Topic: Free Games

[Xessive]

Here are a couple of games that just became free!

Full Spectrum Warrior

Based on a light infantry-training simulator designed for the U.S. Army as a tool to reinforce Army combat doctrine and squad tactics among troops.

THQ has released for free Full Spectrum Warrior, allowing you to enjoy the PC version of this tactical-action military game developed by Pandemic Studios. In the game, players will command and coordinate the actions of two infantry squads leading them through a hostile urban warzone, as they outthink, outmaneuver and battle enemies through thirteen levels of intense combat. In addition, players can also go online and team up with a friend for two-player co-op gameplay. Full Spectrum Warrior is based on a light infantry-training simulator designed by Pandemic Studios for the U.S. Army as a tool to reinforce Army combat doctrine and squad tactics among troops.

Area 51

Investigate a distress signal from Area 51 where a viral outbreak has just shut down the research facility.

Midway has released for free Area 51, allowing you to enjoy the PC version of this sci-fi FPS developed by Inevitable Entertainment. Area 51 features the voice talent of David Duchovny as Specialist Ethan Cole of the Hazardous Materials Division, Powers Boothe as Major Bridges, and recording artist Marilyn Manson as Edgar, the gray alien. As Cole, players,will delve into massive levels within the confines of Area 51, discovering a deadly mutagenic side effect of the virus that controls the minds of those infected, as well as an ancient alien colony buried beneath the facility. With a multitude of human and alien weapons, players must explore chilling conspiracies such as the extraterrestrial crash at Roswell and the faked lunar landing, in order to solve the enigma of Area 51 before the viral mutagen is released and irrevocably mutates all life on Earth.

Facewound

2D side scrolling shoot em up available for free!

Developed by Facepunch Studios, Facewound is a 3D accelerated 2D side scrolling shoot em up. Facewound uses technology that you'd associate with 3D games such as pixel shaders and ragdoll physics to bring 2D games up to date.

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I'm gonna keep adding to this list as they pile up on GamersHell.com.

Let's all contribute and make this a sticky with free games' listings!

[gpw11]

I'll probably play FSW.  I liked the demo but never picked it up.

[MysterD]

I actually have had Area 51 and FSW on disc for a while; bought those cheap, some time ago. And guess what? I ain't done jack squat with them! LOL.

How are the ad-placement in these free-released versions of those games, for those that tried them? I hope they don't pop-up while during the game.

EDIT:
The Suffering went free
If anybody missed my thread earlier in the week on The Suffering (PC) going free w/ ad-placement, look here!

[scottws]

I played FSW but found it really boring and hard.  There were so many important hotkey combinations and I could never remember them.

[idolminds]

The Battle for Wesnoth

The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army of humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, trolls or any of the other races and beat those who dare to oppose you. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures...

Babo Violent 2

BV2 is a top down shooter where you control a "Babo," a red or blue orb that rolls around the screen with one of six weapons attached to it. [Think top-down Quake 3.]

Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. [Large learning curve, ASCII graphics, but so deep and worth it.]

Subspace Continuum

Ever imagine what it'd be like to play Asteroids against your friends? Want to savor the satisfaction of blasting people out of space in some addictive side-scrolling 2D spaceship shooter action?

Slap on some snazzy graphics, guns, bombs & big explosions and the beautiful revelry of flying past your enemy's debris as they cuss at you, and you have Continuum, the longest running massively multiplayer spaceship shooter game running today.

Knytt Stories

In Knytt Stories, each level is its own little adventure. One level is included with the game, where you have to stop a machine that draws the life out of the planet. An official expansion pack is also featured at the website with four original levels. [A really nice 2D platformer, and lots of custom levels can be found. Also check out the original Knytt and Within A Deep Forest, linked to on the same page.]

Bontago

Bontăgo is an intense single or multiplayer 3d real-time strategy game. Players begin with flags (one color for each player) spaced evenly around the edge of a large disk, called the field, balanced on a fulcrum in the center. Around each flag is a circle representing that player's controlled area. Every few seconds a block appears on each player's cursor. The players must place the blocks somewhere in their controlled areas. Players can place the block at any moment in the allotted time, or can hold it until time is up and the block will fall on its own and be replaced by the next block.

The goal of the game is to encompass all of the world flags in the controlled area. To expand the controlled area, the player must build upwards and outwards. The radius of the controlled area (and thus the area the player may place blocks in) is determined using the height of the player's structures perpendicular to the disk. If controlled areas of opposing players meet, a hole is formed in the disk in the overlapping region. The first player to possess a continuous area containing the world flags wins.

Sauerbraten

Sauerbraten (a.k.a. Cube 2) is a free multiplayer/singleplayer first person shooter, built as a major redesign of the Cube FPS.

Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is not necessarily to produce the most features & eyecandy possible, but rather to allow map/geometry editing to be done dynamically in-game, to create fun gameplay and an elegant engine. [Looks great and plays like a modern Doom 2. Map editing is built-in, realtime, and super easy.]

Simutrans

Simutrans is a free transport economic simulation game.[Think Transport Tycoon.]

