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List Of Freeware GamesFreeware 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 - 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 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.
- 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 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.
- Dance With Intensity clones dance game Dance Dance Revolution
- DominateGame is an online Risk-like game here.
- Eastside Hockey Manager, hockey manager game.
- GunBound, a free Worms like game at http://www.gunbound.net .
- Little Fighters 2 is a side-scrolling fighting game available here.
- Orbiter, a spaceflight simulator with an emphasis on realistic orbital mechanics 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 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)
- Soldat, a popular 2D multiplayer online shooterhttp://www.soldat.prv.pl
- Steel Panthers: World at War http://www.matrixgames.com/spwaw/, plus several other remakes of older strategy games from Matrix Games.
- SPMBT: Steel Panthers Main Battle Tank http://linetap.com/www/drg/SPCamo-4.htm
- SPWW2: Steel Panthers World War 2 http://linetap.com/www/drg/SPCamo-2.htm
- Vega Strike, an open-source space combat/trading simulator inspired by Wing Commander: Privateer and Elite.
- , a standalone multiplayer expansion to Return to Castle Wolfenstein. http://www.castlewolfenstein.com/
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. http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php
- Betrayal at Krondor, 1993 release by Sierra On-Line, release as freeware 1997.http://www.alt-tab.net/alt-tab/games/krondorplay.asp
- Caesar, 1991 release by Impressions.
- Castle of the Winds a tile based RPG for Windows 3.x, written by SaadaSoft.
- Decisive Battle of WWII: The Adrennes Offensive, released as freeware by SSG. http://www.ssgus.com/ardennes-download.htm
- Derek Smart's infamous Battlecruiser 3000AD. http://www.3000ad.com/downloads/bc3k.shtml
- Dink Smallwood, 1997 RPG by RTsoft released as freeware on 17 October 1999. http://www.rtsoft.com/dink/
- Elite and Elite Plus. http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/
- Flight of the Amazon Queen by Interactive Binary Illusions. 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. http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/gta.htm
- Grand Theft Auto 2, second game of the GTA-series. http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/gta2.htm
- Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe, a 1999 game by Illusion Softworks. http://www.3dgamers.com/games/hiddendangerous/
- One Must Fall: 2097, (1994) classic fighting game by Diversions Entertaintment.
- Ports Of Call. http://www.rdklein.com/poc/classic/
- Red Baron, 1990 fight simulator by Dynamix.
- 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. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
- and Tribes 2, were released as freeware May 2004.http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/tribes/
- The Elder Scrolls: Arena, 1994 game that was released as freeware in 2004.http://www.elderscrolls.com/tenth_anniv/tenth_anniv-arena.htm
- Lord British's Ultima IV
- Wild Metal - http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/wildmetal.htm
- Zork I, II, III & The Undiscovered Underground http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/
See also Sources Some of the games mentioned can be found at: - http://www.pcgaming.ws/
- http://www.gamehippo.com
- http://www.pinggames.com/
- http://www.the-underdogs.org/
- http://www.acid-play.com/
Freeware games
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