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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.
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.
- America's Army, first-person shooter developed and distributed by US Army [1] (http://www.americasarmy.com/)
- 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 (http://www.longbowdigitalarts.com/). It was used to promote the game Tread Marks in a high score contest on the Old Man Murray (http://www.oldmanmurray.com) website. Gameplay consists solely of making a row of three crates, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Crate Review System (http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html) featured on that site.
- Dance With Intensity clones dance game Dance Dance Revolution
- DominateGame is an online Risk-like game here (http://www.dominategame.com).
- Eastside Hockey Manager, hockey manager game.
- GunBound, a free Worms like game at http://www.gunbound.net .
- Little Fighters 2 is a side-scrolling fighting game available here (http://www.lf2.net).
- Orbiter, a spaceflight simulator with an emphasis on realistic orbital mechanics [2] (http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html)
- 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 [3] (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 (http://web.archive.org/web/20030706221626/%68ttp://www.latexnet.org/jamul/spispopd.html))
- Soldat, a popular 2D multiplayer online shooter[4] (http://www.soldat.prv.pl)
- Steel Panthers: World at War [5] (http://www.matrixgames.com/spwaw/), plus several other remakes of older strategy games from Matrix Games.
- SPMBT: Steel Panthers Main Battle Tank [6] (http://linetap.com/www/drg/SPCamo-4.htm)
- SPWW2: Steel Panthers World War 2 [7] (http://linetap.com/www/drg/SPCamo-2.htm)
- 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. [8] (http://www.castlewolfenstein.com/)
Commercial games released as freeware
Any free release (here one that costs no money) of a formerly commercial game is often mislabeled as a freeware release. Many times, these releases are only meant as a free download, not a redistributable, proper freeware release.
See also
Sources
Some of the games mentioned can be found at:
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