Neverball

Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill. [Think Super Monkey Ball minus monkeys.]

Nexuiz

Nexuiz is a fast paced 3d deathmatch game

[MysterD]

Rise & Fall: Civilizations At War also gets free release from Midway.
Around 2 GB or so

Historical, real-time strategy game available now for free

Midway has released for free Rise & Fall: Civilizations At War, allowing you to enjoy this real-time strategy game that lets players completely command one of the four mightiest empires of the ancient world: Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Persia. Rise & Fall was the first real-time strategy game to place players directly in the heart of combat as a heroic general fighting side-by-side with their troops as one of history's eight greatest heroes battling to bring victory to their nation on the battlefield.

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La Tale

La Tale
Developer: Actoz Soft
Publisher: OGPlanet (North America)

Introduction / Overview
La Tale is a world where many well-known aspects of magical fantasy realms co-exist with those of modern civilization. As players travel through this pastel-colored, side-scrolling environment, they can experience both the monsters and magic of classic tales, and cities that offer many of the cultures and clothing styles from our own surroundings. They are given numerous play options; they may choose whether to enjoy it as an action MMORPG with simple controls and a complex storyline alone, by going on quests, competing in PvP battles with companions and guild members, or simply decorating their characters and play with their friends. Whichever way it's experienced, the game's intuitive play and various customizations are easy enough for younger players to master, while the fast-paced action is intense enough to keep older, hardcore players entertained.

This is a free-to-play MMORPG.
But if you want more "premium" content, you'll have to pay for it via micro-transactions.

[Xessive]

La TaleThis is a free-to-play MMORPG.
But if you want more "premium" content, you'll have to pay for it via micro-transactions.

Don't forget to mention that La Tale is 2D side-scrolling Action/RPG

It's pretty cool and unqiue but lag has a much bigger impact on this type of game as oppose to the more common 3D adventure games.

[Cobra951]

Neverball

Excellent.  Sometimes I wonder if something has gone wrong with my system, since so much newer stuff chugs on it.  Well-coded, beautiful games like this are rare and reassuring.  Very smooth performance and perfect mechanics.  The levels are varied and mostly a lot of fun.  There's a lot of polish here.  But whoever came up with that first teleport level ought to be shot.

Thanks idol.

[gpw11]

Maybe we should have a forum Dwarf Fortress Succession game.

[idolminds]

That would be awesome.

[Cobra951]

I played through Knytt Stories, or rather the episode that comes with the initial download.  I liked it enough to download the other official levels.  My only gripe is the complete lack of good choices on resolution.  The window is way too small, and although the aspect ratio is very wide, the only fullscreen choice is 4:3 aspect.

I know I've mentioned Blocksum before.  It's a puzzle game where you have to group together n blocks with a value of n.  (Example: 3 blocks that have "3" written in them.)  They rise from the bottom Tetris-Attack-style, and you have to make them go away before they jam up to the top.  All you can do is combine blocks together into higher sums, so that the correct number of blocks of a certain value touch together.  You can keep stringing them together after the minimum is reached, so you can for example have 10 [2]'s together.  Once you figure out the mechanics, it's very addictive, and gets ridiculously hard as higher-numbered blocks start to appear.  You won't be wasting hours on a single game, I don't think.

Aha!  Youtube to the rescue.  This game is so hard to describe.  For those thoroughly confused with my explanation, a movie is worth 1000² words.

[nickclone]

I've been playing LaTale and so far I like it.

[Xessive]

Several old games released as freeware!

Several old Apogee Software games are now being offered as freeware, 3D Realms announced. There is no promise of any sort of technical support, as these eight games are all from 1990 and earlier, and will probably require DOSBox or other similar software. The catalog of releases includes five games that are freeware for the first time, three games that are being re-released as freeware along with their GPL source code, and a bonus release of a Flash edition of Kingdom of Kroz II.

List:
Kroz Free Full Game (3.89MB)
Arctic Adventure Free Full Game (270.6KB)
Dark Ages Free Full Game (374.93KB)
Monuments of Mars Free Full Game (201.54KB)
Pharaoh's Tomb Free Full Game (217.71KB)
Beyond the Titanic Free Full Game (431.03KB)
Supernova Free Full Game (756.99KB)
Word Whiz Free Full Game (188.9KB)

[MysterD]

PC Gamer -> October 2010's Best Free PC Games List.

I bet Idol is eyeballing Pirates of the New Horizon.

[Xessive]

Thanks for the update, D!

Technobabylon looks particularly interesting! Very classic, especially since I've just jumped back into Beneath a Steel Sky (which is also free by the way from GOG.com, it can also be alternatively enjoyed via ScummVM which also has a link to get it for free).

[idolminds]

Sadly, Pirates of New Horizon isn't all that fun since its more of a tech demo.

[MysterD]

Sadly, Pirates of New Horizon isn't all that fun since its more of a tech demo.

[Quemaqua]

Some of those look fantastic.  White and Super Crate Box seem like must-downloads.

[idolminds]

I can vouch for Super Crate Box. Its awesome.