Random Free/Indie Games

[Sotha]

I don't think we have a thread where we can post and discuss free or indie games in general.

 

I was browsing Gamejolt site and found a few interesting ones.

http://gamejolt.com/games/action/dungeon-nightmares/25444/

Spooky random dungeon. Really foreboding atmosphere. The game constantly makes the player jump with a variety of effects, and it seems to be working, since the jump-causing effect varies a lot and one never knows what could happen. Interesting piece of work. Especially for FMAs interested in horror-type missions.

 

In the field of horror, SCP containment breach is also a notable piece of work. Too bad the engine sucks so badly.

http://www.scpcbgame.com/

 

http://gamejolt.com/games/shooter/super-wolfenstein-hd-now-with-realistic-physics/39194/

Wolfestein shooter with heavy focus on physics. Quite impressive, really. And also funny, as the AI are heavily physics controlled, and are flailing about like drunken astronauts when you hit them. The end boss is a must-see, as he fires twin miniguns that make him shoot all over the place because of the recoil of the guns.

 

 

[demagogue]

I was having fun with this list recently. They're not big games, but a lot of gems in there.

 

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-free-online-games-on-pc/

[Cookie]

As I don´t really know what kind of games you are looking for, I´ll just post some free games that aren´t f2p

 

1. Pokemon 3D:

 

A fanmade 3D remake of Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal with additional features and online support (For fans of the games)

 

http://www.indiedb.com/games/pokmon-3d

 

2. Lambda Wars:

 

A mod/Total conversation, available on steam, formerly known as HL2 Wars, RTS with HL2 stuff (Build your own combine army )

 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/270370/

 

3. Tunnels of the Underworld:

 

2D spaceship action game with random generated maps, ai and lots of weapons (Really funny in multiplayer, many gamemodes)

 

http://tou.has.it/

 

4. 0.a.d.

 

RTS inspired by Age of Empires, already playable, but still in development (Good content, really nice graphics).

 

http://play0ad.com/

 

Hope you like some of those ideas, if you want more examples just ask.

Edited December 26, 2014 by Cookie

[Diego]

That Wolfenstein is fun I was once an experienced free games scavenger but it's been a while since I played any free games, good or otherwise. Gamejolt is a good source but there's a lot of garbage to dig through. If you want a small level of curation I recommend jayisgames.com

Edited December 26, 2014 by Diego

[Sotha]

http://www.moddb.com/mods/wreckage

 

Completely free standalone single player shooter on the crysis engine (no crysis required). Just completed it. While it was quite hectic, but also epic.

 

The german vocals were funny, and also made the experience a bit more difficult, because often I was required to shoot the shit out of enemies (and stay alive) while trying to stay on top of the plot by reading the subtitles. This is probably the reason the plot remained a bit odd to me. The plot, I think was about fleeing and defending. The details were a bit fuzzy, and also I didn't even get to know the characters I was playing, although the later one, at a certain point, was steaming entertainingly macho monologue that Arnold and Sylvester would be proud.

 

If you like shooters, give it a go. It was pretty good entertainment.

[lowenz]

http://www.moddb.com/events/2011-indie-of-the-year-awards/features/ioty-players-choice-indie-of-the-year

http://www.moddb.com/events/2012-indie-of-the-year-awards/features/indie-of-the-year-2012

http://www.moddb.com/events/2013-indie-of-the-year-awards/features/indie-of-the-year-2013

http://www.moddb.com/events/2014-indie-of-the-year-awards/features/indie-of-the-year-2014

Edited December 30, 2014 by lowenz

[wesp5]

http://www.moddb.com/mods/wreckage

 

Completely free standalone single player shooter on the crysis engine (no crysis required).

 

 

Very cool! A free Crysis game with the original powerful engine. As with idTech 5, as far as I know they reduced the engine features for their next Crysis games which weren't as good as well.

[Lux]

I've been playing an indie game lately called, The Long Dark. Developed by Hinterland Studios. Its a very polished alpha (you'd almost think the game is done but they're still adding things) "you against nature" survival game and is very interesting.

 

Its not free but it is cheap and indie.

[Destined]

I also played "The Long Dark". Quite good,but I hope, they will release some story soon. The sandbox is fun, but gets quite monotonous after some time.

 

If you like a challenge I can recommend "Spelunky". I have only played the first part (which was free), the second part is available on Steam, don't know what they have changed. It is quite pixelated, but each level is randomly created, so each playthrough is different. As far as I know there are 16 levels, I have never gotten further than level 12. As I said: challenging. But each try takes 10 - 15 minutes. I have wasted quite some time on that game...

