a_coathanger

DotA gets a lot of hate for being a MOBA, but its my all time favorite game. The level of depth and complexity is astounding ,but it doesn't feel artificial. Everything in DotA feels justified, and every game of it feels completely unique (at least to me). Having played 4000 games, I could easily see myself playing another 4000, time permitting. If anyone wants to play some dota lmk. Unfortunately it is GaaS, but i don't see it going anywhere soon. Its a money printing machine for valve.

I never played nuclear dawn but I had an absolute blast playing natural selection 2. I also distinctly remember bf 2/2142 having a commander role that was sort of rts.

There are a lot of decent free games out there, but finding them can be a chore. Finding a decent one can be a nightmare, and unfortunately a lot of them are games-as-a-service or oddly free shovel-ware/flash games. I Tried to avoid the really old stuff that may not run on modern systems unless it's been updated somewhat recently. I also intentionally left out Doom and its multitude of engines and ports and variations, because it would probably clutter up the list with another 10 or 15 entries. I also tried to keep it mostly freeware or free and open source, but I can't make any guarantees. None of these games should have any way to pay for anything, except maybe donations to the dev or something. There are a few exceptions like Cave Story, Spelunky, and Maldita Castilla, and N which all have a paid version; however, the version that is free more than constitutes a playable game. I will say that some of these games look a little dated and may not be fully finished, but I tried my best to only put finished (or close enough to constitute reasonably playable), or actively and far-into development games. I kept the game PC focused but a good chunk of these games run on linux and about half run on OSX I think. I do have a master spreadsheet with more info like release dates, and whether you need steam or another service to download and use these games. I wanted to avoid steam altogether but its honestly so huge that some really good free games like Zombie Panic Source would be left out, and it might be bias, but that was a teenage favorite mod for me. I can say that only 5 or 6 need steam and only 3 need another service (the command and conquer games (except openRA)). Thanks to BTGBullseye, and Prinny for adding to the list! Genre Name Action OpenClonk Action BZFlag Action Open Hexagon Card Game Magarena FPS America's Army: Proving Grounds FPS Red Eclipse FPS No More Room in Hell FPS Zombie Panic: Source FPS Warsow FPS Xonotic FPS OpenArena FPS Enemy Territoy: Legacy FPS AssaultCube FPS OpenSpades FPS Urban Terror FPS Tremulous Platformer Cave Story Platformer Gang Garrison 2 Platformer Hero Core Platformer I Wanna Be The Guy (IWBTG) Platformer Maldita Castilla Platformer Princess Remedy In a World of Hurt Platformer Spelunky Classic Platformer TeeWorlds Platformer The Way Of The Ninja (N) Platformer NeverBall Puzzle Deflektor X4 Racing SuperTuxKart Racing Stunt Rally Racing Speed Dreams RPG Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead RPG Doom the Rogue Like (DRL) RPG Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup RPG Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar Rythem osu! Rythem StepMania Rythem Frets On Fire Sandbox Dwarf Fortress Sandbox Endless Sky Sandbox Terasology Simulation OpenTTD Simulation Space Station 13 Simulation FlightGear Simulation OpenBVE (Trainsim) Simulation Bridge Command Simulation SimuTrans Simulation LinCity Simulation Oolite Stealth The Dark Mod Strategy Command and Conquer Strategy Command And Conquer: Red Alert Strategy Command And Conquer: Tiberian Sun Strategy GNU Chess Strategy MegaGlest Strategy The Battle for Wesnoth Strategy FreeCiv Strategy Unknown Horizons Strategy Command and Conquer (OpenRA) Strategy 0 A.D. Strategy Tanks of Freedom Strategy HedgeWars Strategy WarZone 2100 Strategy UFO: Alien Invasion TDS Red Hot Vengeance TDS Tyrian TDS Counter Strike 2D (CS2D) TDS Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop TDS Chromium B.S.U. TDS AstroMenace TDS Garden of Coloured Lights Visual Novel Digital: A Love Story Visual Novel Occult Crime Police