List of freeware games
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
- America's Army, first-person shooter developed and distributed by US Army
- 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 . It was used to promote the game Tread Marks in a high score contest on the website. Gameplay consists solely of making a row of three crates, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the featured on that site.
- Enemy Territory, a standalone multiplayer expansion to Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
- GunBound, a free Worms like game at http://www.gunbound.net .
- Orbiter, a spaceflight simulator with an emphasis on realistic orbital mechanics
- 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 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. ()
- Steel Panthers: World at War , plus several other remakes of older strategy games from Vega Strike, an open-source space combat/trading simulator inspired by Wing Commander: Privateer and Elite.
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, plus several other ScummVM based games .
- Castle of the Winds a tile based RPG for Windows 3.x, written by SaadaSoft and published by Epic MegaGames.
- Derek Smart's infamous Battlecruiser 3000AD
- Betrayal at Krondor, 1993 release by Sierra On-Line, release as freeware 1997.
- Caesar, 1991 release by Impressions
- Decisive Battle of WWII: The Elder Scrolls: Arena, 1994 game that was released as freeware in 2004.
- Elite and Elite Plus
- Frederik Pohl's Gateway part 1, adventure game, based on book by same author.
- Grand Theft Auto, First game of GTA-series. .
- Lord British's Ultima IV
- Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe, a 1999 game by Illusion Softworks/Take Two Interactive Software
- One Must Fall 2097, (1994) classic fighting game by Diversions Entertaintment/Epic Games.
- Red Baron, 1990 fight simulator by Sierra On-Line
- Rise of the Dragon, 1990 release by Dynamix/Sierra On-Line
- Starsiege: Tribes and Tribes 2, were released as freeware May 2004.
- The Ur-Quan Masters, a GPL'ed version of classic space adventure Star Control 2: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
- Zork I, II, III & The Undiscovered Underground
See also
Sources
Some of the games mentioned can be found at:
- http://www.gamehippo.com
- http://www.pinggames.com/
- http://www.the-underdogs.org/
- http://www.pcgaming.ws/
