Free games thread

[Darren S]

Given the excellent suggestion by Kerry-W yesterday for the open source version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe....

http://www.openttd.org/en/


I thought it would be useful to create a thread that included any other worthy suggestions. Please DO NOT post links to torrent sites for illegal downloads or cracked versions of games as these will be removed. This thread is purely for the open source or royalty-free software that people have found on the web.


A Colonization alternative...

http://www.freecol.org/


And obviously OoLite, which is an Elite clone...

http://www.oolite.org/


Any others - put your suggestions here!

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[oska]

Battlefield Play 4 Free

Ferrari Virtual Race

Alien Swarm

TrackMania Nations Forever

[seb]

gutted the transport tycoon isn't supported for mac

[gally]

Good thread Darren!

[Goodj]

TTD is gertting back in my life tonight

[oska]

GTA 1&2

[Darren S]

gutted the transport tycoon isn't supported for mac

It is m8.

Just select the version you want to download - there is a Mac OSX version there.

D.

[Addicted]

TrackMania Nations Forever is awesome for free


All Points Bulletin: Reloaded - a GTA style MMO, currently in Open Beta!

[Darren S]

Made sticky....

D.

[Malachi]

Seen the "Free to play" link on the Genre tab on Steam store? Have quite a few MMPORGs on there atm, and one FPS iirc.

[Malachi]

TrackMania Nations Forever is awesome for free


All Points Bulletin: Reloaded - a GTA style MMO, currently in Open Beta!

Thought the devs went bust?

[z8jay]

http://www.arma2.com/free

[RSteve]

TrackMania Nations Forever is awesome for free

Just a bit, I came 2nd in the UK EPS finals a couple of years back, won £600. Was rated #2 in UK at one point, probably still in the top 10 but don't have the time to train the maps, sigh.



xD (StevieM was such a ghey name)

[Sanders]

Go on StevieM

[DaneC]

TrackMania Nations Forever is awesome for free

Does it still install DRM s**t though? Originally it didn't, then they changed it later so it installed StarForce.

[UncleGrumpy]

And obviously OoLite, which is an Elite clone...

http://www.oolite.org/

Holy poop! many moons ago a bint became an ex over my Elite addiction - good times

I'm having some of that - cheers.

[Darren S]

Does it still install DRM s**t though? Originally it didn't, then they changed it later so it installed StarForce.

The developers of that need to be hunted down by Leeroy, the homosexual silverback gorilla, for an intimate and lengthy botty inspection. Brushed aside by hackorz, it did/does nothing other than cripple genuine buyers of the games. It still cracks me up how early StarForce enabled games often have an offical patch available to bypass it.

D.

[seb]

i couldn't work out how to make transport tycoon work on my mac

downloaded it but can't seem to make it work. why can't i just click an icon and it installs it? lol

[Revels]

Is it .dmg or .exe?

[Darren S]

i couldn't work out how to make transport tycoon work on my mac

downloaded it but can't seem to make it work. why can't i just click an icon and it installs it? lol

Is it .dmg or .exe?

It downloads as a zip....




Then extracts the following files and folders...





At a guess, I'd say that the Mac install is in the OpenTTD.app directory? Not sure on Macs....

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