Free and open-source games
Every game here can be downloaded free from its official home or an authorized store. We never list a game as free because an unofficial mirror offers it.
What the labels mean
- Open source
- The code is published under an open-source licence. Art and music may use a different licence.
- Free forever
- Free to download and keep, with no paid version required, but the code isn't open.
- Free to play
- Free to start, usually with optional paid items or upgrades.
- Limited-time giveaway
- Free to claim for a limited period from an official store.
- Paid
- Some free games also sell a paid edition, often through a store.
26 games
Strategy · Real-time strategy
A historical real-time strategy game about ancient civilizations. Play skirmishes and scenarios against the AI, or multiplayer over the internet or a local network. Release 28 in February 2026 was its first release without the alpha label.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Shooter · Battle royale · Hero shooter
Respawn Entertainment's battle royale hero shooter: choose from a growing roster of characters with special abilities and play in squads. It first came out in February 2019 and arrived on Steam in November 2020.
Platforms: Windows
Adventure · Point-and-click
A point-and-click adventure from Revolution Software, first released for MS-DOS and Amiga in 1994. Revolution released it as freeware, with its source code, in 2003.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
Fighting · Platform fighter
A platform fighter for up to 8 players, online or local, with casual free-for-alls and ranked matches. It has cross-platform play and more than sixty playable Legends.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android
Roguelike · Survival
A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Scavenge for food and equipment and fight monsters in a harsh, persistent, procedurally generated world, shown in ASCII text or graphical tiles.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
Shooter · Tactical shooter
Valve's free-to-play tactical first-person shooter, which replaced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam in September 2023. Its main mode is bomb defusal.
Mature content: Intense violence and blood
Platforms: Windows, Linux
Shooter · Role-playing
Bungie's online first-person shooter with role-playing elements: collect gear across story missions, co-op activities, and PvP modes. It became free to play in October 2019.
Platforms: Windows
Strategy · MOBA
Valve's competitive strategy game: pick one of over a hundred heroes and battle in team matches. Regular updates keep changing the heroes, features, and gameplay.
Mature content: Fantasy violence, use of alcohol, mild partial nudity
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Adventure · Point-and-click
A point-and-click graphic adventure from Alcachofa Soft, first released in 1996. Alcachofa gave its source code to the ScummVM team and re-released the game as freeware in 2008.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
Simulation · Space trading
An open-source space trading and combat game in the style of the classic Escape Velocity series. You build a single pilot's career by trading and fighting across the galaxy.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Adventure · Point-and-click
A point-and-click adventure released in 1995 for Amiga and MS-DOS by Interactive Binary Illusions. Its authors allowed it to be released as freeware in 2004.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
Strategy · Turn-based strategy
An open-source, turn-based empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization, first released in January 1996. Play against computer opponents or with other people.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Sandbox
An open-source voxel game creation platform, called Minetest until October 2024. Install games and mods from its ContentDB library, then play alone, locally with friends, or online on a server.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
Adventure · Point-and-click
A point-and-click adventure from Revolution Software, released in 1992 for Amiga, MS-DOS, and Atari ST. It became freeware in 2003, and its data files are offered on Revolution's website.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
Tower defense · Sandbox · Strategy
A sandbox tower-defense game. Build production chains that process materials and supply your defenses against waves of enemies, alone or with others on multiplayer servers.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
Simulation · Management
An open-source transport business simulation based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Build a transport network on your own against AI rivals, or with up to 255 players over a network, cooperatively or competitively.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Role-playing · Action RPG
An online action RPG set in the dark fantasy world of Wraeclast, where you play an exile fighting for power and revenge. Its developer says it is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
Mature content: Horror scenes, violence, nudity
Platforms: Windows, macOS
Racing
A cartoon kart racer with items to grab and use, plus soccer and egg-hunt modes. Race against the AI, with friends in split-screen, or online.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
Shooter
Valve's team-based multiplayer shooter with nine distinct classes, each with its own abilities and personality. It's still updated with new modes, maps, and equipment.
Platforms: Windows, Linux
Strategy · Turn-based strategy
A turn-based strategy game with a high-fantasy setting, played on a hex map. It has several single-player campaigns, plus online and hotseat multiplayer.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Role-playing
An action role-playing game from Bethesda Softworks, first released for MS-DOS in 1996. Bethesda made it free to download in 2009, for the series' 15th anniversary, and offers it free on Steam.
Mature content: Animated violence, mature sexual themes
Platforms: Windows
Role-playing
An action role-playing game from Bethesda Softworks, first released for MS-DOS in March 1994. Bethesda made it freeware in 2004, for the series' tenth anniversary, and offers it free on Steam.
Platforms: Windows
Shooter · Shoot 'em up
A science-fiction shooter from Eclipse Productions, released in 1999. GOG.com offers it free for Windows and macOS.
Platforms: Windows, macOS
Shooter · Role-playing
A story-driven online action game from Digital Extremes that mixes third-person shooting with role-playing. Missions support up to four players in co-op, and there's a PvP mode too.
Mature content: Frequent violence or gore; general mature content
Platforms: Windows, iOS, Android
Strategy · Real-time strategy
A 3D real-time strategy game first released in 1999 by Pumpkin Studios and Eidos Interactive, and open source since 2004. Play the campaign, skirmish against AI bots, or battle up to 10 players online or over a LAN.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Shooter · Arena shooter
A fast arena-style first-person shooter, with modes including deathmatch, capture the flag, clan arena, and racing.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux