While Farmville is very tempting at the moment, I like a bit more action. I also like tower shooter style games. And RPG. Enter GemCraft Chapter Zero, the sequel to Gemcraft.

The concept is fairly simple: build towers and traps, and place gems in them to destroy the enemies. The play is much more than that though, with different strategies coming into play at different levels.

Here is the link:

http://armorgames.com/play/3527/gemcraft-chapter-0

I have been playing this off and on (mostly on) for the past week, and have gotten to level 90 - I'm roughly 1/3 of the way done beating every level in every configuration. Perhaps the best feature of the game is that it can be saved, so you don't have to play it all in one sitting.

If anyone would like hints, tips, or the codes to various levels, let me know and I'll help out.

Ant

I like the idea of a save feature.  Everytime I try to load up this game, my computer gives me a blank page.  I guess it just doesn't want me to play it.  May be for the best perhaps, I might get too addicted to it, like I was those ones in the arcade where you build a fort, survive days, then sit through major lag LOL

Hmm, try this link:

http://armorgames.com/

and look to the far right under "popular games". It may not load directly if you don't have a cookie from the site.

Here is a strategy guide too.

The lag is not bad at all. I remember a similar game where you had to build towers to protect your cake/pizza from ants. By level 70 the game played at about 3 frames/sec. By 90 it was one frame every three seconds!

Ant

I finally beat the main game. Stats after the win:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32712057@N06/4154485473/

Ant