This week’s best free PC games
My skin’s a-crawlin’ after playing Gyossait this week. It’s an interesting and wholly creepy platformer about the creator of mankind burrowing deep below the planet’s surface in search of his lost love – and despite its simplicity (or perhaps because of it?) it manages to be thoroughly disturbing. If you want a bit less darkness and a bit more colour, though, try out DC Universe Online, which is now free-to-play. Plus: the tale of Icarus retold, a two-player driving game where you can play as a road, and a simple but effective tower defence game. Read on for this week’s best freebies…
This week’s best free PC games
I love it when a game surprises me, and this week Yeti, a free adventure game from N developers Metanet Software, did just that. It’s a delightful game that quickly heads in a direction you wouldn’t expect. Meanwhile, [stranded] is an impressive but flawed top-down shooter, and both Abduction Destruction and The Art Piece as a Video Game are loaded with heaps of personality. Read on for more details on this week’s best free PC games!
This week’s best free PC games
Games about fishing aren’t generally the most exciting ones around, nor are they the most artistic, but exploratory underwater shooter Fisher-Diver has an exceedingly good go at being both. If it’s still a little too calm for your liking, though, assaults on the senses such as one-button platformer Braindead and the complete mind-splurge that is Keyboard Drumset Fucking Werewolf should keep you entertained. Or how about playing as a scientist working through a zombie apocalypse? You can do that in Lab of the Dead. Read on for more details about this week’s best PC freebies.
This week’s best free PC games
This week’s pick of free games includes Nous, an abstract and colourful top-down blaster that manages to tell an engaging sci-fi story about psychology. It’s thoughtful and immensely good fun, merging its various styles to present something that’s both unique and accessible. Elsewhere, there’s a Braid-influenced puzzle-platformer and a zombie survival strategy game, and we revisit BeGone, a browser-based multiplayer shooter that’s undergone quite a transformation since we first looked at it in March. Read on to discover some of the best freebies currently doing the internet rounds.
This week’s best free PC games
There’s something almost eerily timeless about the best point-and-click adventures: despite showing its age on the surface, Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars still feels fresh and interesting once you get past certain elements of its presentation. It’s 15 years old now. Can you believe that? Elsewhere, this week’s pick of free games includes a Twin Peaks game that wishes it were on the Atari, a Tycoon game about kidnapping people and forcing them to join your cult, and an interactive fiction piece that sees the final dress rehearsal for a play going disastrously wrong. Read on to find out why you should play them…
This week’s best free PC games
Two of this week’s free PC games deal with sensitive subject matters, and while one is more successful than the other, both are worth a look for being confident enough to stray into territory that games rarely touch. If you need a bit of light relief after these titles’ heavy themes, though, there’s a lovely hand-drawn platformer and a high-octane, 2D version of Prototype to get stuck into as well. Read on for this week’s picks…
This week’s best free PC games
This week, I give up. I try to maintain some sort of level of quality in what is, ultimately, a column called ‘This week’s best free PC games’. But so inundated have I been with requests that I cover one particular monstrosity that, this week, I’ve decided to get it out of the way. So without further ado, I present to you one of the most outrageously awful first-person shooters there has ever been. Fortunately, backing it up there’s a gorgeous art game, a tense platformer, and a game where you can ride a speedboat through the mouth of an angry shark.
This week’s best free PC games
This is a good week for those of you who like Pac-Man. Two new interpretations of the classic arcade game lie nestled below – about as far apart in style as you can imagine, but both an inordinate amount of fun. Elsewhere, there’s a first-person shooter that has no right to be as enjoyable as it is, and a first-person puzzle game that I’m sort of breaking the rules for. Because it’s a game from Valve, and one of my favourite games in the world. You understand, right? Read on for this week’s freebie picks…
This week’s best free PC games
One of this week’s picks – The Night Circus – might be a social game and almost entirely text-based, but its whimsical storytelling and elegant writing had me captivated from the outset. As well as playing this, I’ve also spent my week collecting raindrops to be scientifically analysed, charging headfirst through scary monsters in tunnels below the Earth’s surface, and attempting not to be squished by moving walls while being irritated by a story. Guess what? You can spend the next week doing the same if you read this week’s selection of PC gaming freebies…
This week’s best free PC games
See that guy right there in the Mexican wrestling mask? He’s commanding you to have a read of this week’s free gaming picks! And you wouldn’t want to mess with him, right? He’s from a game called Sake Express Pro Wrestling, in which you punch pandas. Exactly. Elsewhere, you might want to try your hand at solving a murder case, go a bit insane after cutting your finger, or have a shot at saving the human race. Here’s your week’s worth of free gaming goodness…
This week’s best free PC games
It’s not often that I play a game and, midway through, realise my mouth is literally hanging agape. It’s certainly not often that a free game on the internet makes that happen. Which is why it’s been so delightful this week to discover Wonderputt, a game so magical that I’ve done my best not to spoil any of it in my write-up below. Elsewhere, there’s a game about punching people so they’ll take your free stuff, a room escape game that riffs on The Wizard of Oz in a troublingly dark way, and a point-and-click adventure drawn in crayon and marker pen. Read on for this week’s free PC gaming picks!
This week’s best free PC games
This week’s big free release sees you being killed by an enormous asteroid. But then it develops into a surprisingly complex game about life and death. It’s an ambitious title made for Channel 4, and while it has its problems, it’s well worth experiencing. Also this week: low-def survival horror, a nude man searching for his apparently kidnapped girlfriend, and Prime Minister David Cameron going completely bonkers with legal reform. Read on, humans.
This week’s best free PC games
Despite a certain tower defense game having gone free-to-play, this week’s ‘towering achievement’ (ha!) is a game about a dog being charged for several counts of murder. Murder Dog IV (even though it’s the first game) is exceptionally strange, but once you get into it it’s surprisingly invigorating. I love that so many free indie releases seem to fall into that camp. Read on for more information on that, as well as Newerth, Soul King and Alight (In Dreams).
This week’s best free PC games
There’s some fairly substantial free gaming goodness to discuss this week. Most notable is Dead Cyborg, a fully-fledged 3D adventure game with an oppressive atmosphere to rival the darkest professional releases. Elsewhere, you can manage a sweatshop, shout the word ‘balls’ at an MP with the name ‘Balls’, and change the adventure genre from the inside out. Read on for this week’s freebie picks.
This week’s best free PC games
In this week’s collection of free PC games, we explain how you can play Super Meat Boy for free! Well, sort of – and in a way that’s well worth checking out. Elsewhere, we’ve got snakes, robots, werewolves and disgusting, lazy students. Computer games are awesome…
