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Anon...
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>>280640
ptty shore freeware and sailing the seas are different

i dont think bunny must die is freeware
also wheres cave story

OP, are you looking for freeware, free-to-play, or games that are given away for free?

>>280641
tard logic for not searching the index

I was thinking about making this thread some time ago. Freeware games are in a category of their own.

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Do games with a model of you-can-pay-what-you-want-including-nothing count?

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A list highlighting some high quality stuff that I haven't updated seriously in some time:
Cho Ren Sha 68K
Vacant Ark and Iwanaga
MECHA Ritz
Most Locomalito games (Hydorah, Viriax, etc.)
Most Linley Henzell games (Garden of Colored Lights, White Butterfly, etc.)
Some of Kenta Cho's stuff
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/OpenSpades is kind of okay if played the right way
SuperTuxKart
OpenRA
Freeorion
Freeciv
Unciv
Veloren

I probably would try to differentiate between freeware and libre games these days, but they're both free as in free beer.

>>280665
Care to actually link to them?

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>>280666
That sounds like quite a lot of work anon.

>>280666
I can take a look and see if I still have some on one of my hard drives..OpenRA however and Exile Trilogy aren't a difficult to find.

OpenRA has a official website with a obvious as shit domain: openra.net

Spiderweb Software lists their oldest games direcetly on their website: spiderwebsoftware.com/productsOld.html

>>280665
You forgot DOVE and DoveZ, the first was always freeware but the second a boxed release until one of its authors uploaded it to his homepage a decade later.
Why did late 1990s obscure germanic games only available on the world wide web have such ebin tracker music, ahh I want to go back.

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0 A.D. has come a long way from being an AoE mod.  Hopefully someone will teach the computer player how to use walls soon.

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ScummVM has some free adventure games on its website: https://scummvm.org/games/ although only like 3 of them are worth playing imo
Also Red Eclipse kicks ASS: https://www.redeclipse.net/

>>280642
Cave Story
https://www.cavestory.org/download/cave-story.php

>>280642
Bunny Must Die was originally released as freeware afaik

>>280755
It was a commercial doujin game from my memory.

Embric of Wulfhammer
https://largebattleshipstudios.itch.io/embric/purchase
RPG maker game that is just straight up yuri smut. Lots of shit you have to do to get the best, hidden ending. Seriously, iirc, the true hidden ending is hidden behind three layers of @#$!ing hidden endings.

Dwarf Fortress
https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
Autism micromanagement game.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
https://cataclysmdda.org/
Autism solomanagement game.

Morning Star Academy
Uh...holy shit. I can't find a link to this anymore, but I still have it. ... Uh, I didn't think I would stumble into accidentally being a videogame preservationist. Also, what the hell should I do with it?
Anyways, it's another yuri game. The mechanics are kind of annoyingly random to get certain endings, and the endings of the game are not well catalogued at all. It's not well played, and I don't really know anyone else who's played it. Nowadays you also have to do a shitton of "Run in compatibility mode" stuff to get it to run.

Nethack
https://www.nethack.org/
One of the oldest games.

Dig'n'Rig
https://games.digipen.edu/games/dig-n-rig
Upgrade to get to the deeper areas autism game.

.flow
http://dotflow.wikidot.com/downloads
A Yume Nikki knock-off. I really liked it because I was in this headspace where I viewed what most people saw as 'horror'/'unnerving' as misunderstood.

Solarus
https://www.solarus-games.org/games/the-legend-of-zelda-mystery-of-solarus-dx/
Did you like Zelda:LTTP? Well, have like 30 games like that.

Holocure
https://kay-yu.itch.io/holocure
vtuber brainrot game.

Luanti
https://www.luanti.org/
"We have Minecraft at home."

>>280837
>Also, what the hell should I do with it?
Make a static site for it with the game and all the info you have and then torrent it, like the guy who made a site for Cookie's Bustle out of sheer spite for the speculator who tried to wipe it from the internet so his copies would be worth more.

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>>280837
>Embric of Wulfhammer
I remember that game.

>>280837
>RPG maker game that is just straight up yuri smut
is it actually smut? the itch page says 
>Embric of Wulfhammer's Castle is a (sometimes mildly explicit) yuri adventure
also
>actual erotic content in this game is low
so I'm assuming it's not actually porn?

In case you didn't know, Is There Any Deal, a price tracking aggregator for video games has RSS feeds for game giveaways. 
https://isthereanydeal.com/feeds/

I use
https://isthereanydeal.com/feeds/US/giveaways.rss

It's usually either GoG or >Epic giving away free games. 

This has also made me realize just how much Steam is super jewish, I don't think they've given any games away for free, only DLC and Half Life for its anniversary

>>280852
virus site do not visit

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>>280852
>a price tracking aggregator for video games
I don't remember videogames having prices.

>>280639 (OP) 
Xonotic: (Q3A style arena FPS)
https://xonotic.org/

The Dark Mod: (High quality Thief clone)
https://www.thedarkmod.com

NetHack: (A very high quality oldschool roguelike)
https://www.nethack.org/

Heroine's Quest: (Adventure-RPG hybrid)
See >>274304

>>280851
That's absolutely laughable. There are loads of smutty CGs (look, someone posted one right before you), and iirc, at least one time you walk into lesbian sprite sex.
>>280846
Let me see if I can figure it out...

I highly recommend nethack4 and pathos for nethack 
http://nethack4.org
https://github.com/callanh/pathos-official

>>280961
The latest real version of NetHack is 3.4.3. Anything later is drivel made by some impostors.
Extra tip: NetHack is best played on a public server, you might encounter bones levels left by previously deceased players.

