Freeware Computer Games

Game Hippo   - Over one thousand DOS and Windows titles with no demos or shareware.

Acid-Play - A variety works for Windows in several categories. Includes reviews, and ratings, and screen shots.

Alex-Soft.net - DOS, Windows, Delphi, and online games.

Download Haven - Categorized Windows titles with descriptions, ratings, size, creator, and download links.

Download Online Games - 90 unique games, free to try. Puzzle, word, action, RPG, and strategy games, as well as over a dozen multiplayer online games. No popups.

DSK Games - A small directory of Windows and DOS games.

FilePlanet - Gamespy Network's download site. Updates and add-ons that are mostly for commercial Windows games.

Free Games - Half a dozen Windows titles with review, screenshot, requirements, and download link.

Free Games - Categorized with screenshots, descriptions, system requirements, and links to the publisher and weekly newsletter.

Free Games Fun - Entertainment for Windows arranged by genre and dates added.

Free Games Net - News, reviews, and downloads of both shareware and freeware games for Windows. Freeware games are well marked.

Free-Games.to - Directory of online and Windows games in several categories.

Freeware Eldorado - Reviews and screenshots of a few dozen categorized Windows games.

Freeware Games - Selections for Windows categorized with reviews, links, and editor's choice.

FunFreeArcade.com - A dozen Windows games to download and links to arcade sites.

GameBird - Direct download of over eight hundred Windows/DOS games with descriptions and screenshots.

Goofball Games - List of new goofy games for windows and archive of past picks. Each game has a description and rating.

Jesse's Forum - Several DOS games with titles such as 'Pango', 'Galatic', 'Hunted', and 'Robot Mine Field'.

Kalvindog Games - Small list of well known downloads for Windows.

Mullesoft - A list of Windows downloads with descriptions, extra requirements, and number of downloads.

Noodan - Offers Windows-based free downloadable games (organized in categories with ratings and descriptions), online games and gaming links.

Zadilly.Com - Specializes in small items to play at the office. Search, or choose by screenshot.

Freeware games directories

AllianceWeb - Windows titles with description and ranking categorized by genre. A top ten list shows you the most popular downloads.

Cyberland - Categorized selection of downloads for Windows with short reviews.

Download Full Games - Free registration allows you to download over ten thousand MS DOS, Spectrum, Amiga and Commodore 64 complete games and emulators.

Free Games 8 K - Small downloads for Windows 95/98. Each game is selected for quality and quick download: all games are under one MB.

Free Games Only - Playables for DOS and Windows, some with short descriptions.

Free Windows Games - Free games, screen savers and wallpaper for Windows.

Freeloader - Subscribe to download Windows, Shockwave, and Java.

FreeWorldGroup.com - A small set of Windows titles with sizes, descriptions, and links to screen shots.

Game Album - Free action, arcade, puzzle and board games downloads.

Games-Bot.Org - Over 500 categorized titles with screenshots and description for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Home of the Underdogs - A categorized directory of hundreds of downloadable commercial and abandonware games that were undervalued in their time. Includes reviews, manuals, forums, and search.

The Kumars - Downloads for Windows with descriptions.

Mindgames - Card, board and miscellaneous games for Windows that are primarily puzzle based and varied in objective.

Mullesoft - Windows titles in sports, platform, and online categories with descriptions and downloads.

My Little PC Games - Offers downloads of Pong and Snake remake games.

NoNags - A large Windows selection with reviews, downloads, and links.

PC Gaming - Includes a number of freeware downloads which include a game description and screenshots.

Wingames Collection 98 - Several original versions games such as 'Othello', 'Blip', 'Poker Machine', and 'Yahtzee' for Windows.

Action Freeware games

Alien Onslaught - Crush the alien fleet in this classic space shooter for Windows.

Aliens - A "slide at the bottom" alien shooter for the Agenda PDA.

Amphetamine - Jump'n Run game for Linux or Windows.

