MrFlibble Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 (edited) This is a list of legally free games that do not have their source code available to the public in any form, including non-open source games created using open source third-party game engines or game-maker toolkits. It includes both games that were always freeware, and "liberated" games that were originally paid software (commercial or shareware) but eventually the atuhors/copyright holders declared them freeware. The list aims to only include full, complete games, but exceptions may be made for incomplete games that either have high artistic merit or offer an essentially complete playing experience, even if formally not considered complete releases. The games are mostly for PC (DOS and Windows), with occasional titles from other platforms. Emulators might be required to play games for DOS and some other platforms. If a game is for a legacy platform and one or more source ports or engine recreation exist, these are listed after the game title separated by the tilde sign. Unauthorised remakes of proprietary games are not included when original game data is used, but remakes and fangames are acceptable if they were authorised by copyright holders. Exceptions may be made for remakes of games from very old platforms that have long outlived their commercial potential, such as ZX Spectrum. For a list of free open source games, please check this thread. A very comprehensive, frequently updated list of all sorts of free games can be found here. Adventure - Action-Adventure Black Orb, The Legend of the Silver Talisman SPISPOPD Super ZZT Tower of the Sorcerer ZZT Adventure - First-Person Beasts Beauties and Beasts Desperabis Fedora Spade Great Mystery of Kheops, The Missing StarFight VI: Gatekeepers Thor's Hammer Adventure - Graphic Adventures of Maddog Williams, The Black Cauldron, The Denarius Avaricius Sextus Lord Avalot d'Argent Voodoo Girl Adventure - Interactive Fiction Bronze Dragon: Conquest of Infinity Dragon Side II: The Twisted Speare Empire of the Over-Mind House that Nobody Wanted, The Lost Crown of Queen Anne, The Murder in the Mediterranean Temple of Death, The Adventure - Interactive Fiction (illustrated) Crimson Crown, The Mickey's Space Adventure Oo-Topos Talisman: Challenging the Sands of Time Transylvania Transylvania III: Vanquish the Night Troll's Tale Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood Adventure - Point-and-click 5 Days A Stranger 7 Days A Skeptic 6 Days A Sacrifice Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 1 - In Search of the Skunk-Ape Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars ~ ScummVM Cedric and the Revolution Cosmos Quest Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back Eye of the Kraken Flight of the Amazon Queen ~ ScummVM King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones King's Quest III Redux King's Quest III VGA Remake Lure of the Temptress ~ ScummVM Nippon Safes, Inc. ~ ScummVM Runaway Space Quest II VGA Remake Stowaway Teenagent Trials of Odysseus Kent, The Udoiana Raunes - Special Edition Adventure - Zelda style BobQuest GemWorld Hoosier City [download] Legend of Lezda, The: The Adventure of Jinx Robomaze III [download] Adventure - Other Crime Fighter Space Kids TechnoVenture Arcade - Arkanoid/Breakout 3D Pulsoid BIPROLEX+ Blockage Break Machine Breakout (Ken Silverman) Cybersphere Cybersphere Plus Enigma (Geckosoft) MEGA BreakOut PopCorn ~ PopCorn 1988 PowBall [download] ~ PowBall Deluxe Pulsoid Arcade - Bomberman Bombs And Bugs Dstroy Fracas Mine Bombers Xplosive Arcade - Frogger DIV Frogger Revenge of Froggie Arcade - Pac-Man Greedy ~ Open Greedy Munch Man Pako Arcade - Sports Arcade Volleyball ~ GAV Hairy Harry Acrade - Other Hopmon Trick Blast Educational Aro & Elmi BabyType Blupi at Home Blupi Explorer Bug Brain Color Wizard, The Der Name des Bruders [download] Donald Duck's Playground No Future? Fighting - Beat'em up / Brawler Bonkers Executioners Franko: The Crazy Revenge Little Fighter Little Fighter 2 Fighting - Versus Black Heart, The Invincible One Must Fall 2097 ~ OpenOMF Sango Fighter ~ Sango Fighter Special Edition Sango Fighter 2 Super Fighter ~ Super Fighter Special Edition Timeslaughter Tough Guy Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport Platformer - Cinematic 1213 Blackthorne Iji onEscapee Skull Quest 1, The Cyan Sarcophagus Skull Quest 2, The Vortex Umbrella Adventure Platformer - Hop and Bop A Game with a Kitty Akiko and Minami Giana's Return Giant Worlds [download] [installer] Great Giant Sisters, The Mister Kid Stargirl and the Thief from the Exploded Moon Todd's Adventures Platformer - Lode Runner-like Drilling Billy Flynn Sprint Infiltrator Jetpack Jetpack Christmas Special! Lode Runter Maniac Widget & Gold Platformer - Metroidvania Castlevania 2: The Lecarde Chronicles Eternal Daughter ~ REternal Daughter Haunted Castle II HooperVania Knight of Exile Maria Renard's Revenge MetroGalactica Power, The Silver Night's Crusaders XGA Platformer - Puzzle Boondog Clyde's Adventure Clyde's Revenge Happyland Adventures Janitor Dan the Spaceman Lao's Quest Lost Vikings, The Mick Quadrax Sint Nicolaas Toffifee Fantasy Forest Top Hat Willy Trilby: The Art of Theft Platformer - Shooter Acter World Alien Carnage Arctic Adventure Beez Bio Menace Captain Binary Cool Cat Dark Ages Electro Man Heros I: The Sanguine Seven Jack Flash [download] Maldita Castilla Noitu Love & The Army of Grinning Darns Pekka Kana 2 Pharaoh's Tomb Putty Squad Santaman Special Agent T2002 Tailchaser Tom & Jerry Tricky Quicky Games Troy Platformer - Other Bonesaw: The Game Puzzle - Bust-A-Move / Puzzle Bobble Ball Blaster Bubble Puzzle Scrambled Eggs Puzzle - Crillion Crillion 97 Frozen Fruits Frozen Fruits 2 HitBlock / HitBlock Deluxe Summer Bound Puzzle - Boulder Dash Adventures of Robbo ~ GNURobbo Cave Chaos Cave Chaos 2 Digger (Harald Winkler) Dot Valley Fatal Dash HamsterJam [download] Heartlight PC New Dash Dimension, The Rock 'n' Spin RockRush RoX StoneAge 1 Supaplex ~ OpenSupaplex, Supaplex Online TunnelMan, The Puzzle - Falling block Blockout Bref 2.0 Columns (Brian Boese) FitUp! Super ACiD Block Attack Tetris Pro (Craig Rothwell) Tetrix Tristix Puzzle - Lemmings-like Ducks Hamsters Puzzle - Maze General Budda's Labyrinth Get Lost! Puzzle - Rolling ball Ballgame 2 Ball Blazing Fantasy Puzzle - Soko-Ban Block-O-Mania BOB and His Amazing Journey Home Capt'n Squiddy's Bootleg Push-Push Clone Continuing Adventures of Cyberbox, The Cyberbox Pufiban! Puzzle Pits, The Puzzle - Tile matching Boppin' Japure Marbleicious Puzzle - Other Bombzuka Bricks Fluffy Deluxe Fool's Errand, The GATE Laser Tank MonoKrome Taking Care of Business xyWords Role-Playing - Dungeon crawler / Roguelike ADOM Beneath Apple Manor Castle of the Winds DND Dungeons of the Necromancer's Domain ELONA - Eternal League of Nefia Lords of Doom MageGuild Ragnarok Rogue's Quest o additional scenarios Telengard ~ Telengard Remake UnReal World Role-Playing - First-Person Berserker Quest VI Elder Scrolls, The: Arena Elder Scrolls, The: Daggerfall ~ Daggerfall Unity Crawler Akalabeth: World of Doom Daymare 1 Daymare 2 Escape from Ragor Megrim's Rache Blobber Bard's Lore, The City Beneath the Surface Darkside of the Sun Gates of Integrity Gene Splicing Tower of Fortune Role-Playing - Hack and slash Fire & Dragons [download] Gates of Destiny [download] ShadowFlare: Episode One [download] Role-Playing - jRPG A Blurred Line Ahriman's Prophecy DarkPhear Fenix Blade Warrior Dragon Role-Playing - Ultima style Dragon Engine Exile: Escape from the Pit (use winevdm) Exile II: Crystal Souls (use winevdm) Exile III: Ruined World (use winevdm) Helherron Joyous Rebel Kingdom of Syree, The Kingdom of Syree II, The: Black Magic Madman Nahlakh Realmz [reg. codes] Ultizurk 3 Wraith Role-Playing - Other Aleshar: The World of Ice [download] Eschalon: Book I Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire Perihelion Provinces of Midland, The - Argskin RuneSword Shooter - First-Person 8bit Killer Alien Cabal [download] Avert Fate Beyond Life Bitsturbed Chemical Warfare Derelict Esc4pe, The Gore: Ultimate Soldier [download] [download 2] Gun Godz Hades 2 [download] Industrial Killers Invention RPG Journey, The Paranoia 2: Savior Pencil Whipped Purple Complex Red Alert: A Path Beyond Renegade X: Black Dawn Soldier of Empire Soldner: Secret Wars TECNO - The Base [download] Tiberian Sun Reborn Trench Warfare Tribes series Wolfram Wolfschanze 1944 Shooter - Fixed/wraparound screen Submarine Fury Asteroids AstroFire Disasteroids 3D Roxx Buster Bros / Pang Bubble Jeopardy PANGG! Centipede Crawly-Pede Megapede'95 Choplifter Airlift Rescue Defender Abductor Glook Jetpac Jetman [download] Jetpak [download] Paratrooper Ack-Ack Attack Paratrooper II Robotron Llamatron Robotica Snake / Nibbles Snake (Abhijeet Meshram) Snake (Ilija Mihajlov) Zonker Space Invaders / Galaga Cash Invaders Cheesy Invaders Cosmic Ambush Galacta: The Battle for Saturn Galactix Galaxi Gargoyle Medieval Pack Kiloblaster Space Crusaders Spaced-Out Invaders Shooter - Isometric Assault Trooper Outbound Theseus - Return of the Hero Shooter - Side-scrolling Attack of the Mutant Camels (John M. Dow) Hydorah Katakis Liero MoleZ Operation Spacehog Operation Vulture III: Cyber Chopper Operation Vulture IV: Escape from Station 7 ProtoType R-Type STARCOM Revenge of the Mutant Camels SideLine Stargunner TerraFire Tiger's Bane Shooter - Third-Person G-Sector Frenetic Frenetic Plus Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe Noxious Path of Shadows Warscape Alpha Shooter - Top-down Alien Assault II Alien Breed: Obliteration Alien Breed Remake (Rob Farley) [download] Bert Higgins: The Man from H.E.L.L. Dungeons of Grimlor, The Dungeons of Grimlor II, The: The Lich Enemy Lines Factor X Operation Carnage Tapan Kaikki [download] Tapan Kaikki Bloodshed Traffic Department 2192 Transcendence Ultimate Tapan Kaikki, The Shooter - Vertical scrolling Cosmo Dragon Firecrow Invasion Alien Island Hopper Major Stryker Overkill Tyrian ~ OpenTyrian Tyrian 2000 ~ OpenTyrian2000 Vanguard Ace: Vertical Madness Xenon 2000 XOP Ultra XOP Black Ultra Simulation - Business Der Planer TVTower Simulation - Flight Harrier Strike Jaguar GR1: Strike Force Delta Zulu Spanish Civil War Aircrafts SVGA Air Warrior Tornado Squadron Wings of Thunder Simulation - Mecha EarthSiege 2 [download] Giants of Steel [download] Metaltech: EarthSiege [download] Simulation - Rail Mechanik [alternate page] RAILSIM Simulation - Space BACKLASH: A Turret Gunner Simulation Babylon 5: I've Found Her - Danger & Opportunity Battlecruiser 3000 A.D. Battlecruiser 3000 A.D. v2.09 LineWars II Orbiter RiftSpace [download] Star Wraith 2 [download] Star Wraith 3: Shadows of Orion [download] Star Wraith IV: Reviction [download] Universal Combat Free Full Singleplayer Sports - Football / Soccer Football Glory Sports - Racing 2FAST4YOU / BiFi Rennen Billabong Racers Carser Death Rally FFX Runner HD Mister Bike Overheat RCross RetroFuel RunOut SkyRoads Street Rod Victory Road Strategy - City-Building City of Rauma I, Mayor Kulavanem Strategy - Real-Time Clonk Command & Conquer: Dawn of Tomorrow Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Devolution - Global Warming Enemy Nations Fertile Crescent, The House Globe Loria Priority: Survive R.A.D. - Rapid Area Deployment Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War S.W.I.N.E. StarCraft: Brood War StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Subpar Commander Trash Twisted Insurrection Strategy - Real-Time Tactics Battleships Forever Ground Control MechCommander Gold Strategy - Turn-based 1821: The Struggle for Freedom Barren Planet Battlelords Conquest of Elysium II Knights of War Palm Kingdoms 2 Deluxe King Arthur's KORT [download] Lost Castle, The War of the Solstice, The Star Lords (Master of Orion prototype) Stellar Conquest III War of the Atomic Gods Wargame Project Strategy - Turn-based Tactics Chaos Reborn Crazy Cows Strategy - Wargame 1848 / For Liberty! Conquests (Crusade prototype) EGA Civil War Battleset Pacific War: Matrix Edition [alternate version] Steel Panthers: World at War Titans of Steel: Warring Suns [download] War Engine, The [download] War in Russia: Matrix Edition [alternate version] Wars of Napoleon winSPMBT winSPWW2 World War II in Western Europe Traditional - Boardgame Chinese Checkers Ishido Redhook's Revenge Viking Siege Wari - The Ancient Game of Africa Traditional - Chess Nero 5 Psion Chess Rebel Decade 3.0 Siberian Chess Traditional - Mah Jongg Mah Jongg -8514- Mah Jongg -V-G-A- Traditional - Solitaire Infinite Patience Klondike Gold Kosynka Traditional - Other Rubik's Cube Edited December 28, 2023 by MrFlibble major update of the list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 So what does the * mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted May 9, 2017 Author Share Posted May 9, 2017 This marks liberated games, as opposed to "pure" freeware: 17 hours ago, MrFlibble said: Liberated (formerly commercial or shareware) games are marked with an asterisk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted December 26, 2023 Author Share Posted December 26, 2023 The list in the first post of this thread has been updated in a major way, with more games and a more detailed (and hopefully more accurate) genre breakdown. It's not meant to be exhaustive, but I tried to list as many good, complete closed-source games as I could. For historical reference, here's the old version of the list, but please note that it is in some places inaccurate and some links may not work: On 5/8/2017 at 9:16 PM, MrFlibble said: This is a list of legally free games that do not have their source code available to the public. Liberated (formerly commercial or shareware) games are marked with an asterisk. For non-Windows games, their platform is indicated in bold next to the title (except for those games that are bundled with an emulator like DOSBox). This list does not include: multiplayer-only games; browser-based games; games with any kind of DRM (Steam etc.); limited time promotional giveaways; abandonware of any kind; and any unauthorised free "remakes" of commercial games that essentially allow to play any substantial portion of such games for free. For a list of free open source games, please check this thread. A very comprehensive, frequently updated list of all sorts of free games can be found here. Arcade Alien Breed: Obliteration AstroFire* DOS Carax '95 Cash Invaders DOS Cybersphere* DOS Cybersphere Plus* DOS Disasteroids 3D The Dungeons of Grimlor I & II* DOS God of Thunder* DOS Joe Snow Kosmonaut* DOS Legend of the Silver Talisman DOS Lode Runner Online Mine Bombers* DOS Mr. Boom DOS Obliterator DOS SkiFree SkyRoads* DOS Super ACiD Block Attack DOS Tower of the Sorcerer TurboLode Vyrox Adventure The Adventures of Maddog