Freeware Hottness

[Heretic Machine]

Ok, so lately I've been taking an small interest in the freeware community. There is a lot of good stuff out there, but it isn't always easy to find. So, lets share what we've found!

Battle for Wesnoth (TBS)
Official Website (http://www.wesnoth.org/)
Moby Games (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/battle-for-wesnoth)
Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based fantasy strategy game. Various races - humans, elves, dwarfs, drakes and undead - and various factions battle for the control of the land of Wesnoth in various eras.

The strategic gameplay is simple but rather deep, similar to Genesis games "Master of Monsters" and "Warsong". The players, represented in game as high-level commander units, recruit new units, who then fight, advance in experience and eventually turn to another units.

There's both a multiplayer mode, which typically involves wiping out the enemy (or at least their commander). For single player games, there are several campaigns as well as ability to play multiplayer mode against the computer. Also included is a comprehensive map editor and a well-documented scripting language to construct new campaigns.

An open-source, community-built game that rivals commercially developed games in quality and depth.

The Spirit Engine (jRPG)
Official Site (http://tse.natomic.com/)
Story (http://tse.natomic.com/story.asp)

On a tiny island in a far-flung corner of a small world not unlike ours, an unfortunate mine worker buries his pickaxe in his last outcrop of rock between himself and the resting place of a timeless magical creature, awakening it rather earlier than his employers had intended in a terrible explosion of heat and light.

Fleeing the clutches of those seeking it, the creature summons three individuals with great potential to its aid. Great potential, but rather few of the heroic traits required to rise to their epic task.

Can this trio survive a trek across a hostile land, the machinations of an amoral corporation and an ancient cult and each other to protect the Spirit? Can some of them even be bothered?

Schiffbruch (SIM)
The Home of the Underdogs (http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=3556)
Schiffbruch (German for "Shipwreck") is a great survival simulation/strategy/adventure game similar to Robinson's Requiem. The premise is as follows: you are stranded on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific. Your job, naturally, is to explore your surroundings, find food and water, build a hut, and finally attract attention so you can be saved. The game is played from a top-down isometric perspective, similar to Rome: Pathway to Power (another fun adventure/strategy hybrid I really enjoy).

Your ultimate goal in the game is to be rescued. Your chances of being seen by a passing plane (which you cannot see) is represented by the life preserver shown at the upper right of the screen. This percentage shows you the probability of being saved on that day. You can increase your chances, for example, by making S.O.S. signs with stones. One of the things that make Shiffbruch a lot of fun is that there are many surprises for you to discover, from making new tools to making new discoveries (hint: sail around the island in a boat once you've managed to build it for a neat surprise).

Tremulos (FPS)
Official Site (http://www.tremulous.net/)
About (http://www.tremulous.net/index.php?section=about)
Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more...

Player advancement is different depending on which team you are on. As a human, players are rewarded with credits for each alien kill. These credits may be used to purchase new weapons and upgrades from the "Armoury". The alien team advances quite differently. Upon killing a human foe, the alien is able to evolve into a new class. The more kills gained the more powerful the classes available.

The overall objective behind Tremulous is to eliminate the opposing team. This is achieved by not only killing the opposing players but also removing their ability to respawn by destroying their spawn structures.

HeroQuest (BOARD)
Official Site (http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/lm.broers/download.htm)
HeroQuest is a turnbased computer game in a fantasy setting, Inspired on MB's and Games Workshop's boardgame 'HeroQuest'. It focuses on four different heroes working through various quests, encountering foes ranging from goblins to chaos warriors. You can play the original campaign, additional quests or wander the self generating magic dungeon. A user friendly quest editor is also included. Note: this is not the HeroQuest game published by Gremlin in 1992, but a new Allegro/DirectX game made by me.

Editor's Note: Moved to front page. This should spruce up your Saturday!

[mightbe]

Thanks for the heads up on the free gaming goodness. I've kept an eye on Wesnoth for a bit but never got around to trying it.

Also: the furcadia link in your sig scares me.

[Heretic Machine]

The Battle of Wesnoth is quite fun. It reminds me a lot of Ogre Battle.

