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Once again, another defense game in the vein of Last Stand or its ilk. The Next Floor is a little different from your normal defense game in a few ways, but overall, it's a clean, well-made game with few surprises. The differences do enough to distinguish it from its contemporaries, but the lack of additional things to do hurt it a little.

The Next Floor revolves around defending an elevator shaft from an oncoming horde of baddies. To do this, you must gun them down before they can attack the shaft. Easy! The kicker is that you have multiple floors to contend with. Luckily, you are not alone: you can build new elevators with turrets inside them as your progress through the game. It's very simple, relatively easy, and fun, so go ahead and give it a try over a smoke break sometime.

The puzzle RPG genre popularized by Puzzle Quest has been going strong, and will keep that way with experiences like Knightfall 2. An entry in that beloved and addicting genre, Knightfall 2 is an incredibly polished game that could be released in retail and would do well. That's saying something for a flash puzzle game, given their prolific nature, but Knightfall 2 lives up to this standard.

You must move your knight around the board to exit each level or kill bosses. However, you do not control your knight directly. Rather, you can move him and the things around him by removing the blocks under them. There's more complexities to the game than just simple block removal, such as health and actoon points, items for use, and the whole leveling system. It's not a hard game to learn, though and once you play it you'll find out just how good it is!

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For those that wonder what it is like to be the vast hordes of enemy ships attacking the player in any shmup, now is your chance to finally discover the feeling. The Competitor is a browser game that takes place from the perspective of the commanding officer of the enemy forces. It's pretty simple, but fun and short. In other words, it's a great coffee break game for the average shmup fan.

The Competitor is played much like Pixus. You draw lines on the screen, which then translate into ships. These ships can do things such as block enemy fir or fire at the enemy. The biggest disappointment is the lack of movement. You can make enemies rush at the player ship, and the player ship is sort of dumb. Still, it approached a genre with a fresh perspective that not many people might have seen all too well.

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Good physics games involving blowing apart buildings at their structural weak points are always appreciated. This is why Demolition City is such an addicting browser game. It is made by the same guy who did the incredibly fun Crush The Castle, and he applied his demolition know-how to this game as well. After all, who doesn't like explosions and toppling buildings? Nobody, that's who!

Demolition City is an incredibly easy game to learn. You have a limited amount of explosives, which you then place on structural support beams. Any great beam can be placed on, while the black beams can not be damaged by explosives (but can still topple). Knock over the building with your explosives, get it below a certain height, and on some levels, avoid hitting the buildings around it. Fun and simple! It would have been nice to see a building editor that lets players create and share their own levels, but hey, it's still great as is!

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There's nothing like some fun physics gameplay. Combined with playing it through your browser, you have a recipe for lots of procrastination at work. Ragdoll Cannon 2, a flash game on Armor Games, has addicting physics gameplay by the truckload. Controlling only a cannon that shoots ragdolls, you must hit a target, either by shooting your man deftly through obstacles or by moving said obstacles out of the way with bodies and then hitting the target. It's very relaxed and simple, which is great for a browser game, and as you can access it anywhere, it's doubly awesome.

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Games with clever physics puzzles have always been some of our favorites. Games like Epsilon or Crayon Physics Deluxe make us delighted to see their excellent mix of physics and traditional puzzle elements. Totem Destroyer is lumped together with these games, but it is far simpler. Basically a slightly more complicated game of Jenga, your goal is to remove a certain amount of blocks while keeping the golden idol off the ground. There's only three kinds of blocks, and the gameplay itself is extremely simple. But the physics-based puzzles are strangely addicting to the point that you just have to finish one more level.

[Via IndieGames]

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We here at Big Download love tower defense games. No games match their combination of strategy and skill in quite the same way that they do. Another browser TD game has been released on ArmorGames, and like Desktop Tower Defense, it has drawn us into its folds. Gemcraft has you taking down mobs of enemies with your gem-enhanced towers.

You use different abilities to defeat oncoming waves of enemies, doing things such as laying moats, dropping gems like bombs onto the enemy, creating and combining gems, or building towers to place your gems in. Each level gets harder than the last, and you can boost your skills and add to your amulet inventory to ease the difficulty curve. It's a great entry into the tower defense genre, and definitely worth a look.

[Via IndieGames]