Free Computer Games

Action:

• Black Mesa - Remake of the first Half Life game.
• Warsow - Fast paced multiplayer FPS.
• Quake Live
• OpenArena - Quake III Arena clone.
• Mech Warrior 4
• Ace of Spades - Multiplayer Minecraft inspired game with guns.
• Grand Theft Auto 1
• Grand Theft Auto 2
• Soldat - 2D Counter Strike with jetpacks.
• Marathon Trilogy - Bungie made this game series before Halo. It's considered to be the spiritual predecessor of Halo.
• Alien Swarm - Top down multiplayer shooter made by Valve.
• F.E.A.R. Combat - Online multiplayer FPS.
• Hidden & Dangerous
• Wild Metal - Action/strategy game made by Rockstar.
• Xonotic - Fast paced multiplayer FPS.
• Red Eclipse - Fast paced multiplayer FPS.
• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
• America's Army
• Noitu Love - Great action filled adventure game made by Konjak.
• Assault Cube - Fast paced multiplayer FPS.

Arcade:

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• Super Crate Box is a fast paced and addictive arcade game.
• Probability 0 - Platformer with roguelike elements.
• Tyrian 2000 - Classic Shoot 'em Up. There's also an open source project of the game here: http://code.google.com/p/opentyrian/
• Stealth Bastard - Stealth based platformer.
• Hyper Princess Pitch - Smash TV clone.
• Hydorah - R-Type/Gradius clone.
• Virax
• Verminest - Arcade shoot em up.
• Hurrican - Remake of the old Amiga classic.
• Super Smash Land - Super Smash Brothers demake.
• Shoot First - The Binding of Isaac meets Smash TV.
• Open Liero X - Real time Worms clone.
• Frozen Bubble
• Little Fighter 2 - Great beat 'em up with both single player, co-op and battle mode.

Strategy:

• Dwarf Fortress
• Command & Conquer - The first C&C game.
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert
• Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun + Firestorm Expansion
• Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe
• Hedge Wars - Worms clone.
• FreeCiv - Civilization clone.
• FreeCol - Colonization clone.
• 0 A.D. - Age of Empires 2 clone.
• OpenRA - Red Alert Open Source Project.
• The Battle of Wesnoth
• Scorched 3D - Scorched Earth clone.
• Atomic Tanks - Scorched Earth clone.
• FreeOrion - Master of Orion clone.
• Ufo Alien Invasion
• Warzone 2100
• A Nation of Wind
• The Wager
• S.W.I.N.E.
• Advance Strategic Command
• Black Market HD
• Transcendence - Transendence is a real time space exploration game with some roguelike elements.
• [King Arthur's Gold (http://kag2d.com/en/download) - Aka. KAG. Takes the building aspect from Dwarf Fortress, the strategy from Age of Empires and the class system from TF2 and mixes it with online multiplayer mayhem.

Roguelikes:

• Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
• Brogue
• ToME
• ADOM
• NetHack
• Angband
• DoomRL
• Cataclysm
• Rogue Survivor
• Desktop Dungeons
• POWDER
• The Slimy Lichmummy
• Mercury
• IVAN
• Castle of the Winds

Roleplaying games:

• System Shock 1 - The old classic. Works on newer systems and has mouse look.
• The Elder Scrolls: Arena - The first game in the Elder Scrolls series.
• The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall
• Dink Smallwood - Old PC adventure/rpg with a lot of extra fan made stories.
• Magebane 2
• Arkoss
• The Spirit Engine
• The Spirit Engine 2
• Ultima 4
• Ultima: Savage Empire
• Ultima: Worlds of Adventure
• Delver - First person dungeon crawler with roguelike elements.

Adventure:

• Beneath a Steel Sky
• Octodad
• King's Quest 1
• King's Quest 2
• King's Quest 3
• Quest for Glory 2
• Flight of the Amazon Queen - You've got to emulate it through ScummVM.
• Dreamweb - You've got to emulate it through ScummVM.
• Broken Sword 2.5
• A Tale of Two Kingdoms

Driving:

• Trackmania Nations Forever - One of the best free racing games out there.
• Death Rally - Old classic. Weaponized cars on the race track. Cheat, kill and annihilate your way to victory.
• Nitronic Rush
• VDrift
• TORCS
• Racer

Online Multiplayer and MMO's:

• Team Fortress 2
• Tribes: Ascend
• Super MNC
• Gotham City Impostors
• Battlefield Heroes
• Age of Empires Online
• Dungeons & Dragons Online
• Lord of the Rings Online
• Everquest 2
• DC Universe Online
• World of Tanks
• Realm of the Mad God - MMO with permadeath.
• Bloodline Champions
• League of Legends
• Heroes of Newerth
• Spiral Knights
• Savage 2

