FREE Games List [2008-2021]

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Huh, nice coincidence, I discover this thread after posting about a free game over at slackercentral. Many thanks!

Free 2.5D game, The White Chamber (wintermute engine)

Game engine: http://dead-code.org/home/

The game: http://www.studiotrophis.com/site/projects/thewhitechamber

The download: http://www.studiotrophis.com/site/downloads

The Wikipedia pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintermute_Engine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Trophis_Production_Company

Two reviews: http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/WhiteChamber/WhiteChamber.shtm http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/arts/06game.html?

It awed me that Studio Trophis was able to capture the Anime style so well.
It awed me that they were able to capture the essence of Horror so well.
It awed me that this was done by only three people; Richard Perrin, Paul Johnson and Zakir Rahman.
It awed me that they are giving the game away as freeware.

This was one awesome game.
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... the White Chamber, a homemade adventure game that is utterly mad from beginning to end.

With its two-dimensional graphics and text-only dialogue, Chamber feels like a game from the mid-1990's. It's very short: it can be completed in about an hour, but it is a great hour.

Chamber begins as a young woman awakens in a coffin on a deserted spaceship. She must solve a series of puzzles to open doors to new areas of the ship as she searches for clues. Solving puzzles twists reality, so you might leave a room, solve a puzzle, then re-enter the room to find it is now made of pulsating flesh. The game has a creepy sensibility similar to the Silent Hill series, accentuated by eerie ambient noises.

Grisly and intriguing, with logical puzzles and surprising plot twists, Chamber is a first-rate garage game. If you can look past its small budget and short playing time, it is arguably a more successful game than Microids's Still Life, a similarly puzzle-driven adventure that is far slicker but less consistent.
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Played fine on my Vista system. Addictive experience. I achieved a good ending. I think the above reviewers were able to totally tune out the game's shortcomings. I give the experience a solid "B".

Walkthroughs are out there: http://www.gameboomers.com/wtcheats/pcWw/whitechamber.htm http://www.justadventure.com/Walkthroughs/WhiteChamber.shtm

A dedicated fan even posted some walkthrough vid's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzwIMR2AWSg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tMpeaDLf5k

I should mention that the game has had several updates over the years.
 
S2 Games has announced that Savage 2: A Tortured Soul, the sequel to Savage: The Battle for Newerth, is now freeware. There are no longer demo restrictions of any kind and all players can enjoy the game for free. In addition, S2 Games has also released a Mac OSX client for all Apple gamers
http://savage2.s2games.com/main.php
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenArena

http://openarena.ws/

http://openarena.ws/files.html (has the dl links)

OpenArena is an free and open source first-person shooter computer game based heavily on the Quake III Arena style deathmatch. The OpenArena project was first started on August 19, 2005, the day after the id Tech 3 GPL source code release.

OpenArena's greatest goal is to make a completely free, open source FPS game that derives itself strongly from Quake III. Its game engine is ioquake3, based upon id Software's GPL id Tech 3.
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OpenArena's gameplay is the exact same as Quake III Arena - score frags to win the game using a balanced set of weapons each designed for different situations. Guns include a chaingun, rocket launcher, shotgun, and railgun. The Quake III style of play is very fast and requires skill to be played successfully online.

Gameplay modes exist such as Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Tournament, and Capture The Flag (all modes also in the original Quake III). OpenArena version 0.7.6 adds the new Elimination, CTF Elimination, Last Man Standing and Double Domination gametypes.
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Not bad, it supports my monitor's resolution of 1920x1080 and I really like how it runs from the folder I extracted it to.

I should mention, you don't need Q3A to run this. Everything is in the download. Runs on my setup of Vista.

Edit: This looks interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Padman

It's from this list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_3#Projects_based_on_the_GPL_source_release
 
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Armada-online
Top-down 3D space game ported from the Dreamcast version if im not mistaken.

I think this game was posted a few years back on some thread in the forum, thought i'd mention it since it's not in the list and is free, oh and it is still in a somewhat alpha version runs acceptably on 5year low end machines with the visual fx turned off and typing /texturedetail as well but it will still slow down in heavy screen action due to the excessive alpha texture blending pushing weak hardware like in my case a laptop IGP chipset. Last report from one dev said the animation and hit system was being re-worked, maybe that will improve performance a little, recent machines will have no problem whatsoever with this game, and you can increase the default resolution by typing for ex. /resolution 1280x1024

I personally think the game in its current state becomes boring after a 1 hour or 2 even with a decent group of players, the game suffer from heavy grinding and upgrading your ships will not be possible just by reaching a certain level wich makes things worse, u will need certain items, some wich u will find yourself others you will have to trade with luck you might get some for free from higher lvl players wich happens occasionally on the first ship upgrade possible at lvl 10.

