Each week Browser’s Best profiles a trio of web-based/flash indie games, selecting one of the three to spotlight as the week’s must play.

Just another day? No! Your boredom will melt under the singeing awesomeness of the latest rendition of Browser’s Best. We’ll look at some unique and creative takes including a shoot ‘em up where you’re the boss, a hard as hell platformer and instant MMOing. Play away.

5 Minute MMORPG (Bite-Sized Approved!) – Seemingly an oxymoron, 5 Minute MMORPG was originally created 2009 Nordic Game Jam which came with the restraints of making a game no longer than five minutes with only 48 hours allowed for development. Well at the time of competition the game crashed horribly due to networking issues that most likely required more than a few hours of a team on little to no sleep to take care of. Regardless, as a way to redeem themselves, the team has polished the experiment and give it a public release.

The game, as you’d expect, is simple and quick. You can either create a game or just join a random one already set-up. You’ll come to a page that explains every component of how to play and then thrown into the battlefield. You and five other characters, either players or AI depending on how many actual people are playing at the time, will face off in a last-man-standing deathmatch.

You level-up by grabbing gems and weapon pick-ups that litter the battlefield. As you gain levels you also gain in size and therefor radius of attack. With an actually enjoyable (and done on purpose) lag component to play with and slain players exploding seconds after death, it all makes for a fun and frantic guess and slash. My only complaint is that there doesn’t appear to be anyone ever online so it turns into more of a PvE type of situation. I can only imagine the fun factor if played with a bunch of friends.

Quietus - Warning: Expert Platform Players Only. A seriously difficult platformer that has you playing a man who commits suicide and subsequently strikes a deal with Death. To get your life and the happiness that was lacking from it back you must first run a gauntlet in Hell.

If everything was what it appeared to be the game would still be very hard, but with the addition of low-lying enemies, vanishing floors and more tricks this may be one of the more difficult browser platformers I’ve ever played. Think Mario castle dungeons, with the spiked chains and fireballs jumping out of pits of lava. The game has forty levels in all, which is quite intimidating when you’re struggling to just get through the first. Those looking for a challenge will not be disappointed.

One note that you’ll appreciate greatly: use the space bar to skip the death animation, trust me you’ll be tired of seeing it pretty quickly.

[Must Play] Boss Rush! – For any shoot ‘em up fan who’s wished for the shoe to be on the other foot, here you go boss man. You play as the commander of effectively a boss ship of the genre, your job is destroy the rebel units, and blah blah, check out all those sweet weapons!

Starting out you’ll get a standard five bullet spread shot, along with four major league boss guns including a laser and spread shots in a variety of patterns. Downside? Like any top down shooter boss you’re huge and slow, and that’ll make for an easy target for the surprisingly adept pilots of the rebel fleet if you don’t get to them early.

Paper Dino Software’s game has quite a bit of depth, with several different end-boss ships each with their own abilities and weaknesses. The game also offers two other game types the unlockable Survival mode and Versus. In the Versus mode, another player can join you on the keyboard to pilot the rebel craft for a two-player shoot-out. Though no big deal if you’re not into sharing as the game stands on its single player campaign.

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