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Started 16 years ago by Whiterabbit-uk
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Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

The following is a list of all the Freeware games with links to the appropriate forum post since the games discussion thread was created two months ago. I thought it would make it easier to keep all the decent games together in one thread. :)

Originally I'd hoped to carry on where freeware fan had left off with respect to posting links to freeware games on at least a weekly basis, but I just haven't had the time and sometimes when I have I've just not had the inclination. I've gone over the top with purchasing big budget games over the past two months having bought nearly 20 DVD based games. I do this sometimes and then find myself occupied for a few months trying to decide which I'm going to complete (which I never do) There are some fantastic free games out there, some of which freeware fan introduced us to, plus there has been loads of others posted here over the past couple of months by lots of community members.

For those new to these forums it'll take you weeks to trawl through all of the links below as there are too many games to mention, though the ones that have been individually named such as Enigma, Stopple and Gem Tower would be the ideal places to start, I would also recommend checking out the Arkanoid and Space Shoot 'em up links, though I'm biased with respect to the two later ones, lol. Anyway have fun

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The Original Freeware Games List

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/686

Enigma posted by Creamypretzel:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3032

101 freeware games posted by Freeware fan (this list has some fantastic freeware games to be had including one I love called the blob:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2322

Stopple posted by Freeware fan

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2340?replies=9#post-14703

Gem Tower posted by Idhal: (The link is near the bottom of the page

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2326/page/2

Planet Zet (Zzed) posted by ZF (sadly missed) You'll find Zzed amongst the large post amongst other games he's posted that are worth looking at:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2819

Wings of War posted by me (an alternative to Sky aces that’s superb)

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2627

Arkanoids posted by me with additions by several other members:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2607

Space shoot 'em up’s posted by me with several other contributors:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2724

List of freeware games posted by Mr Fishy

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2654

Tempo posted by Freeware fan:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2454

Most fun games posted by Sandy This is a commercial site, but you can get games like Glyph and Alice Greenfingers totally free if you’re willing to put up with adverts in between levels.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2600

Yahoo’s top free games posted by Funkymom which includes some classics such as GTA, Psychonauts, Runescape, Portal and Orbiter as well as others such as Desktop tower defence, Fancy pants adventure and reflections:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2557

Poing posted by me This can also be found in the arkanoid post above, but I think its worth a separate spot as well, lol:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2525

Wheeled games posted by me and several other community members:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2574?replies=1#post-17105

The best freeware games of 2007: a point of view posted by me. There are some excellent games in this post, you just need to dig ‘em out, lol:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2389

Platform: the game posted by Freeware fan (I never finished the review for this one and only recently deleted the images I’d taken while playing it.:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2387

Stunt Playground posted by Freeware fan:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2457 (see my review
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2466 )

More excellent freeware games posted by me:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2384

Realms posted by Freeware fan (though the link takes you to my review):

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2442

Bossinabox posted by freeware fan (via my review)

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2378

A tale of two kingdoms posted by Freeware Fan:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2359

Questfighter 2 posted by me:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2365

Tower of Goo posted by me If you like this taster then you’ll love World of Goo. It’s still in the Beta testing stage, but I can tell you it’s a brilliant physics based game that will stretch your mind. If you like building things you’ll certainly love World of Goo. If you want to Beta test World of Goo you unfortunately have to buy the game, even though it’s not released yet. The Beta test gives you one full chapter to test that took an evening to complete.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2356

Top ten point and click games posted by BuBBy:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2069

Mind Games posted by creamypretzel:

http://www.ihsan.biz/

Posted 16 years ago #
copmom
Member

Rabbit... this is WONDERFUL!!!!!! You're a real sweetheart for doing this!!!

Posted 16 years ago #
LeKanaw
Member

OOOHHHH BOY!!
This is a big amount of work u did here WRabbit!
You didn't call it a «Compendium» for nothing!!

It is FUN*TAS*TIK
Going to be so much easier to find what we are looking for!!

