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Four browser games, from a quiet farm to a siege

None of these are ours. They are four free-to-play browser games from other studios, chosen because they pull in four directions: a farm nobody attacks, a stronghold and somebody else's wall, a mining run through contested space, and castles you can run from a phone on the way home.

All four open in a tab. Nothing to download, nothing left on your disk, nothing to patch. Each one is described the same way - what it is, what it does well, what a normal sitting costs you in time, and what the shop is there for.

How the list was cut to four

Most pages like this one are a list of fifty names. Four is a number you can actually play through before writing about them, and these four had to clear the same bar:

Big Farm key art

Big Farm

Farming Sim

A neglected farm left to you, brought back one shed and one field at a time. Nothing attacks it and nothing expires.

  • Fields, sheds and production
  • Co-operatives
  • Events most months
Who it suits
Anyone after a calm half hour.
Plays best on
Desktop, laptop and tablet.
What it costs
Free to play; optional in-game purchases.
Open Big Farm
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Combat Siege

Siege Strategy

A stronghold, a siege engine and somebody else’s wall. Straightforward where the other strategy games sprawl, and better for knowing it.

  • Stronghold building
  • Siege warfare
  • Alliance play
Who it suits
Players who want strategy without a month of setup.
Plays best on
Desktop and laptop.
What it costs
Free to play; optional in-game purchases.
Open Combat Siege
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DarkOrbit

Space MMO

Deep space, three companies and a great deal of ore. Fly out, fill the hold, upgrade, and find out who else wanted that sector.

  • Three rival factions
  • Ship and drone upgrades
  • Open-world skirmishes
Who it suits
Players who like a long haul with company.
Plays best on
Desktop and laptop.
What it costs
Free to play; optional in-game purchases.
Open DarkOrbit
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Lords & Knights

Medieval Strategy

Castles on a shared medieval map with troops that march in real time, built so it works properly on a phone as well as a desktop.

  • Real-time army movement
  • Alliance politics
  • Designed for mobile too
Who it suits
Players who keep an eye on things away from a desk.
Plays best on
Desktop, laptop and tablet.
What it costs
Free to play; optional premium features.
Open Lords & Knights

All four at a glance

The session column matters more than anything else here. The difference between these four is mostly how much of your week they want.

GameGenreA typical sittingDevice
Big FarmFarming Sim10 to 20 minutesDesktop, laptop and tablet.
Combat SiegeSiege Strategy15 to 25 minutesDesktop and laptop.
DarkOrbitSpace MMO20 to 40 minutesDesktop and laptop.
Lords & KnightsMedieval StrategyShort visits through the dayDesktop, laptop and tablet.

What "free to play" buys and sells

All four are free to begin and free to continue, and all four sell something: a premium account, a currency, a shortened timer, a better hull. That is how they are funded, and a page that stopped at "free" would be telling you half the story.

What counts is whether the game is the same game for someone who never pays, and here it is, four times. What money buys is almost always waiting you would otherwise do. Decide the figure before you open the shop, not while you are inside it.

In a tab or on your drive

No other kind of game lets you begin at lunch on one machine and carry on at home on another with nothing moved across. The convenience has a price:

Begin with this one of the four

Big Farm, if you want half an hour with nothing at stake - it is the calmest of the four and there is more to arrange than it first lets on. For the opposite, Dark Orbit will have you out in contested space and short of ore inside twenty minutes.

The usual questions

Do I need to download a client?

No. Every one of the four runs in the browser. Optional desktop builds exist for some; they add nothing you need.

Will a phone run them?

Well enough to look around. All four were designed for a mouse, so a laptop is the better place for a proper sitting.

Is an account required?

Mostly, since your world is stored on their servers. Signing up is free and happens on their site, not this one.

Will I have to pay for any of them?

No. Each sells optional extras, which is how it covers its costs, and none of them keeps the good part behind a purchase.

How do these relate to the rest of the site?

They do not. The four are other studios' games; they appear here because the people who made this site keep going back to them.

Four free browser games the people behind this site keep returning to. Not one of them is ours.

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