[lenard27]

Does anyone know of any good Freeware games out there? I've tried searching many times through google, but I haven't found anything that really grabs my interests.

[CP5670]

Some nice ones I've played in the last several months are Neverball (puzzle game where you guide a ball through various obstacle courses, hard and very addictive), Hurrican (2D platformer, very polished and nice graphics) and Trackmania Nations Forever (arcade stunt racing game, similar to Rollcage's scramble mode).

[aRaven]

how about freespace 2? ^^

[[DW]-Hunter]

You could try torrent, most games on there aren't "freeware" but you still aren't paying for them

[Polpolion]

Every game is freeware if you look hard enough. 

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Ooh, sizzler, you pirate.

Have you seen this?

[Fury]

There are quite a bit of freeware games listed here: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=80&threadid=1207656

[DW]-Hunter & thesizzler, please refrain from provoking people to pirate games/software in these forums.

[Solatar]

how about freespace 2? ^^

FS2 isn't freeware.

Armagetron Advanced ( http://armagetronad.net/ ) proved to be very addictive to me. It's kind of simple, but the online play isn't so bad. It was more addictive the last few weeks of school when some friends and I played LAN games during economics...

[BloodEagle]

Cave Story
LA-MULANA
The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins
Survival Crisis Z
Red Valkyrie
Decker
Iter Vehemens ad Necem
Nethack and/or Falcon's Eye
Battleships Forever
Soldat
Transcendence
Walkover
The Ur-Quan Masters
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Crazy Cross
Notrium
Bontãgo
GameBiz 2
Clonk Planet and/or Clonk Endeavour

[karajorma]

What Makes You Tick - Adventure game in the Monkey Island style. Pretty good if a little short.

[Mars]

Well the "big" guns in the Open Source FPS crowd are:

Nexuiz
Warsow
Tremulous
Sauerbraten
Cube
Alien Arena

I'd have to say Nexuiz and Alien Arena are the most fun. Nexuiz is like Quake 3 on cocaine, it's all about reaction time and lightening quick reactions. It's kinda laggy though.

Warsow is fun, I guess, but I never really liked it.

Tremulous is fun for a week or so, but it really gets old terribly fast.

Sauerbraten is sort of a weak attempt to make a new original Quake. Cube is what it's (originally) based off of.


I'd recommend downloading Quake 1 (not technically legal, but not as morally painful compared to say, downloading Bioshock) and installing Darkplaces. It's not a deep and mystical gaming experience, but it'll knock some hours out of your day.

[Al Tarket]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_games_released_as_freeware - it doesnt have every game thats old but its a good list of games. also one name you will like to see in there!!!

one such site that does freeware games, http://www.reloaded.org.
stragry, a polish site did freeware games at one time but i not certain any further about that site.
home of the underdogs does freeware but is prone to viruses and worms hitting the site, so do so under your own risk.

[BloodEagle]

http://liberatedgames.com/

Most of them are a complete waste of time.

[Topgun]

vega strike.
but it's meh.

[castor]

http://www.towerdefence.net/?page=allgames&ls=top10

[Narwhal]

Ur Quan Masters: (a.k.a. Star Control 2 Remake) Best scenario I know of, extremely fun to play and fun to read. You don't need to play the 1 which mostly was an arcade game.

Battle for Wesnoth : CLEARLY the best open-source strategy game out there, but you need to like Fantasy.

Vega Strike and Privateer Remake (same source code, different games) (BEWARE : NOT  PRIVATEER GEMINI GOLD, except if you're a fan of abandonware and you want to play "pure"). They are space sim with a strong trading element.

[Narwhal]

Oh... and if you speak French, there is that wonderful game just out :

www.hordes.fr

With a group of 40 players, you must survive as long as possible as a city against Hordes of Zombies, by trying to fetch ressources in the dangerous desert, banning from the city or better hanging non-cooperative players (those stealing the communauty defenses to barricade their home for instance, or doing too little for them to deserve getting water from the almost empty well), building defenses, killing zombies, etc etc.
Great game... I discovered it one week ago, it replaced FS2 as my main game

Should be translated soon, though. Since it had a major success in France (>40 000 players).

[Hellstryker]

Geneforge... it's a prettied up diablo, but it's really addictive and has 3 (IIRC) sequels. It's not "freeware" but it is one of those games where you can download the demo, and activate it with a key. and it says in the license you can give the to your friends... so, we're all friends here right? 

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Hey, I play Wesnoth (here and there) too...

Try learning how to run DOSBox. Once you do that, you can play Stargunner and BioMenace on a modern operating system. Both games are from 3D Realms.

Alternatively, have you seen this?

[Eishtmo]

http://www.caltrops.com/article0031_01.php
http://www.caltrops.com/article0031_02.php
http://www.caltrops.com/article0031_03.php
http://www.caltrops.com/article0031_04.php

The first page is all borked for me for some reason, but the rest are good.  Oh, and look at what's at #1.