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Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...

video games implemented as traditional executable files that must be downloaded and installed. Freeware games are games that are released as freeware

Freeware

and can be downloaded and played, free of charge, for an unlimited amount of time.

This list does not include:

Open source games (see List of open source games).
Games that were previously sold commercially (see List of commercial games released as freeware).
Shareware
Shareware
The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...

or games that require purchase for play time, game items, new content or features.
Browser-based games.
Mods
Mod (computer gaming)
Mod or modification is a term generally applied to personal computer games , especially first-person shooters, role-playing games and real-time strategy games. Mods are made by the general public or a developer, and can be entirely new games in themselves, but mods are not standalone software and...

: software that cannot be played as stand-alone game.

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Ace of Spades (video game)
Ace of Spades (video game)
Ace of Spades is a free-to-play sandbox building and FPS game developed by Ben Aksoy for the PC. The game notably uses Ken Silverman's Voxlap engine.-Summary:...

is a free voxel based fps base on Ken Silverman
Ken Silverman
Ken Silverman is a game programmer, best known for writing the Build engine used in Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, and more than a dozen other games in the mid- to late-1990s...

's voxlap engine.
Ahriman's Prophecy is a prequel to the Aveyond RPG series.
Alien Swarm
Alien Swarm
Alien Swarm is a total conversion mod for Unreal Tournament 2004 created by Black Cat Games and initially released on May 28, 2004. Alien Swarm, version 1.2 was released on September 10, 2004, with the official campaigns, Sigma and Ortega...

is a free top down shooter from Valve
Valve Corporation
Valve Corporation is an American video game development and digital distribution company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States...

used to test the Source
Source engine
Source is a 3D game engine developed by Valve Corporation. It debuted in June 2004 with Counter-Strike: Source and shortly thereafter Half-Life 2, and has been in active development ever since...

2010 beta.
America's Army
America's Army
America's Army is a series of video games and other media developed by the United States Army and released as a global public relations initiative to help with recruitment. America's Army was conceived by Colonel Casey Wardynski and is managed by the U.S...

is the official United States Army
United States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

game.
ADOM
Ancient Domains of Mystery
Ancient Domains of Mystery, or ADOM, is a roguelike game by Thomas Biskup first released in . The player's aim is to stop the forces of Chaos that invade the world of Ancardia....

is a roguelike
Roguelike
The roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by randomization for replayability, permanent death, and turn-based movement. Most roguelikes feature ASCII graphics, with newer ones increasingly offering tile-based graphics. Games are typically dungeon crawls, with many...

game (technically postcardware
Postcardware
Postcardware, also called just cardware, is a style of software distribution similar to shareware, distributed by the author on the condition that users send the author a postcard.This is similar to beerware...

) by Thomas Biskup
Thomas Biskup
Thomas Biskup is a German software engineer and computer scientist. He is the creator and developer of Ancient Domains of Mystery, a popular computer roleplaying game....

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Armored Brigade
Armored Brigade (video game)
Armored Brigade is a freeware real-time tactical wargame, focusing on realism and playability. The game was released in 2008, and the most recent was released in 2011 and is still being actively developed....

is a freeware tactical wargame, focusing on realism and playability.
Astro battle is a top down Multi-directional shooter in which players design their own spacecraft and battle other players on-line.

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Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
Tales of Game's Presents Chef Boyardee's Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa is a freeware RPG developed by Tales of Game's Studios, presented as an unofficial sequel to Barkley Shut Up and Jam! and Space Jam...

is a futuristic RPG starring basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

er Charles Barkley
Charles Barkley
Charles Wade Barkley is a former American professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Sir Charles" and "The Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association's most dominating power forwards...

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Baseball Mogul 2006 is a baseball manager game. (Should be moved to List of commercial games released as freeware)
Battleships Forever
Battleships Forever
Battleships Forever is an IGF award-nominated freeware real-time tactics video game set in a futuristic space environment inspired by Warning Forever. It is currently in beta phase...

is a real time tactics game with a ship designer.
BMW M3 Challenge is a BMW M3
BMW M3
The BMW M3 is a high-performance version of the BMW 3 Series, developed by BMW's in-house motorsport division, BMW M. M3 models have been derived from the E30, E36, E46 and E90/E92/E93 3-series, and sold with coupé, sedan and convertible body styles...

car racing game.
BVE Trainsim
BVE Trainsim
BVE Trainsim is a Japanese three-dimensional computer-based train simulator. It is notable for focusing on providing an accurate driving experience as viewed from inside the cab, rather than creating a network of other trains—other trains passed along the route are only displayed as stationary...

is a railroad simulator created by Mackoy of Japan.

