List of freeware video games
This is a list of freeware video games implemented as traditional executable files that must be downloaded and installed. Freeware games are games that are released as freeware and can be downloaded and played, free of charge, for an unlimited amount of time and may be redistributed.
This list does not include:
- Open source games (see List of open source games).
- Games that were previously sold commercially (see List of commercial games released as freeware).
- Shareware or games that require purchase for play time, game items, new content or features.
- Browser-based games.
- Mods: software that cannot be played as stand-alone game.
- Unfinished games.
A
- ADOM is a roguelike game (technically postcardware).
- Alien Arena 2009 is an online deathmatch game.
- America's Army is the official United States Army game.
B
- Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden is a futuristic RPG starring basketballer Charles Barkley.
- Baseball Mogul 2006 Baseball manager game
- Battleships Forever is a real time tactics game with a ship designer.
- BVE Trainsim is a railroad simulator created by Mackoy of Japan.
C
- Cave Story is a side-scrolling adventure game.
- Cellfactor: Revolution is a single-player and multiplayer game that uses the Ageia Physx engine.
- Chex Quest is a comedic Doom clone (technically an advergame).
- Chicken Invaders 1.3
- Chzo Mythos is a set of four separate adventure games: 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Skeptic, Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a Sacrifice.
- Cloud is a third-person computer puzzle game based on weather and atmospheric aesthetics.
D
- DinoHunters is a advertisement-supported first person shooter and machinima series created by Kuma Reality Games.
- Dogfights: The Game a combat flight simulator based on the History Channel series of the same name.
- DROD: Architects' Edition is a version of the puzzle-solving game.
- Dwarf Fortress is a real-time fantasy god game (technically donationware).
E
- Eastside Hockey Manager is a hockey manager game.
- Eternal Daughter is a Castlevania-style adventure game.
F
- flOw is an ambient Flash game.
- The Fool's Errand is a puzzle-solving game.
- Fracas is a strategy game of tactical combat and world conquest.
G
- Gate88 is an abstract top-down futuristic real-time strategy space combat simulator.
- General is a strategy game with text interface.
- GeneRally is an arcade-style top-down racing game.
- God of Thunder is a platform/top-down puzzle game
- Grid Wars is a Geometry Wars clone.
- Gunroar is a futuristic vertical shooter.
- Gunster is a multiplayer scrolling shooter.
H
I
- Icy Tower is a tower-climbing arcade game.
- Ikachan is an adventure game by Studio Pixel.
- Iji is a platformer by Daniel Remar.
- I Wanna Be the Guy is a platformer notable for its difficulty.
J
- Jump 'n Bump is a multiplayer battle game.
K
- Kuma\War is a first- and third-person squad-based war game.
L
- La-Mulana is a 2D platform game, reminiscent of the MSX game Maze of Galious.
- Liero is a 2D side-scrolling shooting game for one or two players (malfunctions on Win2000, WinXP and greater - though will play with sound disabled).
- Linley's Dungeon Crawl - a roguelike
- Little Fighter is a beat'em up DOS fighting game
- Little Fighter 2 is a sequel to Little Fighter that is for newer operating systems
M
- Moon Whistle is a classic RPG Maker game made by Kannazuki Sasuke.
- MUGEN is a custom fighting game engine.
N
- N is a classic platform game with advanced physics.
- Narbacular Drop is a 3D puzzle game developed by Nuclear Monkey Software, it is the precursor to Valve's Portal.
- Noctis is a space exploration simulator.
- Notrium is a survival game.
O
- Orbiter is a spaceflight simulator with an emphasis on realistic orbital mechanics.
- osu! is a freeware simulator of the rhythm video games "Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan" and "Elite Beat Agents".
P
- PARSEC47 is a 3D vertical shooter, featuring fast gameplay and abstract graphics.
- Pekka Kana 2 is a platform game with a level editor.
- Plasma Pong is a Pong game in which the ball is manipulated by a fluid dynamics environment. It is currently in development hell after the website became defunct.
- Play65 is an online multi-player backgammon game featuring 3D graphics and community modules.
- Plobb! is a fast single player 2D arcade shooter, and as a multidirectional shooter shares the gameplay of Asteroids. It features a distinctive game design.
- Progress Quest is a parody of Everquest and the MMORPG genre, focuses on pure character building with no interaction involved.
S
- Savage: The Battle for Newerth and Savage 2: A Tortured Soul combine RTS, FPS and RPG elements.
- A Second Face is a sci-fi adventure game.
- Seiklus is an ambient single-player adventure game.
- SimSig is a train simulation game based on real UK signalling systems.
- Simutrans is a transportation network construction simulator, similar to Transport Tycoon.
- Skifree a Windows 95 game.
- Space Combat is a 3D space simulator featuring realistic physics.
- Spelunky Platforming game that utilizes roguelike gameplay.
- Spring project is a 3d real-time strategy game engine, supporting several games.
- Star Wars Tactics is a turn based strategy game based on the Star Wars universe.
- Steel Panthers: World at War is a remake of an older strategy game from Matrix Games.
- Stepmania is A Dancing game in which you download the content you play.
- SubSpace is a 2D top-down space shooter game with massive multiplayer capabilities.
- Super Fighter is a 2D versus fighting game.
- Super Mario Bros. X is a 2D platformer featuring two-player cooperative play.
- Synaesthete is a student-created psychedelic rhythm shooter.
T
- TAGAP: The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins is an explosive 2D side-scrolling platform game.
- A Tale of Two Kingdoms is a point and click fantasy adventure.
- Torus Trooper is a 3D tube shooter.
- Trackmania Nations is a 3D racing game specially developed for the Electronic Sports World Cup by Nadeo.
- Transcendence is a 2D space adventure game featuring extended moddability.
- TUMIKI Fighters is a 3D scrolling shooter.
- Toribash is a 3D ragdoll fighting game.
U
- Ultimate Stunts is a remake of the classic Stunts video game.
- UniBall is a space hockey game where players use ships to shoot balls to score goals.
V
- Visual Pinball A pinball simulation editor and game with many tables.
- Volleyball manager is a volleyball management simulation game
W
- Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction is an apocalyptic, first-person shooter.
- Warning Forever is a vertical shooter.
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a team online multiplayer first person shooter.
Y
- YS Flight Simulation System 2000 is a flight simulator with basic graphics but advanced control.
See also
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Freeware:Games