101 Free Games for 2008

From Angry Boulders to Wormux, 1up and Games for Windows magazine offers a massive list of 101 free games. "While you're waiting around for the next Orange Territory: Biogate Crisis-- Tournament in Conflict to appear, hundreds of little independent and free games piling up unplayed. And believe it or not, saving pennies can put you on the cutting edge, as today's freebies are résumés for tomorrow's gaming greats: The team that created Portal cut its teeth on Narbacular Drop; the PlayStation 3 downloadable hit Everyday Shooter got its start as potential PC freeware--until Sony scooped it up after a gangbusters Game Developers Conference showing. So make a new Year's resolution: Let 2008 be the Year of Freeware."

Anyone played any of these?

[Amorymeltzer]

It's good to see support and advertisement for such things. The overall quality may be nowhere near what a huge corporation of designers, coders, and writers can do, but these things are a great way to get new flavors. Yeah, there's some crap like DBZ V. Street Fighter but there looks to be some innovative, or at least different, games in there that are a great way to add spice to your other wise boring routine.

Awesome list

[qortra]

There are a lot of gems on this list. I hate to say it, but I really do love some of the clones out there. I remember playing Freeciv for hours on end back in the day. One clone that caught my attention in this list was Wormux [wormux.org]. My friends and I have been addicted to Worms 2 lately (an amazingly fun game), and this looks like an awesome alternative. The best part about choosing a free alternative is not usually the initial cost; it's the fact that the free alternative usually gets better as time goes on, Worms 2 is not like to change any time soon.

Web Games

[Paranatural]

There are some amazingly good games out there, and I've always been a proponent of free games like these. Sometimes people get so caught up in complexity and huge long sprawling stories with cutscenes and movies and complex controls...most of the time when I want to play a game I just want something simple and fun. Those are the games I tend to go back to again and again. I have a special fondness for the 'tower defense' type games.

Mods

[Hsien-Ko]

Mods are considered free games now? I don't think the dependency of another costly commercial game equals free.

This would be great... if I had a PC.

[Pendersempai]

It would be pretty sweet if there were an option to filter for games that are available for Mac OS X.