[mightbe]

You know I loves me some ogre battle. Wesnoth is cooking now in a window. Great game.

[shnastybiznastic]

Thanks for the heads up. If the netcode didn't suck balls, I would reccomend stendhal. It's an open source 2D MMO.

[Lekon]

Oh wow, these all look great. Thanks very much Perigon, I was just wondering about something to hold me over till Chromehounds madness.

I especially love the Hero Quest. Flashback city, I had a box version of that came when I was much younger. I miss it.

[NoName]

Great post, I'll have to remember to check some of these out when I get back from the beach.

[Savok]

Holy shit, Hero's Quest!

[Heretic Machine]

Heh, thanks to the mods for bumping to the front page :) I was just gonna add three more that I gave quick tries this morning. Each of these resembles a game that I've played on a console at some point, so instead of listing a genre, I'm going to list the game or games that they are most similar to.

Blazing Trails (Marble Blast)
Official Site (http://www.allan.bentham.btinternet.co.uk/blazingtrails.htm)
GameHippo.com Review (http://www.gamehippo.com/id/1834.shtml)
In Blazing Trails your goal is to guide a ball through various well-designed obstacle courses without falling prey to 'deadly' traps. Blazing Trails features excellent 3d graphics and great physics. Controlling the ball is a very smooth operation; everything feels just like it should. There aren't as many levels in Blazing Trails as in Skyroads, which is the game that this game will obviously draw comparisons to, but I feel that what levels there are far surpass those of Skyroads. And if you get bored with the given levels, you can download the level editor from the game's homepage and try to make your own. Anyone can enjoy Blazing Trails, because the first few levels are reasonably easy, while the later levels are very challenging. Highly reccomended.

Mu-cade (Geometry Wars)
Official Site (http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html)
GameHippo.com Review (http://gamehippo.com)
Some of the best free games are made when creative ideas cross old-school fun. Mu-cade is one of those games. Like any Kenta Cho shooter, it's filled with funky neon shapes getting blown into smaller funky neon shapes, while bullets whiz past your tiny ship and pounding techno blasts through your speakers.

Mu-cade takes a few minutes to get used to, but after that you'll be able to have some fun and rack up a few points. It's one of those games where you have to play it to understand it, but I'll make it easier for you and tell you about it anyways. Basically, you lose a life when you're knocked outside of a little arena, and you score points by knocking enemy snakes outside the arena. When these enemy snakes shoot you or you knock them out of the arena, their tail becomes a part of your tail and you're knocked back a bit. The tail weighs you down, makes you easier to hit, and follows the rules of inertia. You can get rid of your tail and use it as a powerup to send your enemies flying, and the more baggage you're getting rid of, the more fun you can have.

Obviously, the game's a little more complex than some, but it's great once you get used to it. The music, graphics, sound effects, and gameplay are good, as expected, and the game itself is unique and deep enough to keep your attention. Definitely recommended.

Lyle in Cube Sector (Metroid/Megaman)
Official Site (http://www.sitesled.com/members/bogo/lyle.html)
GameHippo.com Review (http://gamehippo.com)
Lyle in Cube Sector has reminded me why I got into freeware games in the first place. Recently, I've been getting discouraged at the lack of high quality freeware games being released. Often times, it seems the author of a freeware game skimps in some aspects of the game, telling himself, "Ah, I'm making it for free anyway." It's obvious this wasn't the case in Lyle.

Every aspect of Lyle is done professionally. The game looks, feels, and sounds just like an NES game. Every enemy and every area in the game has a distinct look and feel. The animation is done excellently as well. Also, the parallax backgrounds make each of the areas a treat to explore.

Speaking of exploring, that's where this game shines. The game borrows heavily from Metroid, but that isn't a bad thing. Basically, you go around exploring a non-linear side-scrolling world looking for powerups. Each of the powerups opens up more of the world for you to explore, until finally, you can go to the final area and face the boss.

Hope you guys enjoy these, I'm gonna get back to Wesnoth myself. I'm gonna leave some links to places you can find more freeware games below, feel free to add to the topic!

GameHippo (http://www.gamehippo.com/)
The Home of the Underdogs - Freeware Titles (http://www.the-underdogs.info/company.php?name=Freeware)
Freeware Games.net (http://www.freewaregames.net/) (Haven't gotten to browse this yet myeslf, but it looks proffesional.)

[Savok]

Just played some Hero Quest, let me just say about fucking time.

When converting a board game to computer format, half the work is done, you don't need to change the game, make it fucking realtime or some shit, the whole god damn system is there already, just make it shiny with some AI.

Sure he tweaked bits and pieces, but the option menu lets you turn said tweaks off if you don't like them.

[LiquidRain]

Oh man, Blazing Trails is based on Trailblazers? I spent way too much time as a wee lad playing that on my Atari. What an awesome game. It'll miss something without having a 2nd player to bump into in order to knock him off the track though, or into a pit. :D

[agentgray]

My favorite freeware is Warning Forever (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/WFBoss.png/180px-WFBoss.png).
The premise of the game is to fight a constant stream of bosses. The gameplay is broken into stages; each stage is a single boss battle. To progress to the next stage, the boss must be completely destroyed within the time limit. The game starts with a default time limit of 180 seconds (which can be changed to the maximum of 999 seconds in Options), with 30 seconds being gained for every boss defeated. 20 seconds are lost every time the player is destroyed.

The main gameplay feature is how the bosses change from stage to stage. Based on how you fight a boss, the next boss will adapt itself to defend against your strategies, and prey on your weaknesses. For example, if you destroy the front part of the boss first, it will increase armor on the front. Likewise, if you are killed by a certain kind of weapon, but still defeat the boss, the next boss will probably have more of that weapon.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/WFBoss.png/180px-WFBoss.png

Get it on the original site (http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/index_e.html). (It's down from time to time. Let me know and I'll host the latest copy somewhere).

[Heretic Machine]

My favorite freeware is Warning Forever (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/WFBoss.png/180px-WFBoss.png).

Get it on the original site (http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/index_e.html). (It's down from time to time. Let me know and I'll host the latest copy somewhere).

That was a lot of fun, and an interesting concept. Sort of like Shadow of the Colossus, just a string of boss battles. I like the concept behind an evolving boss as well.

Definetly something that will be remaining on my hard-drive.

[Lord Nerdious]

Any of these games run on OSX?

[Heretic Machine]

Any of these games run on OSX?

Battle for Wesnoth does, I'm not sure about the others.

[Syl]

If you like warning forever, give ABA games a chance:

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html

Freeware, excellent and awesome shmups with vector style graphics. Worth giving each and every one a try. Kenta Cho (the single guy who makes all of these) is incredible.

Also, from the Warning Forever website - give Cho Ren Sha 68k a try, it is also some incredible oldschool shmuppyness.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/th_GridWars16.jpgGrid Wars (http://www.incitti.com/Blitz/) A geometry wars ripoff that is better in some ways, worse in others. Well worth playing.

Lastly. (Well, very far from "lastly", but the last i'll post at this moment)

Every Extend (http://nagoya.cool.ne.jp/o_mega/product/e2.html)
The upcoming PSP game "Every Extend Extra" is based upon this excellent freeware title. Give it a shot.

[Cool AN]

Is it just me, or is Tremulos basically a stand alone version of Natural Selection?

[agentgray]

If you like warning forever, give ABA games a chance:

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html

Freeware, excellent and awesome shmups with vector style graphics. Worth giving each and every one a try. Kenta Cho (the single guy who makes all of these) is incredible.

Also, from the Warning Forever website - give Cho Ren Sha 68k a try, it is also some incredible oldschool shmuppyness.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/th_GridWars16.jpgGrid Wars (http://www.incitti.com/Blitz/) A geometry wars ripoff that is better in some ways, worse in others. Well worth playing.

Lastly. (Well, very far from "lastly", but the last i'll post at this moment)

Every Extend (http://nagoya.cool.ne.jp/o_mega/product/e2.html)
The upcoming PSP game "Every Extend Extra" is based upon this excellent freeware title. Give it a shot.

Torus Trooper from there is not too bad.

[agentgray]

Every Extend (http://nagoya.cool.ne.jp/o_mega/product/e2.html)
The upcoming PSP game "Every Extend Extra" is based upon this excellent freeware title. Give it a shot.
Do you have a direct download link? Navigating there is a nightmare.

[Savok]

Since we're all posting stuff, there's a ton of remakes out there.

http://www.agdinteractive.com/

Formally Tierra Entertainment, KQ1 and KQ2, working on QFG2.

http://priv.solsector.net/news.htm

Privateer remake there

There's also people working on Starflight 3, but it's not ready yet. Granted a lot of you know about these already, some of you probably don't.

[agentgray]

Also, from the Warning Forever website - give Cho Ren Sha 68k a try, it is also some incredible oldschool shmuppyness.
I had to do some digging on Google ti find it, but that game, even if rudimentary graphics is incredible. Very fast, very catchy music. It starts off easy at first and then becomes this manic shooter. This is a keeper on my hard drive. I'm a big fan of "easy to learn, lifetime to master" shooters.

Excellent idea, today, Perigon.

[captainstrombosis]

Damn wesnoth is pretty fun. The graphics remind me of the NES-SNES days...Nostalgia ftw! Not to mention it's surprisingly deep.

[Syl]

Every ExtendDo you have a direct download link? Navigating there is a nightmare.
Oh, sorry.
http://www.vector.co.jp/download/file/win95/game/ff327077.html
^This one should work, it's a .lzh (asian zipping format) so you might need winrar.

Or you can get the slightly out of date version at download.com
http://www.download.com/3000-2099-10347823.html

Cho Ren Sha 68kI had to do some digging on Google ti find it, but that game, even if rudimentary graphics is incredible. Very fast, very catchy music. It starts off easy at first and then becomes this manic shooter. This is a keeper on my hard drive. I'm a big fan of "easy to learn, lifetime to master" shooters.

Excellent idea, today, Perigon.

Yeah, sorry, i'm used to digging through japanese websites to find these freeware shmups, i guess most people aren't.

Direct link to the (excellent) Cho Ren Sha 68k:
http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~yosshin/my_works/index.html
(To download it, click the DOWNLOAD link, and then click the top link on the page - ver2005)

I tend to always come back to Warning Forever compared to most of my freeware shmups, those and the Touhou games. (Which aren't exactly freeware, they're more of relatively long demos of incredible fun and visuals)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/th_Grid03.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/Grid03.jpg)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/th_FV01.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/FV01.jpg)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/th_FV02.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/FV02.jpg)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/th_IP05.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/IP05.jpg)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/th_IP10.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/IP10.jpg)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/th_PCB6.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/PCB6.jpg)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/th_WF15.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/WF15.jpg)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/th_SDR01.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/SDR01.jpg)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/th_pcb1.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/Sylaran/Game%20Screens/pcb1.jpg)

Warning Forever is more complex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warning_Forever) than one originally thinks. (http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/ref/wf_flow.png)

[Spigot]

Warning Forever is awesome. I fire it up whenever I have nothing better to do. Plays great with my 360 controller on the PC.

I really want to get that Spirit Engine game but the download page won't load :(

[Heretic Machine]

Warning Forever is awesome. I fire it up whenever I have nothing better to do. Plays great with my 360 controller on the PC.

I really want to get that Spirit Engine game but the download page won't load :(

Here ya go. (http://hosttycoon.com/tse.html)

[Plac1d]

Continuum (http://www.subspacedownloads.com/index.php?act=list&cat=2) (continuum038setup.exe for windows)
Formerly known as Subspace.
Wiki:
"[Continuum] is a two-dimensional space shooter computer game published in 1997 by Virgin Interactive Entertainment (VIE). This freeware game incorporates quasi-realistic zero-friction physics into a massively multiplayer online game. The action is viewed from above, which presents challenges very different from those of a three-dimensional game. The game has no built-in story or set of goals; players may enter a variety of servers, each of which have differing objectives, maps, sounds, and graphics.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i228/Plac1d/Continuum2006-07-0812-43-01-50.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i228/Plac1d/Continuum2006-07-0813-06-40-09.jpg
It's like an online, slower-paced Geometry Wars. They may declare the game a MMOG, but I've seen no more then 40 players per arena.

[jacktion]

It's spelled "hotness".
apologies for being a nazi but it is really not voluntary.
thanks for the games.

[captainstrombosis]

It's spelled "Hawtness".

Fixed it for ya.

[Heretic Machine]

It's spelled "hotness".
apologies for being a nazi but it is really not voluntary.
thanks for the games.

<.<

It is spelled "hotness." Apologies for being a nazi, but it is really not voluntary.

Thanks for the games.

;)

[TheKeck]

Oh wow, these all look great. Thanks very much Perigon, I was just wondering about something to hold me over till Chromehounds madness.

I especially love the Hero Quest. Flashback city, I had a box version of that came when I was much younger. I miss it.
Word, I'm all about the Hero Quest. A few months back I went searching for video game versions and found a few. Unfortunately, none of them replicated the game exactly, as I had wanted. I'm not sure if this is one of the ones I tried or not, but it looks familiar.

Either way, cool stuff.

[Heretic Machine]

Word, I'm all about the Hero Quest. A few months back I went searching for video game versions and found a few. Unfortunately, none of them replicated the game exactly, as I had wanted. I'm not sure if this is one of the ones I tried or not, but it looks familiar.

Either way, cool stuff.

Did you try the commercial release (http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?name=Hero+Quest) from 1991?

[dorkus_malorkus]

I especially love the Hero Quest. Flashback city, I had a box version of that came when I was much younger.


I still do. :p

[randir14]

Gunz: The Duel is sort of freeware, it's been in open beta forever. It's a pretty fun game if you manage to play on a server without hackers.
http://www.gunzonline.com/

[Ph00p]

Anyone have a clone of that game Humans that was on the old Sega Gensis? I'd love to get some more humanish love.

[Heretic Machine]

Anyone have a clone of that game Humans that was on the old Sega Gensis? I'd love to get some more humanish love.

If you're talking about The Humans (http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=525), an action puzzler, it was multiplatform and appeared on the PC. HoTU has the first three games, as both the publisher and developer are dead.

[kid cabelgo]

I love the tagline for Every Extend

"Suicidal explodion' game with new feelings. Blow up self to involve enemies!"

[jeffbax]

It would be nice if you would mark what platforms it runs on, not all of us are Windows users.

[Syl]

It would be nice if you would mark what platforms it runs on, not all of us are Windows users.
the ABA games have both mac and linux ports if you google for those.

That's honestly all i'm aware of, as I am a windows user.

[ProfPuppet]

If you like adventure games, there are a lot of freeware ones made with the free Adventure (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/) Game Studio. Below are some ones that I've enjoyed. None of these have stellar artwork or anything, but I had fun with them, and they're small downloads.

5 Days a Stranger (http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/5days/) - You're a cat burglar who becomes trapped in a mansion you were trying to loot, along with a few other people. Horror/mystery, with great humor in places. (IE 'examine' a door- "That's what we in the trade call 'a door'. It's used for blocking unsightly rectangular holes in walls."

7 Days a Skeptic (http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/7days/) - Sequel to the above, set in ze future. Science Fiction/Horror/Mystery. Ending makes it worthwhile.

Spooks (http://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=688) - You're a spirit in the carnival of the dead, and you find something that's... Alive? What does that word mean? Black and white, with interesting useage of color in places. Humor/Fantasy.

Ben Jordan 1-5 (http://www.grundislavgames.com/benjordan/case1.php) You're a paranormal investigator investigating everything from Bigfoot to ghosts to vampires. The first game is really short, simple, and pretty meh, but each subsequent adventure is better, longer, and I believe they almost all have 2 endings. I thought 1 and 2 were very meh, 3-5 pretty fun.

Circue De Zale (http://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=377) In the spirit of Monkey Island, you play a crap-shoveler at a circus, until one day you get transported to a magical land. The king wants you to save the land from some dark evil lord, but nuts to that, you go off and try and put the local circus out of business so you can buy it out and re-hire the ex-workers at a reduced rate. Humor/Fantasy.

[Vandabo]

Holy shit, Hero's Quest!

