I will update this list as I find the "good stuff"

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- FREE Multiplayer Online Games
- FREE Singleplayer and Online-Only Games

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War - Download
- Genre: Realtime Strategy
- Size: 2,440 MB
- Wikipedia Page
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Full Spectrum Warrior - Download
- Genra: Realtime Action Strategy
- Size: 1,600 MB
- Wikipedia Page
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Area 51 - Download
- Genre: 1st Person Shooter
- Size: 1,900 MB
- Wikipedia Page
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MechCommander 2 - Download
- Genre: Real-time Tactics
- Size: 1,000 MB
- Wikipedia Page
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Scorched3D - Download
- Genre: Turn-Based Artillery
- Size: 46 MB
- Wikipedia Page
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Tower of Goo Unlimited - Download
- Genre: Arcade
- Size: 2.4 MB
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Complete Annihilation - Download
- Genre: Real-time Strategy
- Size: 30 MB
- NOTE: There are several conversion mods such as Star Wars Total Annihilation and other game variants.
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Command and Conquer Gold - Download - Mirror #1
- Genre: Strategy
- Size: 800 MB
- Wikipedia Page
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Command and Conquer: Red Alert - Download
- Genre: Strategy
- Size: 500 MB
- Wikipedia Page
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The Suffering - Download
- Genre: 1st Person Shooter / Horror
- Size: 1,290 MB
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Psi Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy - Download
- Genre: 1st Person Shooter
- Size: 2,450 MB
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Rigs of Rogs - Download
- Genre: Simulation (Vehicle, Watercraft, Aircraft)
- Size: 84 MB
- NOTE: This is amazing technology and you have to see a video to appreciate the physics.
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Thanks for these, mate. *smacks himself for purchasing Area 51 a couple of months ago*

whut? theyre free now? americas army always was and is more like 3gb btw... but the rest WOWOWOWOW!!!

If you have a favorite freebie game, feel free to post it here.

Note that you can find a TON of other freebies at (some already mentioned):

http://www.experimentalgameplay.com
http://spring.clan-sy.com
http://www.the-underdogs.info/
http://www.abandonia.com/
http://www.ugotgames.com/
http://www.onemorelevel.com/

oh just saw you had vega strike there...
http://wcuniverse.sourceforge.net/ vega strike in the wing commander universe
http://priv.solsector.net/ wing commander privateer remake

imo both very good and enjoyable

I love you
Free games woot!!!

Some of these look pretty good.

Thanks LHammonds!

I loved the Mech Commander games.

Yeah The MC series was Awesome.

Games. Free. Download. Legal

Someone is telling me to play them right this minute!

EDIT: Feel like contributing
Google up 'GameTap' or let me..
http://www.gametap.com/
It's a free/pay software package, let's you play a number of old-school games and modern ones for free. I highly recommend going gold (strangely enough) the paying fee versus the money you save make it worth it.

SECOND EDIT: WOW, they have supreme commander and Overlord. And a free trial for gold membership from the 23rd to the 29th - what are you waiting for?!

EDIT by LHammonds: Please refrain from swearing (and trying to bypass the filter)

GameTap sounds like you can only play the games if you have an active membership...kinda like Valve's Steam.

If you do this "gold" trial period and download a game such as Supreme Commander, I wouldn't be surprised if you are no longer able to play the game after the trail period or if you are not actively logged into the account while online.

If so, this is not something I'd like to promote.

LHammonds

Awesome info, LHammonds. Thanks.

One of my all-time favourite games is Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos:
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/466/Land...e+of+Chaos.html

On another note, does anyone know what's up with Home of the Underdogs? It seems all the downloads there are broken.

Track Mania Nations Forever (Driving/Racing Game)

http://www.trackmania.com/en/index.php?lan...p;rub=downloads

Eh, I've had gametap for a few months. Never paid once, the games are occasionally from decent to great classics (metal slug 2, original street fighter with hotseat co-op) - this is the free section i'm talking about; some of the premium games you pay for are extremely mediocore..

Not trying to promote it, just informing people on productive ways to leech legally.

Edit: I thought bypassing the swear filter was better than just plain profanity, in that case is it okay for me to use **** instead of [Male chicken]

I was about to shoot this one down because I first learned of "StarForce" copy protection with the initial release of Track Mania. After my bad experience with StarForce, I vowed to never play (or purchase) a game that used the StarForce protection scheme. According to this wiki page, it seems that this particular free version no longer uses the StarForce drivers. It is a very fun game so I will put this on the list.

