[clocknova]

With the posting of yesterday's article about free, cross-platform games, I thought I would post a list here of all the Mac-compatible games I have found so far. Some of them I discovered from yesterday's article, and others I found elsewhere. If anyone finds more that are worth checking out, please post them here, but just the free ones.

I haven't played all of these yet, so cannot account for the quality of all of them, and some are still in development, but here they are:

Battle for Wesnoth - Epic, fantasy turn-based strategy game
Cube 2: Sauerbraten - Multiplayer/Singleplayer FPS; much like UT
Eternal Lands - MMORPG
FreeCiv - Civilization 2 clone.
FreeCol - An old-school Colonization clone.
Glest - Fantasy RTS; pretty good Warcraft 3 clone.
Globulation 2 - 2D RTS.
Gridwars - Arcade-style action game.
LinCity - SimCity 2000 clone.
Nexuiz - Multiplayer/Singleplayer FPS; based on Quake 3: Arena
Planeshift - MMORPG; not finished yet, but tech demo is playable.
Scourge - 3D, Rogue-like RPG.
Space Exploration: Serpens Sector - Old-school space exploration RPG in the vein of Starflight and Escape Velocity.
VDrift - Car racing sim.
Vega Strike - Massive, 3D space combat/trading/exploration sim in the vein of the X series.
Warsow - Multiplayer FPS; like a cel-shaded Quake 3.
Warzone 2100 - Open source remake of classic 3D sci-fi RTS.
Widelands - RTS inspired by The Settlers 1 & 2
Yo Frankie! - 3D platformer.

EDIT: Can anyone correct my typo in the topic title. It should say "list" not "ist." It bugs me. [Edit: OK, but now you owe me 5 bucks -Eric]

EDIT: Added Widelands. (Thanks Eric: $$$$$)

[Janichsan]

Phew, there are quite a few that I encountered now and then, but I can't remember all of them right now. Here at least the ones that I still have in active use on my hard disk:
Solitair XL – obviously a solitair game
Angband – classic Rogue-like
Cave Story – great 2D platform action adventure
MyMahj 2D – Mahjongg game of the Shanghai type (i.e. not the "real" Mahjongg)
Oolite – awesome Elite clone
Privateer: ASCII Sector – a Privateer inspired roguelike game that I recently stumbled upon (haven't played much yet)
ToME – another Rogue-like, even more complex than Angband
Wizball – a remake of the C64 classic (there are a couple more freeware remakes on that site)
xu4 – a remake of Ultima IV
Goban – computer version of the Go board game

[Sneaky Snake]

Marathon is free, i believe

[Frost]

I just thought of a perfect graphic for this thread, but a mod posting it would probably just not be a good idea.

So instead I'll say this thread kicks huge amounts of ass.

[Janichsan]

Good grief! How could we forget this??*






*Did you know that it is the first Google hit when you search for "pink pony game"?

[Eric5h5]

My server logs show referrals from Google on what seems to be a fairly regular basis, from people searching for "pink pony games" and variations thereof. I didn't know this was something that people went looking for. It's even better that most of these people are on Windows machines. "Ha ha!" I chortle evilly when I see this.

--Eric

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Enemy Territory..

[clocknova]

I've been deliberately avoiding board games, ASCII games, and extremely casual games from my list as they are of virtually no interest to me, but don't let that stop anyone from adding them here. They obviously interest someone.

[dxlr8r]

Urban Terror... Playing it ALOT with friends:

http://urbanterror.net/news.php

[jackdawsson]

Sorry no time to pick out those games not already mentioned in posts above, but quite a few free Mac games (& other excellent Mac software) within this link. IMO, definitely worth a look:

TheFreeMac site

[clocknova]

Some good stuff there, but they don't have everything.

[jackdawsson]

Far from everything, but there's quite a lot of excellent non-gaming software in there. As for all the free Mac games posted here so far, frankly, I'm surprised just how many interesting titles there are!

[the Battle Cat]

clocknova, on June 26th 2009, 11:34 AM, said:

Marathon:Aleph One - Open source engine for playing the Marathon Trilogy.

That is just the app. The files for Marathon, Marathon 2: Durandal, and Marathon Infinity: The Blood Tides of Lh'owon can be found on my site along with a lot of editors and utilities for the game.

[clocknova]

the Battle Cat, on June 28th 2009, 02:46 PM, said:

That is just the app. The files for Marathon, Marathon 2: Durandal, and Marathon Infinity: The Blood Tides of Lh'owon can be found on my site along with a lot of editors and utilities for the game.

Actually, that site has all of the original data files as well, not to mention the addons.

[the Battle Cat]

Well, maybe next time I'll actually look at the link.

[DaveyJJ]

And there is always the picture gallery on tBCs site to entertain and amuse

[trax]

*cough*

http://teeworlds.com/

*wheeze*

Assuming you can find people to play against, you'll die of addiction. It's like playing Abuse on an LC... only on a Mac Pro & with Kirby style graphics.

[rampancy]

For people further in need of an open source worms clone there's OpenLieroX, which apparently enjoys a large user and modding community.

For those in need of more open-source FPS games, there's AssaultCube (a "modern-day" mod of the original Cube patterned somewhat on CounterStrike), and Blood Frontier, a game based on the Sauerbrauten engine with some fairly impressive bot AI.

One of my personal favorites is World of Padman: Stand Alone Complex, originally a Q3 mod which became an ioQuake3-based stand alone game. The bots here are also pretty ruthless, the character designs have a certain European cartoon-ish charm to them, and the level designs are absolutely amazing - the kitchen, attic and backyard levels have an astounding amount of detail to them (imagine yourself shrunk to the size of an insect, fighting with others with your kitchen as the arena).

There are also a lot of good Marathon total conversions which are now stand-alone games thanks to Aleph One: there's Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge (a fantasy-based TC), Tempus Irae (a TC set in the Renaissance with a clever storyline linking Leonardo da Vinci to S'bhuth from Marathon 2/Infinity), Marathon Rubicon (as closest to a "Marathon 4" as we'll likely ever get), and Marathon Eternal, an ambitious TC that attempted to link Pathways into Darkness, and the Marathon Trilogy together into one narrative with a truly mind-bending plot featuring some Halo-ish plot elements.

As an aside, Eternal was also one of the hardest TC's I've ever played, second only to the insanity of Marathon RED. I'm still a little pissed at Forrest over those infinitely respawning PiD monsters in the Jjarro Sphere levels.

[Nail]

Open Arena

[bookman]

Didn't I just read about free Myth II recently? Magma project?