Back2D - The player has to jump from platform to platform and collect some items to proceed to the next level. (Windows)

BoboBot - Fast-action platformer for X-Window in which, as a robo-monkey, it's your job to save the planet.

Brick Out - A ball, paddle and bricks game for the Agenda VR3 PDA.

Broadside - Top-down arcade-style shoot'em-up for one to four players on Windows, playing against each other or the computer.

Bug Squish - Squish the bugs before they suck your arm dry of blood! For Linux, Windows, Macintosh, and BeOS.

Buggers - A 2D shoot-em up for Windows in which you save Earth from swarms of alien invaders.

BZFlag - A multiplayer 3D tank battle for Irix, Linux, Solaris, or Windows.

Car Squall - Contains download of Windows game in which Squall drives around in a car and runs over wildlife while trying to avoid obstacles.

cGaM3z - A selection of downloadable fan games.

Chickens 2 - Chickens are intelligent and have turned against their humans. Kill them. (Windows)

Chromium B.S.U. - A fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter for Linux or Windows.

Chub Gam 3-D - 3-D Action/Adventure game for DOS.

Circus Linux - "Circus Atari" clone for Linux, MacOS, or BeOS in which the object is to move a teeter-totter back and forth across the screen to bounce clowns up into the air and then catch them.

Claus - Help Santa protect Christmas from an infestation of really annoying toys. (Windows)

Cosmosmash - Astrosmash clone for Linux and Windows where you must destroy falling rocks before they hit the ground.

Crazy Cows - A turn based cow fighter for Windows.

Cyberdogs Emporium - A shooter game for DOS with a campaign editor.

Defendguin - A clone of the arcade game "Defender," but with a Linux theme. Your mission is to defend little penguinoids from being captured and mutated.

Dot Eater - Collect all the dots on the screen. (Windows)

Downhill Santa - Steer Santa's sleigh down the hill avoiding all trees on the way and pick up presents for points. (Windows)

Dragon Castle - Fly on your dragon through all twenty levels in this 3D game for Windows.

Fly Panic - Windows game in which the goal is to kill all the flies on the screen.

Frogs Of War - Multiplayer platformer for Windows in which you must escape from an asteroid mine.

Gmonsters - Train, breed, and battle monsters for Gnome.

The Great Giant Sisters - A clone of the side scroller 'Giana Sisters' from the Amiga for Windows.

Helium Man - Fight your way to the top in this space shooter for Windows.

House of Kidz - 3-D game based around a novel with the same name. (Java)

Hover Carnage - A multiplayer 3D action/strategy game for Linux, Unix or Windows. Controlling a hovercraft vehicle with a variety of projectile weapons, you are thrust into a world where players speed through subterranean tunnels, delivering valuable payloads of raw matter and information.

Jetpac - The Return - Construct a rocket and fill it with fuel to be able to take off and reach the next level. (Linux)

JROK - Clones of classic Atari games for DOS. Titles include 'PacPC', 'MsPacPC', and 'PC*Bert'.

Jump 'n Bump - Multiplayer bunny hopping game with hundreds of levels for DOS, Windows, Linux, Macintosh, or BeOS.

Laser Assault - A third-person isometric shooter for Windows.

Laser Kombat - Navigate through challenging levels, solving puzzles and destroying enemy tanks. (Windows)

Liquid War - Multiplayer wargame for Linux, DOS or Windows. (Open Source, GPL)

Lupengo - Arcade game for Linux. (Open Source, GPL)

Mad Bomber - Extinguish bombs planted in the city before any of the explode in this one or two player game for Windows, Unix, or BeOS. (Open Source, GPL)

Monkey Swing - Help Link, the monkey, collect all of the bananas on each level by swinging from branch to branch, before Kingo the monkey-king runs out of patience. (Windows)

Nasty Armoured Tanks of War - A 3D (openGL) tank game for Linux based loosely on Scorched Earth. (Open Source, GPL)

NiL - NiL Isn't Liero - Kill other worms on Linux with a wide selection of interesting weapons. (Open Source, GPL)

Ninjets XF - A fighter/RPG/shooter hybrid for Windows in which you control robots in a far world.

