Talk:Freeware Games

Rogue survivor?
I have not heard this game mentioned before but its a fairly solid roguelike based on a zombie outbreak, Think it should be added to the list?

Rogue survivor

Add Spring Project?
http://springrts.com/

I'm not sure what /v/ thinks about this game since I never see it being discussed, but it's pretty much the poor RTS gamer's wet dream, and it's definitely freeware. Some of the games are even opensource, and since the engine was originally built to remake Total Annihilation, fans of that series would like it too. Only reason I'm asking here is because this is /v/'s recommended games, and /v/ never talks about this game.

Download links
Seeing as this page is freeware games, wouldn't it be helpful to have links to download them/to their homepages, so readers can easily find them? Perhaps instead of a separate column with the links, making the title of the game into a link to a/the homepage for it. If nobody's opposed to this, I can just do it myself.

Also, for laze and easiness, some links:

Cave Story

Iji

Eversion

Dwarf Fortress

Gang Garrison 2

La-Mulana

Feel free to use/suggest a better link than the ones I found, if you think there is one. I pretty much just googled the names and tried to choose a link that didn't suck.--Green Mage 12:17, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

I agree, it should just be added in the game's description, don't you think? I'll get to it. --MFGreth 18:20, 20 August 2009 (PST)

Main page
This page still has to be added to the main page. Probably under "Others" --Some other Anonymous 12:20, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Minecraft
Minecraft isn't freeware, only a tiny portion of it is available for free. I really think it should be taken off the freeware list.

We could note what's available as freeware and the full package as "freemium". Not that bad, considering we have very few entries on the page under that umbrella. --Dejiko 01:28, January 13, 2011 (UTC)

Survival single-player (SSP) is free; when you give it a null user/pass, it asks if you wish to "play offline." The game's author, Notch, thinks that most people would play SSP, but ask any Minecraft /v/eteran and they'll tell you "fuck Notch." Maybe anonymous is right, and Minecraft should be on the OSX/PC/Linux pages but not here. --Mozai 23:09, June 7, 2011 (UTC)

Ah, well that sounds fair then. I'm not a fan, but I know it has them. --Dejiko 02:57, June 8, 2011 (UTC)

I agree that Minecraft and Noitu Love 2 should be moved, since neither of them are free.--MoonMetropolis 02:06, April 4, 2012 (UTC)

Xonotic
free fps, deserves addition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonotic

74.199.93.143 03:26, March 23, 2012 (UTC)

Separate Article for Flash Games?
I believe that we should place flash games in their own separate article; an article for games that are only available as online flash games and not downloads. This way, the list would be less cluttered and messy. There are far too many flash games to list on here. Games that are available as downloads AND online (Meat Boy, Aether, Tower of Heaven, ect.) can stay, but games that are only available online should be moved to their own article IMO.--MoonMetropolis 23:24, March 29, 2012 (UTC)

Should *that* really be here, and not in the NOPE Horror page?
The one between Death Worm and Depict1. Title's the Latin word for fear of demons, excruciatingly detailed gore inflicted upon a little girl, barely a game at all because of the outrageous collision detection. I'm sorry for not referring to it by name, but it's one of few "games" I'd like to forget about, and saying its name makes it harder to do so. I mean...yeah, it's a freeware game, but there's probably a decent amount of younger people browsing this wiki, and they don't need to know about such a gruesome piece of fiction yet. I wondered if it was put there as an April Fools joke, but looking at all the edits done on April 1 showed me it was there before then. I'd kind of like for it to stay in the Scary Horror and Mindfuck page, because (at least in my perspective) it belongs there more than it does in Freeware Games.

24.44.108.105 19:00, April 2, 2012 (UTC)

It all depends on the quality of the game. If Demonophobia is a decent game, it can stay. If it's amateurish garbage, it should go. I haven't actually played the game, so I don't know.--MoonMetropolis 02:04, April 4, 2012 (UTC)

Well, since I've had the misfortune of actually trying to play it myself, I can safely tell you it's really not much of a game with entertainment value besides the aforementioned gore and...well, rape. You can't fight anything, at least early on, and you have to figure out everything through excessive amounts of trial and error because of how slow you move (even while running) and how impossible it is to judge whether or not you can avoid something. To give you a few highlights, there's a total red herring room with a trinket that, if removed, triggers a crushing ceiling that cannot be stopped or escaped from; lethal and nonlethal traps that are literally impossible to see, including pitfalls and spikes; a hallway with giant leeches that grab your leg randomly as you try to run past them, and flying sausages that peck your head repeatedly; and another hallway with a giant worm that crushes you if you try to run through the room, bites your head off if you walk and don't crouch at the right time...or was it bite your head off if you run, and crush you if you walk? Anyway, my point is that all the work went into the game's art, and none was put into making it playable. I can't speak for its sequel, Xenophobia, though. -24.44.108.105 20:13, April 4, 2012 (UTC)

Well it's not really a quality freeware game, it's a quality mindfuck guro sim though. Just remove it from freeware games I'd say.

--Bideogemusu 21:15, April 4, 2012 (UTC)

Osada
You guys may have heard of Amanita Design, an indie Czech company that specializes in very pretty and artsy point-and-click games (Machinarium, Samorost, Botanicula). Well they have these "game" called Osada, which is a very surreal and eerily addicting "interactive music video". Think it belongs in here, but im terrible at adding shit.

http://amanita-design.net/osada/ There's the inbrowser version

https://sites.fastspring.com/amanitadesign/instant/osadaofflineversion Offline version (costs $2)


 * Since the freeware version is flash-only, it should be included on a page for flash games. If anyone could move the flash-only games to their own page, it would be greatly appreciated.--MoonMetropolis 01:11, April 9, 2012 (UTC)