List of freeware games Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Freeware refers to software that can be used, downloaded, or distributed free of charge.

It does not refer to games under a Free Software license that allow modifying or redistribution of source code. See List of free game software for such games.

Games that are free but suggest a donation or fee, or require purchase for extended play time, new content and other features, are Shareware. See List of shareware games for such games.

Table of contents

1 Games 2 Commercial games released as freeware 3 See also 4 Sources

Games

• America's Army, first-person shooter developed and distributed by US Army [1]
• Angband (another popular RPG in the roguelike family), and its many variants. The most comprehensive resource for Angband is at http://thangorodrim.net. Source code of Angband is also available, but it is not Free software. However, there is an effort ongoing to re-license Angband under the GNU GPL.
• Continuum, a two-dimensional top-down space shooter game with massively multiplayer capabilities. Formerly known as SubSpace.
• CrateMaster is a free Tetris clone/parody by Longbow Digital Arts. It was used to promote the game Tread Marks in a high score contest on the Old Man Murray website. Gameplay consists solely of making a row of three crates, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Crate Review System featured on that site.
• Dance With Intensity clones dance game Dance Dance Revolution
• DominateGame is an online Risk-like game here.
• Eastside Hockey Manager, hockey manager game.
• Enemy Territory, a standalone multiplayer expansion to Return to Castle Wolfenstein. [1]
• GunBound, a free Worms like game at http://www.gunbound.net .
• Little Fighters 2 is a side-scrolling fighting game available here.
• Orbiter, a spaceflight simulator with an emphasis on realistic orbital mechanics [1]
• PlaneShift is a freely available and Open Source MMORPG in development.
• Progress Quest, a parody of Everquest and the MMORPG genre, focuses on pure character building with no interaction involved.
• Reality-on-the-norm a bunch of user made adventure games downloadable from http://ron.the-underdogs.org/
• Simutrans: a game that focuses on building a transportation network and is similar to Transport Tycoon
• Smashing Pumpkins into Small Piles of Putrid Debris (SPISPOPD), a 1993 DOS based top down shooter by Jamul software, jokingly based off a DOOM newsgroup thread. (archived link)
• Soldat, a popular 2D multiplayer online shooter[1]
• Steel Panthers: World at War [1], plus several other remakes of older strategy games from Matrix Games.
• SPWW2: Steel Panthers World War 2 [1]
• SPMBT: Steel Panthers Main Battle Tank [1]
• Vega Strike, an open-source space combat/trading simulator inspired by Wing Commander: Privateer and Elite.

Commercial games released as freeware

• Abuse, a 1995 side-scrolling action game by Crack dot Com, released as freeware.
• Akalabeth a.k.a "Ultima 0" by Lord British.
• B-17 Flying Fortress, by Microprose.
• Beneath a Steel Sky by Revolution Software, plus several other ScummVM based games [1].
• Castle of the Winds a tile based RPG for Windows 3.x, written by SaadaSoft and published by Epic MegaGames.
• Derek Smart's infamous Battlecruiser 3000AD [1]
• Betrayal at Krondor, 1993 release by Sierra On-Line, release as freeware 1997.
• Caesar, 1991 release by Impressions
• Decisive Battle of WWII: The Adrennes Offensive, released as freeware by SSG. [1]
• The Elder Scrolls: Arena, 1994 game that was released as freeware in 2004.
• Elite and Elite Plus [1]
• Frederik Pohl's Gateway part 1, adventure game, based on book by same author.
• Grand Theft Auto, First game of GTA-series. [1].
• Lord British's Ultima IV
• Hidden & Dangerous; Deluxe, a 1999 game by Illusion Softworks/Take Two Interactive Software [1]
• One Must Fall 2097, (1994) classic fighting game by Diversions Entertaintment/Epic Games.
• Ports Of Call [1]
• Red Baron, 1990 fight simulator by Sierra On-Line
• Rise of the Dragon, 1990 release by Dynamix/Sierra On-Line
• and Tribes 2, were released as freeware May 2004.
• Wild Metal - [1]
• The Ur-Quan Masters, a GPL'ed version of classic space adventure Star Control 2: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
• Zork I, II, III & The Undiscovered Underground [1]

See also

• Web browser-based games
• MUD

Sources

Some of the games mentioned can be found at:

• http://www.gamehippo.com
• http://www.pinggames.com/
• http://www.the-underdogs.org/
• http://www.pcgaming.ws/
• maestrosync.tk

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