Point and click puzzle games of NekoGames

The best kind of free game is the kind you can instantly understand but take hours to master. Sometimes they have few or no instructions, allowing you the pleasure of discovering how they work before you get to mastering it. And naturally, a good-looking free game is better than an ugly one, just like how ice cream is better with sprinkles! Yoshio Ishii of NekoGames (creator of the Hoshi Saga series) has been around the free browser game scene for a very long time, and lately he’s been set on adding to a series of simple, stark-looking, but extraordinarily playable games that will take a minute or two to learn but hours to fully master. Get ready for some short but niiiice free Flash games!

TOUKA – The newer NekoGames release is a bit different than the rest, as it focuses on quick reflexes and cursor action instead of puzzles. TOUKA takes place across 16 levels, each filled with darkened flowers that move around the screen. Simply slide the mouse over a flower to light it up. Light them all and you’ll go on to the next stage. You can wiggle the viewpoint around a bit by clicking, but otherwise it’s up to your ability to chase petals around the screen. See how straightforward that is? Now try actually doing it and see if you sing the same song!

KIKKA – Like flowers? Good! Because you’re about to spend the next 15 minutes assembling them one by one! Each level presents you with a mostly-empty screen and the center of a single flower. Your job is to figure out how to get the petals to where they belong. Maybe you just wiggle the mouse a bit? Maybe you have to click and hold for a few seconds? Maybe something else entirely? You never really know, and half the fun is figuring out what to do.

OUKA – See that flower? Click it and you can move on. Seriously, just go ahead. What’s stopping you? Oh, they don’t want to be clicked? Well, it’s time for you to figure out how to make that happen! Don’t worry, if you’re stuck, a hint button is there, just like the rest of the Yoshio Ishii games. But, you know, only wimps use hints…