Free games - Last Updated: 28/03/2009

What free games do you peoples play?

The List:

X Americas Amry(Linux, Mac, Win)

X Anagramarama(BeOS, Linux, WIN)
an anagram word game

X Armagetron Advanced(Mac, Linux, Win)
An enjoyable Tron clone

X The Battle for Wesnoth(MacOSX, Linux, Win and more)
"a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme"

X BZFlag(BSD, Mac OSX, Irix, Linux, Win and other unofficial builds)
"a multiplayer multiplatform 3D tank battle game"

X Carom 3D(Win)
online multiplayer 3d pool simulator

X Cave Story(Win)
A platformer adventure game. Make sure to get the English Patch.

X C-evo(Win)
An empire building game that covers a time scope of several thousand years.

X Cloud Game(Win)
A smooth game about flying, not planes though, nice to dip into as it is relaxing

X Cube(BSD, MacOSX, Linux, PocketPC, Win32)
Quake-style game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine, which allows you to edit the map mid game

X Cube 2 (aka Sauerbraten)(Mac, Linux, Win)

X Dark Oberon( *nix, Win)
A real-time strategy game similar to Warcraft II. It features unique graphics - textures created from shots of real models made out of plasticine!

X Dyson( *nix, Win)
Dyson is an ambient real-time strategy game with abstract visuals. Independent Games Festival 2009 finalist!

X Experimental Gameplay Project(OS)
This site is all about discovering new forms of gameplay. Each game must has been made in less than 7 days by 1 person, and show off something we've never seen before.

X Freeciv(MacOSX, Win and Source Code)
A turn-based strategy inspired by Sid Meier's Civilization games.

X Grand Grand Theft Auto(Win)

X Grand Grand Theft Auto 2(Win)

X Grid Wars 2(Win, OSX, Lin)
Geometry Wars clone. If you don't own a joy-pad for your PC, re-configure to use hybrid mouse/keyboard controls before playing.

X GunBound World Champion(Win)
This Worms clone is a fun game to play, but most of it's reputation, sadly, comes from its appalling online community. Try and play with friends only.

X Gunz(Win)
Not only does Gunz allow you to fire all sorts of weapons, it allows you to fire all sorts of weapons whilst running along a wall - Matrix style!

X Jetpack (includes Squarez(Win)
Retro platformer (commercial) game released as freeware

X The Kingdom of Loathing(OS)
A comical (browser-based) MMORPG, brought to you by the folks at Asymmetric Publications.

X Liquid War 5(OS)
A unique multiplayer wargame, where you control an army of liquid and have to try and eat your opponents (best played with real people..)

X Little Fighter 2(Win)

X MapleStory(OS)
A 2D side-scrolling MMORPG

X NetHack(Win, MS-DOS, Linux, Mac, Amiga, Atari(!))
A complex, difficult but addictive (ASCII) RPG.

X Nexuiz(Win, Mac, Linux)
3d deathmatch game (based on the Dark places engine)

X Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe(MacOSX, Linux, Win and others)
A clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe"

X Rorschach(Win, PSP)
Rorschach is a detective-adventure where you play a small person that has been called to an asylum where the chief doctor has been brutally murdered.

X Shoot 'em(Win)
3D ASCII shooting game. Less than 1MB - Video

X Silkroad Online(OS)
"think Final Fantasy and World of Warcraft. The graphics and basic ideas behind this game are awesome!"

X Soldat(Win)
"a unique side-view multiplayer action game"

X Space Cowboy(Win)
"an action based MMO 3D Space Shooter. In Space Cowboy Online, players can pilot their own space fighter ships on an imaginary planet and upgrade skills or the ship itself."

X 3D Starstrike(Win)
Remake of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Star Wars arcade tribute classic with the same name.

X TrackMania Nations Forever(Win)
a racing game developed for the Electronic Sports World Cup, so it lends itself very well to multiplayer fun.

X Tremulous(Linux , Win)

X WarRock(Win)

X Wild Metal(Win)
"A 3D strategic vehicular combat game set in a distant land, in which you command armed roving vehicles". Made by the Rockstar North team.

X Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory(OS)
(Enter Site>Downloads>Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory>Base Install)

X Zelda Classic(Dos, Win and Mac and Linux versions are in the works)
It has been developed into an exact replica of the NES game The Legend of Zelda. Zelda Classic allows for new quests that can use either the traditional graphics or enhanced graphics, as well as new enemies, items, and challenges.

Free Game Tools:

X SimPE(Win)
Level and content editor for The Sims 2

X TeamSpeak(MacOSX, Linux, Win)

X Wine(Linux and some other non-Windows OS)
Will allow you to run those Windows games on Linux. See database of supported apps here.

X XFire(Win, people have ported it to others)

Update:
Started tagging the ones with Xfire support with a big ol' red X.
Changed layout
Added what OS (Operating System) the game runs on

I'll add more whenever I have the time!

Feel free to post any you play.