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Cave Story is a side-scrolling
Side-scrolling video game
A side-scrolling game or side-scroller is a video game in which the gameplay action is viewed from a side-view camera angle, and the onscreen characters generally move from the left side of the screen to the right. These games make use of scrolling computer display technology...

action-adventure game
Action-adventure game
An action-adventure game is a video game that combines elements of the adventure game genre with various action game elements. It is perhaps the broadest and most diverse genre in gaming, and can include many games which might better be categorized under narrow genres...

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Cellfactor: Revolution is a single-player and multiplayer game
Multiplayer game
A multiplayer video game is one which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time. Unlike most other games, computer and video games are often single-player activities that put the player against preprogrammed challenges and/or AI-controlled opponents, which often...

that uses the Ageia Physx engine.
Chex Quest
Chex Quest
Chex Quest is a non-violent first-person shooter video game created in 1996 by Digital Café as a Chex cereal promotion aimed at children aged 9 and up...

is a comedic Doom clone (technically an advergame).
Chicken Invaders
Chicken Invaders
Chicken Invaders is a series of shoot 'em up video games, developed by InterAction Studios and released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems...

is a space shooter by InterAction Studios.
Chzo Mythos
Chzo Mythos
The Chzo Mythos is the collective title given to a series of four amateur adventure games created by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw using the Adventure Game Studio development tool. The games are, in order of release and intended play-order, 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Skeptic, Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a...

is a set of four separate adventure game
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

s: 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Skeptic, Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a Sacrifice by Ben Croshaw
Ben Croshaw
Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw is an English comedic writer, video game journalist and author of adventure games created using Adventure Game Studio software. He writes articles for Australia's Hyper magazine, a major games publication...

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Cloud
Cloud (computer game)
Cloud is a 2005 indie puzzle video game developed by a team of students in the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Program. The team began development of Cloud in January 2005 with a US$20,000 grant from the USC; the game was released as a free download that October...

is a third-person computer puzzle game based on weather and atmospheric aesthetics.
Combat Arms is an online first-person shooter
First-person shooter
First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...

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DinoHunters
Dinohunters
The DinoHunters is an advertisement-supported first person shooter and machinima series created by Kuma Reality Games. Using Valve's Source for its engine, The Dinohunters is distributed in free downloadable episodes for the PC. The first episode was released in 2006 through Kuma Reality Games'...

is an advertisement-supported first person shooter and machinima series created by Kuma Reality Games.
Dogfights: The Game is a combat flight simulator based on the History Channel series of the same name.
Dwarf Fortress
Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress
Slaves to Armok: God of Blood, Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress, also called Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress, but most commonly known simply as Dwarf Fortress, is a freeware computer game by Bay 12 Games for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X set in a high fantasy universe that combines aspects of...

is a real-time
Real-time strategy
Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....

fantasy roguelike
Roguelike
The roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by randomization for replayability, permanent death, and turn-based movement. Most roguelikes feature ASCII graphics, with newer ones increasingly offering tile-based graphics. Games are typically dungeon crawls, with many...

(technically donationware
Donationware
Donationware is a licensing model that supplies fully operational software to the user and pleads for an optional donation be paid to the programmer or a third-party beneficiary . The amount of the donation may also be stipulated by the author, or it may be left to the discretion of the user,...

).

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Eastside Hockey Manager
Eastside Hockey Manager
Eastside Hockey Manager , commonly known as EHM or EHM2g is a freeware video game about managing an ice hockey team...

is a hockey manager game.
Eternal Daughter
Eternal Daughter
Eternal Daughter is a freeware action-adventure game created by amateur developers Derek Yu and Jon Perry and released on June 21, 2002 under their former pseudonym Blackeye Software.-Story:...

is a Castlevania
Castlevania
Castlevania, known as in Japan, is a video game series created and developed by Konami. The series debuted in Japan on September 26, 1986, with the release of for the Family Computer Disk System , followed by an alternate version for the MSX 2 platform on October 30...