There was another extremely fun game (to me anyway) called D-Day (2004) that used StarForce which was very upsetting. I played the Demo on a PC I didn't mind loosing if problems occurred but I never bought the game. I can only WISH D-Day will eventually become StarForce free someday as I would snatch it up in a heartbeat! EDIT: Oops, that's not going to ever happen. The company, Monte Cristo, went under and the D-Day homepage went AWOL.

If interested, here is a list of games that use StarForce that you may or may not want to avoid.

AnonymousThirdParty, why not just avoid the issue altogether and use alternate words that work just as well...such as "wow" that I used when I edited your post.

LHammonds

These two games are free. I think they make their money by selling you goodies for your character, but as far as I know it's completely optional.

Perfect World International (Yes I have a referral link. I hope that's okay.)
Requiem Bloodymare

Edit: Bah, ignore me. These links should be in the multiplayer thread. I must have been asleep when I posted the above.

Hehe, okay Hammonds - have it your way =D

Three more to add to the freebies list.

http://sfront.ijji.com/ Soldier front. A freeware version of counterstrike; optional payment for member items. Whoever made the installation package was wither ignorant or an idiot, will only install onto your C: drive.

http://www.gunbound.com/ Gunbound. Turn-based game derived from worms, 21 different vehicles (?) - optional payment for some (75%) of the items you can buy.

http://www.cabalonline.com/ Cabal online. Diablo clone, and not too badly done. Optional payment as always for something useless (e.g. a giant electric guitar which you can surf with your warrior, despite being called a %&$! by everyone around you)

If only I didn't have a limit to how much I can download (We're on a plan, live in the country)

I don't have any experience with Starforce - though I can verify that it is not installed with TMNationsForever. And yes, it is fun - until you miss that acrobatics jump for the n-teenth time, and realize that you've just got to try it once more.

I still downloaded tower of goo

ITS SO FUN

THANKS

Here's a cool game.
Toribash. Somewhat turnbased fighter. Single and multiplayer. Incredibly addictive.

wow Civilizations at War really it is free

de Blob: http://www.hku.nl/web/Studiekeuze/GamesEnI...AboutDeBlob.htm

I don't recommend Psi-ops. I got it, and found, to my horror, that there was about 5 seconds of lag between keyboard input and action taken on the screen during one of the boss fights. "LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!" was the repeated cry as I was crushed by a train carriage again, again and again. If it weren't for the lag, I would recommend it heartily! It's got gibbing! And Physics!

I know this is an old post, but I just had to comment on this.

same here. In my opinion, the part of the "Mech" series I liked best was "Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance." Nothing beats feeling like your in a cockpit of a Mech, blowing someone up with a salvo of missiles or a pair of PPC's... *Sigh*

Good times, good times...

This game is quite fun...

The Battle for Wesnoth: http://www.wesnoth.org/

Abandonware DOS Games: http://www.oldgames.sk/en/

This site is especially useful for two reasons.

1) Most games include manuals, etc.

2) Many games include executables that include DOSBox and batch files that make it very easy to play.

Area 51 - Download
- Genre: 1st Person Shooter
- Size: 1,900 MB
- Wikipedia Page
Reduced 75%

1200 x 1050 (100.92K)

there are so many bugs in this game and once you get to a certain point thats about half an hour through the game, you can't progress whatsoever. bugs and glitches make this game 100% impossible to finish. (There's a big big problem with jumping in certain area's)

http://www.liero.be/

Incredible game, worms but real time...

oh and also google abandoned dogs, there are many abandonware games... it is probably the most popular and known site...

Thanks for these, I'll have hours of fun downloading and installing them.

I thought all games were free anyway. *runs*

Huh? what? you thought all games were free? I smell a pirate here

jk

BlitWise Games, namely PocketTanks. All free, with a premium option.

I know Gametap has been mentioned, and understand concerns of pay to play, but thought I would say Fallout 1 is free to play on it. I lost it when I saw that, just as I was getting into 3. It was pretty cool to start them both side-by-side, and see the similarities and such.

That is not a "FREE" game, it is called Shareware.

If you like this kind of game, you might want to try the actual free versions:
- Scorched 3D
- Tank Wars
- Mortar Mayhem

Makes a nice little "husband pack". Thanks for these!

holy smackers i play area 51 like months ago ... smack himself i cant believe its free dangit

Its a pity all these games are to big for me to download.

No worries, there is a link at the top of the 1st post to single-player online games. Those games will take you to sites that have tons of other games you might like as well...usually takes less than a minute to load the game.

LHammonds

I actually have tonnes of freeware on my computer!

Dink Smallwood
Cloud
Eternal Daughter
TAGAP
The spirit engine
Rumble Box
Cave story (dokutso)
That game involving the squid (real name forgotten)
Grid Wars
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world in conflict

wow, area 51 was that bad?