Free games thread

monument

Free Games! A second time... just to clean things up I've compiled the free games thread into the below list.

The original threads can be found here, and the second one here, they are now locked – add any new suggestions to this thread. All I have done is copied the links into one post, thanks to all who posted the links.

As far as we know all the links to games listed here were put in the 'public domain' by their copyright holder. If you find this is not the case with any of the below please post here, or PM me or the other mods, and the link(s) will be removed if we find such to be true.

Corrections (names, dead links etc) welcomed, but besides this...

ONLY POST LINKS TO LEGAL FREE GAMES OR MODS - THIS THREAD IS NOT FOR DISCUSSIONS


Quakeworld - "The original classic quakeworld, but with 32bit textures"
http://equake.quakeworld.nu/

street fighter multiplayer
http://www.streetfighteronline.com/

Thang
http://thang.ongameport.com

BATTLECRUISER MILLENNIUM
http://www.3000ad.com/gnn/index.php

Starport: Galactic Empires
http://www.playtechtonics.com/

Every Extend
http://nagoya.cool.ne.jp/o_mega/product/e2.html

Kenta Cho
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html

'online tank game'
http://www.tankmania.com/

MOTAS
http://www.albartus.com/motas/

Rooms
http://www.fasco-csc.com/index_e.html

Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe
ftp://ftp.4players.de/pub/hiddenandd...2/hddeluxe.exe
http://juegos.descargando.com/demos/hddeluxe.exe

Cube
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/c..._mirror=heanet

Neverball
Windows - http://icculus.org/neverball/neverball-1.1.0.zip
Linux - http://icculus.org/neverball/neverball-1.1.0.tar.bz2

Truecombat (Quake 3 mod)
http://www.truecombat.co.uk/home/

Enemy Terroitory
[url]http://enemy-territory.4players.de:1...download&cid=2[/url]

Americas Army
http://www.americasarmy.com/

Bridge Builder
http://www.bridgebuilder-game.com/

Elastomania
http://www.elastomania.com/

ADOM
www.adom.de

Soldat
http://www.soldat.prv.pl/

Lure of the Temptress (point and click adventure)
http://www.revolution.co.uk/_display.php?id=10

Beneath a Steel Sky (point and click adventure)
http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php

Alien Shooter
http://classicgames.filefront.com/

Betrayal at Krondor
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.ph...yal+at+Krondor

ArmageTRON
http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/

Adventure Quest (apparently a really good online RPG game)
http://www.battleon.com/

Tukimi Fighters
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/tf_e.html

Tribes 1 and 2
http://pc.ign.com/articles/505/505560p1.html?fromint=1

LieroXtreme (updated verson of Liero)
http://lieroxtreme.thegaminguniverse.com/

some fun free online flash games...
http://miniclip.com

Orbiter Sim (hardcore rocketheads only [ed – wtf???])
www.orbitersim.com + addons….
www.orbithangar.com and avsim.com etc...

Tribes
http://www.sierra.com/downloadfile.d...&mediaid=11590

Ground Control 1 + GC 2 multiplayer demo
http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/142438.shtml

Balance of Power (1990 Edition)
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=91

Steel Panthers (turn based strategy game 425mb)
http://www.gamershell.com/download_6363.shtml

System Shocks…
1 - http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=1114
2 - http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=3924

Castlevania: the Blood Way (emulated in flash)
http://flashkof.free.fr/castle/castle.htm

Gunbound (Worms like game)
http://gunbound.net/

Free Allegiance (“Some sort of MS-made multiplayer spaceship team combat game”)
http://www.freeallegiance.org/

Runescape (MMORPG)
http://www.runescape.com/

Adom (RPG)
http://www.adom.de/ + Guide…
http://www.andywlms.com/adom/

Scorched 3D (based loosely on DOS game Scorched Earth)
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/ + ‘Apocalypse’ mod…
http://handwired.net/apochq/

Starship Troopers
http://gr.bolt.com/download/pc/strat...p_troopers.htm

‘Babylon 5: I’ve Found Her’ made by fans (3-D Space Sim)
http://ifh.firstones.com/

Bomber Man Online
http://www.bomberman-online.com/

Daikatana
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=4965

Freespace 2
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=4150 & missing files…
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajo...space/hotu.html

Rock Star’s Classics; GTA, Wild Metal, GTA2
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/

