Inspired by Gnome’s Oh no more hand-picked free games I decided to create the mother load of free games. A List that contains every single free game that is worth playing. I’m absolutely sure that my initial list will miss many games but it will grow over time – with your help. I know that you have an ace up your sleeve and will help me create the list.
For now, enjoy what we have collected so far and add any valuable entry in the comments. I will take a look and add it to the list. I decided to create a few categories which makes it easier to take a look at the list. Please note that I did not include so called Abondonware in the list. You might need Dos Box to run some of the games in windows.
Action:
- Afterburner 3d – A remake of the classic Sega Arcade shooter.
- Alien Breed Remake – A remake of the classic Amiga shooter.
- America’s Army – Created for the US Army, multiplayer shooter.
- Another World 2006 – A remake of Another World.
- Babylon 5 – A free space combat simulator based on the original tv series.
- Battlecruiser Millenium – A space simulation.
- Beats of Rage – A Streets of Rage remake.
- Box Runner – Remake of the classic Loderunner game.
- Cave Story – Classic Japanese sidescroller.
- Double Dragon Forever – Classic Beat’em up.
- Fear Combat – The multiplayer part of the award winning Fear.
- Grand Theft Auto 1 – A Rockstar game, enough said.
- Grand Theft Auto 2 – Better graphics than 1, similar gameplay.
- Gunz – A free online shooter with good graphics and gameplay.
- Harmotion – Classic shooter.
- Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe – Look still nice and plays great.
- Kumawar – free FPS
- Mono – one of the greatest addicting games I’ve ever played.
- One Must Fall – A beat’em up.
- Penumbra – A 3d horror game, like Silent Hill or Resident Evil.
- Retro River Raid – Remake of the Atari 2600 classic.
- Scorched Earth – artillery game in 3D.
- Secret Maryo Chronicles – Mario Brothers Game like Super Mario Brothers.
- Silver Wings – a classic shoot’em up.
- SWIV – inofficial follow up of the Amiga game Silkworm.
- Tremulous – standalone Quake 3 mod. Marines vs Alien spiders.
- Tribes – Was a great multiplayer shooter.
- Turrican 4 Funeral – Turrican was one of the top action games on the commodore amiga system.
- Warrock – a free shooter that looks and plays like Battlefield 2.
- Warsow – First Person Shooter.
- Wild Metal – a 3d strategic combat game.
- Wing Commander Privateer Remake – A great remake of privateer.
- Wings of Fury – Another classic Amiga game. Play a US Pilot in the pacific war.
- Wolfenstein Enemy Territory – A great online shooter, play either the german or allied side and choose a class to play.
- Xenon 2000 – Xenon was a famous shoot’em up on the Amiga created by the famous Bitmap Brothers. They created a update to that classic game.
Adventures:
- Beneath a Steel Sky – What a great adventure, link to the free cd version. By Revolution who created the famous Broken Sword Adventures as well.
- Flight of the Amazon Queen – Looks and plays like Lucasarts classic adventures.
- Head over Heels – Classic Adventure Game from 1987.
- King’s Quest 1 – King’s Quest 1 VGA remake.
- King’s Quest 2 – King’s Quest 2 in VGA, great remake.
- King’s Quest 3 – A remade VGA version of King’s Quest 3.
- Lure of the Temptress – old adventure but still great to play.
- Maniac Mansion Deluxe – Well, Maniac Mansion, the first Lucasarts adventure, do I have to say more.
- Space Quest Chapter 0 – Uses the same interface as Space Quest 1 and 2.
- Zak MC Kracken 2 – part 2 of the classic Lucasarts Adventure.
Roleplaying:
- Betrayal at Krondor – A rpg taking place in the worlds of Raymond E. Feist.
- The Elder Scrolls Arena – I loved that game. It was terribly buggy but I still loved it when it first came out. Oblivion is the latest part in this series from Bethesda.
- Ultima IV – It’s Ultima !
- Zelda Classic – A classic remake of Zelda by Nintendo.
Sports and Cars:
- Trackmania Nations – A free multiplayer racing game.