It's already bookmarked!! :D
Thank you wery wery much!!

Amicalement, Manu

Posted 16 years ago #
funkymom
Member

no, mango-mama, it's funk*tas*tik!

the bunnyman rocks it once again!
thank you.
:D

Posted 16 years ago #
kerikaz
Member

Whiterabbit, this is awesome! Thank you so much for taking the time to compile this for all of us extreme gamers....:-)
Here are a couple more posted recently that I don't see in your post. Apologies if I just missed it.

Acropolis - Posted by Michelle:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3012?replies=47

Galapago - Posted by Kerikaz (me)
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2867?replies=23

PS - I double checked the links and both are still available for free. Again, thanks so much!

(Keri)kaz

Posted 16 years ago #
LeKanaw
Member

Hey Funky, You are messing w my words!!
Funk*tas*tik then... Me Likey :D

Oh yeahh, I'm going to adopt that one!!
Already put it on my little note pad!

Your most preferred Mango Mama, Manu
Taratadam!!!

Posted 16 years ago #
BuBBy
Teh adnim

I think it would be a good idea (for maintenance purposes) - to split the list into two sections:

1. Free Forever (Freeware/Open Source)
2. Free for Now (Shareware - On Free Offer)

Posted 16 years ago #
funkymom
Member

bubby- you are always thinking.........that's why they pay you the big bucks.
;)

Posted 16 years ago #
CreamyPretzel
Member

I just yesterday discovered this little gem of a site, for anyone that likes brain games. I put 39 of these on my PC today. Most of the files are quite small, and most of the games can be quite challenging. In many of the games, you can create your own. You can also change a lot of settings such as colors, style, etc. A lot of work looks to have gone into these brain games. I hope you can find something you like:

http://www.ihsan.biz/

-Dan

Posted 16 years ago #
funkymom
Member

thanks, dan.

i'll have to check it out at a later date.

Posted 16 years ago #
goodgotd
Member

Avalanche!

Posted 16 years ago #
maizeydaze
Member

Dan, thanks for the new addition. Looks like several games are right up my alley.

Posted 16 years ago #
copmom
Member

Oh dear.. my bookmarks are getting SOOOO full!

Posted 16 years ago #
CreamyPretzel
Member

I see that after my above posting, Whiterabbit added the free-game download site I mentioned to his list. I must be living right!

By the way, I wonder if anyone has ever thought that your nickname on here is "Whiter Abbit"???

Posted 16 years ago #
BuBBy
Teh adnim

I see that after my above posting, Whiterabbit added the free-game download site I mentioned to his list.

That was my doing - I'm guessing if I keep the list current, WR will have more time available to find good games to add to it. ;)

Posted 16 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

Some nice additions, thanks gang; and yeah that may be a good idea BuBBy, regarding the seperation of always free and only free for some time. As for adding more games, for now I'm hoping the collective minds of this fantastic community will contribute. I'm still working through those big bucks games I mentioned I've bought recently. Thankfully I only have about three or possibly four more on pre order for the rest of this year. lol though I'm not sure what the latter half of this year promises with respect to new releases. :)

Copmom, I really need to trim my bookmarks as since coming to this forum I have to scroll down so many (despite trying to tidy it up by going into C:\documents and settings\name of your account\favorites and categorising every into appropriate folders. Works a treat, but the links that are posted here daily just fill up my bookmarks time and time again, lol hmmm I wonder if there is any software that managest bookmarks lol

Posted 16 years ago #
CreamyPretzel
Member

This game is no pushover.....well, actually, it is! This game is called PUSHOVER, and it is a remake of an old Amiga game and is very nicely done. Another great puzzle-type game. And ANY game that features a character named "G.I.Ant" can't help but be good.

http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f2495.html

Enjoy solving the 100 levels. Or at least TRYING to.....

