No illegal downloads or anything like that, all above board please.
Here is my contribution.
First Person Shooter
Wikipedia list of free first person shooters. (couldn’t do better myself)
Real Time Strategy:
MMORPG
GPotato has three games that are free:
FlyFF, Rappellz and Space Cowboy
Add your free game here and lets make a comprehensive list!
Well crap, I don’t know why part of it got cut out, Trash is supposed to be under Real time Strategy and there was supposed to be a link with this under first person shooter:
Wikipedia list of free first person shooters. (couldn’t do better myself)
Alien Arena 2007 looks pretty sweet. I’m downloading the windows version right now. Actually there are lots of good looking games listed on that page.
I play under the name “psychocide”. Challenge me if you see me in the lobby and I’ll show you the ropes.
I meant to say I’m downloading the LINUX version right now.
And their entire list of free games.
Special mention to Elite, freely available on the website of one of its creators, Ian Bell.
From here, the Ur-Quan Masters. It’s the classic game Star Control 2, from people who acquired the rights to the game but not the name, thus the title change.
It’s the ultimate RPG.
N! It’s a fun, physics-based platform game.
I love the 5 Days a Stranger series of adventure games. They’re fantastic.
Doukutsu Monogatari (Cave Story) is another amazing game – it’s sort of an action/adventure game with a good story and great graphics.
so many more… Home of the Underdogs is my favourite place to get games.
Transcendence is pretty dang spiffy. It’s like a cross between Elite, Rogue (or Nethack if you like) and Star Control. You play a starship captain who collects and trades goods in a hostile universe. The universe is randomly generated, but the star systems are the same when you return to them. In fact, the AI will often stay busy in some star systems - you may return to one in the middle of a war for example. There’s a metric buttload of items and opponents in Transcendence, and quests too. The game is suitable for casual play, but can get fairly engrossing in classic RPG-style if you want it to. You can write mods for the game using a weird blend of XML and Scheme, if that’s your cup of tea. The only drawback is that it’s still in beta. The author said that he plans on it remaining freeware after 1.0.
I’ll also shill for Anacreon by the same author. It’s a turn-based strategy game where you try to conquor other worlds. It’s a more recent update of the old DOS game with the same name.
I’m also a huge fan of Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection. (He’s the anosmic programmer who brought us Putty.) They’re pretty old-school, but many of them can be pretty engrossing, and they play very well from a flash drive.
I also keep tabs on the Games section at PortableFreeware.com.
For those of us with Firefox, you can try the Online Games Tool Bar.
I’ve got to give a puff to Frets on Fire! Don’t have a PS2? Don’t have Guitar Hero? Don’t have a snotty, fake German lording his superior guitar skills over you?
Get it here, today! (Good fun)
I downloaded this a couple of days ago, seeing as I love Guitar Hero, but don’t own the game and can’t afford it, and wondered if you knew of a good place to get songs for it? I have only found one place (Keyboards on fire) that has some songs, but most of those are just the fret part, no actual music, and a lot of them are songs I don’t care for. I was hoping there was a site with a lot of songs available for download, but I also fear that it would be violating copyright law and hence the small number of songs available.
Have you tried here? Accueil | Freenerd
That has been the only site I have found thus far and is the one I lamented about in my earler post.
For free games there’s -
The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth
ScummVM. You can download Flight of the Amazon Queen and Beneath a Steel Sky
The Interactive Fiction Archive
Privateer Gemini or
Privateer Remake
Phospher - a Shockwave 3d shooter
Rockstar have got free downloads of GTA and GTA 2 available at their sitehere
I forgot about Space Trader. It was originally for the Palm, but there’s a Windows version and Pocket PC Version too. It’s kind of like Elite, but not 3d. It’s also turn-based and very casual. I like it a lot.
I might as well mention Taipan for Windows, another Windows port of an old-school classic.