How to find a freeware game
Description: Over the past few months there seems to have been an explosion of games released as freeware. This posting will present a sort of meta-index of freeware games-lists that I have found on the net.
At first when this posting was conceived I was going to put together a list of my favorite freeware games; however, I was thinking why create another list when there are so many out there? Here’s a collection of my favorite freeware games lists:
- Freewaregenius’ reviewed freeware games category (scroll down, multiple pages).
- 1UP.com’s 101 Free games 2008
- 1UP.com’s 101 Free games 2007
- 1UP.com’s 101 Free games 2006
- Gamespot: Adrian’s guide to 2007 freeware games
- Wikipedia’s list of freeware games.
- Wikipedia’s list of commercial games released as freeware
- Wikipedia’s list of open source games
- Wikipedia’s list of free first person shooters
- Open source games at the Open Directory Project
- IndieGames.com: best freeware games 2007 and 2006 . Categories include shoot em ups, platformers, arcade games, etc.
- TIGsource: best freeware games of 2007
- Indygamer has their own best of lists 2007; whaddyaknowit.
- GameTap free games: you have to download and install the “GameTap Player”, and you will have to watch an ad before you play, but it’s worth it for some great games. The fantastic Psychonauts is available for free (although it’s a 1.5 gig download).
- Caiman Games: top 60 ranked freeware games
- The Random Gnome’s Lair: Our freshly hand-picked free games selection.
- Another Random Gnome’s: Oh no! More hand-picked free games.
- Also Gnome’s Lair: 100 excellent free games in bloom
- Finally Gnome’s: bouquet of hand picked games with dirty commercial pasts
- Home of the underdogs’: list of freeware [games] recommendations.
- Ghacks also has an ultimate free games list.
- Über 100 kostenlose Games!
- Cnet’s: 10 most addictive flash games ever made.
- Butterblog: neverending list of best free games
- MarcoFolio: best freeware first person shooters
- Last one — I’m going to bed.
I assume there’s a whole bunch of lists that I don’t know about; if there’s a page you know about that absolutely, positively has to be listed please share in the comments.
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Wow, this is really a great and useful list! Thanks a lot for the job!
Nice topo, great summary, thanks a lot, Samer
great job, fantastico!
link 2 seems incorrect
uses title instead of adress tag
@crux - fixed the link, thanks for the tip.
the link to Last Scenario on this page does not work
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=887.0
anyone have a direct link to the game Please reply
I looked it up for you and founf a link to the “Last Scenario” game here (works): http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/game/LastScenario
[…] How to find a freeware game Review & Download Link | freewaregenius.com A collection of freeware games lists (tags: freeware game) […]
http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/game/LastScenario
leads to
http://baixaki.ig.com.br/download/Last-Scenario.htm
which says file not found to me
give me the exact link to the rar file if you could
@Arpit: try this http://images.bureau42.com/sa/Last@20Scenario@20v101.rar
Except instead of the @ in the URL enter %
Tanks, great list
@Samer: still no luck it says
Not Found
The requested URL /sa/Last Scenario v101.rar was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
i even tried pasting the link directly into free download manager even that says file not found could anyon eupload it to mediafire or rapidshare or something like that THANKS
Great meta-list. Good job.
I found many interesting games.
You forgot one. http://www.uknutz.com. Its a good site with tons of free flash games. Only down side is you need to login to play but its all for free!
@Arpit: I finally found “The Last Scenario” for you, and uploaded it into my DivShare account.
http://www.divshare.com/download/4264152-22c
It was uncommonly hard to find. Very strange.
@Samer: Thank you very much
http://www.runtime-hq.com delivers only high quality freeware games. Very recommended!