Good freeware games

[Diatribe]

I was wondering if anyone knows some good freeware games. It doesn't matter which genre, card games, stratgey games, whatever.

I haven't really found anything awesome. Some mediocre ones, nothing special, but one I have found: http://www.freeverse.com/bigbangchess/

Awesome OS integration, nice graphis, simple but really really nice.
I'd love to find some more.

[SilentPanda]

Water Tower is pretty fun. You can find out more about it here:

http://www.createmacgames.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=169

You might try browsing the boards there for some places. Also idevgames.com forums are nice too.

[Blue Velvet]

Snood.

Deceptively simple, strangely addictive.

[pgc6000]

I've heard Americas army is good, though I have never played it.
http://americasarmy.com/

[comictimes]

Snood and America's army are both really fun although snood is technically shreware... but oh well.
If we're including shareware, gish is really fun, and so is deimos rising, although that comes with the ibooks...
As for freeware, most of the minesweeper clones are free, although some are considerably better than others, and neverball (http://www.icculus.org/neverball/) is absolutely awesome...
ooh- and so is argonaut-2149 (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13225), which is asteroids, but with enemies, and crystals you can use to buy stuff.

[Atheist_Peace]

I suggest Scorched 3D (http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/), which is a game similar to Worms. It's totally free. You need OS X with X11, and remember to install it in the system volume. It's fun

[MacNeXT]

Sigma Chess is the best chess game I know. It's shareware.

[russed]

chopper is fun, and free. cant remember where i found it though. but i guess it wont be too hard. the game anyway is one of those strangely addictive horisontal scrollling screen flying games. really fun and addictive! particuarly whne you are bored and have time to fill but not too much time!

also, americas army is good. a decent game for free. nice!

[Vlade]

chopper is fun, and free. cant remember where i found it though. but i guess it wont be too hard. the game anyway is one of those strangely addictive horisontal scrollling screen flying games. really fun and addictive! particuarly whne you are bored and have time to fill but not too much time!


http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/action_adventure/chopper.html

Thats a great game I know the developer of both Chopper and Water Tower, I will mention to them that they were recommended, that should bring them a smile :).

PS : There is a watertower 3D in the works, and the test build I have seen looks promising :)

[pgc6000]

I decided to download Americas Army and it 743 megabites. But it still has almost 24 hours left before it can finish downloading :( ummm is this normal?

[ChrisFromCanada]

I decided to download Americas Army and it 743 megabites. But it still has almost 24 hours left before it can finish downloading :( ummm is this normal?

are you on high speed? if yes then it should be going much faster try a different mirror.

[pgc6000]

Yeah, Im using hi-speed cable. I'll try a diffrent mirrior

[Diatribe]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I am downloading right now and I'll try them out tonight.

[pgc6000]

Okay good. I tried a diffrent mirrior for AA and it downloading pretty fast

[neoelectronaut]

I suggest Scorched 3D (http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/), which is a game similar to Worms. It's totally free. You need OS X with X11, and remember to install it in the system volume. It's fun

Holy cow, an update to Scorched Earth!?

I used to play that game all the freaking time on my old 486. One of my favorite games of all time. I'll have to check this out.

And oh yes, don't forget the Mac classic Glider (http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun/)

[comictimes]

I feel silly asking this, but how do you get into the game of scorched earth 3d? I've downloaded it, installed it, and opened the scorched3d-launch package (it's all that was installed), and now I'm confused... the onle thing in the program is in the menu bar I can choose to relaunch scorched earth 3d...
help! it looks really cool, but how do I connect to servers and such?

[kettle]

As for freeware, most of the minesweeper clones are free, although some are considerably better than others, and neverball (http://www.icculus.org/neverball/) is absolutely awesome...



Neverball is quite amazing for freeware, takes me back to Spindizzy on the C64. This is a brilliant 3D marble maze coin collecting game. 9/10

15MB for neverball but very worth it for dial up peeps, easy to customise/skin the graphics too.

:)

[ibjoshua]

Slightly off-topic but, this is a particularly nice Flash game

Pixelfield (http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/pixelfield_e.html)

i_b_joshua

[Diatribe]

Okay I played a couple of games and I must say Snood is one of the worst games ever... it kept me awake until 3:30 in the morning :D
Americas Army is really nice too, so is never ball.
Definitely some good suggestions. Thanks.

[Atheist_Peace]

I feel silly asking this, but how do you get into the game of scorched earth 3d? I've downloaded it, installed it, and opened the scorched3d-launch package (it's all that was installed), and now I'm confused... the onle thing in the program is in the menu bar I can choose to relaunch scorched earth 3d...
help! it looks really cool, but how do I connect to servers and such?

I had problems with it, when I first installed it. This was because I installed it not in the system volume, but in another volume.. The Scorched3D-launch application must be in the Applications folder, where your OS X is installed. If it is there, then you may not have X11: (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/download/).. If you also have this, then I don't know.. check the forum on the Scorched3D page. You may find your answer

[Poff]

Holy cow, an update to Scorched Earth!?

I used to play that game all the freaking time on my old 486. One of my favorite games of all time. I'll have to check this out.

And oh yes, don't forget the Mac classic Glider (http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun/)

Scorched Earth was the greatest game ever! Me and a friend played a game of 1000 rounds one night. Man was I tired when we were finished! He won.

[CubaTBird]

try any of the demos from pangea software or phelios, some of them are not bad ;)

[Poff]

chopper