| Freeware refers to software that can be used, downloaded, or distributed
free of charge.
It does not refer to games under a Free Software license that allow
modifying or redistribution of source code. See List of free game software for such games.
Games that are free but suggest a donation or fee, or require purchase for extended play time, new content and other features,
are Shareware. See List of shareware
games for such games.
Games
- 123 Free Solitaire, one of the top stand-alone
solitaire downloads on the internet. Yearly editions swap out 4 of the 12 games included. A game option includes being able to
change the card-back designs.
- America's Army, first-person shooter developed and distributed by US Army [1] (http://www.americasarmy.com/)
- Angband (another popular RPG in the roguelike family), and its many variants. The most comprehensive resource for Angband is
at http://thangorodrim.net. Source code of Angband is also available, but
it is not Free software. However, there is an effort ongoing to
re-license Angband under the GNU GPL.
- Continuum, a two-dimensional
top-down space shooter game with massively multiplayer capabilities. Formerly known as SubSpace.
- CrateMaster is a free
Tetris clone/parody by Longbow Digital Arts (http://www.longbowdigitalarts.com/). It was used to promote the game Tread Marks in a high
score contest on the Old Man
Murray (http://www.oldmanmurray.com) website. Gameplay consists solely of
making a row of three crates, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Crate Review System (http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html) featured on that site.
- Dance With Intensity clones dance game
Dance Dance Revolution
- DominateGame is an
online Risk-like game here (http://www.dominategame.com).
- Eastside
Hockey Manager, hockey manager game.
- GunBound, a free Worms like game at http://www.gunbound.net .
- Little Fighters 2 is a side-scrolling fighting game
available here (http://www.lf2.net).
- Orbiter, a spaceflight simulator with an emphasis on
realistic orbital mechanics [2] (http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html)
- PlaneShift is a freely available and Open Source MMORPG in
development.
- Progress Quest, a parody of Everquest and the MMORPG genre, focuses on pure character
building with no interaction involved.
- Reality-on-the-norm a bunch of user made adventure games downloadable from [3] (http://ron.the-underdogs.org/)
- Simutrans: a game that focuses on building a transportation network
and is similar to Transport Tycoon.
- Smashing Pumpkins into Small Piles of Putrid Debris (SPISPOPD), a
1993 DOS based top down shooter by Jamul software, jokingly based off a Doom
newsgroup thread. (archived
link (http://web.archive.org/web/20030706221626/%68ttp://www.latexnet.org/jamul/spispopd.html))
- Soldat, a popular 2D multiplayer online shooter[4] (http://www.soldat.prv.pl)
- Steel Panthers: World at War [5] (http://www.matrixgames.com/spwaw/), plus several other remakes of older strategy games from Matrix Games.
- SPMBT: Steel Panthers Main Battle Tank [6] (http://linetap.com/www/drg/SPCamo-4.htm)
- SPWW2: Steel Panthers World War 2 [7] (http://linetap.com/www/drg/SPCamo-2.htm)
- Vega Strike, an open-source space combat/trading simulator
inspired by Wing Commander:
Privateer and Elite.
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, a
standalone multiplayer expansion to Return
to Castle Wolfenstein. [8] (http://www.castlewolfenstein.com/)
Commercial games released as freeware
- Abuse, a 1995 side-scrolling action game by Crack dot Com, released as freeware.
- Akalabeth a.k.a "Ultima 0" by Lord British.
- B-17 Flying Fortress, by Microprose.
- Beneath a Steel Sky by Revolution Software. [9] (http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php)
- Betrayal at Krondor, 1993 release by Sierra On-Line, release as freeware 1997.[10] (http://www.alt-tab.net/alt-tab/games/krondorplay.asp)
- Caesar, 1991 release by Impressions.
- Castle of the Winds a tile based RPG for Windows 3.x, written by SaadaSoft.
- Decisive Battle of WWII: The Adrennes Offensive, released as freeware by SSG. [11] (http://www.ssgus.com/ardennes-download.htm)
- Derek Smart's infamous Battlecruiser 3000AD. [12] (http://www.3000ad.com/downloads/bc3k.shtml)
- Dink Smallwood, 1997
RPG by RTsoft released as freeware on 17 October 1999. [13] (http://www.rtsoft.com/dink/)
- Elite and Elite Plus. [14] (http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/)
- Flight of the Amazon Queen by
Interactive Binary Illusions. [15] (http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php)
- Frederik Pohl's Gateway part 1,
adventure game, based on book by same author.
- Grand Theft Auto, First game of
GTA-series. [16] (http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/gta.htm)
- Grand Theft Auto 2, 2. game of GTA-series. [17] (http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/gta2.htm)
- Hidden &
Dangerous Deluxe, a 1999 game by Illusion Softworks. [18] (http://www.3dgamers.com/games/hiddendangerous/)
- One Must Fall: 2097, (1994) classic fighting game by Diversions
Entertaintment.
- Ports Of Call.
[19] (http://www.rdklein.com/poc/classic/)
- Red Baron, 1990 fight simulator by Dynamix.
- Rise of the
Dragon, 1990 release by Dynamix.
- Star Control II, the classic space adventure by Toys for Bob was GPL'ed and renamed as The Ur-Quan
Masters. [20] (http://sc2.sourceforge.net/)
- Starsiege: Tribes and Tribes 2, were released as freeware May 2004.[21] (http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/tribes/)
- The Elder Scrolls: Arena, 1994 game
that was released as freeware in 2004.[22] (http://www.elderscrolls.com/tenth_anniv/tenth_anniv-arena.htm)
- Lord British's Ultima IV
- Wild Metal - [23] (http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/wildmetal.htm)
- Zork I, II, III & The Undiscovered Underground [24] (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/)
Sources
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