Yoda Soccer Project (apparently like Sensible World of Soccer)
http://yodasoccer.sourceforge.net/


Links to MORE free games

http://www.the-underdogs.org/
http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...&enterthread=y
http://www.scummvm.org/
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/
http://www.dosgames.com/
http://www.abandonia.com/index2.php - "some amiga classics"
http://www.megagames.com/news/show.c...ge=0&section=&
http://www.teamxtcgames.com/
http://www.caiman.us/
http://www.gamehippo.com/
http://www.remakes.org/
http://www.experimentalgameplay.com/ - "games made in a week or less"

BKtje

Remake of Wing Commander Privateer (basically Privateer with a few udpated textures or something, tis decent and works in windows) can be found http://wcuniverse.sourceforge.net/announcements.htm

Beecher

http://www.liberatedgames.org/ Nice website that regularly updates with all the currently free PC games available!

Royale with Cheese

http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/

Here you can download the original Grand Theft Auto and it's sequel for free. Also some other game I've never heard of.

Edit: ah just seen this is the original post now

Fidelis

Last week, the full version of S.W.I.N.E. was made freely available by it's developers, StormRegion. S.W.I.N.E is an RTS involving Pig and Rabbit armies battling it out in tanks and the like. It was developed back in 2001 but still looks good today!

You can get it at 3DGamers. (716MB)

Vikings

http://www.warrock.net/ Free fps apparently not too shabby, not tried it myself yet.

humanji

I don't think this has been mentioned before, but it's awesome: Starlock. It's a kind of space trading game with a lot of RPG elements. I've just started and it's incredible. Unfortunately it's not finished and the creator (quite rudely) says that he doesn't really plan on finishing it. But basically the main game is there but missing a few of the story driven missions.

It really is a hard game to describe, but it's one of the more unique online games I've played. It says it's a MMORPG, but I don't actually think you need to contact anyone else in the game at all. There is a hell of a lot to explore and do. Give it a whirl, it may not be around for ever (the creator seems a bit of an a$$hole)

Scruff

yeah. you're right there. I read what he had to say: www.prowler-pro.com/starlock He spent 6 years on it in his own time and lets you play it for free and to round it off you like it. pffttt..What an asshole. :rolleyes:

humanji

Scruff wrote:

yeah. you're right there. I read what he had to say: www.prowler-pro.com/starlock He spent 6 years on it in his own time and lets you play it for free and to round it off you like it. pffttt..What an asshole. :rolleyes:

lol, I didn't mean it like that. Looking back actually, I suppose it was a little strong . Basically, I was talking about the whole tone of the article. The defeatest attitude doesn't really do much for selling to game to people. Doubt I could give up all hope after spending 6 years of my life on something. It's a fantastic project and I hope it gets picked up by someone!

Malice

I uncovered a gem called "Deadly Rooms of Death" or DROD for short. It's a little difficult to describe but I would sum it up as a turn based puzzler along the lines of something like Chips Challenge. The official website is here. From the website the description is:

DROD can't be described in terms of other games without just confusing the issue. It's a puzzle game without block pushing or falling bricks. It's a turn based RPG without the role-playing or statistics. It's an action game without the action. It's a roguelike that really has little in common with Rogue and its cousins. It's rare that someone makes a game that can't be described as something-meets-something else, and it's almost impossible to describe to someone without sitting them down and just showing them the game.

In short I would recommend simply going to the downloads page and grabbing the Architect's Edition which allows you to create your own levels.

Stephen

Little Fighter 2 - www.lf2.net , for Windows.
Side scrolling beat em up - Think streets of rage... with little people.

Fenian

http://agdinteractive.com/

Kings Quest 1 and 2.

Fidelis

Enemy Nations

Reaver772

http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/
The marathon trilogy from the same guys who made halo

hamster

Battle for Wesnoth looks nice linux/windows....

http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/Play

deedebee

http://www.theapplegallery.com/Chess/Game_Colour_1.htm

Variant chess game played in colour.

Cutie18Ireland

what about games.com offer free online battleship, monopoly, boggle, scrabble yatzee and sorry...

Kare Bear

http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html

Cave story:D

[STA-7]SSgt.Ste

Okay for you id fans out there (Brothers) www.dosgames.com has the original Doom and Wolf 3-D shareware for free (i realise how cheesy this is) that run great on Windows XP. And at www.downloads.com you can get the jDoom mod (both quite legally) for free enjoy 3-D (activate jDoom on your doom shareware) and Semi 3-D.!

