Freeware games

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

This list is not for shareware or "abandonware" titles, but for games that are genuinely free so you can be both a cheapass and a righteous snob about it.

As more MMO Games go free-to-play, they are technically "freeware," but they're pretty specific, and you can't play them anymore if the company servers go away. These recommendations are for games that are free and are for single-player or LAN parties.

Links

 * Abandonia The absolute motherload of PC games with expired/unused copyrights, a.k.a. Abandonware (not all will contain the original music though)
 * The Freehare Moderated list of freeware games maintained by someone who actually plays and rates all the games before listing them.
 * How to download online flash games for playing offline
 * Something Awful thread full of flash games, most of which range from good to excellent.
 * Something Awful thread that picks up where previous left off
 * New Something Awful thread, with the newest links and a new site to archive the older links Games 1-500 Games 501-1000 Games 1001-1500
 * Smashing Magazine list of flash games
 * Indie Game Database.
 * 235 free indie games in 10 minutes A showcase video with a full list of links to each and game
 * Link
 * Link A free program that lets you view a list of 100+ freeware games, updated weekly, with info on each aswell as their relevant site and youtube videos. Games range from 500kb to 500mb aswell as quality but within the mess of clones and guff are some real gems.
 * Chanarchive.org.Though an archive site for all of 4chan there are sometimes a few pages were /v/ talks about freeware, the newest of which can be found here; Link though using the search tool on the site can result in a few more pages.
 * http://hg101.proboards.com/thread/5963/official-indie-free-games-thread yep, HardcoreGaming101's forum has a bigass list of freeware as posted by it's members. some damn fine games can be found here!