>>280639 (OP) 
>Another Metroid 2 Remake (AM2R)
I am still pissed at what Nintendo did to the dev of this game.
Maybe we could have gotten a few more updates before those fags sent him a C&D.

>>280978
Let's not forget though that AM2R was another shitass dumbed down remake for mouthbreathing casuals that felt the need to toss crap like Zero Mission's ledge grab and totally trivialize platforming in a game that originally didn't have it.  It doesn't get a pass just because what Nintendo did was completely reprehensible and their own remake they commissioned was somehow even more appalling.

>>280977
>impostors
WRONG
https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Game_history
It's the same team that made 3.4.3 with a few extra dudes. Care to explain what exactly makes 3.6 worse?
>>280990
Sorry pal but the last faggot just used up the thread's new thing bad quota. Try again next time.

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>>280977
I don't bother playing much modern roguelike games (they're much more trouble to get running on my computer than old ones), but after reading all the threads about them and how the devs keep making the games worse constantly, I decided I'll only play the very first releases. Like instead of Cataclysm:DDA, I have the oldest version of Cataclysm from 2013, and I'm not gonna bother with later versions unless there's a major bug that I can't fix myself. Plus the part I said about building them applies here too. Usually later versions have more dependencies or requirements or something that makes building it more difficult. Just look at ToME 2 vs. recent versions for a good example of that.
As far as the Nethack bones files, aren't those just some files that exist in a specific directory, and so you could just download them and also have them loaded into your own private game on your PC? (I'm just guessing, never actually tried to do this)
Pic is from "EGA Fantasy Land Demo"
https://archive.org/details/ega-fland

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>>280997
>new
It's been nearly 10 years since AM2R.

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>>281010
WHAT?

>>281010
It's been 26 years since HM64.

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https://www.lixgame.com
https://akouzoukos.com/apotris
https://drummyfish.itch.io/anarch
https://mrdrnose.itch.io/votv
https://felipemanga.github.io/ProjectABE/?url=https://github.com/jhhoward/Arduboy3D/releases/download/1.0/Catacombs.arduboy
https://tommulgrew.itch.io/trial-of-the-sorcerer?download
https://www.codemonkey.me.uk/rollcage_redux.php

I have been playing a LOT of freeware games lately and I could probably list at least 50-100 games. This is just a few. Freeware games cure my soul when everything else coming out is soulless.

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>Stranded II
A game where you explore islands and craft materials to survive and find your way back to civilization. Featured in Sleepy Station.
https://www.strandedonline.de/s2_info.php

>Eversion
Cutesy platformer with a sinister side. Collect gems and travel between dimensions that are each spookier than the last.
https://zaratustra.itch.io/eversion

>>280711
>Beneath a Steel Sky
That game was amazing. One of the best P&C titles out there.

>Beyond All Reason
A Total Annihilation-inspired open source RTS, seems high quality
https://www.beyondallreason.info/

>Red Alert
A classic of the RTS genre. If you haven't played it, fucking play it already. They released it for free now.
https://cncnet.org/red-alert

>One Must Fall: 2079
A DOS-era fighting game. I have fond childhood memories of this game, and it's a pretty solid fighting game with a lot of difficulty modes (and a couple of hidden bonus difficulty modes and game settings - look up a cheats guide). If you like Street Fighter games, this is probably your jam. Also it has multiplayer support but good luck working that out through DOSBox unless you're doing hotseat. Apparently it was made freeware all the way in 1999?
https://www.omf2097.com/wiki/doku.php?id=download
https://omf.niraj.ws/ (has a ton of custom tournaments)

>Stargunner
A DOS era side-scrolling shmup by Apogee. 
https://www.gog.com/en/game/stargunner
https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Stargunner.html

>Tyrian 2000
Another DOS era side-scrolling shmup gone freeware that is a real classic.
https://github.com/KScl/opentyrian2000 (open source engine, probably the better way to play it)
https://www.camanis.net/tyrian/tyrian2000.zip
https://www.gog.com/en/game/tyrian_2000 (pay attention to the alejandronova review complaining about GOG's release fucking up the DOSBox settings)

>>281443
Not sure why you would play vanilla Red Alert over OpenRA at this point.

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Nobody wants to post the infograph? This isn't even the latest one, just the one I was able to get from the archives.

>>281443
Beyond All Reason supports multiplayer matches so fuckhuge as to qualify as a MMRTS (Massively Multiplayer Real-Time Strategy). There have been 110 player multiplayer matches in this game.

>>281447
Last I checked OpenRA devs were fags that fucked with game balance when they got assblasted someone beat them with a strategy they disliked. Maybe some anon still has the picture of that story floating around.

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>>280711
>he plays P&Cs with the filtering on

>>280643
He's just expanding on my thread from >>>/b/241938

>>281476
fuck off and kys tourist off-topic b spammer

>>281477
There's nothing wrong/spammy with me linking my older thread, of which is the literal same topic as this thread, retard. Just because this OP posts in a familiar way does not mean that makes me a tourist for not copying his style.

Anyone remember the customizable schmup, Fraxy?

>>281574
I always had a difficult time getting into it.  Eventually I realized I would rather just play a fully-formed game than be forced to assemble a game from components other people put together.

Anyone play Igneous? It seems pretty decent.

https://games.digipen.edu/games/igneous

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Not sure if any of you fags care, but there's an actual decompilation of Cave Story now. This means we might get a version of Wind Fortress that isn't tied to the Nicalis ports at some point.
https://github.com/gameblabla/CSE2

>>283007
I wanna decompile into Curly.

>>281590
Is it still available anywhere? My Googlefu isn't showing anything up.

>>283360
Seems like all the important links are on this wiki page:
https://shmup.fandom.com/wiki/Fraxy