Free Games

Check out classics like yume nikki, cave story and elona+, I'm pretty sure there's a infographic floating around somewhere that has more suggestions
I also like to browse through itch.io and see what new free demos/games have been released from time to time. Been almost a year since my last dig but a couple of games I'd recommend checking out are drift stage and blue revolver.
I think blue revolvers been fully released and drift stage is still in development but their demos provided a good few hours of fun each.

There is a difference between free games and deliberately free games.
When developer willingly release his shit for free it's something special, and shouldn't be grouped with the rest.
That's my belief.

The Dark Mod, best stealth game you can possibly play for free.

store.steampowered.com/app/467380/Khimera_Destroy_All_Monster_Girls/
A good game albeit a little short.

Iji would be my favourite freeware game. Good gameplay, good music, good bossfights, dickton of secrets, and a proper diverging story depending on how lethal you are.

Dorf fortress would be my next top one.

Man I was hoping to post this retarded post before anyone else to make fun of people that post shit like this but looks like I was too late

This one is pretty old, but to extent of my knowledge there isn't a newer one.
We should get on that.
regardless it should still give an okay jumping off point

Misery had a hard life.

This gets brought up every thread, but have there really been any freeware games released in the last five years worth adding? The doujin scene is practically dead, I think most suggestions would be sourcemods or other total conversion mods.

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MECHA Ritz, you clueless faggot

List of actual good freeware games:
Cho Ren Sha 68K
Everything by Buster (Vacant Ark and Iwanaga)
MECHA Ritz
Everything by Locomalito (Hydorah, Viriax, etc.)
Everything by Linley Henzell (Garden of Colored Lights, White Butterfly, etc.)
Everything by Cactus (Clean Asia, Kryzta, etc.)
Everything by Kenta Cho
Radio Zonde
Genetos
Zen-Ichi
Hyper Wars
nomItest
Varia
Go Beryllium!
Galshell
Psyche Metal: The Bleeding
La-Mulana
OpenTTD
Charles Barkley's Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden: Part I of the Hoopz Barkley Saga
Cave Story
Spelunky
Enemy Territory: Return to Castle Wolfenstein
The Ur-Quan Masters
Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch
Exile trilogy and Blades of Exile
Wind & Water Puzzle Battles
Battle for Wesnoth
Ace of Spades 0.54 if you have friends to play it with
SuperTuxKart
OpenRA
OpenRCT2

I guess Starcraft: Brood War is freeware now too. Too bad those motherfuckers at Blizzard broke its compatibility with WinXP and older Windows with the set of patches when they turned it freeware.

Yume Nikki

Shameful, user.

Gang Garrison.
It's TF2V except it's a 2D platformer. Fun game with a bit shitty lag compensation.

I am disappointed in Holla Forums.

Good, one. I got told.

They fucked the combat up. It plays way too fucking fast. Talking about it lead to HURR DURR MODERN COMPUTERS somehow. Just add a fucking combat speed slider jesus.

are you really this stupid?

What? Last I played it was the same speed as the DOS original.

I don't really think you can call that a game.

Also, my free game recommendation

Streets of Rage Remake

Datajack was an excellent free game.
Cyberpunk, got classic syndicate-esque augs, cool weapons, and some sweet, sweet music.

I got it through a direct dl but now i see there's some desura shit involved; in any case, it's totally worth any minor hassle for the music alone.

Locomalito (spanish dev) mostly makes freeware games, and they're quite good.
locomalito.com/

Great Ghosts N Goblins inspired game
Like Classicvanias? play this
Gradius inspired Shmup
Fun arcadey game, wreck shit up with a monster
Old School platformer
Pretty simple FPS

Hyper Metroid is also probably the best Super Metroid ROMHack.
not a free game, but honorable mentions

wz2100.net/

To bad. Have free flash games.

Elona

Fuuuck I wanna replay that. Or 3. I wish they'd go back to that model instead of teasing me with references in GalCiv.

The white chamber is free
studiotrophis.com/site/downloads

Daggerfall.

