Pat's Freeware Selection 
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Action games
Space shooters
Breakout games
Tetris games
Card games
Racing and Car games
Arcade games
Puzzle games
Simulator games
RPG games
Adventure games
Strategy games
Miscellaneous games
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Action games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| America's Army | America's Army (also known as AA or Army Game Project) is a tactical multiplayer first-person shooter owned by the United States Government and released as a global public relations initiative to help with U.S. Army recruitment. America's Army is a round- and team-based tactical shooter with a gameplay similar to Counter-Strike, with the player depicted as a soldier in the U.S. Army. Before being allowed to play online a player must first go through four training maps and have his or her progress saved online in a player account. Wiki in english: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_Army | ||
| Cube (P) | YES | Cube is a nice single/multi-player first person ACTION shooter game. It comes with over 100 (!) maps, most of which are not available in Cube 2, with extensive single and multi player content. | |
| Cube 2: Sauerbraten | YES | The sequel of Cube! Free single- and multi-player 1st person shooter ACTION game. A large variety of gameplay modes from classic SP to fast 1 on 1 MP and objective based teamplay, with a great variety of original maps to play on. | |
| Dawnspire: prelude | YES | Team-based online action with persistent characters. Face off against another team of players to prove yourself in tough, action-packed battles! Download, install the game and create your first character. You can not join a game without first having created a character. | |
| Doomsday HQ | Home of the Doomsday Engine, jDoom, jHeretic and jHexen – ACTION games | ||
| Fear Combat | F.E.A.R. Combat is the complete multiplayer component of F.E.A.R. and includes all the updates, additional official maps and additional official game modes all in one downloadable file. F.E.A.R. Combat users will be able to play against the owners of the retail version of F.E.A.R. as well as the other F.E.A.R. Combat users. A big download! You need to register at the site to get a license-key.. | ||
| Gunz | An online character, shooting game. | ||
| Nexuiz (P) | YES | Nexuiz is a first person shooter game. It can be configured to run in either single or multi-player mode. | |
| Openarena (***) | YES | Openarena is a good multi-player, first-person-shooter ACTION game. Single-player mode and playing against bots is possible. OpenArena is developed mainly using free/open source software. For instance, its game engine is id Software's GPL Quake III engine. Very addicting game! | |
| Soldat | YES | YES | A mutiplayer side scroller, action game with up to 32 players online. Soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal. |
| Starsiege: Tribes | Starsiege: Tribes is an action game with multiplayer gaming for up to 32 players. Enough single-player missions to get your boots wet.. | ||
| War Rock | WarRock is a first-person shooter MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game).Released under “free2play” model. This means it's free to play as it is. You have to pay for more weapons, new maps, etc. You have to register at the War Rock website. War Rock has low system requirements compared to other games of the same genre. It's a 600MB download! | ||
| Warsow (P) | YES | Warsow is a fast-paced, multi-player, first-person-shooter ACTION game. Playing in single-player mode against bots is possible too. It features fast-paced game play what focuses on trick jumps and art of move, as well as a complete power-up system including weak and strong fire mode for each weapon. Based on the Quake2 engine. Steep learning process if you ask me! | |
| Wild West | A multiplayer modification for Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Players can choose to take on the role of a Bandit or Cowboy as these two groups confront each other in all out gunfights through various scenarios. 7 multiplayer maps to play on, and more in the works...You must have Return to Castle Wolfenstein installed on your PC. You can download that here: http://www.3dgamers.com/games/returnwolfenstein/ | ||
| Wolfenstein: enemy territory | Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (abbreviated as WOLF:ET, WET, and among gamers, ET) is a freeware first-person shooter (FPS) computer ACTION game, and a standalone sequel to Return to Castle Wolfenstein, created by Splash Damage. Only multi-player! Big download! Read the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory |
Space shooters
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Battlecruiser Millennium | A cross between a space shooter and a space simulator. No longer maintained! | ||
| Epiar | YES | Epiar is a space adventure/combat game. In Epiar, you begin as a shuttle pilot in a galaxy generally ruled by anarchy, with few stable governments and numerous rebel factions. You start your adventure off doing whatever you want, but generally trying to save up money for a new starship, and your adventure takes off from there ... | |
| Hornado | Hornado is a classic, action-packed, spaceshooter. The game features excellent sounds and graphics. Includes 8 levels with tons of enemies. | ||
| Rocket Commander | Rocket Commander is a variation on the game 'Asteroids'. In this game you have to avoid asteroids. To make this easy, you have the possesion of various rockets. | ||
| Space Invaders OpenGL | Space Invaders OpenGL is a 2D/3D game based on the old arcade classic in which you must destroy enemy ships by shooting them up. It is developed in OpenGL under Visual C++, | ||
| Star Wars: The Battle Of Yavin | 3D Space Battle Game. Play as Luke Skywalker in the battle of Yavin. Assault and destroy the empire's Death Star. Fight in space, on the Death Star's surface, make the trench run, and try not to get blasted by Darth Vader's ship. Six stages of intense action. | ||
