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As usual, you are allowed to nominate any games that you feel your other fellow Wintreans should try out, as long as they are accessible to most of us. Such games include classic games (eg. GBA , PS1, N64, Dreamcast), flash/java/web games (kongregate.com), free MMO games (onRPG), mobile games and PC games that are easily obtainable. Also, please keep it legal if any of the nominated games have a price tag (aka no illegal downloading).

For this month, I'll nominate Atlantica Online once more.  It's a free to play MMO that takes place in a fantasy post-apocalyptic world, brought by nDoors and picked up by Nexon.  It's available through Nexon, or through Steam for those who have it.  It's not a P2W MMO like some out there, and is actually quite the opposite: it's an MMO that is heavily generous to new players that don't even pay a dime through their Helper Boxes, giving you unique and powerful mounts, weapons, armor, licenses (for leveling, inventory, mercenaries, etc...) at certain level increments.  A new addition I've learned about in its recent update is that it gives you a full party to work with right at the start until you gain some of your own members, so that you can fight without the worry of dying so quickly.

Nominations will last for three days from this post and the voting will begin immediately after that.

Current Nominations
Atlantica Online
Improbable Island
Nationstates

Reference List for Previous Games of the Month
January 2016: Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius
February 2016: Agar.io
March 2016: Garry's Mod, Super Mario Maker
April 2016: Minecraft

I nominate Improbable Island. It's the funniest, silliest most ridiculous text adventure game you'll ever see. It's been a bit since I played it, but how can I resist the call of such spontaneous weirdness! I've included a portion of the intro, which is on the homepage for all to see.

Improbable Island

Improbable Island is a huge, silly multiplayer text adventure game and roleplaying community, under constant development. You can read more about its features if you like. Or, if you'd like to just dive right in, your character's story begins below!
How did I end up here?

It's a question that you must have asked yourself at one point in your life or another. Probably after pulling your head out of the toilet bowl, remembering the little rhyme about drinking wine on top of beer, and then feeling rather poorly again. You might have asked that question while standing naked in the pouring rain holding a coathanger in one hand and a rather large purple sex toy in the other, trying desperately to break into your own car while two policemen stroll up the street towards you. Perhaps you asked it while flushing the contents of your pockets and incinerating your hard drive, or after putting your life savings on "red 36," or while washing the urine out of your clown suit.

However, this time, you mean it literally.

Or rather, you would, if you had gotten around to asking that question. You haven't, yet. To be truthful, you're rather reluctant to open your eyes.

You know that you're lying in grass. You know that you're naked. You know that you can hear birds singing, and feel the sun on your body, and a warm, gentle breeze across your skin. That's okay. That's manageable. You've woken up in less desirable circumstances before.

The unmistakable roar of a low-flying jet plane going overhead, and the muffled thumps of explosions in the distance... now, that's not so good. That's the sort of thing that you really should pay attention to.

Reluctantly, you open your eyes.

How did I end up here?

You're lying on your back in the middle of a grassy clearing. As suspected, a quick glance down confirms that you're as naked as the day you were born. A bulky video camera, mounted in a tree directly above you, pans disinterestedly down your body. It lets out a little whirring noise, one that seems to say "yeah, whatever. I've seen better."

I think it'd be fun if we all played it together.

I nominate NationStates. After all, where would we all be without it?