Mr E

Download Grid Wars from here. Gaming cocaine.
(Robotron/Llamatron/Smash TV type game with gorgeous graphics, great music and hard as nails gameplay).

Bump up the resolution, configure the controls, and enjoy!

zAbbo

Free FPS, damn good as well.

http://www.warsow.net/

* Standalone game for Windows and Linux ;

* 3D Engine based on Qfusion (a modification of Quake 2 GPL engine) ;

* eSport oriented FPS ;

* Fast-paced gameplay focused on trix (trick jumps) and art of move ;

* Complete Power-up System including Weak and Strong fire mode for each weapon ;

* Cartoonish graphics with celshading-like_but_not_Manga style, mixing dark, flashy and dirty textures, matching with action full of fun and speed ;

* References : Quakeworld, Quake3 CPMA, Jet Set Radio, Speedball.

[STA-7]SSgt.Ste

original MsDOS games free. work well on windows.
www.dosgames.com
mostly shareware

Juggalo

http://penumbragame.com/

Haven't played it myself but the graphics look excellent. Survival horror type of game.

jonski

Kal Online

Ok , first off I have no idea baout these games , I have never played one of them and probably never will as they just don't appeal to me .

Having said that , I did a search of the forums and can't find any mention of this game here , so I thought I would pop a post on letting ye know about it . The clan that I am in has recently lost alot of our members to it as we did to WOW a while back , actually most of the WOW people form our Clan went over to it aswell .

It is a totally free mmorpg ( I think , as like I said I don't really know anything beyond fps's ) , it can be found at www.kalonline.com and I also found a review here

BLITZ_Molloy

Anybody who's into RTS game should check out Spring. It's a free, fully 3D RTS engine. There are loads of mods, most of them ports from Total Annihilation. They've already implimented alot of features from Supreme Commander like being able to zoom out and view the entire map. Having icons as units in zoomed out in the next step they're going to tackle.



http://members.home.nl/sangers/Sscreen010.jpg

johnpap36

I dont see posted the very good games www.urbandead.com and www.theapocalypse.eu.

Expecially the last one, www.theapocalypse.eu, is a full featured RPG browser based game.

jaggeh

www.plasmapong.com

liamsquire

Hi guys, I recently set up my new website www.biguglymonster.com. It's a free flash game website currently with 1250 games but with another 500 to come very soon!

If you could add it to the sticky list or pass this on to anyone that would be great! I'm trying to get a lot of new members so if anyone can join that would help me a lot!

Blowfish

Suprised this hasn't been mentioned before, Anarchy Online, an MMORPG. The original game and the first expansion are free, the other two you have to pay for.

It's actually a huge game, and fairly addictive, and not as easy to max your level as most MMO's too.

Fenian

http://www.naked-war.com/instructions/index.php
Turn based strategy game played through email. Fully 3D, as seen on Consolevania!

[DF]Lenny

Albatross18.com a free online golf game thats huge in asia,cute gfx but great gameplay and mmorpg stly leveling up system .Well worth a look.

jaggeh

Frontier First Encounters GL
download links
Frontier First Encounters - http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/download/firstenc.zip
GL Exe - http://glffe.alioth.net/glffea100.zip
config file - http://glffe.alioth.net/cfg.zip
DLL's - http://glffe.alioth.net/libs.zip
replacement bmp's - http://glffe.alioth.net/bmps.zip

Install FFE, then unzip all the extra stuff into the game Dir. if you edit the config file you can change the resolution (ive checked it up to 1600x1200)
its the 1.06 version so all major bugs are fixed.

Important bits
Music works \o/
Graphics are a direct transfer from rasterizers to GL, so they look the same as they did before maybe a little better, so dont be expecting super-duper upgrade.
The game is hard, i got killed several times doing the sohahlia Medicine run after winning the wiccan ware race. make sure you save often!

stagolee

Battle Tanks 2

I love this game, amazingly enough its only about 20MB and it will run off a USB key. If you like it there are a couple of extra tanks and a few extra maps out there which are easy enough to add in.

