Freeware games

Free games for your PC, try all of them at least once! There's absolutely no reason not to.

The absolute motherlode of PC games with expired/unusedcopyrights, a.k.a. Abandonware, abandonia.com

[http://is.gd/9lXQ4 Easy guide to downloading online flash games to play offline. ]

SA thread full of flash games, most of which range from good to excellent.(This thread no longer active, continuation thread here.)

Another list of flash games.

Indie Game Database.

http://www.pixelprospector.com/2010/06/235-free-indie-games-in-10-minutes/ A Video of 235 free freeware games in 10 minutes with a full list of links to each and game! Contains many of the games listed below aswell as a few cult classics and even then there's still a shitload more! If anyone wants to download, play and select the best of the list to add to this list, that'd be godlike.

'If you would like the games in order of genre, simply click the arrow next to Genre''. Same goes with everything else.'''

The Underside Metroidvania/Platformer


 * As we need more freeware, it would be nice to have someone with alot of free time to go through sites such as http://experimentalgameplay.com/ and pick the best of the best to go on this here list.
 * Gamesradar has a list of 365 freegames which is worth a look: http://www.gamesradar.com/f/365-days-of-free-games/a-2008071714293190000 Aswell as a list of 30 commercial games that are also free (maybe best sorted into the PC games section: http://www.gamesradar.com/f/30-commercial-games-released-for-free/a-20100202122153157099 happy hunting.