Other

• Ao Oni - Horror Exploration.
• Yume Nikki - Horror Exploration.
• .flow - Horror Exploration.
• Ib - Horror Exploration.
• SCP Containment Breach - Horror/survival game based upon the SCP Foundation stories.
• Slender - Based upon the Something Awful creepy pasta.
• Katawa Shoujo - Visual Novel (NSFW). Supports Windows Mac and Linux. Cached mirror to download page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7FoQ8A8MeVEJ:katawa-shoujo.com/download.php+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=no&client=firefox-a
• Digital A love Story
• Don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story - Visual Novel. Spiritual successor of Digital A Love story.
• Frets on Fire - Guitar Hero clone.
• FlightGear - Flight Simulator
• Moonbase Alpha - Aeiou!
• Under the Garden - A sequel named Under the Ocean is in development.
• Which - Short horror game.
• Spring Engine - Many different games made for the Spring Engine.
• Gravity Bone
• Osu! - Osu closely resembles Elite Beat Agents and other rythm games. Highly customizable and many different songs.
• StepMania - StepMania is a dance and rhythm game. Highly customizable and many different songs.

Platformers and metroidvanias:

• La Mulana
• Cave Story
• Iji
• Spelunky is a roguelike inspired platformer made by Derek Yu. The Xbox remake heavily expands upon the original game in every single way. The PC version has also a lot of different mods which you can download. If you're going to download the original PC version, then I highly recommend you download the unofficial 1.3 version of the game. It fixes a lot of bugs and it also runs much smoother.
• Eternal Daughter is a metroidvania released by Derek Yu.
• Treasure Adventure Game. You can even add the game to your GOG-catalogue.
• Hero is the first game in the "Hero" series. It's only in black and white and it's inspired by old games from the Commodore 64 and Atari era.
• Hero Core is a minimalistic metroidvania. This is the second game in the "Hero" series and it's a full fledged metroidvania (compared to the first game). It's available on both PC and Mac.
• Hydra Castle Labyrinth is a Japanese metroidvania developed by E. Hashimoto (aka. Buster). Here are some mirrors if the original link doesn't work: http://jayisgames.com/archives/2012/01/hydra_castle_labyrinth.php http://vsrecommendedgames.wikia.com/wiki/Hydra_Castle_Labyrinth
• Lyle in Cube Sector
• An Untitled Story
• Within a Deep Forrest
• Knytt
• Knytt Stories
• Poacher is a game created by Yahtzee Croshaw. Yes, that Yahtzee.
• Frogatto & Friends
• L'Abbaye des Morts ZX-Spectrum graphics with Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy gameplay.
• You Have to Win This Game - Retro exploration platformer.
• I Wanna be the Guy
• I Wanna be the Guy Gaiden: Act 1
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• Arvoesine - Short and hard platfomer which closely resembles Ghosts'n Goblins.
• Phenomenon 32 - Phenomenon 32 is a really hard exploration based platformer. It somewhat resembles Zelda 2.

Must Have Free Computer Software

Here's the good free stuff (may want to look into F.lux as well):

• Microsoft Office Beta - It's a full version of MSOffice that's working well for me, this one's the same as the rest except it has useful cloud features. You'll need a Microsoft account, but no credit card is required
• Mufin - Great for putting metadata on music
• Avidemux - Free video editor
• CCleaner - "Cleaner" for your PC
• Camstudio - Screencapture
• Avira - Antivirus. Best success rate, but has annoying popups at times (not always)
• Jahshaka - Open source video editor... very advanced. Like CS
• Peerblock - Blocks nosy computers probing into your stuff
• Soluto - Easy way to speed up boot times
• VirtualCloneDrive - Mounts .iso files virtually (no CD necessary)
• VideoPad - Yet another video editor. Also good.

The following can all be downloaded using Ninite - an easy downloading software that will download and update programs for you:

• Chrome - If you're not looking at this using Chrome, you're probably not looking at this
• Skype - Video chat
• VLC - Video player. Supports EVERY file type.
• Audacity - Audio editor
• K-Lite - Codec pack. VLC now supports EVERY EVERY file type
• MediaMonkey - Music manager. There are tons. I can't recommend just one... this one's good, but not necessarily the best.
• Gimp - Image editor like photoshop
• LibreOffice - Like OpenOffice, but this one has support. Free (and best) alternative to Microsoft Office.
• Foxit - Views PDF
• uTorrent - Light and easy torrenter
• Dropbox - Online file storage
• EverNote - Note taking software
• TeamViewer - Lets you view others' and others view your computer and navigate. Secure. It's like troubleshooting software. Don't let just anyone connect, though.
• TeraCopy - Copies files more efficiently
• Revo Uninstaller - AMAZING. Uninstalls programs COMPLETELY. Seriously... get this
• WinDirStat - Shows (using boxes) what is taking up space on your hard drive. Great for cleaning your hard drive... just don't delete windows files. Hard to delete files using this, though.
• 7-zip - Opens .zip, .rar, and almost every other similar type of compresses file. Better than WinRAR
• NotePad++ - AMAZING NOTEPAD. If you're a programmer... GET THIS. If you work with other languages... GET THIS. Heck... just get it.

