Topic: List of Free PC Games

[Mr. Wizard]

Action
Action-Single Player
America's Army <== Shooter, but big download.
Blood 2:The Chosen<==Not abandonware, it is a open source FPS game.
Cube
Dad 'n Me
Dodge That Anvil!
FlapFlapFlap
FreeSpace 2 Abandonware
Gate 88
Glider for Windows
GTA 1&2 <== Grand Theft Auto before 3D 
Halo Zero <== A fan made Halo Game
kkrieger <==Example of procedural content.
Lemming Ball Z<==Very fun game that combines Lemmings and DBZ
Narbacular Drop<== Nuclear Monkey Software/ Digipen Institute of Technology
N<==NINJAS!!!!!
Ocular Ink<==Unique action game
Rumble Box <==Lego Warriors
sauerbraten
Sea of Chaos<==Digipen Institute of Technology
Soldat
Torus Trooper
Wolfenflash  <==Flash conversion of Wolfenstein
Wolfenstein <==Fun Shooter
Action-Online
Albatross18 <==An odd looking game
Gunz<== Matrix style RPG/Third Person Shooter
Little Fighter 2<==fun online fighter
Plasma Pong
Starsiege Tribes <==FPS/TPS shooter with great customizability

RPG
RPG-Single Player
FlashTrek <==Flash based Star Trek Game
Iter Vehemens Ad Necem
RPG-Online
Conquer Online <==Okay RPG with great customizability, if you're high leveled.
Dofus
Knight Online
Maplestory <==An online game with a cute anime theme.
Mu
Nexus War
Priston Tale
Risk Your Life <==MMO RPG/Action
Runescape. <==Java based 3D Fantasy MMORPG
Tibia <==MMO
Urban Dead <== Zombie survival

Strategy
Strategy-Single Player
Cloud<== University of Southern California
Schiffbruch (shipwreck)
Ur Quan Masters <==So Awesome! Space Trade and exploration game.
Strategy-Online
Bang! Howdy
Conqueror <== Strategy Game.
Navy Field
Ogame <==Space empire game
Savage
Slave Hack
Shattered Galaxy
Starport
Territories 3069
Tremulous
Wulfram 2 <==Tank Battle game with difficult controls but fun gameplay

Sim
Sim-Single Player
Ad Astra
Decker
Dismount <==Free Ragdoll game
Gene Pool
Nero<==Nero Team / The University of Texas (Austin, TX, United States)
Noctis <==Space Exploration Game, with somewhat diifferent control scheme
Vega Strike
Sim-Online
GooGrid <==SimLife like "MMO"

Puzzle
Ballistic<==Spartasoft/Michigan State University
BAMZOOKi <==simple 3d "Creature Editor"
Blockland
Color Mental<==Full Sail Real World Education
Grow game list (starts with cube) <==Fun flash game
Pallete<==Department of Film, TV and Multimedia, SungKyunKwan University (Seoul, South Korea)
Orblitz<==Digipen Institute of Technology
The Falling Sand Game<==THE FALLING SAND/SAND PHYSICS/DOFI BLOG GAME WHICH YOU SHOULD NOT CREATE A NEW THREAD FOR ON PAIN OF DEATH.
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Game Listings
1up.com's 101 free games of 2006
1up.com's 101 free games of 2007
Arcade Town
Experimental Gameplay
IFicton <==Text Based Games
Incitti<== a few free games here, Grid Wars has been removed.
Infocom Wiki
Iron Realms Entertainment<==Text based MUD's(MultiUser Dungeon, basically an MMO) by Iron Realm Entertainment
Jay's Web Games <== Actually reviews games.
Mpogd Lists  <== I find almost everything here
Onrpg lists <== Big RPG list
Top Multi User Dungeon Sites <==Text Based MMO's? Find'em here
Wikipedia Game List <==Good game list.

