If we’re sticking strictly to free, I’m not sure Doom mods work if you only have the free version installed. Either way, people basically never stopped making wads since the game came out, and I try various ones out from time to time.
There are tons of them, so if you’re interested you can see what won the annual Cacowards throughout the years and start there.
Lost Vikings
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, or the modernized remake, ET Legacy
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!
OpenTTD is open source, so not sure that fits.
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.
Older? Check.
Free? Check.
Software/game? Check.Checks out in my book!
I had to google as I was wondering what was so fun about Touch Tone Dialing. I’m old.
Warzone-2100
Not freeware, but currently $2.39 on GOG:
Master of MagicIts like Civilization with wizards and dragons.
It’s been a few years, but Armagetron Advanced was the best. Felt like you were riding the lightbikes from Tron.
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.
The powder toy. It’s a physics simulator. I fire it up during meetings
bubble tanks
Dwarf Fortress, since 2008
ASCII no questions, I’ll tell you no lies
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SRB2 !
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.
Sonic Robo Blast 2 is one of the best Sonic games ever!
I’ve been playing it off and on since maybe 2016-18 (somewhere within that range), so a pretty long time for me, but Pokemon Rejuvenation.
If you don’t mind swearing, death, and generally kinda edgy stuff, it’s a fun enough game with a lot of content. 15 out of 18 badges (one per type) are currently available, with a very long story to go with it.
Just started over on my Steam Deck, making this my umpteenth time starting over, because I felt like it and wanted to do a grass only run, similar to my fire only run. Also, unlike just about every other RPGMaker XP fangame, the devs have a Linux version available, which has an appimage instead of the .exe file to run the game and have made a bash script to update the game to replace the .exe file for that. Wine not required to play at all!
OpenTTD
