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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."

4 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. 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.

  2. Huh? by smoondog · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't get it. Why would anyone need anything other than Nethack?

    -Sean

  3. 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.

    --
    no thanks
  4. 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.