The free antivirus war popped up again. Basically, all of their success rates are very close together. Right now, I'm using avast! instead of avira. Honestly, as long as you don't go for something weird, any of the free AV programs will work.

Here are some more good ones:

• CDBurnerXP - if you still burn CDs or DVDs, this is probably the best free option.
• Inkscape - as close to Illustrator as you're going to get for free.
• Paint.Net - GIMP pissing you off? Try this.
• FileZilla - if you're using FTP at all, you want this.
• wget - if you're comfortable with the command line, this is one of your best friends for downloading stuff.
• Calibre Got a few ebooks? You probably want this.
• HandBrake For all your DVD ripping needs.
• Rootkit Revealer detecting them rootkits.

Good Single Player PC RPG Games

Some are new, some are old. All are good and/or great. I will leave it up to you to choose which ones you are willing to try.

NOTE: Placement does not indicate which one is better/worse, just the general time period the game is set in, when I remembered the game name and wrote it.

Set in some futuristic world

• Mass Effect 1, 2, 3 (with the extended cut endings)
• Kotor 1 (especially with these mods), 2 (especially with the restored content mod)
• Deus Ex 1, IW, Human Revolution (Modding guide for Deus Ex 1)
• The Precursors(Only game here that lets you pilot a spaceship, ride vehicles, robots and dinosaurs...)
• Anachronox
• Septerra Core
• Final Fantasy 7, 8
• System Shock 2 (modding guide)
• Space Rangers 1, 2
• Star Wolves 1, 2, 3
• Solar Winds The Escape and Galaxy(short and old, but still damn good)
• Wizardry 8

Set in some post-apocalyptic world

• Fallout 1, 2, 3, New Vegas (Modding guide for F1), (Modding guide for F2), (Modding Guide for F3), (Modding guide for NV) (If you are having trouble running them on your pc, try out one of these guides
• Arx Fatalis
• Bastion
• Rage of Mages 1, 2
• Dead Island (get all the patches)

Set in the modern world

• Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines (Modding guide)
• Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption
• Alpha Protocol

Set in some pre-modern world, after the invention of guns.

• Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (Modding guide)
• Jade Empire
• Torchlight 1, 2
• Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword

Set in some pre-modern world, before the invention of guns.

• Dragon Age Origins and expansions, especially Awakening (Modding Guide)
• Gothic 1, 2, 3(for the last one, after the massive patch/update and it is closer TES games than the first 2, which are far better in my opinion)
• The Witcher 1, 2(Both have great enhanced editions)
• Divinity 2 The Dragon Knight Saga
• Neverwinter Nights 1, 2 especially the mask of the betrayer. expansion. (One of the most satisfying evil endings that I have seen in a game.)
• Hard to Be a God
• Planescape: Torment (Modding guide 1, 2)
• Dark Souls(Community fixes.) - (All in one fix)
• Morrowind(Especially with mods) (Modding guide) Morrowind Overhaul 3.0 Trailer
• Oblivion I recommend playing the base game only after extensive modding. (modding guide) the Shivering Isles expansion(is really good) and Nehrim total conversion mod(is a huge separate game which is much better than oblivion)
• Skyrim (A few mods)
• Mount and Blade, Mount and Blade Warband expansion.(Especially with mods)(Warband is much better than fire and sword because of the incredible mods.)
• Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity
• Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
• Baldur's Gate 1(Get the new Enhanced Edition), 2 (Modding Guide)
• Icewind Dale 1, 2 (Modding guide)
• Risen
• SpellForce 1, 2 and all the expansions
• King`s Bounty the Legend, Armored Princess and Crossworlds expansions
• Betrayal at Krondor
• Betrayal in Antara
• Avadon The Black Fortress(scroll down the list)
• Avernum Escape from the Pit, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6(scroll down the list)
• Geneforge 1, 2, 3, 4, 5(scroll down the list)
• Nethergate: Resurrection(scroll down the list)
• Game of Thrones the Game(Fuck the 'professional' reviewers that claim it to suck, there are a few camera issues, but the storyline is pretty awesome)
• Ascension to the Throne and Valkyrie expansion
• Diablo I, II
• Two Worlds 1, 2
• Drakensang: The River of Time
• Drakensang: The Dark Eye
• Eschalon: Book I, II
• Fable: The Lost Chapters
• Kult Heretic Kingdoms
• The Last Remnant
• The Lord of the Rings War in the North
• Legend of Grimrock

Have fun!