Nonsense Games - Platform gameplay for Windows featuring levels with several different styles: shooters, breakout, or tennis.

Overkill - Bloody 2D-action deathmatch game in ASCII art for Linux, OS/2 or Windows.

Pachi el Marciano - Based on comic character created by Nicolas Radeff, for Linux or Windows. Includes news, downloads, screenshots, and characters. [Open Source, GPL]

PocketKobo - Single player four way scroller for Pocket PC in which the objective is to destroy all the fortresses.

Prairie Dog Hunt Pro - Rodent shooter for Windows with a variety of terrain and weapons.

Rabid Rabbit - For Linux, play a rabbit which tries to rescue lost sheep from marauding creatures.

Rays - Arcade style game for PalmOS. Supports color and grayscale.

Rocket Duel - Game for two players on a single DOS or Windows box where the goal is to shoot down the other player's rocket or capture the flag.

Scavenger - An arcade/thinking game for X_Windows very much like Lode Runner. You've got to run around and collect objects while avoiding enemies.

Sector WormRage - Side scrolling fighter featuring worms. It has many weapons, features different color worms, and can be played on Windows.

Sentry - Escape three dimensional world of scanning, energy absorbing robots. (Windows)

SFCave - Fly through a tunnel without hitting the walls. (Palm Pilot) [Open Source, BSD]

Shahzor - Fighting-style action arcade game from Pakistan.

Shoot It - Shoot the pictures that appear on your screen. You can specify your own themes and pictures. (Windows)

Shooting Fish - Windows shooter in which you must zap all the fish before the water drains out of the fish tank.

Skitter Tag - Linux game in which spaceships play tag in a maze. Describes game, with download, source, and bug list. [Open Source, GPL]

Spiked - Two player Macintosh shooter in which each player must avoid the spike. Last player left alive wins.

Stick Soldiers - Side scroller in black and white for Windows in which you frag your way from Cadet to Fragmeister.

Submarine Mission - Pilot a submarine. (DOS)

Super Fighter - Classic, 1993 fighter for DOS, NES, or Gameboy with information, ending sequences, and soundtrack.

Super Methane Brothers - Clone of the Commodore Amiga title for Windows in which you blow fire. [Open Source, GPL]

T.A.N.K.S - Multiplayer network game for Java in which each player drives a tank around in a playing field, trying to blow enemy tanks sky high by either shooting at them or ramming them.

Tanks 3D - A 3D tank fighter for windows with randomly generated scenery that supports LAN, Internet, and single player play.

Trooper - A DOS game based on the classic 'Paratrooper'.

Tunnel - You control a ball going down a tunnel on Linux, trying to avoid other balls in the way. (Open Source)

Tuxedo T. Penguin: A Quest for Herring. - Help Tux recover his fish in this 3D adventure for Windows or Linux. (Open Source, GPL)

UBoat - An adventure game for Windows in which you command a submarine during World War I.

Watkins - In this platform adventure for Windows, play a penguin, make your way through thirty five levels in four worlds, defeat evil bosses, and reclaim the South Pole.

WebWar - A fast paced wire frame 3D action game of evade and destroy for Windows.

Wormup 2000 - One to three players on Windows can play against each other in jousts or struggle together through 21 levels and then finally face the malicious Hydra.

XBattleAI - Linux game in which you fight on a graph (map) where certain nodes continuously produce energy (troops) and you fight by drawing arrows along the edges where troop movements should occur. (Open Source)

XTux Arena - A client server network game for X11 featuring opensource mascots. Cooperative and deathmatch play are available.

Yet Another SFCave - Fly through a tunnel without hitting the walls. (Windows) [Open Source, GPL]

Zooom - An arcade shooter for Windows with two multi-level campaigns, lots of enemy ships, powerups, mid-game movies, and sound effects. (open source)