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]
• 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. It was used to promote the game Tread Marks in a high score contest on the Old Man Murray website. Gameplay consists solely of making a row of three crates, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Crate Review System featured on that site.
• Dance With Intensity clones dance game Dance Dance Revolution
• DominateGame is an online Risk-like game here.
• 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.
• Orbiter, a spaceflight simulator with an emphasis on realistic orbital mechanics [2]
• 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]
• 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)
• Soldat, a popular 2D multiplayer online shooter[4]
• Steel Panthers: World at War [5], plus several other remakes of older strategy games from Matrix Games .
• SPMBT: Steel Panthers Main Battle Tank [6]
• SPWW2: Steel Panthers World War 2 [7]
• 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]

Commercial games released as freeware

• UberWG Software Department - Arkanoid3D.NET
• Abuse, a 1995 side-scrolling action game by Crack dot Com , released as freeware.
• Akalabeth a.k.a "Ultima 0" by Lord British.
• B-17 Flying Fortress, by Microprose.
• Beneath a Steel Sky by Revolution Software. [9]
• Betrayal at Krondor, 1993 release by Sierra On-Line, release as freeware 1997.[10]
• Caesar, 1991 release by Impressions.
• Castle of the Winds a tile based RPG for Windows 3.x, written by SaadaSoft.
• Decisive Battle of WWII: The Adrennes Offensive , released as freeware by SSG. [11]
• Derek Smart's infamous Battlecruiser 3000AD. [12]
• Dink Smallwood, 1997 RPG by RTsoft released as freeware on 17 October 1999. [13]
• Elite and Elite Plus. [14]
• Flight of the Amazon Queen by Interactive Binary Illusions . [15]
• Frederik Pohl's Gateway part 1, adventure game, based on book by same author.
• Grand Theft Auto, first game of the GTA-series. [16]
• Grand Theft Auto 2, second game of the GTA-series. [17]
• Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe, a 1999 game by Illusion Softworks . [18]
• One Must Fall: 2097, (1994) classic fighting game by Diversions Entertaintment .
• Ports Of Call . [19]
• Red Baron, 1990 fight simulator by Dynamix.
• Rise of the Dragon , 1990 release by Dynamix.
• Star Control II, the classic space adventure by Toys for Bob was GPL'ed and renamed as The Ur-Quan Masters. [20]
• Starsiege: Tribes and Tribes 2, were released as freeware May 2004.[21]
• The Elder Scrolls: Arena, 1994 game that was released as freeware in 2004.[22]
• Lord British's Ultima IV
• Wild Metal - [23]
• Zork I, II, III & The Undiscovered Underground [24]

See also

• MUD

Sources

Some of the games mentioned can be found at:

• http://www.pcgaming.ws/
• http://www.gamehippo.com
• http://www.pinggames.com/
• http://www.the-underdogs.org/
• http://www.acid-play.com/