| Torus Trooper | Drive a ship and destroy your enemies. When time runs out, game is over. You can earn bonus time when you reach a certain score. | ||
| Universal Combat | A space shooter released as a free download on Jan 02 2008. No longer maintained! |
Breakout games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| 3DPulsoid and Pulsoid | 3DPulsoid is a Breakout/Arkanoid game. There is almost no difference between Pulsoid and 3D Pulsoid. This game needs a register code. Look at the site. | ||
| Jardinains | NO | YES | Jardinains is a Breakout game with a twist. |
| Jarkanoid | JARKANOÏD 3 is a Breakout/Arkanoid game | ||
| LBreakout2 (P) | YES | Lbreakout is a breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid. Use your paddle to aim a ball at bricks until all bricks are destroyed. | |
| MCKY's Breakout 2 | A free breakout/arkanoid clone with sizzling graphics and sound. Controls: mouse | ||
| Vyrox | VYROX is a freeware ARCADE game and derives from such famous 8-bit classics like Break Out or Traz. It comes with all the loved bells and whistles like Multiball, Laser, Brickblast, multiplayer and many more, added with recent breaking adjustments like a world wide online highscore ranking system and modular skin and level extensions that are available for free. Very addicting game! |
Tetris games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| FloboPuyo | YES | FloboPuyo is a fun tetris game with falling smiling bubbles of different colors for one or two players. | |
| GLBlocks | GLBlocks is a simple puzzle/tetris-style game. |
Card games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Patience (P) | YES | Free Patience / Solitaire game for Windows with games including Klondike, Freecell, Spider, Yukon and over 200 others. | |
| Paul's Blackjack | A nice blackjack casino game. |
Racing and Car games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| GeneRally | GeneRally is a racing game for one to six players on one computer. If the standard distribution package is not enough for you, visit their forums for more GeneRally information, tracks, cars, competitions, etc. | ||
| Grand Theft Auto 2 (GTA2) | GTA2 has been completely optimized for play on modern PCs and is available for free for all registrants to the Rockstar Games mailing list. | ||
| Overdrive | Overdrive is a racing game in which several gangs take it against each other. On armed engines you must score off other players. | ||
| The Open Racing Car Simulator (TORCS) (P) | YES | YES | TORCS is a highly portable multi platform car racing simulation. It is used as ordinary car racing game or as AI racing game. TORCS features more than 50 different cars, more than 20 tracks, and 50 opponents to race against. Your can steer with a joystick or steering wheel, if the device is supported by your platform. It is also possible to drive with the mouse or the keyboard. There are various sites on the Internet dedicated to TORCS with additional content (cars, tracks, documentation, patches, etc.) |
| Trackmania Nations | TrackMania Nations is an arcade racing game. 100 singleplayer missions, but also multiplayer. StarForce copy security. |
Arcade games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Abuse | Abuse is a 2d side-scrolling platform shooter ported to run under Win32/DirectX. | ||
| Madbomber (P) | YES | Mad Bomber is a clone of the excellent 1981 Atari 2600 video game "Kaboom!" by Larry Kaplan of Activision. The Mad Bomber is loose in the city and he's dropping bombs everywhere! It's your job to catch them before they hit the ground and explode. Luckily, you have a set of trusty buckets to extinguish them with. | |
| SuperTux | SuperTux is a classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original SuperMario games. |
Puzzle games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Kagiru Sudoku | YES | Kagiru is a Sudoku puzzle game supporting automatic puzzle generation, manual puzzle definition, automatic puzzle solving, multiple levels, puzzle loading and saving, etc. | |
| Pure Sudoku Free Edition | Pure Sudoku is the Sudoku puzzle game for Windows 2000/XP/Vista. It features easy to use controls, an attractive style and four difficulty settings for players of all skill levels. | ||
| Simple Sudoku | Simple Sudoku makes puzzles that are symmetrical and have a single solution. The user can also choose between five levels of complexity - from Easy to Extreme. Each puzzle is generated randomly so there is an almost limitless selection. It also provides tools to help solve them. | ||
| Sudoku (P) | YES | Sudoku is an addictive puzzle game originally created in France over 100 years ago. It features a 9x9 grid containing 9 3x3 grids. Within this you arrange the numbers 1 through 9. But, each number can only appear once in each of the 9 3x3 grids. And it can only appear once in each row and on each column. It's a simple concept, but it can get addictive quickly. |
Simulator games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Celestia | Celestia is a space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. | ||
| Danger from the Deep(DftD) | YES | Danger from the Deep (known as Dangerdeep or DftD) is a World War II german submarine simulator. | |
| FlightGear | A free flight simulator from the open source community. You can find many free models and scenaries for downloads and use with FlightGear. | ||
| Flying-Model-Simulator FMS | An amazing 3D model flight simulator. | ||
| OpenTTD | OpenTTD is a clone of the game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe". It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features. | ||
| ORBITER | ORBITER is a free flight simulator that goes beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere. ORBITER is not a space shooter. The emphasis is firmly on realism, and the learning curve can be steep. | ||
