List of freeware games
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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.
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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.
- 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, popular hockey manager game that was so good that it got the creator picked up by SI Games in order to make a commercial sequel.
- Eternal Daughter, a Castlevania-esque adventure game.
- GunBound, a free Worms like game at http://www.gunbound.net .
- Little Fighter 2 is a side-scrolling fighting game available here (http://www.lf2.net).
- N is a classic platformer game.
- Nethack is a roguelike available at http://www.nethack.org/ for a variety of operating systems.
- 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)
- SubSpace, a two-dimensional top-down space shooter game with massively multiplayer capabilities.
- 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
- UberWG Software Department - Arkanoid3D.NET (http://www.Arkanoid3D.Net)
- Abuse, a 1995 side-scrolling action game by Crack dot Com, released as freeware.
- Akalabeth a.k.a "Ultima 0" by Lord British.
- Beneath a Steel Sky by Revolution Software. [9] (http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php)
- Castle of the Winds a tile based RPG for Windows 3.x, written by SaadaSoft.
- Decisive Battle of WWII: The Ardennes Offensive, released as freeware by SSG. [10] (http://www.ssgus.com/ardennes-download.htm)
- Derek Smart's infamous Battlecruiser 3000AD. [11] (http://www.3000ad.com/downloads/bc3k.shtml)
- Dink Smallwood, 1997 RPG by RTsoft released as freeware on 17 October 1999. [12] (http://www.rtsoft.com/dink/)
- Elite and Elite Plus. [13] (http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/)
- Flight of the Amazon Queen by Interactive Binary Illusions. [14] (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 the GTA-series. [15] (http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/gta.html)
- Grand Theft Auto 2, second game of the GTA-series. [16] (http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/index.html)
- Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe, a 1999 game by Illusion Softworks. [17] (http://www.3dgamers.com/games/hiddendangerous/)
- Ken's Labyrinth by Ken Silverman [18] (http://advsys.net/ken/klab.htm)
- One Must Fall: 2097, (1994) classic fighting game by Diversions Entertaintment.
- Ports Of Call. [19] (http://www.rdklein.com/poc/classic/)
- 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 & Zork: The Undiscovered Underground [24] (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/)
Games no longer allowed to be distrubuted
Several commerical games which were distrubuted for free download years ago are no longer allowed to be distrubuted.
B-17 Flying Fortress is no longer legal to download.
The Sierra games Betrayal at Krondor, Red Baron 3D & Caesar are also not legal to download.
This has been proven at Liberated Games FAQ (http://www.liberatedgames.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=7&start=0&rid=0&S=2ed6669c5e4ab209929f9daea5590221)
See also
Sources
Some of the games mentioned can be found at: