List of freeware video games

• Open source games.
• Games that were previously sold commercially.
• Shareware or Free-to-play games that require purchase for play time, game items, new content or features.
• Browser games alias browser-based games.
• Mods: software that cannot be played as stand-alone game.

A

• Aleph One, a modified version of the Marathon 2 engine
• Ahriman's Prophecy, a prequel to the Aveyond RPG series.
• Alien Swarm, a free top down shooter from Valve used to test the Source 2010 beta.
• America's Army is the official United States Army game.
• Anchorhead, a horror interactive fiction game.
• ADOM, a roguelike game by Thomas Biskup.
• Assault Cube, a Counter-Strike-like first person shooter with low system requirements.
• Astro Battle, a top down multi-directional shooter in which players design their own spacecraft and battle other players on-line.

B

• Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, a futuristic role-playing video game starring basketballer Charles Barkley.
• Battleships Forever, a real time tactics game with a ship designer.
• Beneath a Steel Sky, a point-and-click adventure game.
• BMW M3 Challenge, a BMW M3 car racing game.
• Black Mesa, a third-party remake of Half-Life.
• BVE Trainsim, a railroad simulator created by Mackoy of Japan.
• Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars, a fan-made Broken Sword game.

C

• Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, a roguelike survival game.
• Cave Story, a side-scrolling action-adventure game.
• Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain, 3D platformer released as a companion to Celeste.
• Cellfactor: Revolution, a single-player and multiplayer game that uses the Ageia Physx engine.
• Championship Manager: Season 01/02, a football management video game in Sports Interactive's Championship Manager series.
• Chex Quest, a comedic Doom clone.
• Chicken Invaders, a space shooter by InterAction Studios.
• Cho Ren Sha 68K, a vertically scrolling shooter game.
• Chzo Mythos, a set of four separate adventure games: 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Skeptic, Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a Sacrifice by Ben Croshaw.
• Cloud, a third-person computer puzzle game based on weather and atmospheric aesthetics.
• Continuum, a top-down multiplayer video game.

D

• The Dark Mod, inspired by the original Thief series.
• A Date with Death, a visual novel and dating sim.
• Deadly Rooms of Death, a turn-based puzzle game available in two free versions: Architect's Edition and browser-based Flash version.
• Deepest Sword, a puzzle-based platform game.
• Digital - A Love Story, a computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988.
• DinoHunters, an advertisement-supported first person shooter and machinima series created by Kuma Reality Games.
• Dogfights: The Game, a combat flight simulator based on the History Channel series of the same name.
• Don't Shit Your Pants, a text-based browser game.
• Dwarf Fortress, a real-time fantasy roguelike.
• Doki Doki Literature Club!, a popular visual novel game developed by Team Salvato.
• Dr. Blob's Organism, a shoot 'em up, released originally in 2003 and as freeware in 2008.

E

• Eastside Hockey Manager, a hockey manager game.
• Eternal Daughter, a Castlevania-style action-adventure game.
• Elona, an open world roguelike game.
• Elsword, a free-to-play MMORPG.
• ''Eversion''

F

• Food Force, a game where the player must deliver food to places in which people are starving.
• Future Pinball, a pinball simulation editor and game with many tables available.
• FNaF World, a spin-off of FNaF.
• Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator PC version only.

G

• Gate88, an abstract top-down futuristic real-time strategy space combat simulator.
• Genetos, a scrolling shooter.
• General, a strategy game with text interface.
• Grid Wars, a clone of Geometry Wars.
• GROW, a series of puzzle games.
• Gunster, a discontinued multiplayer scrolling shooter.
• Guns and Robots, a multiplayer third-person shooter.

H

• Hero Core, a shooter game with Metroidvania elements, made by Daniel Remar.
• Hydorah, a 2D Shoot 'em up similar to games such as Gradius. Was later released as a non-freeware title under the name Super Hydorah.

I

• I'm O.K – A Murder Simulator, a satirical side-scrolling shooter by Derek Yu.
• Ib, a horror/puzzle RPG Maker game.
• Icy Tower, a tower-climbing platform game.
• Ikachan, an action-adventure game by Studio Pixel.
• Iji, a platform-shooter by Daniel Remar.
• IMVU, an online social entertainment game.
• Inner Worlds, a DOS platformer where you play as a woman that turns into a wolf.
• I Wanna Be the Guy, a 2D platformer.

J

• Jump 'n Bump, a multiplayer battle game.
• , a Lego-themed puzzle game.

K

• Knytt Stories, a 2D exploration platformer with a built in editor by Nicklas Nygren.

L

• La-Mulana, a 2D platform game.
• Lexus ISF Track Time, a Lexus ISF car racing game.
• Liero, a 2D side-scrolling shooting game for one or two players.
• Liyla and the Shadows of War, a 2D side-scrolling platform game about the 2014 Gaza War.
• Little Fighter, a beat'em up DOS fighting game.
• Little Fighter 2, a sequel to Little Fighter released for Windows.The Looker, a parody of the puzzle game The Witness
• Loved, a browser-based game released online to various game hosting websites.

