This is the best PC sidescroller i've played, besides maybe Cave Story (also free, mentioned before). The dungeons are randomly generated (using 4 different themes), so every playthough is different. It's also very challenging, in a good way. When you die it's often in a funny manner and entirely your own fault, never due to some game bug.

The game does end, but I've only gotten to the end once or twice, and there are many challenges/secrets beyond simply reaching the end.

Scorcher2k

United States802 Posts

June 12 2010 00:24 GMT

#122

Dear lord I miss Q3... The 2k that is usually appended onto my name is a tribute to that game. Really wish I could have had the opportunity to play it competitively back in the day.

lac29

United States1485 Posts

June 12 2010 00:58 GMT

#123

Spelunky looks like fun ... thanks for the link!

Dikopotamus

United States3 Posts

June 12 2010 03:11 GMT

#124

Flash Flash Revolution

http://ffr.lightdarkness.net/FFR/
Rhythm game
Use the arrows (or any other key you want to set) to hit the arrows, ddr style.

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

June 12 2010 14:30 GMT

#125

Spelunky looks cool, I might try it out during the summer.

hideo

Canada1641 Posts

June 12 2010 14:59 GMT

#126

for those who ever had a passing interest in Total Annihilation:

http://springrts.com/

peacenl

550 Posts

June 12 2010 15:42 GMT

#127

Maple Story

I have to be honest, it's 100% free to play. Just don't lured into buying clothes you won't need

Snausages

United States529 Posts

June 12 2010 19:11 GMT

#128

On June 13 2010 00:42 peacenl wrote:
Maple Story

I have to be honest, it's 100% free to play. Just don't lured into buying clothes you won't need

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK1KbI_91o4

Who hasn't heard about Maple Story, lol.

Abenson

Canada4122 Posts

June 12 2010 19:16 GMT

#129

On June 13 2010 04:11 Snausages wrote:

Show nested quote +

Who hasn't heard about Maple Story, lol.

True.
I've a 135 retired-30-day-banned-once-bowmaster O_O

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

June 12 2010 19:57 GMT

#130

On June 13 2010 04:16 Abenson wrote:

Show nested quote +

True.
I've a 135 retired-30-day-banned-once-bowmaster O_O

Same except it was for ever ban lol.

chesshaha

United States1117 Posts

June 12 2010 20:30 GMT

#131

Kinda like TF2, I forgot why I stopped playing it, lol

http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/

flamewheel

FREEAGLELAND26780 Posts

June 12 2010 20:38 GMT

#132

Gosh this is an amazing thread. I just spent like 30 minutes playing rRootage.
Now to go through the rest of the games...

Oh and www.tetrisfriends.com since Tetris is amazing.

davj88

Italy74 Posts

June 12 2010 21:20 GMT

#133

Yume Nikki

Absurd, disturbing, obscure, sick and visionary game from japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yume_Nikki

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/images/timw/yumenikk.png

Awesome thread btw

SilentCrono

United States1420 Posts

June 12 2010 21:38 GMT

#134

i thought dwarf fortress got cancelled.

well, anyway, this is the best game ever:

Best Game Ever

Rising_Phoenix

United States370 Posts

June 12 2010 22:07 GMT

#135

Dear people: This is the 5th time Robot Unicorn has been mentioned. Please top linking to it.

Thank you.

Chanted

Norway1001 Posts

June 12 2010 22:25 GMT

#136

I see Enemy Territory is mentioned here, really great game! If someone who still plays alot could direct me to some servers who arent filled with bots, I would greatly appreciate a PM on that matter

Tried Quakelive earlier today, got owned as I have been in 1 person shooters for the last 10 years :D

Zoler

Sweden6339 Posts

June 12 2010 22:32 GMT

#137

On June 12 2010 12:11 Dikopotamus wrote:
Flash Flash Revolution

http://ffr.lightdarkness.net/FFR/
Rhythm game
Use the arrows (or any other key you want to set) to hit the arrows, ddr style.

Why would you play that when you can play Stepmania? Which is also free.

hoborg

United States430 Posts

June 12 2010 22:41 GMT

#138

On June 01 2010 05:16 BDF92 wrote:
Trackmania

Amazing graphics, gameplay, and very competitive(appears at WCG).

And best of all... it's free!

Hey thanks for reminding me about this game. I just played it and it's a hell of a lot of fun for free!

You can get the free version off steam, too.

skindzer

Chile5114 Posts

June 12 2010 23:21 GMT

#139

Does anyone remember a game that was posted on TL some years ago where you were a ball created by an experiment and tried to save the world. It had awesome music and was quite fun.

jeppew

Sweden471 Posts

June 12 2010 23:39 GMT

#140

yes, the orc priest class is basically playing as orc jesus, you can walk on water and random orcs will become your disciples.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

"Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a free roguelike game of exploration and treasure-hunting in dungeons filled with dangerous and unfriendly monsters in a quest for the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot."

Dungeon crawl is one of my facourite games ever, it takes a little while to get into and forever to actually win just once. There's no story or anything like that, the goal is just to go down the generated dungeon and it's branches, eventually retreiving and exiting with the orb of Zot, a task which took me about 8-10 hours of play on a single character to complete.

The thing is that dying results in the permanent loss of your character, which isn't as bad as it sounds. I have so far made about 800 characters in crawl, and 798 of those have died horribly, and when those 2 guys got out after 10 hours in the dungeon you can bet i was happy. It's really exciting to see how far you can get and challanging areas really feel dangerous and you'll need to be on your toes because you can't just reload to some previous save and charge in again. Infact he only time you'll die to some random BS stuff is on the first few floors when your character is new, when it really doesn't matter because creating a new character will take you between 0.1 and 15 seconds.

Your succes in this game is very much based on correct decision-making, and to make the right decisions you need to know stuff about the game. So if you should really check out:

crawl-wiki
and
Henzells learnDB (using ctrl+f is advised)

if you run into something unkown or you just want to know stuff to get you going. For example here's some helpful info on the Tomb, one of the harder branches, from henzell learnDB:

"<jericho89> It's a cake-walk. But the cake is evil, and the filling is hydrochloric acid. And whoever blows out the candles WILL DIE IN SEVEN DAYS."