Games from Forum Members
Borogove's Games
Creature Editor 2.0<==Developed by Huggkruka and Hydromancerx
Notrium <== Co-developed by Quanrian

Requires Dos
The Elder Scroll's: Arena <==Original Elder Scrolls game, a classic

Good Abandonware Sites <==those that play by the rules
Abandonia <== updated everyday!
Home of the Underdogs <== has almost everything, and is somewhat faster than its old incarnation, with a billion ads.

The Spore Experience The closest we can come to the real thing.
Definitive= SimEarth Abandonware
Creature Editor= Creature Editor 2.0
Microbial Stage= flOw
The Animal Stage=Lion Abandonware
The Tribal/Civilization Stage=  FreeCiv
The City Building Stage= Original SimCity(requires free registration)
The Space Faring Stage= Noctis

Independent Game Festival <==Games Featured at the GDC 2006

Utilities
DosBox Get "Windows" if you don't know which one to get. For running older dos games on newer operating systems.
Ad Aware
Spybot- Search and Destroy

I wanted to create a good contribution to the forum cause I got such a warm welcome here!

I will update if you find a game that isn't covered in the above links, or if you have one that you think should be on this page, and not indirectly through another list, then post your recommendation and I'll add as soon as I see it.

See you on the battlefield!

EDIT: Recommendation Rules
All recommendations cannot violate forum rules.

If a site has any objectionable content, either linked to or on the site, don't reccomend it.

Abandonware is allowed, but there must be a warning that the site is abandonware, and the site must follow ESA notices. (You can tell if it does if it doesn't allow you to download certain games)

If you are unsure about any particular site, PM me.

The Graveyard These Links no longer work
SubspaceContinuum
Blitz 1941
TIG Source

[Danzik]

Great post.  I'm going to have to check some of these out.  StarSiege tribe is free now?  That game is alot of fun.  Definatly worth the download.

[Cobra]

Wow the origional GTA is avalible for download I remember 1st playing that it was really big at our school in 98 nearly everyone had notebook computers lunhes were spent playing multiplayer fragfests.

[Varsity]

Great game:  Schiffbruch (shipwreck)

http://www.dplate.de/javae.html

[Mr. Wizard]

Looked good, so I added it. Also added the Spore Experience section, for games that share an aspect of Spore.

[7LES]

http://phackett.com/rumblebox/

here is a fun freeware game were you fight box like things and pile up there dead bodies to get to the top of this cube thing all in all its fun althow after a couple of levels it was moving really slowly

I know of some other freeware games that i cant remember if i find them i will make sure to post them and thanks for the great list. 

[Mr. Wizard]

I added that game, and a few other, in the op. Post updated, I hope you are all having fun!

[762]

At the risk of being punched, there's Runescape.

And I know a reliable autoclicker if you need it.

[Mr. Wizard]

*Grumble* Fine I'll add runescape 

Sorry, no Auto-anything

[7LES]

It may be just me but i think there is nothing bad about adding abandonware.

[Mr. Wizard]

Well, abandonware is fine, its just I dont want to start adding them until Gaming Steve gives me the Ok to do so.

Until then, there are plenty of freeware games out now.

[Borogove]

I like to check this site frequently: http://www.jayisgames.com

A list of lots of easy-to-pick-up, casual webgames, disguised as a blog. 

[Mr. Wizard]

I added it, but it loads very slowly for me. But maybe that is just me *shrug*

[762]

Oh yeah, don't forget about the games in Borogove's signature. They're really good.

[jayisgames]

> I added (jayisgames.com), but it loads very slowly for me. But maybe that is just me *shrug*

Sorry if this is off topic, but I've never received that complaint before. I do include a lot of images on the main page, and it's a hefty 940KB. For anyone on anything other than broadband connection, the download times for a first-time download of a page that size are indeed a bit high.

I can reduce the number of entries I post on the main page to make it a bit better for first time visitors. Thanks for the feedback.

And thanks, Mike, for the mention.  =)

And Steve, I've been enjoying all the great Spore coverage. Keep up the great work with the site!

Jay
jayisgames.com