-style action-adventure game
Action-adventure game
An action-adventure game is a video game that combines elements of the adventure game genre with various action game elements. It is perhaps the broadest and most diverse genre in gaming, and can include many games which might better be categorized under narrow genres...

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Elona
Elona (video game)
Elona is a roguelike game created by Japanese developer Noa. Its name is short for "Eternal League of Nefia". Noa began developing Elona in 2006, and based it on roguelikes such as Ancient Domains of Mystery and Angband. Noa had previously made two other role-playing games, Shade and Etherwind...

is a Roguelike
Roguelike
The roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by randomization for replayability, permanent death, and turn-based movement. Most roguelikes feature ASCII graphics, with newer ones increasingly offering tile-based graphics. Games are typically dungeon crawls, with many...

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F.E.A.R. Combat is a free online FPS
First-person shooter
First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...

(First-Person Shooter) game.
Ferrari Virtual Race is a Ferrari-licensed racing game.
flOw
FlOw
Flow is an indie video game created by Jenova Chen and Nicholas Clark. Originally released as a free Flash game in 2006 to accompany Chen's master's thesis, it was reworked into a 2007 PlayStation 3 game by his development studio, Thatgamecompany. SuperVillain Studios released a PlayStation...

is an ambient Flash
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...

game.
The Fool's Errand
The Fool's Errand
The Fool's Errand is a 1987 computer game by Cliff Johnson. It is a meta-puzzle game with storytelling, visual puzzles and a cryptic treasure map...

is a puzzle-solving game.

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Gate88 is an abstract top-down futuristic real-time strategy
Real-time strategy
Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....

space combat simulator.
Genetos
Genetos
"GENETOS" is an indie vertical shooter game or "shoot 'em up" developed and published by Tatsuya Koyama with an "evolution" theme. In GENETOS, the levels represent different generations in the evolution of shooting games....

is a scrolling shooter.
General
General (Freeware game)
The General is a freeware turn-based strategic game developed by Russian team NewGame Software.In this game, you take the lead of a country striving for territory and compete with other countries, developing science, hiring generals and armies and fighting battles...

is a strategy game
Strategy game
A strategy game or strategic game is a game in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome...

with text interface.
GeneRally
GeneRally (computer game)
GeneRally is a freeware racing game originally developed by brothers Hannu and Jukka Räbinä from Finland. Although it features a 3D graphics engine, GeneRally has a top-down perspective, where you can see all the cars . Its art design calls to mind older arcade racing games such as Super Sprint...

is an arcade-style top-down racing game
Racing game
A racing video game is a genre of video games, either in the first-person or third-person perspective, in which the player partakes in a racing competition with any type of land, air, or sea vehicles. They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings...

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God of Thunder is a platform/top-down puzzle game.
Grid Wars
Grid Wars
Grid Wars is a computer game inspired by Bizarre Creations' Geometry Wars developed by Marco Incitti. The first version of the game was released as freeware on December 21, 2005 on Marco Incitti's Blitz Creations website....

is a Geometry Wars
Geometry Wars
Geometry Wars is a minigame created by Bizarre Creations as part of Project Gotham Racing 2 for the Xbox, accessible through the in-game garage. An updated version of the game, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, is available for download on the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. It can also be played in...

clone.
Gunster
Gunster: Rain of Bullets
Gunster: Rain of Bullets was a 2D multiplayer action video game, created by Korean based company NHN who in turn hosted the game using the North American portal named ijji...

is a multiplayer scrolling shooter.

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Icy Tower
Icy Tower
Icy Tower is a popular freeware computer game that is a combination of an action game and a platform game. The goal of the game character is to climb a tower by jumping onto steps of a staircase inside it. The goal of the player is to reach a high number of steps and points...

is a tower-climbing arcade game
Arcade game
An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars, and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers...