-Dan

Posted 16 years ago #
CreamyPretzel
Member

Here is a nice game I discovered today, and of course, it is free. It's called "KABOODLE", and it is NOT a match-3 type. I have only worked in the Puzzle Mode. It seems easy at first, but gets progressively harder. I must say that it is unlike any game I already had. -Dan

http://www.gamershell.com/all/kaboodle/

Posted 16 years ago #
CreamyPretzel
Member

Here's a game I found today called "STICKY TAPES". A nice puzzle game and different from others I've seen and played. The web page has links to 5 screenshots. I've played a few levels so far, and it gets harder and harder. And when you replay a level, it is never the same, which means you can't memorize your way through the game. It does take a while to get used to the controls. You are only allowed so many clicks, and I keep wasting clicks when I hit the wrong arrow. You'll see what I mean.....

http://demonews.com/download-3278.html

Posted 16 years ago #
funkymom
Member

thanks, dan.

Posted 16 years ago #
maizeydaze
Member

How well do yo know your fonts? In the Rather Difficult Font Game you try to identify 34 randomly generated font examples. I'm not even going to tell you how bad I did. :)

Posted 16 years ago #
graylox
Moderator

Hi, Mayzey, that's a good find. Put it into the "fonts" thread, to push it to the top again

Posted 16 years ago #
copmom
Member

rabbit.. I just googled 'bookmark manager' and found a bunch of those available. Just need to go through them and see what's free.

Posted 16 years ago #
robm
Member

Hi,

Just to add a couple more listings to what is mentioned above. I dont think that these have been included before but apologies if they have.

Free Forever Games
This site offers 101 Free Full Version Games to download and is different from the 1up page above. There is bound to be several to choose from.

http://www.download-free-games.com/freeware_games/

Another new site is Gamewagon which is also not shareware. The downloadable selection is limited to about 15 but there are some great online games such as Hidden Expedition Titanic, Mystery Case Files Ravenhurst, Virtual Villagers 2 and Star Defender 4.

http://www.gameswagon.com/en/

Sorry if the links dont work out, I cant seem to figure what is wrong with that, I haven't had this problem before. Anyway please enjoy these sites and thanks to all in the forum for presenting the freeware games selection in a succint and accessible way.

Cheers

Posted 16 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

I've just tried Kaboodle and found it quite challenging. It's a well made freeware program, that as Creamypretzel said is unlike anything I've got as well. Though looking at it you may at first glance mistakle it for a match three, ot a collapse game. It seems to be a cross between collapse and tetris. Definitely one worth downloading. thank you for finding that one. :)

Posted 16 years ago #
guest32
Member

nice job! i was looking for this here's another link: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic112111.html http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/XPGames.html

Posted 16 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

Here's links to recently free games threads where you'll find lots of excellent games to download.:

Jigsaw, Shooter, Billiards and Bowling plus some more games:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3338?replies=1

Free Games Story:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3152

Over 50 quality Free games:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3322

Free Game: The Babylon Project:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3300

Minty M&M Game:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3312

More free games from Gamershell:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3272

Free Game: Cradle of Persia:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3259

Fifteen Magic: A freeware puzzle:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3239

Free Full version games??</srong>:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3188

Online Marble Blast, Think Tank, Rokkit Ball and a few more:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3202

PVP and RPG - Free to download and play:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3139

Platform Game Links:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3125

Pool Games:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3118

Great online Golf game:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2976

Here's an ENIGMA: 1,045 levels! (and FREE):

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3032

Anybody Here Like Games? FREE Games? How's About 101 Of 'Em??:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2322

Galapagos - Free game:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2867

Cute free game--never-ending-level:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2958

Plus there's been additional content added to the following threads:

Space Shoot ‘Em ups or Shmup’s: A longish list of FREE:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2724

Wheeled Games Freeware:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2574

Posted 16 years ago #
CreamyPretzel
Member

You're on the ball, WhiteRabbit! I'd forgotten I had even posted Enigma. Thanks for reminding me!

Posted 16 years ago #
robm
Member

Brilliant work bringing all the different threads together. Thanks very much.

Posted 16 years ago #
funkymom
Member

whiterabbit, you rock!

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