Beyond All Reason!
SRB2 !
Sonic Robo Blast 2 is one of the best Sonic games ever!
Man, I found this in 09 a few months before the 2.0 update. And it had a decade behind it even then. Man I miss those days of looking through random wads on 4shared. I couldn’t even begin to figure out how to find some of that stuff nowadays if I wanted to find it.
Dwarf Fortress, since 2008
ASCII no questions, I’ll tell you no lies
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Not freeware, but currently $2.39 on GOG:
Master of MagicIts like Civilization with wizards and dragons.
The powder toy. It’s a physics simulator. I fire it up during meetings
OpenTTD is open source, so not sure that fits.
Older? Check.
Free? Check.
Software/game? Check.Checks out in my book!
I happened upon the original for $20 in Wal Mart in 1995 and I’ve been playing it on and off ever since!
One of the best games ever made.
I had to google as I was wondering what was so fun about Touch Tone Dialing. I’m old.
I play Shareware
What shareware do you play?
Different Lemmy denizen here: for a long time I was quite sucked into Soldat, though I haven’t touched it in a decade. Been thinking about it as of late, though…
Soldat was awesome, I loved the Rambo mode lol. That game had such good movement.
Don’t tempt me… or else I’ll have to take you down with my SPAS-12!
The Chzo Mythos games. Point and click adventure series made in AGS.
I first played 5 Days A Stranger when it was out, and it was my favourite adventure game.
Then 7 Days A Skeptic, which was basically more of the same and I thought it was very cool.
After that is Notes, which is a text parser instead of point and click. Still a lot of fun, but I always use the guide to help myself in parts.
Last one was 6 Days A Sacrifice, which I don’t remember very well, I haven’t played it as much as the other games.
Also the same guy made a game called 1213, which I loved. It played more like Flashback, cinematic platformer style.
They’re shareware but I think Pocket Tanks and Super DX Ball have been on every computer of mine since 2002
bubble tanks
Beneath A Steel Sky (though I kinda prefer the grungier aesthetic of the Amiga floppy version)
Available free on ScummVM!
Has an excellent plot and wry sense of humour. Fun game.
Tyrian is still fantastic 30 years later!
I’ve probably played this game for over a hundred hours. Great soundtrack too, by Alexander Brandon. I also loved the minigame hidden behind the DESTRUCT cheat code.
And it’s open source too!
The soundtrack really is fantastic…I spent many an hour as a kid listening to it in the jukebox mode with its super groovy visualizations!
Every time I mess with a Mac emulator I play some Snood. I think it was only free on that platform though.
I always have to have Hover! on my PC. It’s hella dumb that it doesn’t just come with Windows as it did originally.
I can’t believe someone else just mentioned Hover! I haven’t played it in decades lol but I did spend a lot of time on it as a kid
Am I crazy or is there a browser based version now that had online multiplayer?
