as Adobe is killing off their flash pluging forever
Some notes regarding the killswitch:
- First version to introduce it is v32.0.0.380 (Beta version)
- Kill date is Tuesday, 2021-01-12 00:00:00 (12th January 2021), last working date is thus 11th January 2021"
you're left with 3 choices :
1 - forget all about Flash, forget it has even existed, here my friend,
just look at this2 - A flash emulator named Ruffle exist :
https://ruffle.rs/pro : you can also play emulated flash games or animations on website that have the Ruffle plugin built-in instead of just downloading Ruffle yourself, preserving websites like this one :
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flashcons : for the flash game i tried with Ruffle (Mud&Blood 2) it had lots of freeze and lags that never happened on the original platform.
3 - You can use the Project Flashpoint to download&play Flash games and animations
https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/pro : There's no need to connect anywhere (once you have downloaded the flash game you want of course) , even site-locked (some flash games could only be played on specific websites due to contracts/money/etc... ) flash games can be played with Flashpoint totally offline.
cons : Flashpoint use an older Flash Player plugin from before Adobe included a killswitch in their plugin.
cons2 : on version 8.something of Flashpoint i got a hard PC crash while toying with "Gemcraft chapter 2 : Dancing Shadows", maybe related to some obscure old AMD problem with flash player so it may not be related to Flashpoint at all ?
Flashpoint interface allow you to browse through the very huge amount of flash content available, so you can only download the ones you want to play (if you download Flashpoint Infinity, as the full Flashpoint Ultimate that has already everything is some 478GB of download
).
As a bit of a help to start with something, here's a list of flash games i find worthy of keeping :
The Last Stand
The Last Stand : Union City
Desktop Tower Defense
Warfare 1917
Warfare 1944
Gemcraft Chapter Zero
Zombies took my daughter
Cluesweeper+
Material Sniper (note : the game is listed with japanese character, but you'll find it even if you enter Material Sniper in the search engine)
Road of the Dead
Road of the Dead 2
Lab of the Dead
Mud and Blood 2
Sierra 7
Kingdom Rush
Kingdom Rush Frontier
Incursion
Incursion 2 - The Artifact
Cursed Treasures 2
Rebuild 2
Shattered Colony : the Survivors
Cardinal Quest 2
The Enchanted Cave 2
Elona Shooter
Spectromancer : Gathering of Power
Necronomicon Card Game (a lot better than the sequel in my opinion)
Bloons TD5
Crush the Castle 2
Decision 3
Decision Medieval
Monster Den Chronicles
Amorphous+
N : The way of the ninja 2.0
Happy Wheels demo (the version with all the user made levels is too big to be downloadable on the Flashpoint Infinity version, but they made a standalone version of it in case you can't have enough of Happy Wheels as the demo has already lot of levels)
Epic War 2 / 4 / 5
Super House of Dead Ninjas