Have a laugh, but I bought a gaming PC for €2,000 and play browser games on it

I’m sure you all know it, you buy an expensive device that you absolutely need or at least want to have and then it is hardly used. MeinMMO author Dariusz Müller feels the same way. He bought a gaming PC for 2,000 euros and is now playing browser games on it.

Unnecessary kitchen appliances, discounted games or replacement office hardware. Everyone probably has something lying around at home that they bought and have never or extremely rarely used since then.

It’s a similar story for me with my gaming PC, except that it’s actually used a lot – albeit rarely for things that really take advantage of the performance.

What do I use the PC for? Besides doing my job, the PC is good for playing most new games on the highest settings. After all, I only switched from PS4 to PC in December 2020. But what the PC is suitable for is far from what it actually does.

In addition to generally technically undemanding games like Valorant, Valheim and Among Us, I’ve been playing more and more browser games with friends over the past few months while we chatted about God and the world via Discord.

A twitch stream or a series usually runs on the second monitor. My PC has rarely had to cope with demanding AAA titles in the past few months.

You don’t need an expensive game to have a good time with friends.

Why am I playing browser games? In addition to this almost shameful fact that an expensive gaming PC would not have been necessary if I would only play browser games, I learned one thing above all: It is not always necessary to have an expensive game that costs several million in production cost to have a good time with friends in multiplayer.

We are particularly fond of party games, which we can easily play on the side and in which flourishing conversations are not a disadvantage. In contrast, there are titles like Valorant or Rainbow Six Siege, in which we keep conversations to a minimum, give us callouts and tactical instructions and listen for footsteps.

Which browser games do I play? The browser games mentioned and played a lot in our circle of friends include games that became known through Twitch or YouTube. Probably the strongest representative of this list is GeoGuessr or Geotastic. But we also had a lot of fun with Scribble and Gartic Phone.

Below I would like to introduce you to my three favorite browser games:

Playfully explore the world with GeoGuessr

This is GeoGuessr: GeoGuessr is a browser game that – don’t be alarmed, it actually does – deals with geography. There are different modes based on different places in the world awards. For example, GeoGuessr is played alone, in a team against other teams, or everyone against everyone.

You will receive a picture or ideally a “Google Street View” section and you can move around in the area shown. There you look for clues that let you close to the place. For example, the growing plants, the endings of e-mail addresses or signs are helpful.

When you have an idea of ​​where you might be, you mark the location on a world map. The closer you are to the actual location, the more points you get. Whoever has the most points at the end wins.

This is the alternative to GeoGuessr: GeoGuessr is not entirely free. Many modes or maps are tied to a subscription service. An alternative to the well-known game is Geotastic.

Geotastic works mostly the same as GeoGuessr and can also be played in the browser, but completely free of charge. All you need to do is register via email and you can voluntarily support the developers with a donation. However, you are not obliged to pay anything.

Geotastic comes from a member of the Community of RocketBeans.TVin which GeoGuessr is a well-played game.

Fictional alternatives to GeoGuessr: If real geography is too boring for you, you can also access various fictional worlds and put your knowledge of the respective map to the test there. So the WoW-GeoGuessr is perfect for every WoW fan.

We at MeinMMO present you a small list of other GeoGuessr alternatives to fictional worlds from video games:

Get creative with drawings in Gartic Phone and Scribble

This is Gartic Phone: Gartic Phone became a minor hit on Twitch in 2021 and will continue to be played in groups of streamers in 2022. The browser game has different modes in which the players can live out their drawings.

There are differences in the gameplay in the various modes of Gartic Phone, but basically you always have to write a sentence, draw a picture and then identify what the picture is supposed to represent.

This is scribble: Similar to Gartic Phone, you also have to be artistically active in Scribble. Each round, one player draws while the others have to guess what it is.

But unlike in Gartic Phone, all players see at the same time what the painter is scribbling on the canvas. The quicker you can guess what the picture is supposed to represent, the more points you get. Whoever has the most points at the end wins.

Another difference to Gartic Phone is that instead of a whole sentence or a short story, only a term has to be drawn.

What do you think of me spending so much money on a PC and now playing browser games on it? Do you guys say I wasted money or do you still think it’s worth the expense because I could still play AAA games on it?

Another gimmick that is not a browser game, but is still quite interesting, can be found in an AI. This artificial intelligence can do exactly what your task is in Gartic Phone: it draws an image from written text.

AI is taking Twitter by storm – create works of art from words for you too