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70 of the Best Free and Open Source Games for download – Part 1 (of 3)

vdrift

VDrift. Cross platform driving game with a neat physics engine and really playable AI and decent graphics. You’ll need a steering wheel to get the best out of it of course.

Os0ad 0AD is a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game with professional style graphics, and the kind of detail you would expect to find in a commercial product. Think Microsoft’s Age of Empires series and you’re close. Still in pre-release, but available if you’re happy downloading source code.

 

Oshedgewars Hedgewars is a lovely looking little turn based game which feels a little like the classic Worms title of yesteryear. Splatting hedgehogs may seem unnecessarily cruel, but it can be cartoony fun too it seems.

Osflightgear FlightGear delivers a beautiful flight simulator to your computer, chock full of scenery, aircraft, locations, and lots of open formats for you to enjoy and edit. Glorious.

 

Ossamandmax Sam & Max. Do old computer games age? Only you, a psychotic rabbit – and some great looking comic caper adventures – will be able to tell. Not open source, but still free. As in bird. Here birdy birdy.

 

Spring1944 Spring:1944 takes you back to the days when tanks were tanks and horses were for the milk round. A WW2 RTS game with great graphics, the usual challenges and a focus on managing resources across a large playground.

3dultimatepinball

 

3D Ultimate Pinball is not a *real* free game, but it does have a free demo which gives you unlimited play on a proper pinball machine. The full version simply gives you 4 extra tables, is all. We like pinball. A lot. And this is fun.

OstransporttycoonOpenTTD is an open source remake of the classic Transport Tycoon game, and it does a grand job. OK, so if you’re not an RTS fan you’re going to sigh a little, but it’s definitely fun if you’ve got time and imagination to spare.

 

Powermanga Powermanga. Sometimes you just want to shoot pretty coloured stuff up, in which case this 2D arcade game is for you. You get 41 levels and full joystick support. Whee!

Planeshift

Planeshift is a beautifully drawn online role playing adventure game (yes a mmorpg), which promises to remain totally free with none of that premium commercial stuff. Which makes it sort of unique. If spells are your thing.

 

Osultimatestunts Ultimate Stunts is apparently not just another racing game. For one thing, you can design your own tracks. With loops and jumps and all sorts of excitement. Fully open source, with cross-platform support for Linux and Windows.

Boppin

Boppin may be garish purple but that’s the least of your problems as you struggle to complete the puzzles, release monsters and defeat your Hunnybunz enemies. Huh?

 

Osdarkoberon Dark Oberon is a free RTS game but with a difference. The graphics are created out of real plasticine models. Cute. Ultra slow development on the part of the sole developer, but still worth a look.

Ospingus Pingus. Whoa, it’s Lemmings. With penguins. 22 tested levels and around another 100 + untested. Plus some new moves (like Jumper). If you haven’t played Lemmings, you’re in for a treat. But boy it’s hard.

 

Tabletennispro Table Tennis Pro offers a very credible alternative to commercial ping pong games, with cool graphics, a nice control system and some tricky gameplay. As long as you’re prepared to learn. Nice.

Osfreeorion

FreeOrion. Space, the final frontier…ah sorry, wrong game. Anyway this is a turn based space empire game where you get to conquer the universe and beyond. This space stuff looks pretty complex from over here.

 

Warzone2100 Warzone 2100 gives you the chance to rebuild the earth after a devastating nuclear holocaust. Good job it’s open source then. And with some nice graphics and a vibrant dev community, this RTS game looks good enough to trounce.

Freedroid

Freedroid. Kind of similar to above, but with robots. And penguins. Robot penguins. Slash, hack, spells. And penguins, darn it, penguins. What more could you possibly need?

Secretmaryochronicles Secret Maryo Chronicles is a cute 2D platform game which is vaguely familiar. Small chap, runs around grabbing power-ups, leaping over enemies and beating levels. Wonder where they got the idea from?

Ultrastar

UltraStar is an open source Karaoke game. Wait, come back. You sing into the mic, the game tells you how good or bad you were, you try to improve. There’s a community too. Be still my beating heart.

 

Gnubackgammon GNU Backgammon is not just a game, it’s also a teaching engine which’ll hone your BG skillz beyond your wildest dreams. Based on a neural network and smarter than you.

Commandandconquerclassic

Command & Conquer Classic. THE RTS game of the age. Fast, furious and completely addictive. Now transferred from the commercial to freeware world as a marketing tactic.

 

[Part II here...what classically beautiful and massively successful – iconic even –  game now lives again as an online freebie?]

[Part III here..]

10 Comments

  • You should probably remove 0 AD since this game is still at least a year from being released. What's available now is some concept art and a movie. Presumably the game still has lots of bugs and no campaigns/levels desgined to playable state. Compare with Battle for Wesnoth which has a couple of campaigns and "average" to "below average" quality of the individual levels.

  • I downloaded the game but i dontknow how to install it : /.

  • Spring 1994*

  • nice!

  • downlord the game car racing

  • Here's how you can install over 200 open source games on Ubuntu in 1 command: http://itswapshop.com/tutorial/how-install-200-fr

  • I'm a big fan of flying so I downloaded the pilot flight simulator software game – flightsimulatordownloadd.org/

    Thanks..

  • Some real gems in there. Thanks for posting. Will have to keep an eye out for some of the more recent freeware released since this was posted.

    • Thanks. :) Yeah perhaps we should do an update? :)

  • Was delighted to see “Dink Smallwood” among the choices of games listed, it’s an old school RPG, fun to play….Not to mention cheat-O-matic works slendedly changing ingame values.

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