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Ikachan
Ikachan
is a freeware computer game created by Daisuke Amaya, art-name Pixel, and the predecessor to Cave Story. In the game, the player plays a squid named Ikachan, who swims through an underground cave, meeting and helping other creatures.-Plot:...

is an action-adventure game by Studio Pixel.
Iji
Iji
Iji is a freeware videogame featuring platform and shooting elements, developed by Daniel Remar using Game Maker over a period of four years...

is a platformer by Daniel Remar.
I Wanna Be the Guy
I Wanna Be The Guy
I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game is a 2D platform indie freeware video game. First released in October 2007 by Michael "Kayin" O'Reilly, the game is not in active development, despite being listed as a beta...

is a platformer notable for its difficulty.

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Jetmen Revival is a 2-player hotseat game, made by Crew42.
Jump 'n Bump
Jump 'n Bump
Jump 'n Bump is a 1998 freeware MS-DOS platform video game, written in C and Assembly language by Brainchild Design. The source code was released in 1999, and the game has since been ported to a number of other operating systems, with the release of a SDL version.The graphics were made with Deluxe...

is a multiplayer battle game. (Should be moved to List of open source games).
Junkbot
Junkbot
Junkbot is a puzzle video game created by Gamelab for the Lego Group, and hosted on Lego.com. It is about a robot called Junkbot who eats trash. The gameplay involves moving Lego bricks to get the main character, Junkbot to his goal of eating all the trash in each level...

is a Lego
Lego
Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...

-themed puzzle game.

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Kerbal Space Program is about building and launching space rockets.
Knytt Stories is a 2D exploration platformer with a built in editor by Nicklas Nygren
Nicklas Nygren
Nicklas Nygren , better known by the handle "Nifflas", is a video game developer. He is known for his freeware games Knytt, Knytt Stories, Within a Deep Forest and the #ModArchive Story series, and is currently developing software for indie publisher/developer Nicalis...

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La-Mulana
La-Mulana
La-Mulana is a side scrolling platform game released in 2005 for Windows PCs that features graphics and an interface inspired by MSX games. The game is a traditional action-adventure game, reminiscent of the Castlevania and Metroid games. This game was originally only available in Japanese, but an...

is a 2D platform game
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...

, reminiscent of the MSX
MSX
MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...

game Maze of Galious
Maze of Galious
is the sequel to Konami's MSX game Knightmare. While the first game was an overhead, vertical scrolling shooter, The Maze of Galious is a side-view, flick-screen platform game. Starring in The Maze of Galious are Popolon and Aphrodite, entering the evil priest Galious' castle to free their...

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Lexus ISF Track Time is a Lexus ISF car racing game.
Liero
Liero
Liero is a computer game for DOS, first released by Finnish programmer Joosa Riekkinen in 1998. The game has been described as a real-time version of Worms. It has many weapons and sounds from its precursor, MoleZ. 'Liero' is Finnish for earthworm and is pronounced...

is a 2D side-scrolling shooting game for one or two players (malfunctions on Win2000, WinXP and greater - though will play with sound disabled).
Little Fighter
Little Fighter
Little Fighter is a multiplayer beat 'em up game designed and developed by Marti Wong and released in 1997. In this game, the player can choose to be one of 11 characters. Each character has 3 special moves and then the player participate in an all out fight. The game allows for one on one...

is a beat'em up DOS fighting game
Little Fighter 2
Little Fighter 2
Little Fighter 2 is a popular freeware PC fighting game for Windows and is the sequel to the game Little Fighter . Little Fighter 2 was created by Marti Wong and Starsky Wong in 1999, and released in a long series of updates....

is a sequel to Little Fighter that is for newer operating systems

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Moon Whistle
Moon Whistle
is a Japanese language freeware roleplaying game created with RPG Tsukūru 95. Mainly made by Takagi Kōichirō , also known as Kannazuki Sasuke , this game involves an adventure of a five-year-old kindergartner in a pseudo-Japanese city of the 1980s and 1990s, which is seldom seen within the whole...

is a classic RPG Maker game made by Kannazuki Sasuke.
Monster Milktruck
Monster Milktruck
Monster Milktruck is a freeware video game played through the Internet using the Google Earth engine. This program can be played on certain operating systems and/or on certain browsers. The Google Earth plug-in is required for proper use of the software. However, the plug-in can be installed...

