Spring RTS Engine

I just thought I would suggest my favorite free online/opensource games here.

Online Games
Radical Play: http://www.radicalplay.com/
Radical Aces is a game I really enjoy. Its a flightsim fps based on mars. These guys just made a new version of the game that is better in some ways (including gfx), but try the original one out as well. I also suggest the game Need for Madness. Its a very fun "win the race or kill all the other dudes" racing game with many levels. Apparently a new version of this is under development now that Radical Aces 2 is out. All is free (but you can pay to get a code to unlock some planes in Radical Aces 2).

MaidMarian: http://www.maidmarian.com/
There are some stupid multiplayer games here. Tankball is really the one that I like. Its fun and fastpaced. The other games pretty much suck (unless you are an rpg fan)


Open Source Computer Games
BZFlag: http://bzflag.org/
REALLY FUN fps multiplayer tank shooter. You have to try it. A nice thing about this game is that you dont have to download maps. You just log into the server and the map is downloaded for you. I have always wanted to make a world and server for this game.

Warzone 2100: http://wz2100.net/
Its a good rts. Its tech tree and modular unit design features are what make it special. Also, the campaigns are fun. The ai tends to be good too. gfx are okay, and spring users may detest the point and click interface (everything is done with the left mouse button). The user base seems to be dying, and this makes me very sad. Please try this game, for my sake.

Nethack: http://www.nethack.org/
Dwarf Fortress was already posted here, so I had to post this. It is a wonderful dynamic rpg, with lots of great features. It is old, and used to use an ascii map (now graphical tiles are used). It has versions for every os, even Windows Mobile. This game will be a favorite for me even 50 years after its conception.

Globulation: http://www.globulation2.org/wiki/Main_Page
Its a great rts concept. Definitely needs work, but I think that it is a great new idea, and I find it fun to play now and then. I have never tried online play, and I am sure that is more interesting. Please play it just to see this interesting take on how an rts should work.

YSFlight: http://homepage3.nifty.com/ysflight/fromauthor/e.html
Great flight sim!! You can also setup custom combat situations. In these situations, it is important to use flares to avoid missiles from planes and the ground. I love this thing. Its great to fly around in a helicopter or an awesome fighter jet shooting down concords, wwii planes, or 747s. fun fun fun

Some other games I looked at but have not tried:
Hover Race: http://www.hoverrace.com/
This looks like a fun hovercraft race/battle (win the race or kill all the other dudes)

Tremulous: http://tremulous.net/
Just looks really awesome. Its supposedly a futurist team-based rpg.

Planeshift: http://www.planeshift.it/
A nice looking rpg with a good storyline

I ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SUCKTITUDE OF THE ABOVE 3 GAMES. I HAVE NOT TRIED THEM. I HAVE BEEN TOO BUSY WITH SPRING.


I really like these (the ones I tried) games. They are like my babies (even though they are not mine). Please tell me what you think!

Ramjets - fun and highly addictive...I played for 7 hours yesterday <_<

looks fun, didnt play, but observed for a minute

a good source of free games is the emulation of dead consoles, like the snes and n64... Super Mario 64 rocks! :) Cant wait for whoever was making a editor to finish it so people start spaming more stages for us to play upon :)

Dwarf fortress

Although to be fair it already has a sticky here...

CAVE STORY!!!!

http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=cavestory

Just play it.

OpenTTD ( http://www.openttd.org ) - an OS remake of transport tycoon deluxe with lots of new features and improvements. It happens to share a couple of traits with Spring, namely that it requires content from the original game to run, and the current IP rights holder is ATARI (through buying Microprose and thus all their excellent games).

Edit: A couple of other remakes that I remembered:

FreeCiv ( http://www.freeciv.org ) - remake/clone of civilization.

FreeCol ( http://www.freecol.org ) - remake/clone of colonization (duh). This one isn't feature-complete yet though but fully playable.

Sweet another person who knows of Warzone 2100. Great game by the way. Would love to play online but there is practically no one on.

Title is misleading. Anyway:

Battleship Forever. As you had already guessed from the name, it's a freeware inspired by Warning Forever graphical style, however B.F. is a RTS, so it's moar relevant to our interests.

The Battle For Wesnoth http://www.wesnoth.org/

An open source turn based strategy with rpg elements: each unit gains xp and has the potential to level up and branch into new unit types


Wings 2 http://www.wings2.net/

A free asteroids kinda game. Your ship is a little cursor thing, flying in a gravity/momentum led environment. It has great multiplayer with lots of different, original, weapon types and game modes, and some of the music is pretty cool too. Very similar to a net yaroze game I played years ago, the name of which escapes me.

Peet wrote:Ramjets - fun and highly addictive...I played for 7 hours yesterday <_<

How does that game even work?

OpenTyrian
Still work in progress, but can already play the main game pretty flawlessly.

zwzsg wrote:Title is misleading. Anyway:

Battleship Forever. As you had already guessed from the name, it's a freeware inspired by Warning Forever graphical style, however B.F. is a RTS, so it's moar relevant to our interests.

BF rocks, especially once you realise it's made with GameMaker

gamemaker lulx

Battleships forever is really good. Too bad it doesnt supports online play

Pingus
The cutest little game ever! I love it so much!

Too bad the game doesn't have all that many levels, beeing somewhat short. On the other hand, it is a good thing, since it won't hold too much time of you.

If the thread wasn't only about free games but, instead, nice little games, i would also say Professor Fizzwizzle (also wonderfully cute).

PauloMorfeo wrote:Pingus
The cutest little game ever! I love it so much!

Too bad the game doesn't have all that many levels, beeing somewhat short. On the other hand, it is a good thing, since it won't hold too much time of you.

If the thread wasn't only about free games but, instead, nice little games, i would also say Professor Fizzwizzle (also wonderfully cute).

very cute XD

Yes, free = nice. Example: Spring

Yeah. there are soo many good free games on the net that buying pc games becomes almost stupid... :)

can't believe no one mentioned gate 88!

http://www.queasygames.com/

Awesome game, great music and I am sure people will be reminded of KP.

It's mainly a multi-player game but there is a practice mode too against computer generated foes.

WTF! A post made by Ground_Zero! I thought you died in World War III