I usually play Kingdom Of Loathing (http://www.kingdomofloathing.com). An awesome browser-based MMORPG... It's the only MMORPG I play.

Yeah, it's really fun and quirky... EO it ain't!

And no problem! :)

Well if you want MMO there's always Planeshift. I used to play it early early on in development, but haven't had time recently. I'm going to go check out Clouds and Kingdom of Loathing, both look pretty interesting. The only free games I've been playing regularly are Battle for Wesnoth and Armagetron(really fun with alot of friends/family), but here are some others I've tried at one point or another(hopefully someone can find something to their liking):

VegaStrike - 3d space game
TripleA - Turn based strategy game. Based off the Axis and Allies board game. (OS independent, but requires Java 1.5)
Wing Commander - Privateer Gemini Gold - remake based off the VegaStrike engine.
No Gravity
Cube - (first person shooter) I checked it out once. It's okay.
Nexuiz - 3d deathmatch (based on the Dark places engine)
Secret Maryo Chronicles - a nice throwback
Tower Toppler - redux of the popular 80s console game
Asteroids 3d - Imagine Wing commander mixed with Asteroids. Not the best, but okay.
Block Attack - Open-source Tetris Attack Action!
TORCS - Something about cars, I can't remember what it stands for. If you're in the mood for some racing? not the best game ever.
Critical Care - Ambulance driving game
Scorched 3d - if you liked Scorched Earth...
Machinations - in development, looks interesting if you like robots...
Anagramarama - if you like anagrams...

Okay, that turned out longer than I expected...
- Nils

Edit: probably all of those shouldn't be added to the list. ;)

Quoth no_soap_radio:
Edit: probably all of those shouldn't be added to the list. ;)
Should or shouldn't? :)

Anyway, thanks for the links - Nexuiz and Cube are both great games.

Nexuis looks great and plays like a dream if you have a fast enough machine. Cube doesn't look so go, but requires very little bandwidth (you can even be downloading your torrents and stuff whilst playing it online) and allows you to, very coolly, edit maps mid game.

I'll add them and a few others on that list in a tick.

Oh and I'm glad someone else plays, Wesnoth. :)

hey, runescape's free and well good!
How is Runescape? I've stopped by in the past, and been a bit intrigued by it, but have never given it a try. What's it like?

Should or shouldn't? :)
Should not. Just add some of the better ones (like you have ;) ).
I agree one of Cube's strengths is how lightweight it is, and the ingame map editing is totally cool.

Oh and I'm glad someone else plays, Wesnoth. :)I'll admit I was a little skeptical at first with some of the screenshots looking how they do, but I find myself becomming addicted. ;) Great game. Not the greatest looking game, but it has it's own style that's quite good actually.

Quoth no_soap_radio:
hey, runescape's free and well good!
How is Runescape? I've stopped by in the past, and been a bit intrigued by it, but have never given it a try. What's it like?

I used to play it, but kept getting killed by a cow. :(

Still I'll add it in.

Maybe I'll come up with a key of some sort, so people know what sort of games what...

Quoth spacefish:
Quoth MikeManger:

I used to play it, but kept getting killed by a cow. :(


Not to be rude, but HAHAHA! ;)

Couldn't stop laughing myself - Kept on getting killed on this one bit, after a while I turned the monitor off then took a few steps away. :D

I sometimes kick myself for not trying more free games and independant stuff. But since working a dayjob for the past 3 years, gaming has shifted from PC to PS2 to reduce playtime. As most of us, it was often all nighters, especially survival horror that I would only play when the sun was down & lights off. So when waiting for my yearly (or more) flagship titles on the PC to come out, I sometimes dwell on the stuff at Reflexive Entertainment which I got to through this SWARM game I had bought out of a discount bin, GREAT graphics.. but it loops and there were no bosses.. wtf.

Fans of Smash T.V. and Total Carnage, you MUST play Crimsonland. Freakin' messy, and you'll make it out of most levels like a rising phoenix. Passing it on HARD is simply enlighting. It's all about powerups. You get to actually choose one of 5 attack bonuses -- great quick and dirty RPG style management with good looped hard metal music.

no_soap >> Thanks for the Privateer link.

Kingdom of loathing as has already been mentioned,
It's a goal football management sim
Nationstates politics simulator

And although its not free to the rest of you, I'm alpha testing Defcon Buy this game when it comes out, well worth it!

The screens look cool though and completely remind me of WarGames. Not sure if it's the type of game I can play being all old and uncoordinated ;) but I'll be paying attention to this one.

"Remind you"? Geeze! It's called DEFCON, it looks like the screens in War Games meets Tron, and it's spelled out: "Global Thermonuclear War". War Games is one of my all time fave movies. It's just great.. let's play..........

Quoth bigpixels:
"Remind you"? Geeze!


Well, excuse me for being old and forgetful and not remembering exactly what the screens from the movie look like. :P

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned TrackMania Nations

Freeware racing game. Great physics. Online multiplayer mode. Track Editor....