After someone asked for free games, I was thinking about that he's certainly not the only person looking for free games.

And with "free", I really mean really free games, not allegedly "free" games with microtransactions and the like, just games where you can get the whole experience without ever being asked to spend a dime. I also won't include demos of games, just entire ones. If you ever have some additional gem suggestions, feel free to post them so I can add them to the list.

First place to check list would be GOG, as they are kind enough to have a special page just to list their free games, and unlike Steam doesn't include any "free" to play titles. While some are very old (Akalabeth for instance released in 1979, considerably older than many users here on the forum), about half of the titles actually released in the last 10 years or so. I will list them all in the second post.

DOSGames.com Free DOS game downloads - Over 2,000 games!, an abandonware site with many classic titles not commercially available anymore (games on their site that are commercially available link to their respective GOG site instead of a download link).

Archive.org's Dos Game Library, all playable in browser (which also means no saving after session ends)

Limited time Free game alerts:

Epic:

• Industria
• LISA - The Definitive Edition

Both until May 3rd

Steam:

• nothing

GOG:

• nix

UPlay:

• rien de rien

EA Origin:

• nada

Alphabethical list of games:

Nice idea, I'll list the ones I have on Steam:

Aperture Desk Job (free Portal spin-off, really funny)

Doki Doki Literature Club (just a cute little game about poems... *cough*)

Eternal Senia (Great RPG maker game with a heartfelt story)

The Murder of Sonic The Hedgehog (Visual novel where Sonic dies, what's not to love?)

Trackmania Nations Forever (Free racing game where you can make your own tracks, a classic)

Yume Nikki (16-bit horror RPG with a cult following, haven't played it yet but heard great things)

Sword Game (An action party game by yours truly)

Thanks, I will add them to the list as soon as I can

Also, kudos on making your own game!

https://www.dosgames.com/

I used to use this site a lot back in the day.

This is an abandonware site. While not exactly what I meant with free games, it seems well curated in the sense that commercially available games are not available for download on the site, so I'll add it to the first post

Freeware:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freeware_video_games

Command and Conquer and Red Alert are for some reason not listed but have been freeware for a while.

Well, looks like I have a lot to add then ^^

C&C are not on the list because it's basically a community patch that makes the original releases free, but the games are still commercially available both in their remastered forms and through EA Play. I had the links on my old thread in another forum, I'll see if I can recover them from there.

I just saw that this list doesn't contain open-source titles:

List of open-source video games - Wikipedia

Or titles that were previously commercial for that matter (hence why command and conquer was missing: It's on that list, not the freeware list):

List of commercial video games released as freeware - Wikipedia

So it looks like I have a lot of games to add onto this list. That's gonna take a while before it's done...

Over the years, I've nabbed one high-profile free game on Steam after another. I now have a really nice catalogue of "real" free games on there. Don't know if Steam is that generous anymore (I rarely log in these days, mostly because I don't have a PC to handle it), but if you have an account, I'd just check in every so often and strike when one of them pops up.