Portal is FREE!?
YES, it’s true. Free as the air, or is it beer, I can never remember.
For mac or PC, free to download until may 24th!
In the unlikely chance that you don’t actually own it already, go click that link asap!
NECTARIS
Hudson’s Nectaris is one of the greatest military strategy games ever made. It combines simplicity with complexity in ways other games have rarely equalled. There are only twenty three units, but combined with new and refined strategic elements the game allows for surprisingly deep gameplay.
This game was first released on the PC Engine where it sold over two hundred thousand units, and has seen ports to the Playstation, GameBoy, X68000, PC-8801, Japanese cellular phones, and Windows ’95. The original game was so complete only two sequels have been released. Hudson released Neo Nectaris for the PC Engine SuperCD, featuring a handful of new units and a tweaked interface, and a German company released Nectaris for MS-DOS in 1995, which features many new units and two new planets to fight on. A remake was in development by the same German company. Called Nectaris 2000, it was never completed. The Windows ’95 game, which runs fine on Win98 and XP, was released as freeware by Hudson. You can download it right here.
0 AD going open source
0 A.D. is a free, cross-platform, under-development, 3D, historically-based, real-time strategy game.
Recently the dev team has decided to take the step to become an open source project. Making the code available as GPL and the art content available as CC-BY-SA, and encouraging external contributions.
“We’ve been working on 0 A.D. in our free time for years, and now we want to show what we’ve achieved and make it easier for more people to get involved.” says the project’s website, wildfire games.
If this looks like something you’d like to be involved in, check them out!
WARNING FOREVER
WARNING FOREVER is a blazing fast freeware arcade game in which you go straight for the boss fights, with a sharp 180 second time limit. Bosses have multiple growth patterns and final shapes and adapt to your play style and tactics.
Don’t look back
Don’t look back is a free browser based (With download option) platformer from Kongregate games, based loosely on the myth of Orpheus who descended into hades to recover the soul of his deceased wife, however she would return with him as long as he didn’t look back, and if he did this she would fade away.
This is a mercifully short but fiendishly difficult game, you’ll die multiple times per screen as the old style unmerciful traps get you in the back when you least expect it, but with a bit of planning and twitch reflexes you’ll triumph in the end. Conquering hades is all in a day’s work.
The manipulator
You are a psychic freak in a world that doesn’t like you very much! You must use your powers to escape from a military base patrolled by heavily armed guards. You can control their minds or, if you’re feeling nasty, cause their heads to pop.
In a nutshell that’s the theme and plot of this simple platformer game with a twist from Virtanen games
The graphics are extremely simple, but it’s a fun game with unexpected depth (For example, after the first few levels you can read the guard’s minds and discover their personal secrets)
TUKIMI fighters
A free japanese arcade with special power up options, TUKIMI fighters lets you add modules from fallen enemies to your craft to increase your size and powers
How to play
Control your ship and destroy enemies. The ship is destroyed when it is hit by a bullet. The body of the enemy has no collision damage.
You can catch the enemy’s broken piece. Pieces are stuck to your ship and counterattack to enemies. You can also earn the bonus score by keeping many pieces stuck. Stuck pieces are destroyed when they touch a enemy’s bullet.
While holding a slow key, the ship becomes slow and the ship direction is fixed. Stuck pieces are pulled in and you can prevent a crash of them, but the bonus score reduces to one fifth. Enemy’s pieces are not stuck while holding this key.
Allegiance – online multiplayer space simulation
Allegiance is a free, online, multi-player space simulation game. You pilot spacecraft, flying in a team with other players, defending and attacking sectors in space. Allegiance challenges your tactical ingenuity, your ability to function in a team and your prowess at blowing stuff up. Experienced players take command and lead their teams to victory or defeat.
Furious Space Action Combat
- Dodge bullets, missiles and asteroids in a 3D environment. Charge your enemies head-on, or sneak up behind them and kill them when they least expect it. Stunning, colorful effects and explosions intensify the furious combat experience.
- Defend the honor of one of several unique factions, each of which have unique properties and spacecraft. Choose between different ship and weapon types. Create massive space stations, or captain capital ships. Choose strategically, there is no turning back.
Incredible Multiplayer Experience
- Break free from predictable wingmen and drone enemies. Allegiance is built from the ground-up to be an evolving, unpredictable challenge with and against other humans.
- Play a variety of roles like scout, fighter pilot, turret gunner, bomber, capital ship captain, base defender, and commander. Knowing where you are needed most is crucial. Individual, split-second decisions may determine whether you win or lose. Each game and each player’s experience can be unique.
- Learn on the fly. New players can learn while playing by taking on subordinate, single-action roles.
Strategic Squadron Play
- Invest in success. Choose to play conquest games, where development and management of crucial resources are keys to your success. Progress through a rich technology tree full of unique weapons like sniper rifles, advanced bases like the deadly shipyard, and specialized spacecraft like the Assault Ship.
- Communicate with your squad-mates. Features like instant voice-chat make essential communication with your squadron quick and easy. Gather your wingmen and swarm an enemy sector in a sudden, deadly attack.
- Master the strategy. Any player can access the top-down strategic overview, giving them a full view of what’s going on in the game. This allows would-be commanders to get a bird’s eye perspective of the game and to issue strategic and tactical objectives to teammates and mining/building drones.
Star Wars: The Battle of Yavin
Star Wars: The Battle of Yavin is a freeware space simulator game
designed and programmed by Bruno R. Marcos.
Play as Luke Skywalker in the battle of Yavin. Assault and destroy the empire’s Death Star. Fight in space, on the Death Star’s surface, make the trench run, and try not to get blasted by Darth Vader’s ship. Six stages of intense action.
remember those old coin op arcade games? Well now you can relive them on your PC thanks to mr. Marcos, and with better graphics too. Download and play the battle of Yavin here
Noitu Love
Noitu Love and the army of grinning darns is a sidescrolling shoot ‘em ‘up freeware game, available from Konjak.org
The year is 2188. The city is protected by an organization called “The Peacekeepers League” and everything is swell except for that it’s under attack! By a robot army lead by professor Darnacus Damnation!!
This game is an action packed adventure of several long levels (with save feature) and you play as Noitu Love, a young and talented boy, who’s purpose it is in life to stop Darnacus and live up to his intercom girl Lori’s expectations.
This is a fun light game with neat sprite work and graphics. There’s also a sequel, noitu love 2 which is available for 10$