2012-05-17

You joined Facebook, which just proves Zuckerberg’s plan is working. Whatever it is.

First, it was people tagging you.

Then poking you. (Or maybe it was vice versa. Whatevs.)

To quote a title that’s not on the ginormous social network, it’s dangerous to go alone. Take these Games on Facebook with you.

And they’re taking advantage of it in droves. Luckily for Facebook users, many of these games are mighty fun. Take a look at our 20 top picks for getting your Facebook games on.

Angry Birds

Game play is very interesting and players love to take control of the cute colored birds. The objective of the players in this game is to launch birds with slingshot and redeem the eggs. The eggs are captured by a bunch of pigs which are also cute with green in color.

The pigs are covered and protected by different kind of roof in each level. The material or the shelter is made of wood blocks, ice blocks and hard stones. You have to damage the structures covered on them to hit them. Explosives and other objects are also found in later stages to detach the structures.

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Mafia Wars

Mafia Wars allows players to build their virtual criminal empires by collaborating with their friends to complete crime jobs, fight and rob other Mafia crews, run underground businesses and purchase criminal must haves like weapons and getaway cars. Set in New York City at launch, the game has added a number of locales for players to expand their criminal empires: Cuba in June 2009, Moscow in September 2009, Bangkok in January 2010, Las Vegas in June 2010, Italy in October 2010 and Brazil in March 2011. These new locales included enhanced features and extended The popularity of Mafia Wars. Mafia Wars is available in eight languages.

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Farmville

FarmVille is a social game developed by Zynga, and available on social networks and iPhones. Launched in June 2009, it became one of the most popular applications on Facebook, garnering 10 million users in less than a month. This is one of the most popular games on the largest social networking system in the world.

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Adventure World

Indy is an active character throughout all of the missions you embark on him with, though you never control him. Based on a preview of the new content provided by executive producer Toby Ragaini, you’ll instead trade helping hands with Indy. For instance, we all know how much Mr. Jones(bonus points if you get that reference) hates snakes. There will be points in a mission when Indy simply can’t move on because he’ll be blocked by slithery creatures. It’ll then be your job to take out the snakes before the two of you can move on. But don’t think you’ll always be killing critters for the guy.

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Dragon Age Legends

13 years have passed since a group of warriors led by the Templar Ravi banded together to prevent an abomination from destroying the Free Marches city of Kaiten in a hedonistic orgy of narcissism and opulence.

The former Viscount Khedra spent most of his life as a venerated ruler, celebrated for his wisdom. Late in life, he started to change, beginning with the construction of a great coliseum where nobles’ chosen champions competed for pride and glory. What began as games of entertainment quickly devolved into great spectacles of carnage punctuated by outlandish pageantry.

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Empires & Allies

Empires & Allies launched in June 2011 in 12 languages and lets players build up their island empires, create virtual armies of tanks, planes and ships, and battle their enemies while defending their allies. Players decide whether to help and trade with each other or attack each other’s military defenses while pillaging resources. The game also features a single-player story-based campaign with a cast of more than 20 heroes and villains. Empires & Allies is our first strategy combat game

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PixelJunk Monsters Online

Players can expand their territory on the world map by defending their tiles. As more friends join in, you’ll be able to compete for gold crowns, as your performance is ranked amongst your friends.

As with most social games, the game is free to play at first. However, you’ll be able to buy new towers, maps, and items by using in-game currency. Q-Games promises to push updates “regularly,” which should help enable PixelJunk addicts continue clicking away

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Words with Friends

Words With Friends is a lot like Scrabble but way better, because you can play with your friends online, meaning you could even play from the comfort of your toilet seat, how’s that for a selling point, baazing!

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Zynga Poker

Zynga Poker was our first social game and is the largest free-to-play online poker game in the world. Players have the option to play at any table, meet new people from around the world or join friends for a game, choosing from casual Hold ‘Em tables, tournament play or VIP tables. A leader board shows players how they compare in chip ranking to their friends and through the gift shop players can personalize and decorate their seat at the table. Players interact with other players by chatting, completing challenges and sending and receiving gifts, including poker chips. According to AppData, it is the fourth most popular game on Facebook, four years after its launch.

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Word Challenge

n Word Challenge you are given 6 letters, the objective is to create 3-6 letter words from the letters provided as fast as you can. There are 40,000 to find in this fast and rewarding word game!

You can go into a head to head battle of words with one of your friends in the ‘Challenge Mode’. Can you come out on top?

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Restaurant City

Restaurant City lets you run your very own restaurant and employ your friends to work for you as waiters and chefs. And with a wealth of different decorations, furniture and equipment to choose from you can really make your mark with a completely unique restaurant. You can visit your friends’ restaurants too and even trade ingredients with them to help you create a menu which ensures your restaurant is the talk of the town!

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Gear Quest

The Entrance to the Underworld has opened. You must uncover ancient weaponry, gear and magic to fight your way to the heart of the truth. You have been Chosen.

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Go Fishing

Enjoy fishing in beautiful locales with your friends! Use the equipment of your choosing, select different lures and baits, catch dozens of fish, complete quests around the map and beat the records. Become a pro fisherman!

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Hero City

Welcome to Hero City! Be the mastermind of super heroes where you will build an awesome city for powerful super heroes to come and live in. Dispatch super heroes to New York, Washington D.C., Paris, Beijing and around the world to fight against the super villain Techneto.

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Diamond Dash

Diamond Dash is the 60 second gem rush: click colorful gems, use magic diamonds and compete with your friends! More than 18 million monthly active players on Facebook are fascinated by Diamond Dash, testing their reactivity by clicking as many same-colored gems as possible. Social features like weekly tournaments or the ability to help out your friends, add up to the arcade experience, turning Diamond Dash into one of the most successful Social Games worldwide.

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War of Ninja

War of Ninja Wiki has 5 portals: Characters, Places, Items, Features and Terms and Explanations. Characters portal will contain all the information about WoN Characters, their clans and their skills. Each skill will be completely described, so players can understand how do they actually work. Places portal contains all the information about WoN Villages, Temples, Arena’s, Shops and Regions. Items portal contains all items which are released so far and they will be described in details.

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Café World

Cafe World allows you to run a kitchen, cooking and serving food to others while leveling up and becoming the Iron Chef of your neighborhood. It’s pretty fun, but like most of these games, over time certain tasks can become pretty repetitive.

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Fruit Ninja

The original flavour… Swipe to deliciously slash and splatter fruit like a true ninja warrior. Be careful of bombs – they are explosive to touch and will put a swift end to your juicy adventure!

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Miscrits of Volcano Island

It’s the rare social game that actually feels epic. The world is huge and varied, and exploration is very satisfying. The game doesn’t stray too far from the incredibly successful formula it’s emulating, but at the same time it manages to create a feel all of its own.

In Miscrits of Volcano Island you are the chosen one, of sorts. There’s a prophecy that predicted that one day you’d come to the island and set things right. And the way to do that, of course, is by collecting and battling lots and lots of creatures called miscrits.

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Gardens of Time

Gardens of Time is one of the most popular free hidden object games (HOG) on the Web

With more than 40 re-playable hidden object scenes from throughout history visit the Walls of Troy, steps of Egypt’s Pyramids, London clock tower, and Hanging Gardens of Babylon in search of misplaced objects.

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