Comments on: Best Freeware Games of '07

Best Freeware Games of '07

pancreas — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:43:50 -0800

Many freeware games were released in 2007. How to seperate the crap from the good stuff? It can be a little hard admittedly but this thread on the Tigsource forums might help you. With around 30 categories (and a winner announced for each) ranging from 'Best Shooter' to 'Best Bosses,' there's probably something there to please just about anyone.

By: jbickers

jbickers — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:54:48 -0800

Outstandinger than hell!

By: XMLicious

XMLicious — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:59:16 -0800

And Hell was certainly outstanding.

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:02:53 -0800

Nice. Thanks.

By: afx237vi

afx237vi — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:25:32 -0800

Knytt Stories is really quite, um, neat.

By: Ted Maul

Ted Maul — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:40:09 -0800

Wow, how astonishing that Command and Conquer's been released as freeware! I remember getting it for Christmas one year back in the 1990's. I didn't think I was old enough to feel this much nostalgia!

By: EatTheWeak

EatTheWeak — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:03:18 -0800

Great post! The hilarious thing is that I spent about an hour last night digging through kotaku posts to find a link to that freeware thread. Wish I'd known what you were planning, pancreas -- it would have saved me some work! Think I'll give this 'fraxy' a try ...

By: backseatpilot

backseatpilot — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:14:00 -0800

Well, there goes any chance of productivity at work today.

By: muckster

muckster — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:40:21 -0800

Look, it's Portal: The Flash Version!

By: suckerpunch

suckerpunch — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:49:08 -0800

I tried Fraxy about a year ago - it was great fun, but buggy, and the editor barely worked for me. But I guess that's a strength of such games - labors of love like this are never finished, and a quick poke through it shows that the majority of issues with it have been resolved.

By: fuq

fuq — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:29:52 -0800

Will any of these games work under linux?

By: le morte de bea arthur

le morte de bea arthur — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:08:26 -0800

Will any of these games work under linux? Surely you're far to busy patching your kernel or something to be worried about that...

By: SentientAI

SentientAI — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:24:13 -0800

What if fuq doesn't want to be called Shirley?

By: cog_nate

cog_nate — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:18:57 -0800

Can't wait to try some of these out at home. Thanks, pancreas!

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:45:25 -0800

I check TIG Source and IndyGamer (RIP, now Indiegames.com) almost every day, but I missed this. Thanks.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:45:49 -0800

Site seems to be down at the moment. Bummer.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:53:03 -0800

Still down. I remember a handful of the titles I read, but I was really hoping to check out the rest. Grrr.

By: clockwork

clockwork — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:01:50 -0800

Toribash is the strangest, most compelling game i've come across in ages. thanks.

By: clockwork

clockwork — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:09:44 -0800

no seriously. it's like starcraft, but for judo instead of space alien warfare.

By: craven_morhead

craven_morhead — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:01:42 -0800

Flash Portal is badass.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:31:39 -0800

Hey it's back. Synaesthete & Battleships Forever are pretty neat. Synaesthete, as far as I can tell, doesn't penalize you (aside from docking your score) for button mashing, so it's a bit lacking in the difficulty department, but I suck at rhythm games anyways so I didn't mind.