| Racer | Racer is a free car simulation project, using real car physics. Cars, tracks, scenes and such can be created with relative simplicity in mind (compared to other driving simulations). | ||
| YS FLIGHT SIMULATION SYSTEM 2000 | A free flight simulator. The flight simulator is quite realistic and you could also fly in a formation with other software pilots. |
RPG games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Crossfire | Crossfire is a multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game. Crossfire is based in a medieval fantasy world. | ||
| Knight Online | Knight Online is an online MMORPG multiplayer medieval fantasy adventure game. | ||
| Planeshift | PlaneShift is a cross-platform fantasy MMORPG. A virtual fantasy world in which a player can start as a peasant in search of fame and become a hero. A real world with politics, economy, many non-player-characters controlled by the server. |
Adventure games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| King's Quest I and II | YES | Remakes of older Sierra adventure games. | |
| King's Quest III | YES | Remakes of older Sierra adventure game. | |
| Penumbra | In Penumbra the player finds himself in an underground base on Greenland, searching for his lost father. It's an adventure horror game, free from classic first person shooter elements, with an emphasise on puzzle solving and exploring. Constantly on your toes you will never know what to expect, with no weapons how do you protect yourself? |
Strategy games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Dark Oberon | Dark Oberon is an open source real-time strategy game similar to Warcraft II. | ||
| Glest | Glest is a free 3D real time strategy game. Current version includes single player game against AI controlled players. | ||
| Steel Panthers: World at War(SPWaW) | This game is a tactical World War II era historical wargame for Windows, based on Steel Panthers III. | ||
| The Battle for Wesnoth (P) | YES | YES | The Battle for Wesnoth is a free strategy game with a fantasy theme. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand other adventures. |
Miscellaneous games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| AllFive XP | AllFive XP is a game, taking Yahtzee to the next level, with high quality graphics including 3D dice. The game also features full statistics for up to eight users, the ability to play with up to four players at once, automatic probability calculation, and undo. | ||
| BillardGL | BillardGL is an OpenGL pool billiard simulation. | ||
| BZFlag | BZFlag is an online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game. | ||
| FooBillard | A free OpenGl billard game. Look for the Windows port. | ||
| Future Pinball + Sci-Fi Classic | Future Pinball is a Pinball Development System. It allows you to design and play your very own pinball simulation in real time 3D. Sci-Fi Classic is the official example table for Future Pinball. | ||
| GLtron | GLtron is a game based on the light cycle portion of the movie Tron. The aim of the game is to be the last player riding. There are various gameplay styles that the options menu lets you control, including switching the gameplay from "booster" to "wall ride" to "both". | ||
| Scorched 3D | Scorched 3D is a game based on the classic DOS game 'Scorched Earth'. At its lowest level, Scorched 3D is just an artillery game with two+ tanks taking turns to destroy opponents in an arena. Choose the angle, direction and power of each shot, launch your weapon, and try to blow up other tanks. You can earn money from successful battles and use it to invest in additional weapons and accessories. You can play with up to twenty four other players at a time, mixing computer players with humans. | ||
| Second Life | While Second Life is sometimes referred to as a game, this description is disputed. It does not have points, scores, winners or losers, levels, an end-strategy, or other characteristics of games, though it can be thought of as a game on a more basic level. It is a semi-structured virtual environment where characters undertake activities for the purpose of personal enjoyment. | ||
| Sharpshooter's Miniature Golf | Sharpshooters Miniature Golf is a 3D miniature golf pinball combination. Up to four people can play this 3D course, where slopes, pinball bumpers, and conveyor belts all react with your ball according the laws of physics. There are also warp zones that react according to the laws of Star Trek. You can create your own courses. | ||
| Tux Racer | Tux Racer lets you take on the role of Tux the Linux Penguin as he races down steep, snow-covered mountains. Enter cups and compete to win the title! Tux Racer includes a variety of options for gameplay, including the ability to race courses in fog, at night, and under high winds. | ||
| Yahtzee 123 (P) | YES | Yahtzee 123 is a computer version of the popular dice game 'Yahtzee', in which the aim is to score as many points as possible by rolling different combinations. |
Links to collections
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Abandonia | Abandonware DOS games. | ||
| Caiman | A large collection of Free Games. | ||
| Free online games list | Perhaps the world’s largest collection of Free Online Games. | ||
| Google Directory | Freeware games listed by Google. | ||
| Liberated Games | A large collection of Free Games. | ||
| Noodan | A large collection of Free Games. | ||
| Planet Freeplay | A large collection of Free Games. | ||
| XPGames | A large collection of Free Games. |
Tools for games
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Abandonloader | For playing older games. Abandon Loader provides a front-end interface designed to maintain compatibility and simplify configuration of old DOS games on modern PC's. Requires Win9x/2000/XP. | ||
| CPU Speed adjuster (P) | YES | This program lets you slow down your PC so that you can run all your old programs again at the speed that you require. CPU usage can be limited to within a percentage. |
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