is a single-player online game using Google Earth
Google Earth
Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency funded company acquired by Google in 2004 . It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite...

technology.
MUGEN
Mugen
Mugen is a word of Japanese origin, meaning dream, fantasy , or infinite .It may also refer to:*"Mugen" , a song by Nana Mizuki*Mugen Imawano, a character from the Capcom fighting game series Rival Schools*Mugen Motorsports...

is a custom fighting game
Fighting game
Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as...

engine.
The Museum of Broken Memories is an adventure game by Jonas Kyratzes
Jonas Kyratzes
Jonas Kyratzes is a video game designer and the author of video game industry related articles.-Career:Kyratzes' games are known for breaking with convention and being heavily story-driven...

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N
N (game)
N is a freeware video game developed by Metanet Software. It was inspired in part by Lode Runner, Soldat, and other side-scrolling games. A console version of the game has been released for the Xbox Live Arcade under the title N+...

is a classic platform game
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...

with advanced physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

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Narbacular Drop
Narbacular Drop
Narbacular Drop is an environmental puzzle video game developed by Nuclear Monkey Software. It was released free online in 2005 on PC . It was the senior game project of students attending DigiPen. The gameplay consists of navigating a dungeon using an innovative portal system...

is a 3D puzzle game developed by Nuclear Monkey Software. It is the precursor to Valve
Valve Corporation
Valve Corporation is an American video game development and digital distribution company based in Bellevue, Washington, United States...

's Portal.
Noctis
Noctis
Noctis is an open source computer space flight simulator featuring first-person visual exploration of an imaginary galaxy...

is a space exploration
Space exploration
Space exploration is the use of space technology to explore outer space. Physical exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft....

simulator. (Should be moved to List of open source games).
Notrium
Notrium
Notrium is a freeware video game for Microsoft Windows. It is currently at version 1.345 and developed by independent Finnish programmer Ville Mönkkönen. It is the seventh game by Mönkkönen, but only the fifth to be released fully in English...

is a survival game.

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Orbiter is a spaceflight simulator with an emphasis on realistic orbital mechanics.
osu!
Osu!
osu! is a freeware rhythm video game for Microsoft Windows. It is written in C# implementing the .NET Framework. Its gameplay is based on commercial titles including Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, Elite Beat Agents and Taiko no Tatsujin.-Gameplay:...

is a freeware simulator of the rhythm video games "Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
, sometimes referred to as simply Ouendan, is a rhythm video game developed by iNiS and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console in 2005, for release only in Japan...

" and "Elite Beat Agents
Elite Beat Agents
Elite Beat Agents is a music video game developed by iNiS and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It was first released in North America, and has since been released in Europe and South Korea . It is the spiritual sequel to Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, a Japanese rhythm game...

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PARSEC47 is a 3D vertical shooter, featuring fast gameplay and abstract graphics. (Should be moved to List of open source games)
Plasma Pong
Plasma Pong
Plasma Pong is an indie video game created by Steve Taylor. Since before 2008, the game was put on hiatus to respect Atari's Pong trademark; however, according to the official Web site, the author is currently working on an updated version.On the forum however the author has posted that all...

is a Pong
Pong
Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games, and is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity...

game in which the ball is manipulated by a fluid dynamics environment. It is currently in development hell
Development hell
In the jargon of the media-industry, "development hell" is a period during which a film or other project is trapped in development...

after the website became defunct.
Play65
Play65
Play65 is an online backgammon operator established in 2004 by an Israeli-based company, SkillEmpire, that hosts real-time backgammon games and tournaments. With its client software available in 21 languages, including English, Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, etc. Play65 has more than 5,000,000...

is an online multi-player backgammon
Backgammon
Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice, and players win by removing all of their pieces from the board. There are many variants of backgammon, most of which share common traits...

game featuring 3D graphics and community modules.
Plobb!
Plobb!
Plobb! is a single-player 2D freeware game based on BlitzMax.The game involves the player guiding the small blob-shaped main character named "Plobb" around the screen where he is attacked by enemy bubbles...

is a fast single player 2D arcade shooter
Shooter game
Shooter games are a sub-genre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time. It includes many subgenres that have the commonality of focusing "on the actions of the avatar using some sort of weapon. Usually this weapon is a gun, or some other long-range weapon". A common...

