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A review site for various freeware apps and games

scrutiny — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:36:16 -0800

Freeware Genius is a large review site for various freeware apps, from desktop organizing tools to philosophical flash games . There are literally hundreds of applications reviewed, as well as a few compilations to get you started. Sick of iTunes? Check out these free options. Got a video on youtube that you think will be taken down? Copy it with this app! Really, there's tons of interesting stuff here, so check it out.

Damn you, shopkeeper!

sonic meat machine — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:21:00 -0800

Spelunky is a (Windows-only) game that blends roguelike elements with a platform game reminiscent of La Mulana or the original Spelunker. Add this to the pile of fantastic indie platformers, I guess. [via]

TIGsource Demakes competition results

JHarris — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:19:02 -0800

Nearly a month ago jbickers made a post that mentioned the TIGsource Demakes competition. The competition is over, and the winners have been announced. All of these are playable. Most are for Windows, except for those that are Flash or something else:
1. Soundless Mountain II (Atari 2600 Silent Hill) (from previous post)
2. Gang Garrison II (Kyntt Stories-like Team Fortress 2, complete with multiplayer)
3. Aquarium (NES-ish Aquaria)
4. Little Girl in Underland (Soviet McGee's Alice)
5. House Globe (Homeworld)
6. S.T.A.C.K.E.R. (Nuclear Tetris)
7. Squish
(Crush is a PSP game where the player can switch the world between a 2D and 3D representation. Squish is a game in which the player switches between a 2D and a 1D representation. See for yourself.) 8. (tie) Fillauth and Advanced Set The Rope On Fire Cartridge (an Intellivision-like remake of this, previously mentioned)
9. Sexy Seaside Vollyball (NSFW, pixelated breasts) (Sinclair Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Vollyball)
10. Macarena of the Missing (A thematically-appropriate demake of Limbo of the Lost)

Lots more after the jump! Various honorable mentions: Corner's Shiny (Mirror's Edge), Hold Me Closer, Giant Dancer (2D Shadow of the Colossus), Bootleg Bash (NES-like Smash Bros.), Buddy Base 2 (NES-alike Team Fortress 2), Katamaran Vs. Dalmation Giraffe (2D Gameboyish Katamari Damacy), Protobytes (2D Elebits), Smaze (NES-oid Haze), Super 3d Portals 6 (Mentioned in last post, Atari 2600 Portal, made to work on an actual Atari 2600), Thieving Raccoon (Flash, Game & Watch style Sly Cooper), Deity of Hostility (God of War text adventure, with fratboy narration), Healthy Wave (Gameboy AudioSurf), Trouble in Euclidia (Geometry Wars with faked ASCII graphics), Untitled Zelda-like for 1987 PC (CGA graphics, which work surprisingly well), Fake Pigs 2 (2D Virtua Cop), Offslaught '81 (ZX-81 Tower Defense), Heroes in Guitarland (NES-esque Guitar Hero), Super Maria Cosmos (2D Mario Galaxy), VipeUt Vectrex (Wipeout like as for the Vectrex), Fable of Griselda (ASCII Zelda), WolfSD (Wolfenstein 3D like as for the NES), Rocket Belt Rawr (2D grayscale recreation of Jetpack Brontosaurus), Hyper Solar-System Plumber (Another 2D Mario Galaxy), Lady Boy Love Collection (B&W Mega Man, vaguely NSFW), Shadow of the Bossus (2D, 16-bit Shadow of the Collossus), Nobody Shooter (Everyday Shooter, in a Gameboy-ine style), and Dysaster (_♥^♥_♥which is a roguelike^♥_♥^♥).

Indie Game: Muslim Massacre

pancreas — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:02:30 -0800

Muslim Massacre. Satire or just for shock value? You decide. Windows only.

It's that time of year - free games all around.

pancreas — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:42:38 -0800

It seems that everyone wants to post their toplists for free game recommendations at the moment. First up is Gnomes' Lair with 100 excellent free games in bloom. Can't forget 1up with 101 Free Games 2008. And last but still well worth checking out is Indiegames' (formerly Indygamer) Best Freeware Arcade Games 2007 and Best Freeware Adventure Games 2007. If that isn't enough for you, also worth taking a gander at is Javet's Freeware Game of the Day thread on Tigsource.

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.

2 Free Indie Platformers that might have been overlooked.

pancreas — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:03:50 -0800

Alex Adventure and Space Barnacle are both freeware platformers that have small cult followings but have possibly been overlooked by a wider audience.

Chromatron - a game about reflections

ikkyu2 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:28:45 -0800

Chromatron 1, 2, 3 and 4 just became freeware. In these little standalone puzzle games for PC and Mac, you align splitters, benders, and mirrors to direct colored laserbeams into like-colored targets. Enjoyably difficult, and an example of great game design. Mentioned previously on Mefi, but only in comments, so I figured that since it just became free, now would be a good time for a proper FPP.

Freeware Friday

Iridic — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:50:43 -0800

Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw (prev iou sly), he of "Chzo mythos" and "Zero Punctuation" fame, has released a new game: The Art of Theft, a heist adventure in grand retro style.

Surprise! Fish!

JHarris — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:05:17 -0800

La-Mulana is a Japanese homebrew game, with English translation available, for Windows that exhaustively replicates the experience of playing on an MSX home computer, a machine not sold in the U.S. but was contemporary with the likes of the Commodore 64 and Amiga in other markets. (Fun fact: the "MS" in MSX stands for Microsoft!) Although it looks very much like retro warez, La-Mulana is freeware. It is also notoriously long and difficult, with a character who controls like old-school Castlevania, enemies that will frequently knock you around like a rag doll, puzzles of amazing deviousness, and traps that think nothing of walling up a player without escape, or forever restricting access to certain powerups.

That said, the game does have charm, and is basically a love letter to the MSX hardware. Those who want to see it without beating their hands bloody against the keyboard can watch a guy play through the whole game in 85 installments, cursing at it all along the way.

The best things in life are free, creepy, and require pointing and clicking

jbickers — Wed, 16 May 2007 08:04:28 -0800

5 Days a Stranger. 7 Days a Skeptic. Trilby's Notes. 6 Days a Sacrifice. The great retro-fun of the Chzo Mythos adventure games, all of which are freeware.

It's that time again

Iridic — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:51:30 -0800

The Twelfth Annual Interactive Fiction Competition begins today. Non-contestants can take part in the proceedings by grabbing a torrent of the competing games and judging them over the next six weeks. If you're new to interactive fiction, Emily Short's "How to Play" will acquaint you with its conventions. And if you're enough of an I.F. expert that even a full slate of Comp games won't satisfy you, you can find every competition entry since 1995 archived at Baf's Guide.

How about a nice game of chess?

jtron — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:34:24 -0800

Free Computer Version of Board and Card Games with Artificial Intelligence Computer Opponents and with Screen Shots is exactly what is says. Now those of you who've had their interest piqued by such games as Settlers of Catan or others mentioned in the Top 100 Boardgames thread can try games such as these without ponying up the thirty bucks for a big box of boards and pieces.

Freetar Hero

mrgrimm — Wed, 17 May 2006 08:45:19 -0800

Freetar Hero - Create and play any song on your PC. In development.

Home of the Underdogs

Hildago — Sun, 04 Apr 2004 16:32:00 -0800

"Home of the Underdogs is a non-profit site dedicated to the preservation and promotion of underrated PC games (and a few non-PC games) of all ages: good games that deserve a second chance after dismal sales or critical reviews that we feel are unwarranted."