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Freeware games are games that are released as freeware and can be used, downloaded, and distributed free of charge. Though the phrase free games is often used to refer simply to games that are free of charge, the term free games can also mean games that are released under a Free Software license that permits modification and redistribution of source code. See List of open source games 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

  • 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.
  • 5 Days a Stranger is an adventure game developed by Ben Croshaw.
  • 7 Days a Skeptic is the sequel to 5 Days a Stranger.
  • Abashera is a first person, 3D maze IQ game.
  • Afterlife, an action-adventure game from RjB Software.
  • Alafun Calculator, is a free logic game developed by ALAFUN.COM: http://www.alafun.com/calculator/.
  • America's Army, first-person shooter developed and distributed by US Army.
  • Angband (another popular RPG in the roguelike family), and its many variants. 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.
  • Bowling Evolution is a free bowling game at http://www.bowlingevolution.com/.
  • BVE, free Railroad Simulator created by Mackoy of Japan.
  • Chart wars, a in depth record label simulator.
  • Alien Arena, fully functioned free deathmatch shooter that runs on Windows and Linux, and features standard deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, and all out assault, in a 50s era sci-fi atmosphere.
  • CrateMaster is a free Tetris clone/parody by Longbow Digital Arts. It was used to promote the game Tread Marks in a high score contest on the Old Man Murray website. Gameplay consists solely of making a row of three crates, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Crate Review System featured on that site.
  • Coldgearz Coldgearz is a platform shooter. It has an art style that comes directly from the Super Nintendo generation, and should be a treat for old school gamers.
  • Dance With Intensity clones dance game Dance Dance Revolution
  • Digital Paint 2.0 is a fast-paced, team-based, first-person shooter with a variety of game modes and support for up to 4 teams. Modes include Standard CTF, Single-Flag CTF, Siege (Attack/Defend), KOTH (King of the Hill), Elimination, and DM (Free-for-all). It was once a Quake2 mod but is now completely standalone and completely free.
  • DominateGame is an online Risk-like game - which is technically adware as only the downloadable version is free and puts up adverts for the 25 euro online version
  • Doukutsu Monogatari a.k.a "Cave story" by Studio Pixel. A Metroid style adventure game.
  • Eastside Hockey Manager, popular hockey manager game that was so popular that it got the creator picked up by SI Games in order to make a commercial sequel.
  • Eternal Daughter, a Castlevania-esque adventure game.
  • Gamebiz, an computer game company manager simulation/.
  • Gate88, an Asteroids RTS game.
  • GunBound, a Worms like game.
  • GunZ, a third-person Matrix like shooter with guns and swords.
  • Icy Tower, addictive tower climbing game.
  • Knight Online, a free-2-play concept MMORPG.
  • *] is a first and third-person squad-based war game.
  • liero is a 2D shooting game where players control worms to defeat either a CPU controlled worm or another player on the same keyboard, the game allows you to create maps and then battle out against your enemy with a selection of your 5 favourite weapons, including miniguns, remote control missile launchers, fans (to deflect bullets) and nukes.
  • Liero Xtreme is a sequel and fan re-make of liero, it is probably the most preferred liero re-make, featuring online gaming, mods, better maps, and up to 8 players at once.
  • Little Fighter 2 is a side-scrolling fighting game.
  • MapleStory is a 2D, side-scrolling MMORPG.
  • ''MegaZeux is a simple game creation system.
  • Mindgames is a collection of card, board and miscellaneous games that are primarily puzzle based and varied in objective. http://www.ihsan.biz/
  • MinerVGA is a DOS game of mining.
  • N is a classic platformer game with advanced physics and unique gameplay.
  • Nethack is a roguelike available at http://www.nethack.org/ for a variety of operating systems.
  • Nexuiz, a futuristic deatchmatch fps.
  • Noctis, a highly acclaimed exploration simulator from Alessandro Ghignola of Home Sweet Pixel.
  • Orbiter, a spaceflight simulator with an emphasis on realistic orbital mechanics.
  • Out of Order, a point and click adventure game about a British man who is abducted by aliens, along with his entire bedroom. Official homepage
  • Penumbra is a free horror adventure game by Frictional Games.
  • PlaneShift is a freely available and Open Source MMORPG in development.
  • Pong Kombat is a spoof of PONG and Mortal Kombat
  • 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 *
  • Simutrans: a game that focuses on building a transportation network and is similar to Transport Tycoon.
  • Slam Soccer 2006 a comic-style 3D-football-game (GPL license)
  • Smashing Pumpkins into Small Piles of Putrid Debris (SPISPOPD), a 1993 DOS based top down shooter by Jamul software, jokingly based on a Doom newsgroup thread. (archived link)
  • Soldat, a popular 2D multiplayer online shooter.
  • Steel Panthers: World at War, plus several other remakes of older strategy games from Matrix Games.
  • SPMBT: Steel Panthers Main Battle Tank *
  • SPWW2: Steel Panthers World War 2 *
  • SubSpace, a two-dimensional top-down space shooter game with massively multiplayer capabilities.
  • Trackmania Nations, a 3D racing game specially developed for the Electronic Sports World Cup by Nadeo. http://www.trackmanianations.com
  • Tremulous, a Quake 3 mod turned independent game.
  • Trilby's Notes is the third game in the series about Trilby.
  • Ultrastar, a game similar to singstar.
  • Uniball, a massively-multiplayer space hockey game.
  • Vega Strike, an open-source space combat/trading simulator inspired by Wing Commander: Privateer and Elite.
  • Warning Forever is a vertical shooter where you only fight the boss.
  • Within a Deep Forest, a 2D Platform game / Metroidvania downloadable from http://withinadeepforest.ni2.se/
  • Enemy Territory, a standalone multiplayer expansion to Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
  • Wulfram 2 is a hybrid genre massively multiplayer online first-person shooter, massively multiplayer online real-time strategy, and simulation game currently being developed by Bernt Habermeier and published under the name SlurpySoft (Slurpy is the pen-name/callsign of Bernt Habermeier) using an original source code developed by Bolt-Action Software, of which Bernt Habermeier was a co-founder. Wulfram 2 is one of four known games to be developed by Bolt-Action Software, and is the only one still playable. Notable is the fact that Wulfram 2 is free to play, though the administration is accepting donations from the player-base and offering certain non-gameplay related benefits for it.
  • YSFlight, a flight simulator.
  • Zwichenzug Game made by a Student, coded in Dark Basic. *

Commercial games released as freeware

Games no longer allowed to be distributed

Several commercial games which were distributed for free download years ago are no longer allowed to be distributed.

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.

The Zork games are no longer allowed to be distributed for free. Activision doesn't want them distributed anymore. They forced CNET to remove the games from their page at http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6464_7-6300449-1.html . This was also reported at Liberated Games.

See also

External links

Computer and video game lists | Freeware games

 

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