Star Control 3 doesn't exist. Do not speak of it.

Doubling down on these

Also, Metroid Rogue Dawn for the NES is fucking great.

Also, Mega Maker

What are you talking about OP? All my games are free

My nigga. It's like someone took FEAR and put it in the source engine. Still have to play chapter 2.

what's the point?

On that subject, you can add Goldeneye Source to that list

sudo apt install warzone2100

Now that the other thread has brough it up: Katawa shoujo May or may not be a a game at all.
DwarfFortress is neat as well, just get over the autism it comes with.
Planetside 2 used to be great with WWEW. Still miss you fags.
Team Fortress 2 exists I guess.
Aurora4X is just as autistic as DF, but more of an empire/fleet management game.
WoW vanilla on Elysium is a good "brain off" game, where you can just grind with a podcast/audiobook or an actual radio show in the background. You can also feed real books to text to speech software, which sounds ridiculous and shitty, but is a great way to read actually good educational books, like history stuff.
SS13 is fucking amazing, it has so much content, and it all varies between codebases, and even between servers. Every role is different and you need to actually learn what you are doing to be good at them. Play on the 8ch serb.
Aurora Wager is pretty fun for an hour or two. Load it up, play for a while and keep it installed just so you can play it when you have some real tough RL shit to go through and NEED to shut off completely for a few hours. Drift through the air with nothing on your mind, think about what your next steps should be. Its a good zen game.
The original DOOM games a good too, but I guess you already played them to hell and back. Get ZDoom if you haven't.
EVE:Online is not really my favorite, and while it is technocally free, you need to pay to access the higher level ships. Techncally speaking you should never fly one of the higher level ships anyways, because you can actually lose them.
FreeCities+pregmod is good for fapping. Still in active development too.
ICBM is a fine little game that places you in the shoes of an ICBM operator in the cold war. Try it blind, the story is nearvewrecking.
Open Generals is a hex based WWII game. I never got into it.
Orbiter is a highly autistic spaceship similator. Think of it as KSP, sans the building, but with more realistic ships and a real scale solarsystem THAT is 100% bugfree.
Rule the Waves is a free fleet management and battle game. You take the role of a fleet admiral before WWI, and you assign research budgets, build/design ships and eventually take them to battle. Your entire fleet and the future of your nation depends on you. Fucking great for autism.
Save the date is a dating game with a twist. Go in blind. Don't be afraid to break the rules you were raised with.
SuperDeepThroat (swf related) is a porn (game). Enjoy.
AltF4Space is a made by a fag in his basement together with his best totally non-homo fried, who also has a youtube channel. It's neat, but nothing else. Link because it might be too obscure for anyone to find it using google.
gamejolt.com/games/altf4space/123611
N is a ninja platformer. Dodge, jump, dodgejump, walljump, dodgewaljump, walldodgejumpwalldodgejump and avoid the spikes/mines/missiles/lasers/blades. Don't break your legs either.

Spoil it for me: Does anything happen on difficulties higher than Defcon 4? I chose it because it was the default, it seems, and I really don't want to sit through 4 more playthroughs..

Not even close. Legacy and Redesign are the top Super hacks.

I second Yumme Nikki if you want something unique and bizarre. Don't search up anything about the game in advanced, though.
OFF is another odd free game. It's pretty well known now because of some eceleb let's players, but back when I played it was just plain mysterious. The dev is a baguette, so you'll have to get the translation patch.

Holla Forums, I am disappoint…

Also osgameclones.com

I play on the cuckchan /vg/server
love that game but also hate it

great game for NEETs

Still waiting on a consensus. Turbo space jews or ultra-fair capitalists?

Lethal Application was great fun.

Here, prepatched with english TL

mega.nz/#!iEgmGTpS!1iwampCHPxku7RARzLAqU7lFHeG7Nur-Xjyy8Di9Dq8

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Path of Exlie. Literally the top 3 games played on steam and not even half the playerbase use Steam.

