Friday, August 06, 2004

Free Games

I'm mirroring a list of free games originally at the AnandTech Forums.

"What are some nice, free computer games? I've compiled an extensive list of what I know below. "

  • Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - World War 2 shooter
  • America's Army - Army shooter
  • GunBound - Worms clone
  • Freeciv - Civilization clone
  • Vega Strike - Space trader RPG
  • Frozen Bubble - Arcade game
  • Cube - Simple shooter
  • Legends - Tribes clone
  • Scorched Earth 3D - 3D Scorched Earth clone
  • Cannon Smash - Ping pong game
  • LGeneral - Panzer General clone
  • Armagetron - 3D Tron Clone
  • FooBillard - Pool
  • TEG - Risk clone
  • Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe 2 - World War 2 shooter
  • Grand Theft Auto - Original Grand Theft Auto
  • Cosmic Rift - Space ship fighter game
  • GeneRally - top down arcade racer
  • Stair Dismount & Truck Dismount - a couple cool games
  • Warblade - Galaga type game, the beta version is still free
  • Abuse 2 - Shooter based on 1995 original
  • Ancient Domains of Mystery - Huge RPG
  • Beneath A Steel Sky - Sci-fi adventure
  • Blip and Bop: Balls of Steel - Side scroller action
  • Colossus - Avalon Hill's Titan board game clone
  • Falcon's Eye - Graphical Nethack clone
  • Little Fighter 2 - Mortal Kombat style deathmatch
  • Notrium - Single player survival game
  • Steel Panthers: World at War - World War 2 RTS
  • Orbiter - Space flight simulation
  • Pekka Kana 2 - Side scroller action
  • Stick Soldiers 2 - Stick fighting game
  • The Ardennes Offensive - Action game based on the Battle of the Bulge
  • Vantage Master Online - Simulation RPG
  • Wazzal - Space privateering game
  • Subspace/Continuum - Space ship fighter game
  • Warbirds III - WWII flight sim
  • Dawn of Aces III - WWI flight sim
  • Armored Assault - Tank sim
  • Dink Smallwood - Zelda-like isometric RPG
  • Final Fallacy for RPGMaker 2000 - Huge RPG
  • Tetrinet - Puzzle game
  • Nethack - Rogue-like game
  • Super Bubble Blob - Platformer/Puzzle. Very challenging and fun.
  • Tetrinet 2 - Good tetris game
  • Flight of the Amazon Queen - Adventure game for ScummVM
  • Angband - This is a "graphical" random dungeon, turn based game. Objects are represented by characters like @.
  • Jardinains - A great pong/breakout game.

  • Betrayal at Krondor - The CLASSIC rpg from Sierra in 1993 is available for free.

  • Icy Towers - This game is so basic, but I am stuck playing it! I love the theme music too.
  • Elastomania! - This is only a demo, but this is by far one of the most addicting and frustrating games I've ever seen.
  • Clickomania! - A good puzzle game, has many configuration options.
  • One Must Fall 2097 - The old PC Fighting Game Classic.
  • King's Quest 1 - The Old King's Quest Classics remade by the Anonymous Game Developers.
  • King's Quest 2 - The Old King's Quest Classics remade by the Anonymous Game Developers.
  • Ultima IV - Arguably the best ultima game of all. If you have not played it and you like RPGs, you MUST play this game. It runs in DOS, but I think it works ok in a DOS box on modern versions of windows.
  • Think Tanks - This is a pretty fun game/demo to play
  • Neocron MMORPG - Has a 10 day free-trial for those interested
  • Unreal UFO-Alien Invasion - Is similar to the original X-COM UFO Defense game. Uses modded Q2 engine with resolution up to 1600x1200,so any turn based or X-com fans check it out.
  • Allegiance - Allegiance was dev by Microsoft. It's a decent space shooter game.
  • Tibia - MMORPG. Free, with the option to upgrade to a premium account for $$
  • Soldat - Sweet 'Worms' style shooter with ragdoll physics, well worth the price
  • Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III - Classic text adventure games
  • Knight Online - Another free MMORPG
  • Pathological - Nice game written in Python!
  • Highway Pursuit - Really cool racing game with a bit of shooting
  • Elder Scrolls: Arena - Great RPG
  • Tribes and Tribes 2 - free in anticipation of the release of Tribes: Vengeance.

  • 1 Comments:

    Blogger sc0tt said...

    gunbound is fun. I played that for a long while.


    you can also download a free trial of Age of Mythology here

    2:55 AM  

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