Anyway it deserves a try, allot of the gameplay mechanics and areas are still missing but its somewhat promising specially if you are bored of constant fantasy mmo/rpg's out there.

Tips: don't play in solo, warp to delta3 and join the biggest group of ship/players u can find.
P - shows a list of players in the current instance/room.
Z - shows a map of the galaxy and its sectors by color each with a few specific types of things to hunt.
M - shows u a list of objectives depending on what area you are in.
NumLock - usefull later on in case u want to lead a group of followers, it will move your ship foward untill you Rclick in space or turn it off.
*edit: for more tips just press f1

Usefull websites with help/tips/info:

ArmadaHQ (wiki) some of its information is outdated, basics and most stuff is correct
ArmadaOnline Usefull to see the current different ships in the game, its systems and other charateristics in detail at different system levels.
 
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Gametap has announced it is moving several of its free games to its subscriber model on January 22nd. Since they are now effectively, timed free games, I removed these from the list. They also forgot to include Blood Omen 2 and Tomb Raider in that list but their site lists these games as becoming subscriber-only after Jan 22nd so I also removed those.

I've also added alternative GOG.com download links for BASS and Lure of the Temptress. These require registering with GOG.com but it's well worth it.
 
The 3D Realms Website has news that several old Apogee games are now being offered as freeware, stressing that this is being done with no promise of any sort of technical support, as these eight games are all from 1990 and earlier, and will probably require DOSBox and perhaps other finagling to get them running. The catalog of releases includes five games that are freeware for the first time, three games that are being released as freeware along with their GPL source code, and a bonus release of a Flash edition of Kingdom of Kroz II. Here's word on the freeware releases, including an in-joke for George "Broussad":

Hard to believe our first game is 22 years old now, but that's what was built out of Scott Miller's bedroom in Garland, Texas all those years ago. Here is a complete list of what is being released today:

• Kroz - Our first ever game, a text adventure game by Scott Miller
• Arctic Adventure - a CGA based scroller game by George Broussard
• Dark Ages - an EGA based scroller game by Todd Replogle
• Monuments of Mars - a CGA based scroller by Todd Replogle
• Pharaoh's Tomb - a CGA based scroller game by George Broussad

We're also re-releasing some previously released freeware games.

• Beyond the Titanic - Text based Infocom style adventure game by Scott Miller
• Supernova - Text based Infocom style adventure game by Scott Miller
• Word Whiz - A text based trivia game from Scott Miller


http://www.3drealms.com/news/2009/03/several_old_games_released_as_freeware.html
 
Swedish game studio SimBin Development Team and Volvo Car Corporation today announced Volvo - The Game, a new racing game which will be released for free on May 26th. The fresh and exiting Volvo S60 Concept headlines the car line up and will be accompanied by several well known Volvo race cars. The players will be able to hammer this variety of Volvo cars around two highly detailed and realistic tracks.

http://www.simbin.se/news.php?newsid=153
 
The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall Note:

Please ensure that you meet the minimum requirements: 486DX2/66 MHZ, DOS 6.0, 8MB RAM, 50MB HD Space, 256-color VGA graphics card, Mouse, Soundcard (Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, AWE 32, Pro Audio Spectrum, Ensoniq Soundscape, Gravis Ultrasound) ;-)
 
Free MW4 "Very Shortly"

Inspired by a question in our forums, we found a follow-up from a couple of weeks ago on MekTek.net to the announcement in early July that a free release of MechWarrior 4 was coming "soon." It turns out the announcement was almost as unexpected for them as for the rest of us, and they have been working ever since to remove DRM from the game, update their matchmaking software that's taking the place of Microsoft's now-defunct Zonematch service, and finalize the software that will allow the game to be patched after release. Other issues must also be resolved prior to release, including completion of legal paperwork and the completion of proper server infrastructure:

The unfortunate aspect of all this great news is that all of these new developments could have been ironed out before the announcement but they were not. Our partners felt an initial announcement was necessary and so did we. We plan to release Mechwarrior4 for FREE when developments are completed and considered stable. We are also waiting on legal paper work from lawyers and as anyone out there that has worked in the professional industry knows, something of this magnitude takes time on all fronts. MekTek is not receiving any financial support from the partners regarding this release and obviously no one can quit their daytime job to get the job done faster either. The release has entered beta status and will be delivered to the world very shortly. MekTek is supported through donations from our community and thus far we have received 50% of our goal to cover server infrastructure costs. We hope the community will continue to support us during this very busy time to ensure we have the best possible hardware in place for this release.
 
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