- Winigolf – A minigolf game.
Strategy:
- 1848 – A strategy game about the Austrian-Hungarian War from 1848
- Advanced Strategic Command – Like Battle Isle.
- Battle For Wesnoth – A game like Shining Force and Final Fantasy Tactics. Great !
- Castle Combat – Build a fortress and destroy the enemies one with your cannons.
- Civ Evolution – A free Civilization clone.
- FreeCiv – Just like Civ Evolution a free Civilization clone.
- FreeRails – Railroad Tycoon Remake.
- L General – A Panzer General Clone.
- Sim City – Sim City was a unique game when it came out. The first real city simulation.
- Settlers 3d – A 3d adaption of the boardgame Settlers of Catan.
- Steel Panthers Battle Tank – Turn based strategy game like Panzer General.
- Steel Panthers World at War – Another Steel Panthers game.
- Swine – A classic RTS game.
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Mr.Martin,
nice list! but could you possibly add more websites on here couldn’t find mine at all:( thanks:)
Brilliant! :)
Great little resource….will pass on article.
Winigolf
A mini golf game. Needs no installation, light, but really great !
Just type Winigolf on a search engine to find it.
Don’t forget the free to play MMORPG Pirate King Online. www.PirateKingOnline.com
Please include the excelent Racing Simulator LIVE FOR SPEED http://www.liveforspeed.net/
Grrr! You forgot about GUTS and Sheeple! >:/
Warsow is a free multiplayer FPS that plays like a cross between Quake 1, Quake 3, and UT2k4, with a few unique twists of its own. You can get it for free for Windows or Linux at www.warsow.com
Crap! Make that www.warsow.net
Kumawar and Kumawar 2 are free fps’s
Http://www.kumagames.com
http://www.gameflaws.com/cavestory
Amazing list!
All i wanted was Zak McKracken 2….but the-underdogs is not only gone, its an ad-sink!!
Now my day is doubly ruined…hehe..except for the fact that I know that there’s a Zak McKracken 2!!
WOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent new game at www.harmotion.com
I’ll stick with this bigger list: http://www.the-underdogs.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45597
I certainly have to bookmark this page. I need to play some RPGs. Have not played a decent one for ages.
It’s short term, but Ricochet is free at the moment…well worth the download: http://www.reflexive.com/index.php?PAGE=game_detail&AID=29
Don’t forget Savage
http://www.gamesfornothing.com/2006/10/05/savage-the-battle-for-newerth-a-free-rtsfps/
Great list. Nice time waster @ school! :D
I think my alltime favorite is Contiuum. http://www.getcontinuum.com/
Game was developed commercially in 96, then went free shortly after.
to get zak2 from the underdogs just click on the link and then replace just the .org with .info – than it’ll work
greetz
endb03
Needs more Dink Smallwood!
http://www.rtsoft.com/dink/
Awesome RPG/Adventure game.
The 2006 edition of Another World isn’t free. It lets you play one measly level, then urges you to pay EUR 7,- to continue.
Check out the excellent freeware Star Wars space battle games Battle of Yavin and Battle of Endor at http://www.bruneras.com/.
Why isn’t this updated? From ghack.net itself, Bang Howdy isn’t even included! :/ Nice list so far though!
Cool!
Don’t forget the fps Dinohunters!
Dinohunters
and
and The History Channel’s ShootOut war games
which are both free games
Free Massive multi-player RPG, Live moderated chat suitable for all ages, Come cast spells and wield powerful weapons against 400+ monsters… and each other. Play our new Monster Bingo or participate in our new Mining update.Join a clan or play alone, strive to be the best and obtain the Ultimate Dominion. No downloads required, and it costs absolutely nothing. So hop on your dragon and fly on over and check us out.
Unification Wars is a free Massively Online Game with over 1,000,000 members ! You are the leader of an empire, recruit and level up your minister(s) to assist you to expand your economy, military and power by diplomatic or military means. Enslave all intelligent life to unify them all
woops the site is: http://uc.gamestotal.com/i.cfm?p=aboutgc