Williams* DOS Bronze Dragon: Conquest of Infinity* Apple II Cosmos Quest series Dragon Side II: The Twisted Speare* Apple II Eye of the Kraken Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones King's Quest III Redux Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire Robomaze III* DOS [download] Beat 'Em Up Battle of the Eras* DOS The Black Heart One Must Fall 2097* DOS Sango Fighter* DOS Sango Fighter 2* DOS Educational BabyType DOS First-Person Shooter 8bit Killer Alien Cabal* DOS [Windows upgrade] Avert Fate Barista 1 Beyond Life Bitsturbed Derelict The Esc4pe Gore - Ultimate Soldier Special Edition* [download] Gun Godz Hades 2* [download] Industrial Killers DOS Invention RPG The Journey LineWars II* DOS Outpost 41 Paranoia 2: Savior Pencil Whipped Prism: Guard Shield Purple Complex Red Alert: A Path Beyond Renegade X Sublevel Zero Prototype [download] Tiberian Sun Reborn Tribes series* Wolfram Management Strategy City of Rauma Valmeria - Villages and Cities Platform 1213 Alien Carnage* DOS Bio Menace* DOS Blackthorne* Captain Binary Cyber-Marine DOS [download] Electro Man* DOS Eternal Daughter Giana's Return The Great Giant Sisters DOS Giant Worlds [download] [installer] Happyland Adventures Heroes of Yggdrasil Heros I: The Sanguine Seven* DOS Iji Inner Worlds* DOS Maldita Castilla Robomaze II: The Lobby* DOS [download] Special Agent Sint Nicolaas T2002 Tailchaser* TSB Xargon* DOS Puzzle Gate Get Lost!* DOS The Lost Vikings* Quadrax* Racing Death Rally* RunOut Street Rod series Real-Time Strategy Command & Conquer Gold Command & Conquer: Red Alert Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun* Enemy Nations* Ground Control* Priority: Survive Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War* StarCraft* Subpar Commander S.W.I.N.E.* Role-Playing A Blurred Line Ahriman's Prophecy Berserker Quest VI The Elder Scrolls: Arena* DOS The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall* DOS Eschalon: Book I* Exile: Escape from the Pit* Win3.x Exile II: Crystal Souls* Win3.x Exile III: Ruined World* Win3.x Fire & Dragons Gates of Destiny Helherron* Joyous Rebel* DOS Perihelion* Amiga The Provinces of Midland - Argskin Pyrrhic Tales: Prelude to Darkness RuneSword* ShadowFlare: Episode One [discontinued] Thor's Hammer* DOS Warrior Dragon Roguelike CaRPG Castle of the Winds* Win3.x Lords of Doom* DOS Lost Labyrinth MageGuild Ragnarok* DOS Rogue's Quest o additional scenarios UnReal World* Shooter CS2D Dark Rage* DOS Evasive Maneuvers* DOS Hell Fighter Hydorah Janitor Dan the Spaceman Katakis* Amiga Major Stryker* DOS Mission Cobra 98 DOS [download] Molez* DOS Operation Carnage* DOS Operation Spacehog PixelShips ProtoType R-Type* Amiga Rocketz* DOS SideLine* DOS sk0r Spaceshooter StarFight series Stargunner* DOS Tapan Kaikki DOS [download] Tapan Kaikki Bloodshed TerraFire* DOS Theseus - Return of the Hero Tiger's Bane* Win3.x Transcendence The Ultimate Tapan Kaikki DOS [download] Xenon 2000* Simulation Elite: The New Kind Orbiter RiftSpace* [download] Star Wraith 2* [download] Star Wraith 3: Shadows of Orion* [download] Starion 2010 Universal Combat Free Full Singleplayer* Third-Person Shooter/Action G-Sector Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe* Noxious Path of Shadows The Times Exclusive Tomb Raider Level Turn-Based Strategy Battles of Destiny* DOS Conquest of Elysium II* [download] Great Nations Palm Kingdoms 2* Wargame Project Turn-Based Tactics 1821: The Struggle for Freedom 1848 Battlelords DOS Rapid Response* DOS [download] The War Engine* winSPMBT* winSPWW2* Steel Panthers: World at War X-Force: Fight for Destiny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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