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 open source games 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.Games
- 123 Free Solitaire, one of the top stand-alone solitaire downloads on the internet. Yearly editions swap out 4 of the 12 games included. A game option includes being able to change the card-back designs.
- Abashera is a first person, 3D maze IQ game.
- America's Army, first-person shooter developed and distributed by US Army
- 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.
- BVE, free Railroad Simulator created by Mackoy of Japan.
- CodeRED: Alien Arena, fully functioned free deathmatch shooter that runs on Windows and Linux, and features standard deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, and all out assault, in a 50s era sci-fi atmosphere.
Coldgearz is a platform shooter. It has an art style that comes directly from the Super Nintendo generation, and should be a treat for old school gamers.
- Dance With Intensity clones dance game Dance Dance Revolution
- DominateGame is an online Risk-like game - which is technically adware as only the downloadable version is free and puts up adverts for the 25 euro online version
- Doukutsu Monogatari a.k.a "Cave story" by Studio Pixel. A Metroid style adventure game.
- Eastside Hockey Manager, popular hockey manager game that was so good that it got the creator picked up by SI Games in order to make a commercial sequel.
- Eternal Daughter, a Castlevania-esque adventure game.
- Gate88, an Asteroids RTS game.
- GunBound, a Worms like game.
- Knight Online, a free-2-play concept MMORPG.
- Little Fighter 2 is a side-scrolling fighting game.
- MegaZeux is a simple game creation system.
- MinerVGA is a DOS game of mining.
- N is a classic platformer game.
- Nexuiz is a 3d deathmatch game with over 20 maps and hundreds of online players
- Orbiter, a spaceflight simulator with an emphasis on realistic orbital mechanics.
- Pong Kombat is a spoof of PONG and Mortal Kombat
- 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 on a Doom newsgroup thread. ()
- Soldat, a popular 2D multiplayer online shooter.
- Steel Panthers: World at War, plus several other remakes of older strategy games from Matrix Games.
- SubSpace, a two-dimensional top-down space shooter game with massively multiplayer capabilities.
- Uniball, a massively-multiplayer space hockey game.
- Vega Strike, an open-source space combat/trading simulator inspired by Wing Commander: Privateer and Elite.
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, a standalone multiplayer expansion to Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
- Wurm Online, a fantasy MMORPG. Currently in beta, when released it will be more properly considered shareware.
- YSFlight, a flight simulator.
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