Free games thread

[Grimlakin]

Virtual City Playground®: Build Your Metropolis on Steam

Relaxing city builder where you grow a vibrant metropolis, produce goods, manage transit and build iconic landmarks at your own pace.

store.steampowered.com

Ooo that one seems like an itch scratcher.

 

[Ditchinit]

Virtual City Playground®: Build Your Metropolis on Steam

Relaxing city builder where you grow a vibrant metropolis, produce goods, manage transit and build iconic landmarks at your own pace.

store.steampowered.com

Similarly related, OpenTTD on GoG handles the transportation aspect of city building.

 

[Ditchinit]

Endless Sky on GoG ... to scratch that 2D space combat itch. Oh yeah, also included are commodity trading, fleet building, main story and side quests, and more ...

One of the nice things about GoG is that you can search their database for Free Games (e.g., while filtering out DLC and sorting by ranking) and come up with a list.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Darkenstein 3D on Steam

A retro shooter inspired by classics like Wolfenstein and Doom. Think of it as a tribute, a love letter to the games that defined a generation, with a few modern touches of my own. It’s tough, fast, and demands skill, just the way those old-school shooters did.

store.steampowered.com

Boggles my mind on two fronts.

First, MICROPROSE IS BACK!

Second, how on Good God's earth do they make this available for free (forever!) and only hope to make some money from the sale of the soundtrack???

My guess is, they want to avoid being sued by Bethesda for similarity to Wolfenstein games.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Heartopia on Steam

Welcome to Heartopia, a multiplayer life simulation game crafted for creativity, freedom, and peace. Build your dream home, explore a wide range of hobbies, and forge warm connections with friends in a town full of endless possibilities.

store.steampowered.com

 

[igor_kavinski]

Creepy Waves FM: Bugs Fixer on Steam

A young and promising boy applies for a job at a AAA game development company. As he starts working night shifts on probation, he experiences a series of events that could lead to no good. As the story unfolds, you will be able to choose what you would do in his place.

store.steampowered.com

 

[igor_kavinski]

Upload Labs on Steam

A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect

store.steampowered.com

 

[igor_kavinski]

Dead Frontier 2 on Steam

Survival horror MMO. As one of the few survivors of the outbreak, you must scratch a living out of the decaying ruins of society. Scavenge for supplies, improve your skills, and trade with other players. All the while, keeping your eyes peeled for the infected lurking around every corner.

store.steampowered.com

 

[igor_kavinski]

Samorost 1 on Steam

Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.

store.steampowered.com

 

[igor_kavinski]

NTE: Neverness to Everness on Steam

NTE is a supernatural urban open-world RPG developed by Hotta Studio. Your story begins in Hethereau as an unlicensed anomaly hunter. Team up with a diverse cast of companions, each with unique abilities, to unravel the city's mysteries.

store.steampowered.com

 

[igor_kavinski]

Someone created this using Claude Fable:

apexone.exe

drive.google.com

It's actually decently playable. Took him two days. DirectX 11.

 

[Grimlakin]

Oh wow...

 

[igor_kavinski]

Oh wow...

Any more observations?

 

[Grimlakin]

Any more observations?

Well not to be that guy... but you want me to download an executable from Google drive that is supposed to be a game written by AI in two days that utilizes direct X 11.

No.

For a few reasons.

1. I'm not going to download an unknown exe to my system from google drive.

2. I don't trust an game driving my 5090 written by AI not to cause a runaway condition and cook my card.

3. There is no way in hell this guy did a code review before publishing. It's by AI, we don't know what else it does beside a game. Give me a full code review so I know it's not going to do something else and I'm good.

I might spin up a VM to run it in that I can explicitly control resource allocation. But honestly... probably not.

Didn't want to be captain negative about some ones hard work to write a game with AI... but no way am I trusting rando AI written EXE from some dude's google drive.... with a 'trust me bro' warranty.

 

[igor_kavinski]

but no way am I trusting rando AI written EXE from some dude's google drive.... with a 'trust me bro' warranty.

No backup system or old laptop to try this? It ran fine on my 12700K and integrated GPU. I sold my 245KF so the 9060 XT 8GB is collecting dust and I'm too lazy to put it in the 12700K system at the moment. Someone else tried the VM approach. It runs like a slideshow. I guess the emulated 3D isn't fast enough for it.

Anyway, just tried it on my Tiger Lake laptop and recorded a video for you:

That final car annoyed me longer than it should have.