Canabalt

This game really stinks. People all over the Internet are writing love letters to it right at this very moment, even people I respect, like Charlie Brooker and Alec Meer.

Please don't believe them. It's a horribly unfair game. There's only one button. And death is frequent and cheap.

I must also have JUST ONE MORE go before bed.

Play for free here if you want the next fifteen minutes of your life to magically disappear.

Seizuredome

For the past couple of days I've been mostly playing games by Cactus Software. Jonathan Söderström is the brains of the operation, and what's interesting about his games is that they're nearly all made in less than the space of a week, while often doing something a bit subversive (or at least unusual) conceptually. They're also all free to play.

I've still scarcely scratched the surface, and hope to write something a little more substantial once I've been able to spend a bit more time with them all. Yet Seizuredome, pictured below, is a fast and breezy 'point, shoot and dodge' kind of shooter, that gives a gentle introduction to the mad charm of his work. Coming in at less than 6MB, it shouldn't take you long to download either...

A pathetic high score

The Artful Jumper

The best design is elegant and simple, and this is probably worth taking 10-15 minutes of your time to check out:

David Shute's Small Worlds