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101 Free PC Games
"Computer Gaming World" may now be "Games for Windows: The Official Magazine", but they haven't forgotten the little guys. Straight from the new issue, 1up is hosting an impressive list of 101 freebie PC games. Every genre and topic you can think of is covered by the exhaustive exploration of 'free'. From the article: "We've tracked down another 101 absolutely, positively, no-strings-attached free games that are actually worth playing, grouped them into handy categories, and put most of 'em up on FileFront.com. There's something here for everyone, from RPGs to real-time strategy to Asteroids Flash games, though we have to confess up front: There are actually more than 101 free games here. So no complaining that you're not getting your money's worth." My favorites include Ninja Loves Pirate , Tripline , Iris (HL2 Mod), Super Mario: Blue Twilight DX , and Star Control II .
I think calling mods to a game, free games, is a bit of a stretch. They're only free if you already own the original game. Hell, the main reason I bought half life 2 was anticipation of mods for it. And the ONLY reason I bought UT2004 was for mods. (Killing Floor sold that game for me) I'll still check the list out when I get home though.
But how many of them run on linux?
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The game I've been spending too much time on recently is Battle For Wesnoth which is an open-source game that runs on Linux, OSX and Windows. Not surprisingly, it's on this list...
You are reading a copy of my copyrighted post.
you misspelled http://tremulous.net/
A mouse is a device used to point to the xterm you want to type in
Works fine for me. If you really can't get to it, try the Coral Cache mirror:
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http://www.1up.com.nyud.net:8090/do/feature?cId=3
I wouldn't worry too much, though. It's just another "look at all the free games!" list with very little time spent on trying to separate the wheat from the chaff. Some of the "games" are expansion packs, some are flash games, some are OSS games that everyone knows about, some are clear copyright violations, some are just plain weird, and some are repeated more than once.
The worst part of it all is that they missed a huge number of great games. For example, Privateer Remake is not on the list, but a Babylon 5 expansion pack is? Go figure.
If you're looking for a smaller list of free game recommendations, try my Top 10 OSS Games You've Never Played article. I have personally played all of them, and enjoyed them to a varying degree. Not everyone has the same tastes as I do, but it might be an interesting list for you to check out in addition to this article.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
There are some important free games that they neglected to mention.
Nexuiz, for instance. High quality open-source deathmatch game running on the Darkplaces engine, which is arguably superior to quite a bit of the stuff currently on the market. (Read: Source.) There's also Warsow and Alien Arena, both with similar premises to Nexuiz. These all have excellent graphics, and make up in fun what they lack in imagination in terms of gameplay.
Easily the best free (oss) game in existence is Tremulous! http://www.tremulous.net/ Check the demo if you don't believe me http://mods.moddb.com/3449/tremulous/ Windows and Linux clients, as well as an independent Mac client, 100+ servers, all free. And the wallwalking ROX!
The word "free" has picked up unfortunate connotations lately.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
How could they have forgotten this shining gem of indie retro gaming?
It's been years since I seen a copy "101 Free BASIC Games" on the bookshelf.
Why was Cave Story not on this list?
It's free, has an English language patch, and works perfectly in Wine.
Not to mention it's one of the best games ever made for any platform.
Shiny. Let's be bad guys.
...and a very nice tactical fps full conversion: http://www.truecombatelite.net/
Game Hippo
not always the best (they tend to be remise on some of the newer games/updates), but always worth looking through.
Also, check out Acid Bomb and Bacteria 2 if you really like logic puzzles. Both are easy to get into and verymuch on the addictive side!
Do Or Do Not, There Is No Spoon, There Is Only Zuul. Everything in the above post is probably opinion.
Visual Pinball is better as it can use plugins like
vpinmame that lets you play real pinball games with the real game roms.
http://www.pinmame.com/
There is even an online play addon
http://www.vpplus.org/
http://www.pinball-originals.com/index.php?c=8
more info hear
http://www.vpforums.com/
I just want to put in my vote for Dink Smallwood. It's like King's Quest or Legend of Zelda, on drugs.
Last year, after years of collecting dust, the publisher released an update with some nice new features and bug-fixes. And (I just looked) it's now open-sourced.
There's a *huge* collection of mods, add-ons, extra levels, etc available for free and the people making them are just as twisted as the original author. Many of the mods I tried were really, really fun. Some were incredible in what they added to the original game.
I'm done with sigs. Sigs are lame.
Potentially OT. These roms are not Free nor even free.
They also left out the best single player RPG ever:
http://www.nethack.org/
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Where the hell is NetHack in that list?
I wonder, too. Go read the list and get back to us....
I RTFA and it was complete bull. If they approve game demos and mods to their list why they didn't list any good games? :p
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There's lots of really good games available for free. For example old commercial games that have been released as freeware (I'm a diehard abandonware fan). Just to mention few: Betrayal at Krondor, Beneath a Steel Sky, Descent: FreeSpace, FreeSpace 2, Hidden & Dangerous, One Must Fall: 2097, Railroad Tycoon Deluxe. Then there's open source games like America's Army.
There's also free multiplayer games: Freeciv, Allegiance, Starsiege: Tribes and even MMORPGs like Anarchy Online, Kal-Online or RuneScape.
Check these Wikipedia lists for more great free games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_g
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_first-p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_
I'd say any of these is better than all the games mentioned in the article.
Poutsi
Liberated games has an extensive list of free, not to mention, legal games for download. There are the classics, old games and not so old games. Not abandonware, they've gone to great lengths to make sure there aren't any on the site.
You misspelled http://www.adom.de/ ;)