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Places to get shareware and freeware games

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While there are obvious places where game demo or shareware downloads can be found, like cd.textfiles.com, archive.org or FilePlanet, they are often tiresome to navigate, and may still lack the files needed. On the other hand, not every classic/retro gaming website has a downloads section, leaving the users to find the games that have caught their attention on their own.

 

The alternative to this are file repositories that are more or less focused on a particular time period, genre and/or platform. These can be divided into several categories:

 

Active shareware developers and publishers from 90's

11th Dimension Entertainment

Adept Software

Alivesoft

Apogee Software/3D Realms

Arcanum Computing

Astral Entertainment (now Monkey with a Moustache Entertainment)

Awkward Software

Bluemoon Interactive

Bog Turtle Games LLC

Brainchild Design

Brain Block Interactive, Inc.

Carl Ericson's Computer Games

Carr Software

Clonk

Copysoft

Cornutopia

Dataware Software

Digital Nightmares

Everett Kaser Software

Free Lunch Design

Games By Eric Henson

Games By Scott

Gray Design Associates

Homebrew Software

Hungry Software

Inter-Active Arts

KnightSoft Technologies

Lexaloffle games

Longbow Games

Malfador Machinations

Midnight Synergy

Moraff's Games

Mountain King Studios Inc.

MVP Software

NecroBones Enterprises

ORT Software

Redwood Games

Ron Heuse Software Development

Sean O'Connor's Games

Shareware Hangvogel

Slicks'n'SLide

Soleau Software

Spiderweb Software

Star Wraith 3D Games

Tactical Soft

Terminal Studio

UnReal World

Viable Software Alternatives

Wendell Hicken Online

Wiering Software

 

Shareware developers and publishers from 2000's

300AD

Awem

Basilisk Games

Bitbliss Studios

BlitWise Productions

Choco Snow Creation

Codeminion

Divo Games

Heroic Fantasy Games

Jade Games

Jagged Blade Games

Mitorah Games

Niels Bauer Games

Phelios

Quest Engine

Rake in Grass

Redclaw Games

Sillysoft

Soldak Entertainment

Stormcloud Creations

Superluminal Inc.

VSBgames

 

Game developer and publisher FTP sites

ftp://ftp.atari.com/demos/

ftp://ftp.bluebyte.com/demos/

ftp://ftp.gtinteractive.com/demos/

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/

ftp://ftp.lucasarts.com/demos/pc/

ftp://ftp.team17.com/pub/t17/demos/pc

ftp://ftp.ubisoft.com/Demos/

ftp://ftp.wizworks.com/demos/

http://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/demos/

 

Mirrors:

ftp://ftp.games.skynet.be/spool1/games/ftp.bioware.com/demos/

ftp://ftp.games.skynet.be/spool1/games/ftp.westwood.com/

http://ftp.gameaholic.com/pub/mirrors/ftp.blizzard.com/

 

DOS games

ftp://ftp.padua.org/pub/msdos/dos/games/local/

ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/msdos/games/

http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/coast/games/

ftp://ftp.pgp.net/pub/msdos/dos/games/local/

http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/games/PC/

ftp://ftp.uni-potsdam.de/pub/systems/dos/games/

ftp://delphi.hs-niederrhein.de/pub/dos/games/

http://www.ftp.funet.fi/index/msdos/games/

http://www.gamers.org/pub/archives/uwp-uml/

 

Windows games

ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm1/ntware/games/files/

ftp://ftp.farlep.net/pub/clubix/demo/

ftp://ftp.farlep.net/pub/clubix/demo2/

ftp://ftp.farlep.net/pub/clubix/demo3/

ftp://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/.m/archive1l/ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/win95/games/

ftp://ftp.gamers.org/pub/mirrors/ftp.gamesdomain.co.uk/demos/

ftp://ftp.peliplaneetta.net/pelidemot/

ftp://ftp.uni-potsdam.de/pub/systems/win95/games/

http://elektron-bbs.dyndns.org/files/win95/spiele/

http://ftp.gameaholic.com/pub/demos/

 

These lists are of course incomplete and any further suggestions are more than welcome :)

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No shareware/freeware games from the current game companies such as Activision, Blizzard, EA, 2K games, Take-Two and Ubisoft?

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Well you're a handy penguin to have around.

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No shareware/freeware games from the current game companies such as Activision, Blizzard, EA, 2K games, Take-Two and Ubisoft?

Well, there are FTP sites/mirrors of some of these companies in one of the lists above, not sure if you meant that.

 

I certainly don't know about any freeware games from Blizzard, I think there are none. Same with EA, unless you count the C&C titles.

 

Well you're a handy penguin to have around.

Heheh, thanks! :D

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Just found this really huge blog dedicated to liberated games:

http://juegosliberados.blogspot.com/

 

It's in either Spanish or Portuguese (can't tell because I'm not very familiar with both languages), but everything is pretty self-explanatory. The blog seems to feature quite a few really obscure games too.

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