Trooper5445
Master Knight
Info
This is just the original games posted on the list. Over the next day I'll update and play all the new ones. 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. I haven't played all of these.
* - Trooper'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.
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, well done cutscenes, voice acting (Not Me)
Adventures of Lomax (1996) - spin-off from Lemmings series, the first game played on my computer (Not me)
Strategy
Glest - Freeware RTS with an wealth of minor mods available.
*+@Project Xenocide - X-com series remake/expansion
Goliath Game - team-based post-apocalyptic game (tech demo)
*+@Battle for Wesnoth - A hex based strategy game with a good modding community
WW2 - hex-based tactical game
MBT - hex-based tactical game
*+@UFO: Alien Invasion - freeware remake of X-Com with the Quake2 engine
*+@Scorched Earth 3D - 3D multiplayer remake of the classic
*+@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
*+@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
*+Dwarf Fortress - A deep simulation of maintaining of small outpost of dwarfs. Text based graphics with optional graphic tilesets.
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
*+@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
This is just the original games posted on the list. Over the next day I'll update and play all the new ones. 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. I haven't played all of these.
* - Trooper'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.
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, well done cutscenes, voice acting (Not Me)
Adventures of Lomax (1996) - spin-off from Lemmings series, the first game played on my computer (Not me)
Strategy
Glest - Freeware RTS with an wealth of minor mods available.
*+@Project Xenocide - X-com series remake/expansion
Goliath Game - team-based post-apocalyptic game (tech demo)
*+@Battle for Wesnoth - A hex based strategy game with a good modding community
WW2 - hex-based tactical game
MBT - hex-based tactical game
*+@UFO: Alien Invasion - freeware remake of X-Com with the Quake2 engine
*+@Scorched Earth 3D - 3D multiplayer remake of the classic
*+@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
*+@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
*+Dwarf Fortress - A deep simulation of maintaining of small outpost of dwarfs. Text based graphics with optional graphic tilesets.
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
*+@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
