Boulder Basher 2

Boulder Basher 2 was one of those games you'd find on a Flash portal in the late 2000s. It didn't try to be complicated. You just loaded it up in your browser and started playing, a simple defense game against a fantasy siege.

You control a cursor, a crosshair really, that you move with your mouse. Your job is to protect a village at the bottom of the screen. Giant boulders roll down from the top, and you have to click on them to smash them apart before they crush the buildings. Between waves, you spend gold on upgrades, things like stronger shields or a catapult that fires automatically. The giants and wizards sending the boulders get tougher, throwing more and faster. The pace is steady, a rhythm of clicking, breaking stone, and managing your defenses before the next onslaught. It feels like a tense, repetitive task of keeping everything from falling apart.