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OhFreeGames.com

Design: 

Interestingly named, OhFreeGames.com comes with a pleasing blue themed look, a cute header and a fairly neat, clean layout. The homepage is filled with blocks of thumbnails for top games, new games and games in various categories. At the top of them is a "today's new game" block briefly describing the latest game with a corresponding graphic and a stylish "play now" button. The header also includes a prominent search button so if immediately visible games aren't enough, user can search for specific ones.

The sidebar begins with a very brief intro and an invitation to check the site daily, immediately offering the means to bookmark it. However, both the "bookmark" and "share" buttons are of the same exact type and function so it may be better to include only one of them. The rest of the sidebar is dedicated to ads including links to other sites in the network.

Main menu bar items match the titles of the blocks on the homepage, with an addition of "multiplayer", and lead to the full list of games available in that category. These category pages, however, also display the "today's new game" block and listings of some other categories, which probably needlessly adds to the size and length of the page, since the same are already listed in their own corresponding categories. The sidebar of sub pages reveals items not visible on the homepage such as notably the "currently online" block with the chat invitation and language selection block both of which could be fitting for the homepage as well.

In short, the suggestion is to streamline the sub pages so they display only the games of the category the page is about and also display the "currently online" and language selection boxes on the homepage too. The former would reduce the page size of category pages and remove what is essentially duplicate content while the latter would improve on consistency with regards to offering the chat and language translation features across the whole site. It might also be a good thing to reduce the number of games displayed in the sidebar top and new online games blocks, perhaps from ten games per block to five, to reduce the sidebar length.

Specific game pages are well laid out; centered, allowing both playing online and downloading the game for offline play and displaying some information about the game and thumbnails of other games to check out.

Finally, it may be a good idea to add a contact link to the footer.

Design rating: 8/10

Focus:

The site offers what both it's title and tag line say it does, free online games. There's hardly anything disputing that point of focus.

Focus: 10/10

Content:

OhFreeGames.com promises a new game every day and already has countless of games in its database available for playing, so content wise it is pretty strong. Each game page also features a description of what the game is about so the player can hardly go wondering what to do.

Needless to say this site is capable of providing hours of past time fun.

Content rating: 10/10

Overall: 

This is a pretty good free online games site, well laid out and easy on the eyes. It might only try slightly too hard to present all of the available games so category pages end up also listing games that don't belong to that category and filling the sidebars with as much as 20 additional thumbnails. It does have lots of games to offer though so for those looking to kill some time having fun, OhFreeGames.com is worth checking out.

Overall rating: 
9
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