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Freeware / Open Source Roundup
Jimmy_Scythe
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in PC Gaming
I spend quite a lot of time on these forums and every now and then I like to give a little something back to the community. So here is a (long) list of freeware and open source games that are actually good;
Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden
And that's all for now. Feel free to add to this list if you find anything that you think we should know about.
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The second space sim doesn't look too bad graphic wise. Albeit not great either. The cellshaded looking game looks neat. Somehow UTish.
Nice list. I'll check some of them out=)
Maybe you can add Team Arena, and Paintball, Alien Arena and Warsow.
Warsow is already on the list. I'm not sure if you're talking about Open Arena or Q3: Team Arena (same game with a different skin actually). I thought Paintball was a Half-Life mod and not a stand alone.
I'll be adding Alien Arena though...
Seems as though I've missed a few vey notable games:
GL Tron
Globulation 2
Frets on Fire
Stepmania
Scorched 3D
TORCS
Combat Simulator Project
Yo Frankie!
Warsow is already on the list. I'm not sure if you're talking about Open Arena or Q3: Team Arena (same game with a different skin actually). I thought Paintball was a Half-Life mod and not a stand alone.
I'll be adding Alien Arena though...
OpenArena is the same *gameplay*, but it use a modified Quake3 engine, the ioQuake3 engine (the same as Tremulous and others Q3 based games )
It also use new medias. It was started by CheapAlert, but he got kicked from the team by some disagrements.hehe.
http://www.openarena.ws/
Digital Paintball is started by a jistspoe. Is a awesome game, his engine is a modified Q2 engine.
http://digitalpaint.org/
Thanks, this is a great list
I'm always looking for games to try out, so I'll post some that I've come across later 
I haven't played it yet but this looks like fun. www.rigsofrods.com/ www.youtube.com/watch . Its called Rigs of Rods.
Few suggestions from me:
Urban Terror - Q3A mod previously, a standalone game now.
Quake Live - Quake 3 via browser (Open Beta at the moment).
Battlefield Heroes - A "Battlefield lite".
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - Objective based game, looks like a Return to Castle Wolfenstein mod, but it's standalone.
Can't believe noone mentioned Dink Smallwood.
http://www.rtsoft.com/dink/
Great tread!
Here are some more gems:
Spelunky ( roguelike platformer ! amazing)
Incursion ( D&D 3.5 ed , insanely complex roguelike )
Dwarf Fortress ( kind of sims meet roguelike civilisation ... warning : very complex game )
Not really a game like others on this list but here's a site where you can play a lot of older Abandonware DOS games right in your browser! Check it out.
Free Game Empire
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Great thread fellas. I've been bored out of my mind all morning and it looks like this is going to save me. I wish I could contribute a game but all of the ones I know of have been suggested.
I can't believe that no one mentioned this little gem.
Cave Story
I linked to a fan site because the original site is in Japanese and the fan site has all the downloads with the translations and whatnot.
Edit: Also, Bonesaw is a pretty fun game.
I was trying to keep it open source, but if we're goint the closed source and free route...
Mighty Jill Off
La Mulana
GeneRally
Gravity Bone
Karoshi Factory
Knytt
Survival Crisis Z
Solar Vengeance
Bonesaw
and that's all I have for this week.
happy freeloading!
Assault Cube
I didn't add this one to the original list since I felt that we had enough FPS games already....
... And I got this game confused with Urban Terror which I didn't really like very much.
At any rate, I downloaded this yesterday and have been playing it pretty much non-stop. It even runs on my netbook, so definitely check it out.
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Star Control 2 sc2.sourceforge.net/
Great game in the 90s. It got open sourced and ported to PC.
Stickied. Great thread! Just remember any new contributions keep any download links for legal use only.
"Asking permission is easier than asking forgiveness."
"Without power, one dies."
-State Pestage, Grand Vizier
that actually looks like a lot of good games on there! I think i'm going to try some of them.
Since FreeCiv is introduced already, I feel compelled to mention this one.
Freecol
AC2 Player
Hawkeblade of Frostfell Circle of Iron (Before 1st Shutdown)
Wilkul of Dawnsong Shadow of Death (Dawnsong only world shutdown Jan 31st
)
Refugee of Auberean
Refugee of Dereth
very good
Another thread that was started (and locked as this thread exists) and has a rather extensive list of freeware games as well... http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/278176
The OP may copy and past their info directly here at a later date.
"Asking permission is easier than asking forgiveness."
"Without power, one dies."
-State Pestage, Grand Vizier
I think Its a nice game..Some other time I will try to play this game.
I love OpenArena. That is basically Quake 3 on Acid....Watch out, its like an ADULT VERSION of QUAKE 3!
I just found this one:
Gate 88
It's like an RTS version of Sinistar. The most obvious comparison I can make is Herzog Zwei and that doesn't quite do this thing justice. You control a ship, Asteriods style, and you have to defend that big green thing with rings around it in the bottom left hand part of the screenshot. The twist is that you can build turrets and other structures like factories and research labs. After awhile you'll be able to upgrade your ship and order around other fighters and bombers in a quest to destroy your opponent's gate, which is red.
Seriously, this game rocks and, if you are any kind of gamer at all, you have to try this.