Dude, that is EXACTLY what I was planning to post. I had almost forgotten about that old board game. I got it when I was little, and no one ever wanted to play it. Of course, now I don't know if I really want to play it, but knowing that I have the option is nice I guess.

[protojack]

A number of happy childhood memories involved Hero Quest. Bought the board game and two of the expansions last year off of eBay. Since my brother lives in Philadelphia I have no body to play it with. Still one of the best purchases i've ever made.

[devicelimit]

Warning Forever is a really cool game. I wish it was easier to control where you want to shoot.

[agentgray]

Warning Forever is a really cool game. I wish it was easier to control where you want to shoot.
Use a dual analog controller if you can. I thought it was tought at first, but eventually, it just clicks.

[TheKeck]

Did you try the commercial release (http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?name=Hero+Quest) from 1991?
Yeah, I did. It was painful. :(

[Ravenlock]

Perigon, you are a gentleman and a scholar, and I apologize if I have ever said otherwise. :D

We should do this thread every month.

[Ravenlock]

Since we're all posting stuff, there's a ton of remakes out there.

http://www.agdinteractive.com/

Formally Tierra Entertainment, KQ1 and KQ2, working on QFG2.

http://priv.solsector.net/news.htm

Privateer remake there

There's also people working on Starflight 3, but it's not ready yet. Granted a lot of you know about these already, some of you probably don't.Since you posted the (excellent!) Tierra remakes, I think it's appropriate to also mention that King's Quest III has been remade too:

http://www.infamous-adventures.com/index.php

I haven't downloaded it yet, but it looks great. As someone else in the thread mentioned, nostalgia FTW.

[SteveTaylor]

PLASMA PONG (http://www.PlasmaPong.com) - a variation of PONG that utilizes real-time fluid dynamics to drive the game environment.

Players have several new abilities that add fun twists to the classic game. In the game you can inject plasma fluid into the environment, create a vacuum from your paddle, and blast shockwaves into the playing area. All these abilities have fluid-based kinetic effects on the ball, making Plasma Pong a fast-paced and exciting game.

Also includes offline multiplayer and a sandbox mode to play around with the fluid effects.

http://www.plasmapong.com/screenshots/plasma3_small.JPG
http://www.plasmapong.com/screenshots/plasma1_small.jpg
http://www.plasmapong.com/screenshots/temperature_small.jpg
http://www.plasmapong.com/screenshots/star_small.jpg

[Spigot]

PLASMA PONG (http://www.PlasmaPong.com)
Steve, you are awesome. I just wasted a good half hour or so trying to dethrone the high score in Plasma Pong. Gorgeous game, especially when you crank everything all the way up.

Keep up the good work.

[kabutor]

If you liked survival games like Schiffbruch you can try something modern in a FPS point of view 3D (is in german the website but the game is in english) :

http://www.stranded.unrealsoftware.de/s1_files.php

Search for water first and avoid the Lion .. ;)

Also there is a "your ship crashed in a strange planet and you have to manage to get out of there" type of game called Notrium:
http://www.monkkonen.net/notrium.php

You can build a ship or a antenna to call for help.. there are several ways to escape the planet, also you have to eat and so..

[sickfallout]

best freeware game ever: Cave Story

http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html

extremely deep, metroid style gameplay, with an actual involving storyline. Give it a try, all.

[Skjef]

best freeware game ever: Cave Story

http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html

extremely deep, metroid style gameplay, with an actual involving storyline. Give it a try, all.AGREED.

Dokutsu Monogatari is absolutely amazing. Everyone should play it at least once.

[LiquidRain]

I thought Cave Story was implied in every free software thread? :confused:

(seriously - it wasn't mentioned before?! Cave Story is a must)

[Spigot]

Grr... I can't seem to figure out where that music program for Cave Story is. I've always meant to play this game and I may as well try it now.

If I can tear myself away from that Plasma Pong. Man, that game is addictive.

[cannedpasta]

Yeah, Hero Quest brings back so many memories... me and my friends used to stay up all night playing it.

[lion2]

Here's a site with a lot of freeware.

http://www.stingygaming.com