Andrew Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 NOTE: This list has not been updated in quite a while. For newer lists, please check: List of free open source games | List of free closed source games If anyone knows of any free or opensource games they like and would like added to the list please reply. Please provide a website link (preferably NOT a direct download link). Also with a short description of what the game is (which can usually be found on the website). Also state whether open source or free. Below is a list of games that are both free and open source. To learn more about free and open source software, check this Wikipedia article. Note that the license for each game on the list may vary concerning which parts of a game's resources besides the code is free, however all games below can be downloaded and played for free, and have freely available source code. Action Games Battle Tanks BattleCity Bitfighter Chickens 2 Chopper Commando Hyperoid Gang Garrison 2 GLtron Knights Liero Neverball NiL OpenLieroX Savage Wheels Steel Storm: Episode I [shareware] Teeworlds Violetland Adventure Games Adventure Game Studio [engine/SDK] Beyond the Titanic Beneath a Steel Sky Flight of the Amazon Queen Lure of the Temptress Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back Soltys Mines Quest [engine/SDK] SLUDGE [engine/SDK] [SourceForge] Supernova Arcade Games Frozen Bubble Hex Bubbles LBreakout2 Multiplex Open Hexagon Paku Paku Rocks'n'Diamonds Snarf Zorx Artillery Games Atomic Tanks Hedgewars N.A.T.O.W. Scorched 3D Scorched Earth 2000 WarMUX xscorch Beat 'Em Ups Open Mortal Board Games GNU Backgammon JavaRisk Ludus Regius NetRisk OGS Mahjong OpenFracas Pioneers Scrabble 3D yura.net Domination Card Games PokerTH PySol PySolFC XM Solitaire Chess ChessV DreamChess GNU Chess The Genius XBoard/WinBoard First-Person Shooters CodeRED - Battle for Earth [download] CodeRED - The Martian Chronicles [download] Crystal Core [Crystal Space 3D engine tech demo] Cube [engine/SDK] Cube 2: Sauerbraten Descent [shareware] Doom [shareware] Duke Nukem 3D [shareware] Freedoom Heretic [shareware] Ken's Labyrinth Marathon Trilogy Open Quartz OpenQuartz 2 OQPlus Quake [shareware] Retribution [engine/SDK] Rise of the Triad [shareware] Shadow Warrior %5Bshareware%5D [Steam free version] Wolfenstein 3-D [shareware] Multiplayer/Arena FPS Alien Arena Arena of Honour Assault Cube Assault Cube Reloaded BZFlag DDay: Normandy [development website] Digital Paint: Paintball 2 fight win prevail [development suspended] Nexuiz Classic OpenArena Red Eclipse Smokin' Guns Tremulous Unvanquished Warsow Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory World of Padman Xonotic Zero Ballistics Misc Games BillardGL Frets on Fire StepMania UltraStar Word Whiz Platform Games Abuse Dave Gnukem [download] Jump 'n Bump Jumpman Lives! Frogatto & Friends Go Ollie! Mario clone Prince of Persia Secret Maryo Chronicles Smash Battle SuperTux Xargon Yo Frankie! Puzzle Games DroidQuest Enigma Kentris Kroz Numpty Physics Pingus SDL Scavenger Small Tetris Sokoban Tile World Tiny Tetris X-Moto Racing Games Armagetron Advanced Dakar 2011 Dolphinity Racer MiniRacer Speed Dreams Stunt Rally SuperTuxKart T1 Car Racing Simulation TORCS Trigger Rally Ultimate Stunts VDrift Real-Time Strategy Games 0 A.D. Aleona's Tales Bos Wars Clonk Clonk 2 Debackel Clonk 3 Radical Clonk Planet 4.65 Clonk Endeavour 4.95.5 Clonk Rage Commander Stalin Dark Oberon Glest Globulation 2 MegaGlest Open Imperium Galacitca OpenClonk OpenDungeons Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries SpringRTS [engine/SDK] Unknown Horizons Warzone 2100 Widelands Zero-K Role-Playing Games Blades of Exile Erebus Escape From The Maze Fall of Imyrin FLARE [engine/SDK] FreedroidRPG GNU FreeDink Hero of Allacrost Lips of Suna LostHero - Story of Gilgamesh NAEV RuneSword II [download latest version] Summoning Wars Roguelikes Angband Brogue Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Fame Linley's Dungeon Crawl Moria NetHack Rogue S.C.O.U.R.G.E.: Heroes of Lesser Renown SLASH'EM Tales of Maj'Eyal RPG Maker Software Advanced RPG Maker [engine/SDK] EasyRPG [engine/SDK] Mokoi Gaming [engine/SDK] Open RPG Maker [engine/SDK] OpenLegends [engine/SDK] Solarus [engine/SDK] Sphere RPG Engine [engine/SDK] MMORPG Eternal Lands PlaneShift WorldForge Sandbox Games Manic Digger Minetest Terasology Shoot'Em Up AstroMenace Chromium B.S.U. Kiloblaster M.A.R.S. Powermanga Project: Starfighter SDL Sopwith SHMUP - AirWars Solar Wolf Vacuum Magic Flight Simulators Combat Simulator Project decopter [engine/SDK] FlightGear Fly! Legacy Flying Guns [engine/SDK] GL-117 Palomino Slope Soaring Simulator Thunder&Lightning Managerial Simulation Games FreeTrain Lincity LinCity-NG Micropolis OpenCity OpenTTD Simutrans