M

• Maldita Castilla, a platform game released in 2012, developed by Locomalito.
• Magestorm Revival, a team based FPS game recreated by KOD.
• Mad Father, an RPG Maker game created by Miscreant's Room
• Moon Whistle, a classic RPG Maker game made by Kannazuki Sasuke.
• Monster Milktruck, a single-player online game using Google Earth technology.
• The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, an official Sonic the Hedgehog visual novel released to celebrate April Fools' Day.
• MUGEN, a custom fighting game engine.
• The Museum of Broken Memories, an adventure game by Jonas Kyratzes.

N

• N, a platform game.
• Narbacular Drop, a 3D puzzle video game developed by Nuclear Monkey Software. It is the precursor to Valve's Portal.
• Noctis, a space exploration simulator.
• Notrium, a survival game.
• , a racing game.

O

• Off (video game), a French RPG game about an entity known as "The Batter" and his quest to purify the world of OFF.Off-Peak, an adventure game set in a train station
• One Night Trilogy, a series of three survival horror games.
• , a train simulator.
• OpenTTD, a transport business simulation game with planes, trains, and boats.
• osu!, a simulator of the rhythm video games Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan and Elite Beat Agents.

P

• Painter, an Amidar clone.
• Perspective, a single player puzzle game that includes aspects of a 2-D platformer where the player switches between a 2D and a 3D game environment.
• Plasma Pong, an unfinished Pong game in which the ball is manipulated by a fluid dynamics environment.
• Play65, an online multi-player backgammon game featuring 3D graphics and community modules.
• Plobb!, an Asteroids-like multidirectional shooter.
• Progress Quest, a parody of EverQuest and the MMORPG genre, focuses on pure character building with no interaction involved.
• Project Reality, a standalone modification of tactical first-person shooter Battlefield 2.

R

• Ragnarok Battle Offline, a 2D fighting game that is spin off of the MMO Ragnarok Online.
• The Realms of Loria, a free browser-based multi-player online roleplaying game, set in Loria, a medieval fantasy world.

S

• Samorost, a point-and-click adventure game.
• Scorched 3D, a 3D remake of an artillery game Scorched Earth.
• A Second Face, a sci-fi adventure game.
• Second Life, a virtual online world, created by its users. Developed by Linden Lab.
• Seiklus, an ambient single-player action-adventure game.
• Shobon no Action, a Japanese game notorious for its difficulty.
• SimSig, a train simulation game based on real UK signalling systems.
• Skifree, a game for early versions of Microsoft Windows.
• Soldat, a 2D, fast-paced, action multi-player shooting game with many different game modes and weapon choices.
• Space Combat, a 3D space simulator.
• Space Funeral, a horror and RPG parody game.
• Space Tanks, a 2D/3D gravity game.
• StepMania, a rhythm based game with online capability.
• SubSpace, a 2D top-down space shooter game with massive multiplayer capabilities.
• Super Cosplay War Ultra, a 2D fighting game featuring cosplayers.
• Synaesthete, a psychedelic rhythm shooter.
• Synth, an abstract procedurally rendered 3D game.
• ''Microsoft Solitaire''

T

• Tag: The Power of Paint, a 3D first-person action & puzzle game that uses paint to manipulate physics.
• , a 2D side-scrolling platform game.
• TagPro, a browser-based multiplayer capture the flag game.
• Temporal, a platform game involving time travel based puzzles.
• The Powder Toy, a falling-sand game that simulates physical and chemical reactions.
• Tinker, also known as Microsoft Tinker, a 3D puzzle game for Windows.
• Trackmania Nations, a 3D racing game specially developed for the Electronic Sports World Cup by Nadeo.
• Transcendence, a 2D space adventure game featuring extended moddability.
• TUMIKI Fighters, a 3D scrolling shooter.
• Toribash, a 3D ragdoll fighting game in which you control every joint of your fighter.
• Tough Guy: Fighting Titans, fighting game available from Super Fighter Team.

U

• Star Control II: Ur-Quan Masters
• UnReal World, a survival roguelike set in a world inspired by the late Iron Age of Finland
• Urban Terror, a free multiplayer shooter that can run on any quake 3 arena compatible engine

V

• Vanguard Princess, a dōjin 2D fighting game
• Visual Pinball, a pinball simulation editor and game with many tables available.
• Vestaria Saga, a tactical role-playing game from Shouzou Kaga, the creator of the Fire Emblem series.

W

• Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction, an apocalyptic, first-person shooter.
• Warning Forever, a vertical shooter.
• The WereCleaner, a 2024 stealth-comedy game.
• Within a Deep Forest, a 2D physics and exploration game.
• WolfQuest, a wildlife simulation game.

Y

• Yume Nikki, a relatively well known "exploration" game themed around dreams and nightmares with pixel graphics, which gained a cult following.

Z

• Zineth, an indie third person skating game where you must traverse an environment with speed and agility.