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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."

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  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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  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. 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.

  5. 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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    no thanks
  6. 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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  7. 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.