Skyscraper Spice Trade Space Flight Simulators Flight Commander [source code available upon request] No Gravity Oolite Paragon Pioneer Space Combat Starshatter: The Gathering Storm [source] Vega Strike Various Vehicle Simulation Danger from the Deep Rigs of Rods Sports Slam Soccer 2006 Yoda Soccer Third-Person Shooters Dead Justice Turn-Based Strategy Games Advanced Strategic Command The Battle for Wesnoth FreeLords GEMpire LordsAWar! UFO: Alien Invasion UFO2000 4X Strategy Games Antiquity C-evo Classic Empire Conquests Freeciv FreeCol FreeOrion Iron Seed Kingdoms Thousand Parsec Turn-Based Tactics Crimson Fields MegaMek Open Panzer OpenGeneral [SourceForge] Open Source Games With Non-Free Content Doom - Classic FPS The Ur-Quan Masters - Star Control 2 port corsix-th - Open source clone of Theme Hospital Free Games With Closed Source Subspace - two-dimensional multiplayer space shooter GTA 1 & GTA 2 - Starsiege: Tribes - Multiplayer FPS Voyage Century - a mmorpg about pirates Ground Control - real-time tactics computer game alt. download C&C Gold edition - Original C&C .iso alt. download Red Alert 1 C&C: Tiberium Sun C&C: Tiberium Dawn Urban Terror - free multiplayer first person shooter FreeSpace 2 Source - FreeSpace Open Installer - space combat simulation BSG mod Americas Army - US Army FPS FEAR combat - Online FEAR FPS TrackMania - Arcade style race game. Orbiter - Space flight simulator Ryzom - MMORPG Death Rally - 1996 top-down racing game with addictive nature and excellent gameplay. Panzer General Forever - PG 1 remake. Mechwarrior 4 Dune Games Dune IV - Dune 2 Clone Dune II: The Maker - Dune II Clone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spicy Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,42854.0.html'>http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,42854.0.htmlhttp://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php freespace2+multiplayer+ 10s of mods and campaigns will keep you busy all the summer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Command and Conquer is now free as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2k Sardaukar Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 gta2 is free too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 2, 2008 Author Share Posted March 2, 2008 links please :PI don't want to do all the work of finding the games you list. :(EDIT: Found gta1+2@$picy My ISP is going to dislike you :P Looks like a good game. Not sure why I havn't played it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spicy Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 freespace 2 and wing comander are the best 2 space sim games ever made they even made a game that mixed both games lol Wing Commander Saga : http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/board,46.0.html'>http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/board,46.0.htmlmore mods http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php dont forget to log on the server http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/board,135.0.html those guys realy kept their games going..not like us ..here is another 1 i remeber http://www.megagames.com/news/html/pc/freehiddenanddangerousdeluxe.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beonid Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 I've found a couple of good sites for freeware games, Abandonia, and Abandonia ReloadedHere are my picks from what I've found (in no particular order):Dune 2 - needs no introduction.Dune - the original game, again from Abandonia, works fine, but on a 19 inch monitor, it looks pixelated. Maybe it's just my screen.FreeCiv - Civilisation cloneGround Control!!! - The original Ground Control - a RTT (Real Time Tactical) game with great graphics.Commander Keen 1 - 2D platformerMeh, I'll probably find more, but this is it for now. Oh, and one last thing - Abandonia and Abandonia Reloaded are great search engines for games such as GTA1 and 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard3000 Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Whoa, whoa. Maybe we should limit this to actual freeware/shareware, rather than including abandonware (older games that were once for sale, and in some cases, still technically are). After all, abandonware technically isn't entirely legal.I'll add Beyond the Red Line, a free Battlestar Galactica space sim based on the Freespace 2 Engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beonid Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Oh, ok. That's fine with me, but it appeared to me that it was legal, since Abandonia has removed games from its site at the request of the Entertainment Software Association. I suppose that it would be illegal to download Dune, but it's readily available on the