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Good Freeware Gaming Portal?

Posted by simoniker on from the more-bang-for-your-non-buck dept.

marioBrosse writes "I've been Googling around for a while, and can't find a decent free game portal. Everybody knows there are excellent free games available for download, such as GeneRally, Little Fighters 2, and various Civilization and Tron clones. Did I miss the one great free gaming site, or is there a huge lack of one in the gaming world ? I'm dreaming of an free game portal referencing freeware and shareware games for Windows, Linux, and MacOs, with categorization, rating systems, and more."

17 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. Check out Underdogs by override11 · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is the best one I have found, rating system, everything you asked for. :)

    The Underdogs

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    1. Re:Check out Underdogs by Echnin · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yeah, that's a pretty good site; was going to mention it. Note that the site has mainly old games which have been "abandoned" by their developers and publishers. Still good for new freeware games, though. There are over 4500 games on the site, and most of them are avaiable for download.

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  2. One obvious one by SLot · · Score: 4, Informative

    FreeGames.com

    Note: I'm not familiar with the site at all, but a cursory look seems to confirm that you are after something like it.

  3. GameHippo by Idolminds · · Score: 3, Informative

    I like to look around GameHippo for freeware games. Reviews and quite a large listing of games. The user comments are full of trolls, so don't take them all that seriously.

  4. download.com going $$ by slashkitty · · Score: 2, Informative

    FYI:

    Download.com will start charging software creators who want their downloads listed. Me things this will not be a good place for free software anymore!

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  5. Google? by Violet+Null · · Score: 3, Informative

    You say you've tried googling, but a search for freeware "little fighters 2" returns the first choice as World of Free Games, which seperates games by genre, and has ratings. If you switch to the list view, you can sort by them, too.

  6. SourceForge has more than you might think by PeteyG · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's actually got a lot of definately NOT fun software to wade through, but Sourceforge actually has quite a few fun games that you won't find in your Linux distributions by default. You just have to sort beta or stable games for whatever platform you like in the software map.

    My favorite game hosted by Sourceforge: Vega Strike. It's a 3D space combat + trading + ship improvement game with pretty decent graphics.

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  7. Pygame by veganjay · · Score: 2, Informative
    You could try pygame

    There are many games currently available written using PyGame. Solarwolf is a good one.
    This might not be exactly what you are looking for, but in the spirit of slashdot and good karma, it is open source :)

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  8. SOLDAT! by UltimaL337Star · · Score: 1, Informative

    SOLDAT!

  9. Gamehippo.com by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out Gamehippo.com. They have a nice listing of freeware titles, with comments, editorial review, and peer review.

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  10. Re:Cool! Warez! by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 4, Informative

    Idiot child. The site does it's best to be legit. When IDSA threatened them with legal action, they pulled all games from IDSA members.

    Pretty much every freeware game I have I've discovered on Underdogs.

    Generally is good, though I've heard rumours that Generally installed Spyware on peoples systems. I have no idea if that's true. All I know is it did no such thing on mine.

  11. Re:Cool! Warez! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The point of the underdogs is to give gamers a chance to play games that many of us enjoyed in the old days, yet are no longer sold. Thus the term "abandonwarez." If they find the game for sale somewhere, they pull the download link and stick one up to the retailer selling it.

    Theres alot of underplayed games of unbelievable quality out there, yet few people get a chance to play them. Instead we are fixated on future releases, whether they be Everquest2 or Duke Nukem Forever. If everyone spent the time they wait for some game to go gold, playing some of these old games rather than watching the release date, your going to care a whole lot less about the new games. And we wouldn't want that.

  12. a few sites, sadly for w32... by sICE · · Score: 2, Informative

    As underdog, hippo and happypenguin were already listed i though i'd anyway give a list of w32 freeware games links:

    Gamedev.net -- good ressources for game developers and lists current projects... some good free games.
    Download Net -- a great source for freeware and classic pc games (mostly windows)
    MegaGames -- A good freeware section here.
    RareWare -- This site is dedicated to all kind of games that have two things in common: they are small in size (max. 10mb) and are great to play.

    have fun!

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  13. www.newgrounds.com by Sevn · · Score: 2, Informative

    has a TON of free games. Albeit, they are mostly
    highly offensive games.

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  14. Another great place for free games is.... by Sevn · · Score: 1, Informative

    cd /usr/portage/app-games/
    ls

    on Gentoo

    OR

    cd /usr/ports/games
    ls

    on *BSD

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  15. remakes.org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    remakes of old games...

  16. HappyPenguin.org by myrddin · · Score: 2, Informative

    www.happypenguin.org (member happypuppy.com??)