, and as a multidirectional shooter shares the gameplay of Asteroids. It features a distinctive game design.
Progress Quest
Progress Quest
Progress Quest is an application created as a parody of EverQuest and other massively multiplayer online role-playing games. It is loosely considered a zero-player game, in the sense that once the player has set up his artificial character, there is no user interaction at all; the game "plays"...

is a parody of Everquest
EverQuest
EverQuest, often shortened to EQ, is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game that was released on the 16th of March, 1999. The original design is credited to Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover, and Bill Trost...

and the MMORPG
MMORPG
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....

genre, focuses on pure character building with no interaction involved.

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Ragnarok Battle Offline
Ragnarok Battle Offline
Ragnarok Battle Offline, or RBO, is a beat 'em up game for Microsoft Windows created by dōjin soft developer French-Bread. The soundtrack is composed by Raito of Lisa-Rec...

is a 2D fighting game that is spin off of the MMO Ragnarok Online
Ragnarok Online
Ragnarok Online , often referred to as RO, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG created by GRAVITY Co., Ltd. based on the manhwa Ragnarok by Lee Myung-jin. It was first released in South Korea on 31 August 2002 for Microsoft Windows and has since been released in many other...

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Quake Live
Quake Live
Quake Live is a first-person shooter video game by id Software designed to run on x86-based computers running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X or Linux that is downloaded and launched via a web browser plugin. It is a variant of its predecessor, Quake III Arena .Quake Live is free to download and play...

is an official online variant of Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena , is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly...

, developed by id Software
Id Software
Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...

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Savage: The Battle for Newerth
Savage: The Battle for Newerth
Savage: The Battle for Newerth is a science fantasy computer game that combines aspects of the real-time strategy and first-person shooter genres. It takes place in the distant future when humankind has rebuilt society following an apocalypse, but is threatened by intelligent beasts...

is a fantasy battle game.
A Second Face
A Second Face
A Second Face is an independently produced adventure game that was developed by Jospin Le Woltaire in 2008 and released as freeware. It contains elements of fantasy but also science-fiction, however it also unifies them with elements of classic Cyberpunk and overtones of Enlightenment Thought.-...

is a sci-fi adventure game.
Seiklus
Seiklus
Seiklus is a platform game for Microsoft Windows. It was created by a single author, cly5m, using Game Maker over a period of approximately 6 months.- Overview :...

is an ambient single-player action-adventure game
Action-adventure game
An action-adventure game is a video game that combines elements of the adventure game genre with various action game elements. It is perhaps the broadest and most diverse genre in gaming, and can include many games which might better be categorized under narrow genres...

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SimSig
SimSig
SimSig is a donationware Windows-based train simulator of modern railway signalling systems in Great Britain, from the point of view of a railway signaller. Users have also had success running SimSig on Linux using Wine. The program was written in Delphi 6, a dialect of Object Pascal, by Geoff Mayo...

is a train simulation game based on real UK signalling systems.
Skifree
SkiFree
SkiFree is a computer game created by Chris Pirih, who was working as a programmer at Microsoft at the time.The object of the game is simple: to ski down an endless slope and avoid the obstacles.-History:...

is a Windows 95
Windows 95
Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft, and was a significant progression from the company's previous Windows products...

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Soldat
Soldat
Soldat is a Polish 2D multiplayer game for Windows. It is a side-scroller inspired by Liero and Scorched Earth, combined with elements from Counter-Strike and Worms. The game is shareware...

is a 2D, multiplayer platform shooter.
Space Combat
Space Combat
Space Combat is a game produced by Laminar Research to provide a simulation of space combat with accurate physics, unlike most other games of the same genre...

is a 3D space simulator featuring realistic physics.
Space Tanks
Space Tanks
Space Tanks – Gladiatoren im All is an artillery strategy game developed by the German based YawThrust Software Labs. and published by Pepper Games in Summer 2003. Re-Released in by Alten8, the game pits players against one another or against the computer, utilising tanks in a futuristic setting...

is a 2D/3D gravity game featuring realistic physics.
Spelunky
Spelunky
Spelunky is an indie action adventure game created by Derek Yu and released as freeware for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360. The player controls a spelunker who explores a series of caves while collecting treasure, saving damsels, and dodging traps. Version 1.0 was released on 1 September 2009,...

is a platforming game that utilizes roguelike gameplay. (Should be moved to List of open source games).
Steel Panthers
Steel Panthers
Steel Panthers is a series of computer wargames, developed and published by several different companies, with various games covering battles from 1930 to 2020. The first game was released in 1995, and the most recent was released in 2006 and is still updated regularly. Players control individual...