net. Abandonia Reloaded doesn't just have abandonware.Attached is screenshot of the Command & Conquer download page, with a nice big arrow pointing at what I'm talking about.Revised list:FreeCiv - I think this is free, but I'm not sure. Hmmm, maybe it's because it's got free in it.Ground Control - I happen to know that this is available on fileplanet, since that's where I got my copy, and I don't think that a big site like fileplanet would want to go flouting the rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2k Sardaukar Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 voyage century online - a mmorpg where you play with old sail boats, pirates, goods, swords etc. At first it's fun, buying new stuff like a boat, but when you get at a level where you need to put in 10 hours to go to the next level, it's game over for me.http://vc.igg.com/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunner154 Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Open Source... does that mean the source code is freely available? If so, DooM is on the list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 Yeah, I'd rather not simply list a couple websites (or hundreds of games) that have all the old games (such as HoTU). That makes the list kinda pointless.Yep freeciv is ok, and so is fround controlYes. Gunner :)I added wiki article fr doom open source stuff since I wasn't sure on correct website.Hmm, I'm guessing the BSG mod is better than the official BSG game they released? :PThe point of this list is to collect free/open source games so that people will not have to pirate games. Just like the software thread that contains many free alternatives to replace pirated software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Dune IVhttp://amonit.sulfurzona.com/edune.htmCommand and Conquerhttp://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Games/Strategy_Games/Command_and_Conquer.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 I created a dune clone section, and found the proper links for full .iso for C&C. Your version dunenewt was a 10mb download. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 11, 2008 Author Share Posted March 11, 2008 Just found link toUrban Terror - free multiplayer first person shooterFor some reason I cant edit first post. probably network problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakgab Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Hmmm, describing how good these games are would definitely be useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spicy Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 they all suck .. but a good pc and get a new decent game like crysis or unreal3 and download new single player games and if u cant do that then u dont need to ask haw good free games are because they are the only choice you have and before i go we forgot a very good free game here : http://www.joinfear.com/main Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunner154 Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. That one is definitely free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 http://returntocastlewolfenstein.filefront.com/files/Wolfenstein_Enemy_Territory;40indexThere's the link for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Do people still play ET? I remember it was really fun back in the day but I haven't played it for ages, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 I've just started a thread about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunner154 Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 It rocks, though it's too easy to die in this game :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spicy Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 this game is better : http://www.americasarmy.com/ i wounder why no one has mention it ... i mean wtf you can have a virtual career with the real united stats army lol sponsored by the American gov it self .. they are using latest graphics and a ranking system and if you are not going to get bf2 then this game is simply the place to be it has 9 million registered users !! this should be added to the list along side with fear combat http://www.joinfear.com/main.. they are top 2 free fps out there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spicy Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 lol check this out http://www.americasarmy.com/intel/article.php?t=271086 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kokiri-Mentat Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 dang, that's a cool story. I think there's a Wii game called trauma surgery or something like that. I wonder if they've had similar incidences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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