrbit

We stop hunting cells and get obese to move to the outer space where DarkOrbit takes place, another title with the German label of BigPoint.

Players must take command of a spaceship to fight against alien races (NPCs) and also against other gamers, in what could be cataloged as fighting ship Vs ship in real time.

From the outset, participants must select which company they will adhere to (these are the equivalents of traditional factions), each with a particular way of doing things and their own philosophy, in addition to a growing shared enmity. These companies are:

MMO: to the force and only to the force is as they impose their objectives.

Earth Industries Corporation (EIC): money buys everything, and they have the financial muscle to get what they want.

Venus Resources Unlimited (VRU): enemies are defeated with cunning and elegance.

“Liberator” to start

10 ships are available to players to face this space adventure. They must compulsorily, at the beginning of the game, pilot a Liberator, only for free and that has the disadvantage of being little resistant to any attack.

The other ships, which players can buy with virtual money as their advances within this universe allow, are: Phoenix, Piranha, Leonov, Bigboy, Vengeance, Goliath, Aegis, Citadel and Spearhead.

Each of them can be equipped with a weapons system composed of laser cannons, missiles and missile launchers, mines and an important number of extras, so extensive that it is difficult to get two ships that are “armed” in the same way.

There are two types of “monetary cone”: the Credits and the Uridium, highly coveted coins (Elite items can only be acquired with them) and that are difficult to obtain, although there are several ways to do it: killing aliens, completing missions, Collecting bonus boxes, receiving 5 daily bonuses granted by the game, obtaining rewards in galactic doors and the easiest way of all, paying with real money via SMS, with credit and debit cards or with virtual systems like PayPal.

Missions are tasks that “the game” assigns to users, whose complexity increases at the highest levels and which are divided into four categories: Collect, Attack, Time Attack, and Hunt.

32 levels in total, to which progressively increases by obtaining experience. Each level offers new maps to explore.

To play alone or accompanied

For the asocial gamers or those who do not want to interact with anyone, more than at the time of the skirmishes, playing alone is a valid option. You can also assume a cooperative mode by joining clans, although for this you have to pay 300,000 credits to form one or 1,500 to join, as long as the leader of that group approves it.

Of the most successful titles not only within the fun browser games, also as part of the MMO in general. DarkOrbit has added more than 95 million users since its launch on December 11, 2006.

It accumulates mostly positive reviews, although many players complain that it is a very expensive Free to Play and that to be able to fully enjoy it, inevitably at some point you have to pay a lot!

8. Elvenar

That of founding cities, building empires and invading neighbors seems to be good for the people of InnoGames. After Tribal Wars (1 and 2), Grepolis and Forge of Empires, his latest project is another where players must grow a small town and make it prosperous.

Set in “a fantasy world full of mystery”, Elvenar is an ancient territory, which managed to survive its ancient inhabitants who, apparently, left everything in ruins.

Participants must choose between Elves and Humans to establish their tribe and establish themselves as governors. The first ones are the typical characters of the fantastic MMORPGs, connoisseurs of magic and who live in perfect harmony with all the elements of nature, possessing besides a schicito sense of aesthetics; the latter are persevering, ambitious and proud, with a strong and unwavering will, who stand out for their development in engineering and architecture of medieval order.

The cities of both have the same elements but with some variables. Each one is made up of four types of buildings, namely:

Homes: those of the Elves are built from wood and fabrics, while humans combine wood with stone, with high and rectangular roofs.

Workshop: artisans live here, forging the necessary tools and supplements to make cities grow.

Capitol: they are the main buildings. The buildings of the Elves stand out for their opulence, while the human ones are classic medieval castles. They also function as a bank and warehouse for raw materials, relics and “production multipliers”.

Factory: place where the best craftsmen work. In the case of the Elves, the potions are made based on spells, while humans have these places to build what is necessary to equip their armies.

A more leisurely MMORPG Diplomatic

If you compare it with Forge of Empires, another successful InnoGames title, (it’s hard not to do it), the resemblance almost borders on the copy, although two elements make considerable differences: development is much slower and diplomacy and negotiation have a lot more weight when it comes to achieving the objectives. Although if friendly channels do not work, war is still an option.

Elvenar presents a system of turn-based combats, which take place in hexagonal arenas.

The armies are made up of four different types of soldiers

Elven troops

Swordsman: Masters of the Dance of Death. Specialists in close combat.

Golem: Crushing men of stone. They attack their enemies by throwing large rocks at them.

Archer: lethal long distance.

Sorceress: supreme magicians. Long-distance healers, which minimize the damage caused by enemy forces.

Treat species of large walking trees. Slow to walk but infallible in hand-to-hand combat.

Human troops

Barbarian with an ax: they love hand-to-hand combat. They enjoy causing damage to enemies.

Crossbowman: lethal at long distance.

Cerberus: a two-headed dog that is trained to serve as a lethal hunter.

Paladin: knights in armor. Slow in terms of mobility, but very efficient when it comes to hand-to-hand combat.

Priest: Mystical energies dominate. Among his abilities is the power to discourage enemy troops from a distance, causing defenses to go down.

To ascend the game, you must also explore the World Map to find mystical relics, very important to unlock technologies and obtain knowledge points. They are usually found in wild regions, inhabited by ferocious monsters that must be defeated.

In summary, Elvenar is more or less the same, but in a pacifist environment.

Many consider it entertaining, but extremely slow.

9. DragonBone Dynasty

The Best Browser Games now move us to the Far East, with a title set within Asian mysticism.

Produced by R2Games, whose head office is based in Shenzhen, China. DragonBone Dynasty is also the youngest of all games reviewed on this list, available since the second semester of 2016.

The plot

Magnus, the creator of hell and leader of demons, has emerged to the land of humans, bringing chaos and destruction with him. The players then become the protagonists of the story, controlling a character who discovers that everyone in his family has died, victims of the attacks of the supreme demon and his henchmen, so full of anger decide to undertake a campaign of revenge.

Three types of characters are available to gamers: Sorcerers, Barbarians, and Rogues. Avatars can be male or female.

To complete his journey, allies must be recruited through PvE combat.

The system of fights presents/displays grid 3v3, and an automatism that reduces in a good degree the control of the guests to its personages.

It is a game yet to be discovered that, from the outset, is quite simple and easy to understand.

10. Slither.io

To close, a hybrid between Agar.io and Snake, the famous game of the very fashionable snake in the 90s, when Nokia was the most successful phone manufacturer in the world.

In the fun browser games market (also offers versions for iOS and Android phones ) since March 25, 2016, in essence, there is not much that differentiates it from the “game of balls”, except that here players control a small snake that, as it eats, becomes longer.

The food sources come from Pellets, classified into three different types:

“Traditional”, randomly scattered throughout the map.

Illuminated Pellets: move at great speed far and wide. They increase by 100 the length of the snake that ingests them.

Serpent Pellets are pieces that are scattered every time the player applies the “Turbo” speed system to move faster. They increase the length by just 1.

Unlike Agar.io, larger size does not imply lower speed. The difficulty is given because the longer the radius of gyration should inevitably be wider so that smaller snakes end up being more agile.

You can kill other opponents by causing their heads to crash into the body of the victimizers. When dying in the game, nothing happens, just that you must start again, with the starting length: 10

A fad?

When it came online, Sliter.io slipped into the top 1000 worldwide in the Alexa Ranking, although progressively it has been receding.

With a basic gameplay, but well posed, is a highly addictive title.

His biggest problem has been from the beginning, the repeated presence of “lag” in his navigation, which has cost him many gamers lose patience and leave forever.

Time will tell if we are facing a perishable product.