Out of the ten games on this list, Hitman requires you to have a touchscreen-equipped device to play, thanks to its control scheme requiring pinch to zoom to control your sniper rifle. Still, we recommend Hitman: Sniper for anyone who has a touch-based Chromebook you can view our list of the best models here , because it does a great job of showing off what gaming on a Chromebook can entail.
Hitman GO, a 3D board game-style puzzler, is perhaps even more critically acclaimed than Sniper, and is perfectly playable with a mouse or touchpad. Interland is a weird selection.
Ostensibly, it is an educational title about learning internet safety through a series of puzzles with cute polygonal graphics and multiple worlds where lessons appear after cracking a specific code in the game.
As a platformer-puzzle game, Interland manages to hold its own. First of all, for a game playable inside your browser without additional software, Interland looks great. Despite some slight frame drops that occur throughout the game probably thanks to the limited power of Chrome OS, not so much due to the game , playing through Interland is a blast, containing four distinct worlds with their own challenges and lessons to teach.
Every world is filled with polygons, from the characters you control to the environments surrounding, them, and the game is soaked in color. From the ice-blue world of Mindful Mountain, where you learn how to stop yourself from oversharing on social media, to the desert-oranges and reds of Tower of Treasure, a world that concerns itself with keeping your secrets safe from prying eyes, Interland is a gorgeous game to allow yourself to live in for the limited time it takes to beat.
The game controls using your arrow keys, allowing for some easy control throughout the game. In some scenarios, the game might be a bit too simplistic for the twenty-something reading this who grew up on MySpace and Facebook, living their entire lives through social media and learning the hard way what to share and what to avoid. Google has done a great job designing Interland to be kid-friendly but not impossible for adults to enjoy.
In a lot of ways, KingsRoad manages to remind us of several RPGs playable both inside and outside your browser. Knights use attack abilities, Archers use ranged attacks like bows combined with elemental weapons, and Wizards use magic spells to cast attacks and buffs at enemies. The game features everything you would expect from a dungeon crawler styled after Diablo, including drop-in and drop-out multiplayer, a full loot system where you gain rewards for your efforts, and more.
The game syncs between both your desktop and the mobile version of the game, an ideal way to have your efforts sync up and play with people around the world, since the same environment is filled with identical players.
The graphics look solid for a mobile game and one that started as a Facebook title, back when Facebook was still making a major push into deal with games and trying to get people to spend as much time as they can inside of Facebook , but the map size may disappoint some, as the entire land seems to be a bit small. We also found some higher level players were clearly putting efforts into trying to take down lower-level opponents, which may ruin the game for some players.
Though you can download the Google Play version, we highly recommend playing in your browser on fullscreen mode, which allows you to use mouse shortcuts and keep the display free of some of the clutter we had to deal with on the mobile version, thanks to its touch-friendly interface. If in-app purchases deter you from being interested in RPGs on Chrome OS, this might be one you want to stay away from, though. Polycraft, at first glance, might seem like a Minecraft knockoff, something popular on both the Chrome Web Store and the Google Play Store.
Poly, obviously refers to the graphics, which, like Interland, use stylized polygons throughout the game to create a 3D world capable of rendering well inside of Chrome. On the other hand, Polycraft has a solid 4 star rating, and that largely comes from the surprise of it actually being a solid game that avoids most Minecraft gameplay elements altogether. The game has a ton of them, so careful not to spend money on objects in the game.
We also think you may want a mouse here instead of a touchscreen or trackpad. What we expected to be a basic, simple Minecraft ripoff turned into a fun tower-defense game that, outside of Animal Crossing and Hitman, felt like the most console or PC-like gaming experience on this list. If you can get into the idea of using resource management inside a game like Plants vs.
There are a ton of games on this list that offer PC or console-like experiences. Tales from the Borderlands, and the rest of the TellTale Games portfolio, are direct ports of games you can actually purchase for your PS4 or Xbox One.