(I would advise turning off the arcade style aim, setting reinforcements to low and periodic and switching to the in turret view as soon as you get started, but theyre just my own personal preferences)

ENJOY

j0e

TmB wrote:

Download Grid Wars from here. Gaming cocaine.
(Robotron/Llamatron/Smash TV type game with gorgeous graphics, great music and hard as nails gameplay).

Bump up the resolution, configure the controls, and enjoy!

Sorry folks... I've had to remove the link to the download.
Email from BizarreCreations:
"We're beginning to feel the effects of the Geometry Wars clones on our sales via Microsoft now and are beginning a process to begin to more robustly protect our copyright and intellectual property.
Therefore, I'd like to ask you in an amicable fashion to stop infringing our IP and pull the game 'Grid Wars' from the internet for download.
I hope you understand and are able to do this without us having to take further steps."

IgsTer

and dont forget silkroad online

good free mmorpg

www.silkroadonline.net

Fidelis

Railroad Tycoon is free to download from 2K Games

http://www.2kgames.com/railroads/railroads.html (14.3MB)

cianr

Monument, thanks for the link to Starport:GE - really enjoying it.

F.E.A.R. Combat Free multiplayer version of the original F.E.A.R. game - good fun!

cianr

A 2Gb download ouch! But sweet!....

True, but GameUpdates.org have a link to a torrent download here - might be better than a regular download! (i.e. in case you get disconnected).

18AD

Excellent list there, thanks for that.

http://www.download.com/Warning-Forever/3000-7447_4-10298144.html
Really good space shooter game.

18AD

http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/

The game I posted above can be gotten from the officaial site above. Also Ray-Hound is very interesting. Haven't played any others.

Malice

I stumbled on some gems last week:

• Cave Story is a platformer/adventure. I haven't played too far in it yet but it's an enjoyable little game so far. It reminds me of games like the early Final Fantasies or Tales of Phantasia but with added jumping It's a Japanese game with an English translation so be sure to install the patch if you download it. Unless you can read Japanese text of course.
  
• Block Attack is a sliding block puzzle game. It has a lot of different game modes including 2 player, timed, endless. It also has a puzzle mode where you must clear the screen in a set number of moves.
  
• The game style of Secret Maryo Chronicles can probably be guessed from the name If you are/were a fan of the original you might enjoy this one. Again it's a platformer (surprise surprise). My only slight gripe is that the jumping isn't as easy to do as with Cave Story.

Jack Sheehan

www.addictinggames.com
Quite fun collection of flash and java,updated every friday.
Also www.newgrounds.com obviously and www.gprime.net

Malice

I found this game called Bloodmasters recently. It’s a multiplayer shoot ‘em up in the mould of Quake etc except it’s viewed from the top-down instead of first-person. It takes a bit of getting used to but it is a lot of to have a blast with. The system requirements are modest enough. The download is here. It’s 48Mb.

Leah_K

Knytt

A cute little 2D platformer.

Also, Within A Deep Forest, a longer and weirder Metroid-thing by the same guy.

Scruff

Two free multiplayer games based on the Quake3 engine for yer enjoyment:

Urban Terror
Counter Strike style game

World of Padman
A really colourful looking catoony style multiplayer shooter

A cool fun shooter, in liliput style, that including 12 maps, along with new crazy weapons, colourful player models, and new game types. Furthermore, everything is musically accompanied by the bands dieselkopf and Green Sun.

TheAlmightyArse

Sumotori

http://web.t-online.hu/archee83/sumotori/

Hilarious sumo game, with huddle-up multiplayer fun on one keyboard. 96k!

Scruff

http://www.cellfactorrevolution.com/

Download the free game Cellfactor: Revolution designed to show case Ageia's physics-acceleration hardware but will play on a pc without it too (except for 1 level)

see eurogamer for more info

drdre

Where can i get free car game called carmageddon.
hope someone can help

Slow Motion

drdre wrote:

Where can i get free car game called carmageddon.
hope someone can help

Try this

http://downloads.vnunet.com/download/games/carmageddon/_12283.html

drdre

Slow Motion wrote:

Try this

http://downloads.vnunet.com/download/games/carmageddon/_12283.html

Thanks i will check it out.

Duras

KGB aka Conspiracy. Incredible game taking into account it is 13 years old!!!

The Elder Scrolls: Arena - First of the scrolls, 13 years old as well

UFO: Enemy Unknown - First, and maybe best of the free series... now for PPC and free!