Free games - Recomendations and updates galore

[ReverendLostLamb]

Info

This is just the original games posted on the list. I've played all the games (excluding Rymdspelet IV). As I do so I'll write a quick blurb on them and assign them Symbols and the like. Feel free to request an addition or say you think something deserves a symbol. It's a bit messy right now but I'm thinking of fixing that...sometimes.

* - Lamb's Pick - My personal recommendation
+ - Popular - There is a large community based around this with a lot of players
@ - Classic - One of those games you just think of when you think of the genre, or that really set the current form of the genre in motion.
& - Johan's pick - His personal recommendation (I think).

Games

Post '95

Action

+WarRock - Free FPS with a rent RPG system for equipment.
http://jet.ro/dismount/
+@Little fighter 2 - A free beat-em-up. A casual game that can be good to kill time.
+Gunz Online - 3rd person FPS but with melee actions. IJJI.
Free racing games
Star Wars series - freeware space sim/action games
+@Starsiege: Tribes - Multiplayer sci-fi 3D shoot-em-up
Death Illustrated - freeware black&white doom-clone
@MDK - classic 3D FPS. One of the first of its kind. Enjoyable but a little dated.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory  - Its online, it's small and it's reasonably fun.
Marathon 1 - 3D sci-fi shooter
Alliegeance - 3D multi-player space flight/combat simulator
@Grand Theft Auto 2 - 2D action/crime game
+Soldat - freeware multi-player side-scroller shoot-em-up (similar to Worms)
+America's Army - Not as tactical as it might have you believe. Can be very frustrating.
Cube - freeware 3D shooter
Darkseed - 1st person supernatural/horror adventure game
Flight Unlimited - flight simulation (this is number 3, I remember 2 was freeware at underdogs)
KKrieger - 1st person 3D shooter which uses procedural generation techniques NOTE: Doesn't work on Vista
Nexuiz - freeware 3D deathmatch game
Ignition! - simple 3D racing game, six races and six vehicles to choose from
Savage 2 - Action/MMO mix.
Claw a.k.a Captain Claw (1997) - a great pirate tale.
Adventures of Lomax (1996) - spin-off from Lemmings series.
Strategy

Glest - Freeware RTS with an wealth of minor mods available.
[/color]+@Project Xenocide - X-com series remake/expansion
Goliath Game - team-based post-apocalyptic game (tech demo)
[/color]+@Battle for Wesnoth - A hex based strategy game with a good modding community
WW2 - hex-based tactical game
MBT - hex-based tactical game
[/color]+@UFO: Alien Invasion - freeware remake of X-Com with the Quake2 engine
[/color]+@Scorched Earth 3D - 3D multiplayer remake of the classic
[/color]+@Freecol - Remake of the original, an excellent if slightly buggy game.
Dungeon Digger

RPG

http://www.knightonlineworld.com/ - free mmo
http://www.sky-raiders.com/ - free mmo
http://www.projectentropia.com - free mmo
[/color]+@Star Control 2 (Ur-Quan Masters remake)
Prelude to Darkness - Indie isometric mystery/RPG - free final version to be released soon

Other

Flight Gear - freeware open-source flight simulator
Far Colony - freeware open-source space colonization
Orbiter - Freeware space simulator. Rather complex it would seem.


Abandonware

Strategy

@NetStorm: Island at war - classic multiplayer real-time strategy game
@Ghengis Khan 2 - similar game by the same company

Action

RPG

+Little Big Adventure 2 - classic third-person adventure game in sci-fi setting - [LBA1 is here]
Realms of Arkania 2: Star Trail - party-based adventure/RPG in fantasy setting
@TSR collection of AD&D role-playing games - almost all can be found on that websit

Other

[/color]+@Monkey Island Series - adventure / games 1 and 2 can be found here


Sites

Abandonware

http://www.the-underdogs.info/ - One of the top sites and always legal
www.holyfile.com -
www.Gamehippo.com -
www.Reloaded.org - My personal favorite site, well organized always legal.

Newer

www.liberatedgames.com - Mostly abandonware that has been officially legally freed
www.megagames.com/ - Standard Freeware like things

Lamb's pick

*+@Mount&Blade - Sandbox indie game. It has decent graphics but is definetely worth trying.

*+Dwarf Fortress - A deep simulation of maintaining of small outpost of dwarfs. Text based graphics with optional graphic tilesets.

Johan's pick
+ & http://www.rymdspelet.net - Game by Tinyrocket.

Updated once a month.

[Sparrisen]

I have never in my entire life felt as geeky as after 12 hours of Dwarf Fortress. I was practically unable to speak. I felt like one, big, sweaty, acne.

[ReverendLostLamb]

Isn't that feeling wonderful? You gotta love it

[Giman]

Thanks, very big list 

[johan]

You forgot the greatest game of all time; Rymdspelet IV http://www.rymdspelet.net 

[ReverendLostLamb]

Copyright © 2008 Johan Gustafsson

That's the reason to why it's so great?
Anyways, is there a large community? Would you say it's one of the classic games that you come to think of when you name the genre?

[johan]

That's the reason to why it's so great?
Anyways, is there a large community? Would you say it's one of the classic games that you come to think of when you name the genre?

Yeah that is part of the reason
There are at least three people that really like the game, but I would not call it a classic =)

[ReverendLostLamb]

Interesting... There's still some changes to make I see. Any other games someone would like me to post?

[FLuori]

Dawnspire

[ReverendLostLamb]

It is not there because it is not needed.

[FLuori]

not needed? omg. I don't need this topic anymore!
EAT MY SHORTS!

[ReverendLostLamb]

This topic was made so you could learn about new games etc. etc.. Everyone here knows what DS is and therefore it is not needed.

[Ghost]

I think you are contributing to the death of DS  .

Stop advertising other free games!... Dawnspire rules!! play dawnspire!!! host server... become part of the community 

[ReverendLostLamb]

I think you are contributing to the death of DS  .

Ofc I support DS. Some people might just want to take a brake tho and can make use of this topic.

Stop advertising other free games!

DS wasn't free in the beginning.

Dawnspire rules!! play dawnspire!!! host server... become part of the community 

I agree with you.