[Airship Ballet]

The current indie games for me are:

 

Besiege (early access but only in the sense that there aren't many levels, which isn't too important since the physics and building are top-notch: the levels are just there to give you a bit of direction with regards to what to build)

Infinifactory (and Spacechem by extension), a game about building production lines that is easily the hardest and most rewarding puzzle game I've played to date.

Tabletop Simulator a completely free-form physics-based board game platform. It has its own presets for things like chess and poker, but people create workshop mods for real-world games like Monopoly and Cards Against Humanity, as well as straight-up recreating Pathfinder modules and MtG decks/boards for ultra nerds. There are no rules or restrictions: you get given a bunch pieces, cards, coins, whatever constitutes your game, and then you go at it. There's plenty of anti-griefing measures and the ability to rewind time, so the free-form gameplay isn't as troll-friendly as you'd think. Overall it's really good fun, especially if you get a group together for a tabletop RPG or full game of Monopoly, Risk, anything that takes the best part of a night.

[Diego]

Besiege looks interesting! I don't like the trailer very much though, it uses one of my favorite songs ever and it just steals the spotlight from the game lol.

[Destined]

I am also thinking about getting "The Escapists" (early access on steam), which is a prison break simulation. It sounds very interesting, but I am not sure if I should wait until it is out of early access. Has anyone here played it?

[Diego]

Early access games are complicated. I had a fantastic experience with Kerbal Space Program but I have the impression KSP is the exception to the rule. Every other early access I bought was a disappointment. I would wait (I am waiting, actually, this game looks cool)

[Noordung]

http://ufoai.org/wiki/News

http://www.wesnoth.org/

open source projects.

[Destined]

Early access games are complicated. I had a fantastic experience with Kerbal Space Program but I have the impression KSP is the exception to the rule. Every other early access I bought was a disappointment. I would wait (I am waiting, actually, this game looks cool)

 

I just saw that "The Escapists" is out of Early Access. Bought it just now and will try it, as soon as it is finished (should not take too long, it needs 76 MB).

[Airship Ballet]

The Escapists is pretty good, but I think it'd be improved dramatically by the removal of RNG. I'd like to be able to be in control of who sells what, like ordering equipment to be smuggled into the prison rather than having to wait days and days for someone to be selling the last piece of the puzzle.

 

I've since played a few more recent indie games, too!

 

Darkest Dungeon - 4-man parties venture into one of the harder perma-death dungeon-crawlers I've played since the 90s. While you use your resources you get from dungeons to rebuild your ruined family home, you look after your party as they slowly lose grips on their sanity. Everything that occurs while you're getting into fights and setting off traps will affect your party members' sanity and, if your luck runs completely out, send them insane. Once insane, they do nothing but sabotage your efforts to get them through alive: attacking out of turn, refusing healing, attacking themselves and others and diving head-first into traps you were trying to avoid. They need to be left in your town for R&R (less or more effective depending on how much money you put into the rebuilding effort) while you take out another party to go through the same rigors and probably end up the same. You're constantly swapping out the crazies for the fully recovered and always having to adapt to every situation at hand. It's seriously difficult, seriously unforgiving but both fair and satisfying at the same time. I'd 100% recommend buying this.

 

Deathtrap - How a tower defense game would play if somebody modded one into Diablo 2. There really are little to no compromises here: it's an isometric RPG where you place turrets on a map and have monsters try to get to your home base. You have character building, skills and loot as well as traps and towers: both the action-RPG and tower-defense games are there in their entirety, really, it's the most lossless blend of two genres I've ever played, and both sides of it are very well-done. Buy this one too!

[Airship Ballet]

I think I'ma just keep posting recommendations in here. Plenty of really fun stuff dropping into my cart lately.

 

World of Guns - a F2P game about taking apart and reassembling guns. Sounds boring, is actually a huge amount of fun. I'm not a gun nut, definitely not: I can name the popular ones that pop up all the time in shooters but have no idea how they perform against one another, what sets them apart etc. I got this expecting it to be really American dull and educational, but it's actually European a fun test of memory, agility and precision. It's basically free, but you use EXP earned from working on a gun to unlock the next one, and it gets progressively harder to unlock them as you go. There are shortcut buy-ins and the like if you enjoy it enough anyway.

[Xarg]

For anyone on the fence about The Long Dark, it's currently 40% off on Steam, good a time as any to pick it up. Sale ends Friday 10am PST

[esme]

Sorry for the necropost, but this seems to be the most appropriate thread, not sure if this is free but it's definitely an indie, bit light on details

 

Edited January 25, 2022 by esme

[Zerg Rush]

Very good site to find hundreds of free indie games is the tecnologic academy DigiPen https://arcade.digipen.edu

 

Edited January 25, 2022 by Zerg Rush