The Consolidated Freeware, Shareware & Independent Games Thread

What's confusing about it, that's what it says on the first page:

Independent, and free (and you get to play as Shiva):



Download it here.

Awesome thread. OK I'm confused about Abandonware - are we allowed to post abandonware or not? Because I know a few good abandonware games, but I don't want to post them if it'll just get deleted.

Within A Deep Forest is a freeware game, taking place in the year 2500, after a devastating war has left the Earth a desolate wasteland. One of the survivors, the infamous and notorious Dr. Cliché, creates a time machine that enables him to travel many hundreds of years back in time in order to complete his most dastardly deed, the building of an underwater laboratory in which he has placed the most powerful bomb the world has yet known. If ever this bomb should explode, the entire planet will freeze and all life will be lost. "In this way, Dr. Cliché aims to eliminate beyond all reckoning the possibility of such a future ever coming to pass." As the game starts the bomb has been activated and the world lies in grave danger.

The bomb is in fact Dr. Cliché's second attempt as "his first attempt failed and instead lead to the creation of a ball, although, no ordinary ball." The player controls this ball throughout the game. The ball can be transformed into different substances with various materials found in the landscape. Many hazards, including spikes, water, lava, and certain creatures can kill the ball. There are warp spots (save points) at certain places in the game areas. When the ball is killed, it reappears in the last warp spot visited.

Nifflas' latest game, Knytt Stories, features Juni, a character who shows up commonly in Knytt myths and stories. In the game, the player acts out these stories (also called levels or worlds) as Juni. The two stories that comes bundled with the game, "Tutorial - Learn How to Play Knytt Stories" and "The Machine - A Save-the-World Adventure," are fairly short, but the game comes with a full level editor and support for many extra levels in game, loaded from .knytt.bin files. This format is meant to allow for easy access to new stories designed by Nifflas as well as to encourage community development of expansion packs and third party stories. To date, Nifflas has released two official expansion packs, A Strange Dream (featuring the 4 stories: "A Strange Dream - That Night, She Had a Strange Dream," "An Underwater Adventure - ...In an Underwater Laboratory," "Sky Flower - Abstract and Slightly Pretentious," and "This Level is Unfinished - The Author Simply Lost His Interest"), and Other Levels (featuring the story: "Gustav's Daughter"). Nifflas has also released a story the purpose of which is to explain some of the advanced features available for level design. This story is entitled "Advanced Features Demo - Useful for Level Designers."

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Sorry hun, but removed your post. Much as I love them, the games available with that are abandonware and not legally available for free.

MASQ is amazing.

They said in the PC Gamer podcast that it was OK



Isn't it just?

You do realise that PCG's staff are proud to have got the first ever ban from Spore's server for uploading a penis creature (which was against the game's T&Cs), right? Hehe, the PC Gamer lot condone abandonware and that's clear as day if you read some sections of the magazine, but they'd never distribute it on their discs due to legal issues. They're quite happy to piss about and do naughty things, but what they're actually allowed to stick in the mag is quite a different matter.


And yes, MASQ is a wonderful game.

Do mods for Morrowind/Oblivion count? Because the Morrowind maps at Tamriel Rebuilt are epic. There's also tons other at Planet Elder Scrolls. Obviously you need to own the original game, but some of the added content truly is amazing.

Would you be amenable to 'stickying' this thread at some point? I'd say it qualifies as a resource.

Done

I've also added a list of the games submitted so far, found here...and I'm surprised that absolutely no suggestions were doubled. Normally by the time a thread like this hits 50 posts you'd have at least one title with 3+ people suggesting it as if they were the first one to do so

EA have made Red Alert freeware now as part of it's 13th anniversary.

Check it out here

Oh, the childhood memories, the nostalgia! I wonder if it's possible to get Aftermath and Counterstrike as well. I remember well the secret easter egg mission in Counterstrike