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Atlantica Online is a free-to-play MMORPG from Ndoors Interactive that features a time-limited turn based combat system which in some ways is similar to Final Fantasy. The game is supported through microtransactions from the game’s Item Mall, but the items are fairly expensive in my opinion.
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Regnum Online is a free to play MMORPG that is developed in Argentina. The world is divided into three separate realms (kingdoms) that are at war with each other. The game has both PvE and PvP, many quests, and decent 3D graphics that are on par with many other commercial MMORPGs. You can choose to be a Human, Elf, Dark Elf, Half-Elf, Morlock, or Utghar.
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Warsow is a FPS built upon a modified Quake 2 engine that uses cellshading combined with fast paced action and acrobatics (trick jumps, dodging, etc) to create a hell of a game. Warsow has an unusual take on CTF where you have to touch the enemy flag spawn every ten seconds while your team has the flag or it will return to the enemy base. Warsow also has bots so you can practice by yourself.
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America's Army is a FPS developed by the United States Army (hence the name). I think it is probably the coolest recruiting tool that the army has ever developed. It is multi-player with single-player training missions, slow paced compared to Quake-style games, and very realistic (one shot, one kill happens often). Play this game, especially if you're an American, because you paid for it with taxes. America's Army is one of the most popular online games in existence.
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Enemy Territory is a FPS that was going to be an add-on to Return to Castle Wolfenstein but was released as a standalone freeware game. Join either the Axis or Allies, choose your profession, and work with your team to capture enemy objectives. It is multi-player only, fast paced, team based, and loads of fun. ***Because it's OK to kill Nazis.***
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Wormux is a clone of the game Worms, where up to four teams of characters try to murder each other with a variety of weapons (some of them bizzare) in a two dimentional deformable landscape. Players take turns controlling one member of their team and have a limited amount of time to move, aim, and try to kill the other teams.
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Legends - The Game is a free open source game extremely similar to Starsiege - Tribes. It has beautiful 3D graphics and supports online play with 30+ players in a match. The engine used in this game is called the Torque Game Engine and is created by some of the original authors of Tribes.
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Nexuiz is a 3D FPS based off of the Quake 1 source code. They have added realtime lighting and shadowing, new particle effects, and an advanced menu system, among other things. It currently has several different game modes: deathmatch, CTF, Teamplay, Runematch, and Domination.
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PokerTH is a Texas Hold'em game where you can play online against other people (for free, no betting real money) or by yourself against up to six computer controlled opponents. The artificial intelligence is pretty good and has improved with the last few releases, but it rarely trys to bluff and is not easily bluffed by you. I think PokerTH is probably one of the best computer card game I have played. Check out Linux.com's review.
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Frets on Fire is a Guitar Hero style game where you hold your keyboard like a guitar and play. It also support guitar controllers and songs from Guitar Hero 1 and 2. The game has great graphics that feel highly polished like a commercial game. More songs can be downloaded from Keyboards on Fire and FretsOnFire.net.
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Alien Arena is yet another multiplayer FPS based off of the Quake 2 / Quake 3 GPL'ed source code. Alien Arena 2007 has many graphical effects and features include AI bots, alternate fire modes for weapons, a grappling hook, a built-in server browser, game mutators like vampire and regen, and multiple game types including CTF and Deathball. The game has a sort of 50's era sci-fi look, but it plays just like every other Quake based shooter out there.
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Knight Online is a MMORPG that is fully 3D and has outstanding graphics for a freeware game. You can form a party with other players and fight monsters to level your character or complete quests. You can choose to be either an Orc or Human, and they occasionally have wars between the two species.
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Celestia is a space simulation program. You can zoom in on planets and asteroids to see incredibly accurate detail and zoom out to see the entire galaxy. Until space travel becomes a reality, this is the best way to explore. Also try the Nasa's Celestia Exploration Activity.
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Starsiege - Tribes is a online FPS was huge back in the day. Now it has dated graphics, but it still fun to play. This game really kicked off the online capture the flag syndrome that almost every other online FPS has imitated ever since.
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Warzone 2100 is a real-time strategy game released by Eidos Interactive under the open source GPL license in 2004. It has nice pseudo-3D graphics, a multiplayer mode, and is quite fun to play. The game is similar to Earth2150.
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TripleA is an open source clone of the Axis and Allies board game. It is written in Java and has fully functional AI. I have been watching this game for quite a while and I am very impressed with the progress the developers have made. I am finally able to enjoy a game that I remember fondly from my childhood.
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Dink Smallwood is probably one of the funniest adventure games I have ever played. It is an adventure game where you play the sarcastic hero. They used to sell this game but now they give it away as freeware.
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Dungeon Runners is a free to play, fast paced point and click MMORPG with premium content from NCSoft, the makers of Guild Wars. They have done a fairly good job of putting humor into the game, which shows up in the NPC dialog and even the names of items (such as cardboard sword). The graphics and movement of the game remind me of World of Warcraft but the combat is much more like Diablo.
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Cube is a FPS that is similar to Quake. It features OpenGL, single/multiplayer, a physics engine, lighting, built in map editor, etc. The map editor can even have multiple people in a multiplayer game editing the map at once.
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XaoS is not a game but an incredibly fun waste of time. It is a real-time fractal viewer. What does that mean? It means you can explore colorful mathematical equations with interactive zooming, color cycling, a 3D filter, and more. Trippy.
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SWINE is an RTS game where the pigs and rabbits fight it out in the World War 2 era. Good graphics and level design make this game well worth the download.
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Grand Theft Auto is the game that put Rockstar on the map, spawned several sequels, and sparked a lot of controversy. You are a gangster who steals cars and kills people for points. As you can tell, not much has changed from the newer games (which is a good thing). The game is played from a top-down perspective while you run through Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas (sound familiar?) causing mayham and destruction for points.
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