Have (no) Freeware, Will Travel

MayGodHaveMercy

Flying tonight... taking a laptop with me. I'm looking for a few freeware games I can download to keep me busy. I have Toribash so far, but I play that so much... I'm not sure it's going to keep me entertained for the whole flight. Any other recommendations?

B:L

Cave Story
Iji
Dafoe adventure games (Five Days a Stranger, Seven Days a Skeptic, Trilby Files, Six Days a Sacrifice)
Beneath a Steel Sky
I Wanna Be The Guy
Charles Barkley Shut Up And Jam Gaiden

Technicality

Dwarf fortress. If its your kind of thing it will keep you entertained for the whole flight on its own.. And the next few months.

MayGodHaveMercy

Awesome, thank you. Keep 'em coming.

Pheezer

Battle For Wesnoth. Freeware turn based strategy game.

It's really awesome at first, but that only lasts for a few weeks. Then the relatively uncomplex combat and build systems sort of begin to expose themselves and you realize that it's less of a strategy game and more of a really complex puzzle game where the goal is to just find the right solution for each map (at least on all of the higher difficulty maps). When you're starting out, and at least for a good little while, it's completely fucking rad though.

Pheezer

Actually, here's a free turn based strategy game overview. Some of it looks pretty promising, make sure you come back and post about which games you found to be the best:
http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/05/15/an-overview-of-free-turn-based-strategy-and-war-games/

VThornheart

Amen on Battle for Wesnoth, Pheezer. That game is the king of my world. Mainly because once you've gotten through that first phase you talk about, you're ready to start playing multiplayer... and the multiplayer rocks all sorts of socks (when it doesn't crash, which they're improving on a lot).

There used to be a thriving Wesnoth multiplayer community here at the PA forums (that I was but one of)... and though it's died down, it could probably be *easily* resurged, if you find you get hooked on the plane ride and want to do some multiplayer when you get back. Hell, even just talking about it for this short post makes me want to get back into it.

TychoCelchuuu

Mechcommander 2.

MKR

Castle of the Winds

TychoCelchuuu

Beneath a Steel Sky that B:L mentioned is now free on GOG.com, even. So go there!

More options:

Chivalry is Not Dead
Empyreal Nocturne
Masq
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vonPoonBurGer

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Beneath a Steel Sky that B:L mentioned is now free on GOG.com, even. So go there!

Lure of the Temptress is also available there. While it's not on gog.com, Flight of the Amazon Queen (another Revolution Software adventure game) is also freeware. You can download it from the ScummVM site, along with the ScummVM emulator needed to play it.

You can even download ScummVM for a number of smartphones. I usually make sure it's on my phone before a trip, along with the freeware adventure games they have available. That way if my laptop and DS both run out of juice, I've got a backup source of entertainment. Mind you, I've been taking some pretty epic long flights lately (Washington DC to Johannesburg, South Africa).

Burtletoy

Elona is pretty sweet.

TL DR

With Elona and especially Dwarf Fortress it seems you'd also want to download a copy of the wiki or else be totally lost.

yalborap

Everything available from ABA Games. Crazy awesome shmups that can entertain for hours.

mcdermott

Timothy Leary Come Check Out This Theory wrote: »

With Elona and especially Dwarf Fortress it seems you'd also want to download a copy of the wiki or else be totally lost.

Yeah, trying to figure out Dwarf Fortress without a connection to the interwebs would be pretty painful.

UltimaGecko

Elona you might be able to figure out from the in-game opening tutorial (to some extent), but Dwarf Fortress will almost certainly require a copy of a tutorial from the wiki or elsewhere.