Best Free Downloadable Games

If you're looking for the best free downloadable games, I only hope you're not using Linux or a Mac, because free games are pretty hard to find anyway, as long as you're not into Flash games you can play in your browser. After all, we're talking about free downloadable games, right? Considering this, we'll take out Flash games from the start, although some of them can be easily downloaded and enjoyed offline.

OK, ready or not, here's a quick list of the best free downloadable games I managed to play so far - and be sure that most of them can't match today's commercial games, but if you have some old computer lying around, most of them can put it to good use(anyway, that doesn't mean there aren't any free downloadable games that can make even today's powerful computers to sweat a little, like Nexuiz).

1. Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a pretty realistic shooter that allows you to fight other people online and team work is the key to success. Based on the single player game Return to Castle Wolfenstein, released back in 2001, this game is still far from its final hour.

2. True Combat: Elite is a modification for the Enemy Territory game that turns it into a modern day shooter from the rusty WW2 maps and weapons used by the original, but beware - starting off could be extremely tricky online, since you can't simply walk in the open and shoot around, because one bullet can kill!

3. Since I mentioned Nexuiz earlier, here you have it - a really fast-paced shooter reminding me of Quake 3 - after all, it uses its graphics engine, but heavily modified, so it's even better than Quake 3 - just give it a try, it's free, and it doesn't bite!

4. Tremulous is another excellent shooter based on the id Tech 3 graphics engine from Quake 3, offering Aliens vs Humans multiplayer team combat with some RTS elements.

5. Leaving shooters behind, we have The Battle For Wesnoth, a great online multiplayer TBS game with RPG elements with development going on at full speed since 2003. Best part of it - it's corss-platform, so if you can't reach a Windows PC, don't worry - it also runs on Macs and most Linux-based PCs!

6. Getting back to the shooters realm, I only have one more to tell you about - Alien Arena, a game that takes the old id Tech 2 engine where it has never gone before, making all those who see it go "WOW!" when looking back at Quake 2, the game that used it for the first time.

7. No, this is not a game, but simply a useful advice - if you want more, just be sure to use Google to find the best free downloadable games to suit your gaming needs, but since it is my duty and pleasure helping you, here's a page worth its value in gold - the Wikipedia freeware games page. It may not be the ultimate resource, since I don't think such a resource exists, but it's a great place to start.

Just one more thing - as usual, if you have something useful to add, don't be shy and drop your valuable hints below. After all, there's always one more free downloadable game to discover hiding somewhere...

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