At its core, Swooop is an arcade-style game combining collectathon endless runners like Jetpack Joyride a fantastic 2D game also available for Chrome with the classic Helicopter games that were popular in the early s in browsers. You use your space bar, the left-mouse button, or the touchscreen if you have one to move up and down, collecting gems to rack up points. Though the graphics and background with Swooop are all rendered in 3D, the game itself is played on a 2D plane no pun intended.
Still, the visuals in Swooop are excellent and enough to keep even the most stringent Chrome OS fans satisfied for an arcade-lite game to play on breaks. Do you just want to play native Chrome OS games? Want more? The big question for many users is, do you have to be connected to the internet to use a Chromebook? Certainly for cloud-based apps or remote desktop tricks, you will need an internet connection.
But many applications, including Google Drive, Kindle, Gmail, and Google Calendar, now let you store working versions of your files right on your Chromebook for offline use.
Just about any of the Android apps available through Google Play work fine without an internet connection. That includes Instagram, Dropbox, and Evernote. Want to watch movies, view your photos, or listen to your favorite music on your HP Chromebook? Just download them. Wondering how to download music to a Chromebook?
If you download Chrome Remote Desktop to a home PC, then leave it running, you can run any program you like straight from your Chromebook. Either way, this feature exponentially expands your list of things to do. You can use Photoshop on a Chromebook, but not directly. Like we outlined above, you can use Chrome Remote Desktop to run just about anything on a Chromebook, including Adobe programs.
For several years Google hosted Photoshop on its servers which allowed Chromebook users to access it directly, but Photoshop Streaming is no longer live. The good news? Adobe released a group of Photoshop Android apps that run on Chromebooks. So now you can use Photoshop Android apps to edit photos on Chromebooks.
There are also Android app versions of Adobe Lightroom, Illustrator, and much more. Maybe you want to edit photos, and want some alternatives to Photoshop? The best HP Chromebook for Photoshop? The HP Chromebook 15 sports a surprisingly crisp Out of pocket? Download your flicks for remote use. You can hold remote meetings with friends, family, and co-workers with Skype. But you can also rock Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Music yep!
Have you always wanted a voice assistant? There are actually two great ways you can do this. The first and easiest way is to pick one of the highly-rated and easy-to-use Android apps for video editing. Want a more robust video editing experience? You can use Adobe Premiere on a Chromebook, with a little fudging. See 4 above for details. Yep, thanks to the HP Chromebook x 14 G1. Save The Day. Rather than a shoot 'em up, Denki's Save The Day is an arcade "save 'em up", with players taking control of a rescue helicopter trying to save as many people as possible before a location is engulfed by a natural disaster.
Players have to navigate through challenging terrain to pick up survivors and powerups, all while trying to avoid damaging your chopper or accidentally hurting the civilians you're supposed to save. Game play is simple, fun, and satisfying, and players can complete on high score leaderboards, replay levels to perfect their technique and earn achievement badges.
Monster Force 5. Match-three meets monster collecting with Monster Force 5, a free to play game that sees you leading a team of pet monsters in order to contain an outbreak of wild beasts.
Each of your monsters is associated with an elemental type like fire, earth, air, or water, which also matches a color of gem on the match-three board. As you battle with wild monsters, players match the colors they need to defeat enemy monsters and bosses, allowing them to capture monsters and add them into your collection.
While it is free to play, it's not incredibly aggressive with ads or monetization, making Monster Force 5 an okay way to kill some time. Arcane Legends. Along the way, you can team up with other players as well as collect pets that can help you out by picking up loot or providing bonuses in combat. Rumble Games successfully channels the gaming DNA of dungeon crawling greats like Diablo and distills it down into a browser-friendly form with their KingsRoad, a free-to-play action RPG.
As a knight, archer, or mage, it's up to you to restore order to the land of Alderstone by going on quests and slaying monsters. All in all, it's standard fantasy fare, but well executed. Each level comes in neat packets ideal for a 10 to 15 minute burst of gaming, and players can team up with other adventurers in order to increase rewards or tackle more difficult challenges.
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