: World at War is a remake
Enhanced remake
A video game remake is a game closely adapted from an earlier title, usually for the purpose of modernizing a game for newer hardware and contemporary audiences. Typically, a remake shares essentially the same title, fundamental gameplay concepts, and story elements of the original game...

of an older strategy game
Strategy game
A strategy game or strategic game is a game in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome...

from Matrix Games
Matrix Games
Matrix Games is a publisher of computer games, specifically strategy games and wargames. They are based out of Staten Island, New York.Their focus is primarily but not exclusively on war games and turn-based strategy...

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Stepmania
StepMania
StepMania is an open source and cross-platform rhythm video game and engine. It was originally developed as a simulator of Konami's arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution, and has since evolved into an extensible rhythm game engine capable of supporting a wide variety of rhythm-based game types...

A rhythm based online capable game.
SubSpace
SubSpace (computer game)
SubSpace is a two-dimensional space shooter computer game published in 1997 by Virgin Interactive Entertainment which was a finalist for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Online Game of the Year Award in 1998. SubSpace incorporates quasi-realistic zero-friction physics into a massively...

is a 2D top-down space shooter game with massive multiplayer capabilities.
Super Cosplay War Ultra
Super cosplay war ultra
Super Cosplay War Ultra is a freeware fighting game released by Team FK on 2004 for Microsoft Windows.-History:The latest release of this game is called Super Cosplay War Ultra: ver. Genkai Toppa , released on August 23, 2009....

is a 2D fighting game featuring cosplayers.
Super Fighter
Super Fighter
Super Fighter is a fighting game for IBM-PC systems running MS-DOS. It was developed by C&E, Inc. of Taiwan, and first released in Taiwan on February 20, 1993...

is a 2D versus fighting game.
Synaesthete
Synaesthete (game)
- Rolling Without Slipping :Listed below are the developers of Synaesthete, and their primary role:Zach Aikman - ProducerJoseph Tkach - DesignerWilliam Towns - Technical Director & MusicianAndy Maneri - Product Manager-External links:*...

is a student-created psychedelic rhythm shooter.
Synth uses procedural generation for the graphics and level design.
Syobon action
Syobon action
Syobon action しょぼんのアクション is a 2D Japanese freeware video game notoriously known on the Internet for its extremely difficult levels. When Playthisthing.com reviewed the game, it had stated, "Syobon Action hates you. You’ll find this out the hard way: every jump, platform, mushroom, pipe.....

is a Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese game notoriously known for its difficulty.

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Tag: The Power of Paint
Tag: The Power of Paint
Tag: The Power of Paint is a first-person action and puzzle hybrid video game. The game was developed in 2009 for Microsoft Windows by Tag Team, a group of students from the DigiPen Institute of Technology. The game's core mechanic is the use of a special paint sprayed from the player's paint gun...

is a 3D first-person action & puzzle game that uses paint
Paint
Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition which after application to a substrate in a thin layer is converted to an opaque solid film. One may also consider the digital mimicry thereof...

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TAGAP: The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins
TAGAP: The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins
TAGAP: The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins is a computer action game for Microsoft Windows, released as freeware via the Internet in July 2007. In the game, the player controls cyber-penguin Pablo on his quest to save the Earth from the conquering plans of his lunatic creator, Dr. Glowenko...

is a 2D side-scrolling platform game
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...