Yes. Not really though. That's the joke. As soon as you would have something to do, you would be very much a dead man anyways. It doesn't matter at all if you care about the tensions in the world, you are just sitting there with the job to push a button once you get a call. That is your entire job.

Used to play it with 4/tg/ all the time. Had great fun with these fags until their mods banned SS13 due to NOT TRADITIONAL GAMES.
Smut threads were the shit.

openrails.org/

i feel old now

subrosa
crypticsea.com/subrosa/
version 0.25 mediafire.com/download/a2ymtm6eq22jfng/SUBROSA BY BIAU GAMES.zip
thats $35

scoutshonour.com/donttakeitpersonallybabeitjustaintyourstory/
Amazing visual novel with an innovative, superbly written story.

Oh fuck you

Fucking MEGA MAKER.

There's Psycho Waluigi and SMBx, no decent Mario kart clone so just stick to emulators.

Awseome thread guys.

If any of you remember Obake, a cute little Kirby clone where you play a ghost then you might want to hear that a year or two ago the guy that made Obake released a second game which is just awesome and there's a shit ton of enemies and powers.

forest.watch.impress.co.jp/library/software/obake10th/

Add Drop Factory. There are also some initially commercial titles, that were later released for free, like The Suffering or Earthsiege 1 and 2.
tribesuniverse.com/

The Submachine flash game series was rather interesting too.

Well how about games which are officially free, which are probably new to all of us and for which we don't have to look up how to download?

do you have the link for first obake too?

Yeah man.

mediafire.com/file/dmnldtifxqt/obake.zip

thank you

Bowling ball ass.

A good question with a very interesting answer!
The fee for this information is 120,001 credits.

MUD AND BLOOD 3 IS OUT
mudandblood.net/new/

Why is there a bowling pin being shoved up her ass?

Oh add Minetest and Jumpjet.

I'd stick my bowling pin between her bowling balls…

Top notch review, and up to date too.

Its a glorified walking sim made by some annoying autist.

soldnersecretwars.de/?lang=en

Does that stop Yume Nikki, Hello? Hell…o?, or Lisa: The First from getting recommended?

Vantage Master from falcom

How's Lisa a walking sim? It's about on the same level as earthbound.

I didn't say The Painful, I said The First.

Quality thread deserving of a necro bump.

massgate.org
World in Conflict is a game that is no being longer distributed by Ubisoft, so some random dudes have taken the reigns.
It's been hailed as one of the greatest RTS/RTT games of all time, and if you haven't played it yet, then you've really been missing out. Multiplayer is still somewhat active, and the campaign is phenomenal.

Play the game nigs, it's some good shit.

It was alright

Can I use this thread to talk about Ecco for a bit? Specifically, the two soundtracks. It's something that's been stewing in my brain and I have to get it out. While the CD soundtrack is good, I feel it misses the point. To put it more specifically, I think the composer made it to fit the narrative, instead of the actual levels. Take the open ocean level. It's when Ecco ventures out from the shallows and the caves into deep, open water to travel north and find the blue whale. The CD soundtrack takes an awe-inspiring tone, reflecting the great journey Ecco has to take. However, what the track doesn't reflect is that the open ocean is filled to the brim with hungry sharks. The actual level is one giant, panic-induced race to the end in a desperate attempt to get through the horde of sharks. The Genesis soundtrack really reflects this, with a great sense of urgency and panic. Basically, I feel like the CD version was scored like it were a movie, while the Genesis version was scored to the actual gameplay.

I know what you mean. Out of curiosity, have you heard the Game Gear OSTs? They're mostly mixed, but there are some nice tracks. Though they sorta messed up the the sequel's tracks, as its OST only have 5 songs. Still it can be worth checking out, especially for songs like City of Forever 1, and Vents of Medusa.

Yume Nikki is probably my favorite

Shameless shilling for Urban Terror. Started out as a Quake3 mod then became it's own thing later. Yes, the game is old.

I haven't played it in some time, chances are it lacks players nowadays

I'd also recommend checking out Cube 2: Sauerbraten, but the game is probably dead too, it's got a level editor as far as I remember. Both games are shooters btw.