[Androgeos Exeunt]

If you're using a Mac, you can visit Apple Inc.'s list of games.

[blackhole]

CAVE STORY.

PLAY IT.

 

[Dark Hunter]

If you're interested in shmups:

"Destroy the core."

Also, any shmup by x.x

Eden's Aegis is his current project, and so is only a demo at this point. Blue Wish Resurrection is far and away his most popular game, but Eden's Edge and Green Wind are both excellent as well, if a bit lacking in the graphics department.

[TrashMan]

UFO: Alien Invasion  -  tactical game, ala X-com and UFO


Allegiance - free Sci-Fi multiplayer tactical shooter/strategy

[Stormkeeper]

There's a giant robot fighting game if that's your cup of tea.

Here's the link to the mirror hosting the translated version.

[NGTM-1R]

Escape Velocity Nova...not strictly speaking freeware, but only one feature I can think of is really locked out, and it's well worth the download even without most of the storylines activated.

Protip: Don't accept any mission to move anything direct to Earth, it dumps you in the most common storyline, and the least interesting one.

[lenard27]

Thanks guys! That'll be enough to keep me going for a while with out having to spend any money.

And I don't like to download anything with torrents, I'm the rare breed that actually likes to mkae sure that the developers make some cash from their games. So that way they can make more.

[Mars]

I don't think abondonware really counts.

[Davros]

The Babylon project *free
http://babylon.hard-light.net/index.php


Babylon5 - Ive found her *free
http://ifh.firstones.com/


The Wing commander Saga *free
http://www.wcsaga.com/


Wing Commander privateer gemini gold *free
http://priv.solsector.net/


wing commander secret ops *free
http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/download/64821/


Battlestar Galactica beyong the red line *free
http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/




vega strike *free
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/


Star Wraith Shadows of Orion
Star Wraith IV: Reviction
RiftSpace
all free
http://starwraith3dgames.home.att.net/go.htm


Universal combat *free (disclaimer - i accept no responsibilty for any mental scars/suicide attempts this may provoke)
http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=490&id=13639


also if you really think there isnt enough suffering in your life
Battlecruiser Millennium v1.09.03 *free
Battlecruiser 3000AD v2.09 *free
http://www.3000ad.com/site/free_games/


orbiter *free


alleigence *free (yes a free microsoft spacesim)
http://www.freeallegiance.org/


parsec *free
http://www.parsec.org/


oolite *free
http://oolite.aegidian.org/


no gravity *free
http://www.realtech-vr.com/nogravity/

[redsniper]

sure they're free, but are they GOOD?

[eliex]

A game I'm suggesting isn't free, but it's worth having a look at before moving on.
Stand in awe of . . . Deimos Rising! 

 It's virtually an arcade ship-shooter game that is free on the demo missions. Demo it might be, but either that I suck or even the first 3 missions are quite difficult. 

Website: http://pc.gamezone.com/gamesell/p21267.htm

Try it, it's really good.

[Al Tarket]

i dont play demos. i used to as well, but no longer.

this thread is a freeware thread, looking on google.; it's their one site thats supposedly freeware, where you dont find licence: demo/shareware?

[Spicious]

Thanks guys! That'll be enough to keep me going for a while with out having to spend any money.

And I don't like to download anything with torrents, I'm the rare breed that actually likes to mkae sure that the developers make some cash from their games. So that way they can make more.

You won't torrent but you're happy to play freeware games without sending the developers cash so they can make more?

[Snail]

BC3K is free, ya?

[Al Tarket]

derek smarts game i assume your talking about snail?

spicious, i wont play ball with the devs if their just gonna to do something like EVE for example, claw in 15 dollars or more for one person for one month and on average 250,000 people are online give or take everyday. and this has been going on for a few years. i still dont see another EVE version coming out and i doubt it. their motive is money related and it doesn't even shift the scales with the small updates their given, to the amount of money their getting.

where if the devs are going to do a wide range (meaning this company does space game and a strategy building game and then a fps, a sims like game, a racing game etc...) of certain games and need the money i would just buy it so they can have the money necessary. however some games you just cant get these days and you either wait for the impossible luck to change or download it somewhere.

[Jeff Vader]

sure they're free, but are they GOOD?

You'll surely get at least your money's worth of quality.

[Snail]

derek smarts game i assume your talking about snail?

Yup.

9/10 chance you'll **** your dog after playing.

[Colonol Dekker]

Battlecruiser Millennium v1.09.03 (released: 05.20.05)
for free?


Woot i can die happy"!!

[superstrongsarcasm tags in effect]

[Dark Hunter]

A game I'm suggesting isn't free, but it's worth having a look at before moving on.
Stand in awe of . . . Deimos Rising! 

 It's virtually an arcade ship-shooter game that is free on the demo missions. Demo it might be, but either that I suck or even the first 3 missions are quite difficult. 

Website: http://pc.gamezone.com/gamesell/p21267.htm

Try it, it's really good.

Hey wow! Someone else who plays Deimos Rising!

The difficult thing about it is that it has your standard rapid-fire widespread weapons... but only for air targets. You get really short-range bombs for ground targets, which are accompanied by truckloads of health.
Heh... the game doesn't get truly difficult until the ninth mission. Shielded gun emplacements, homing gun emplacements, enemies like giant shuriken, numerous rapid-firing tanks on the ground... the final mission even has invincible black square things that exist solely to get in your way (block your shots and kill you if you touch them).

[lenard27]

Thanks guys! That'll be enough to keep me going for a while with out having to spend any money.

And I don't like to download anything with torrents, I'm the rare breed that actually likes to mkae sure that the developers make some cash from their games. So that way they can make more.

You won't torrent but you're happy to play freeware games without sending the developers cash so they can make more?

The developers actively chose to release their game for free.
Plus, if I download one of their games and love it, I'll tell my friends about it. Word of mouth is just as good as money in some cases. And I'm not averse to donating money to the devs, but it's not like I'm sitting on a mountain of cash. I'm going back to college next week. Beer needs to be bought.