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Temporal
Temporal (video game)
Temporal is a freeware videogame featuring platform and puzzle elements. The game was developed by Oren Bartal using the Allegro library.-Gameplay:...

is a platform game
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...

involving time travel based puzzles.
Tinker
Microsoft Tinker
Microsoft Tinker is a puzzle video game in which the player controls a robot through various mazes and obstacle courses. It was originally released on September 23, 2008 as part of Windows Ultimate Extras, and contained 60 levels including a 20-level tutorial...
Torus Trooper is a 3D tube shooter.
Trackmania Nations is a 3D racing game
Racing game
A racing video game is a genre of video games, either in the first-person or third-person perspective, in which the player partakes in a racing competition with any type of land, air, or sea vehicles. They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings...

specially developed for the Electronic Sports World Cup
Electronic Sports World Cup
The Electronic Sports World Cup is an international professional gaming championship.Every year winners of national qualifier event around the world earn the right to represent their country in the ESWC Finals...

by Nadeo
Nadeo
Nadeo is a French video game developer, based in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris. They are the developers of the TrackMania, QuestMania, ShootMania and Virtual Skipper series of video games....

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Transcendence
Transcendence (video game)
Transcendence is a sci-fi themed freeware adventure PC game designed and created by George Moromisato.A preliminary version 0.5 alpha release of the game that would become Transcendence was made available in 1995. The game is still under development, with roughly three-quarters of the game...

is a 2D space adventure game featuring extended moddability.
TUMIKI Fighters
TUMIKI Fighters
Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy is a side-scrolling shooter video game for the Wii based on the PC game Tumiki Fighters created by Kenta Cho.Majesco and Budcat Creations released the game on June 10, 2008 in North America...

is a 3D scrolling shooter.
Toribash
Toribash
Toribash is a turn-based tactical martial arts fighting game using physics based attacks, created by Hampus Söderström, a Swedish software developer. Toribash was a "Best Game Idea" finalist at the 2006 Swedish Game Awards....

is a 3D ragdoll fighting game in which you control every joint of your fighter.

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Vanguard Princess
Vanguard Princess
, also known as Vanguard Princess: Senjin no Himegimi is a Japanese freeware dōjin 2D fighting game for Windows, developed by a single programmer and illustrator called Tomoaki Sugeno, nicknamed Suge9. The game was released on June 26, 2009 and was created using Fighter Maker 2nd...

is a dōjin
Dojin soft
, also sometimes called , are video games created by Japanese hobbyists or hobbyist groups , more for fun than for profit; essentially, the Japanese equivalent of independent video games. Most of them are based on pre-existing material, but some are entirely original creations...

2D
2D computer graphics
2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models and by techniques specific to them...

fighting game
Fighting game
Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as...
Visual Pinball
Visual Pinball
Visual Pinball is a freeware video game engine for pinball tables and similar games e.g. pachinko machines. The software is composed of an editor and the simulator part itself. It runs on Microsoft Windows...

is a pinball simulation editor and game with many tables available.
Volvo – The Game (2009, SimBin) is a racing game developed by SimBim Studios and licensed by Volvo to promote the Volvo S60
Volvo S60
The Volvo S60 is a compact executive sedan produced by the Swedish automaker Volvo from 2000. Two generations of the sedan have been produced to date.-First generation :...

concept car.

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Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction
Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction
Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction is a first-person shooter video game developed by NetDevil that uses the Nvidia PhysX engine. It is available as a free download from the official site and from Nvidia via their free GeForce Power Pack download....

is an apocalyptic, first-person shooter.
Warning Forever
Warning Forever
Warning Forever is a freeware 2D fixed shooter for the Windows platform written by Hikoza T Ohkubo and released under the name of his software house, Hikware.-Gameplay:...

is a vertical shooter.
Within a Deep Forest is a 2D physics and exploration game.
WolfQuest
WolfQuest
WolfQuest is a 3D wildlife simulation video game by the Minnesota Zoo and game developer company Eduweb. The demo was released on October 31, 2007. On December 21, 2007 it was released as a free downloadable game for Macintosh and Windows computers. The official deluxe version was released on April...

is a wildlife simulation game.

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Yume Nikki
Yume Nikki
is a 2005 independently produced surreal adventure PC game by homebrew Japanese developer Kikiyama. The game was created using RPG Maker 2003, but has few role-playing game elements. The most current version of the game is 0.10, the latest release since October 2007.Players explore the dreams of...

is an "exploration" adventure game themed around dreams and nightmares with basic pixel graphics.

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