A puzzle-mystery game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn, Her Story, Unheard and The Roottrees are Dead.

Investigate the files on an old computer that once belonged to a mysterious outside agent.

The files detail the gruesome story of Galley House, a case that was said to be unsolvable.

What really happened at Galley House? And what did the agent find out that lead to their death?

Delve through deeper and deeper layers of mystery as you piece together the grand puzzle.

And remember... There are no ghosts in Galley House!

Lunacid: Tears of the Moon is a First Person Dungeon Crawler made with the Sword of Moonlight - King’s Field making tool from 2000. Explore various dungeons for powerful weapons and spells to forestall the previsioned end of the world.

The Kingdom of Lyria rests in darkness, surrounded on all sides by the vast poison sea. In ages long past, brilliant silver moonlight fell upon Lyria, leading to its accession as a great kingdom of magic. But this time of solace may soon end.

Calamis Cerulean was granted a vision of this macabre future, the Great Old One who sleeps beneath the earth will soon awaken from it's slumber and plunge the world into another dark age. He must venture into dangerous lands to gather magics of light and dark. Only then can he coax the silver moonlight to fall upon the Great Old One and lull it back into a deep sleep.

There are a lot of 40k freebies at the moment (it seems to be how they generally advertise their new games), I saw this one posted elsewhere and it's something a bit different

Type like your life depends on it in Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun – Words of Vengeance! Smite the enemies of the Emperor with every keystroke spelling their demise. But every typo could mean the difference between life and death.

The Mechanicum of Mars have gifted you a blessed new weapon - a keyboard! Brutally decimate hordes of daemonic scum with every keystroke, in this fast-paced rail shooter. None can stand against the might of your WPM!

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun - Words of Vengeance is a creative twist on epic boomer shooter Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Instead of mowing down your enemies with elite FPS skills, kill the relentless hordes of enemies that descend upon you by typing out words.

Set in the world of Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, play as Malum Caedo on his mission to cleanse Forge World Grai

Iron Mandate: A roguelike with a wholly original fighting mechanic!

Master the piloting of giant mechanical worms, lay waste to all that stand in your way and reclaim your rightful place on the throne.

Saw this posted the other day with a lot of happy nostalgia

In Altered Beast Remake, the classic arcade is reborn!

Set in a mystical world full of challenges, you take on the role of a resurrected warrior tasked with stopping the sorcerer Neff, who has escaped to a higher dimension. Neff aims to conquer all realities, and only by facing his army of creatures and trials can you prevent his rise.

This remake features modern graphics, a remixed soundtrack, and new mechanics, including powerful transformations and new modes like Altered Mode, where stages and challenges are completely reimagined, and Epic Battle Mode, where you face all bosses in sequence, culminating in the final showdown with Neff.

Additionally, enjoy extra modes and exclusive options, such as CPU assistance in Versus Mode, new selectable levels, customizations, and more. Blending nostalgia

Released in the last hour of 2016, I present: Tiny Heist! Scale the tower, avoid patrol bots and reach the rooftop with as many gems as you can find!

A little flash game from Terry Cavanagh, creator of Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon, and VVVVVV

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/26228828

Even though the polygons don't exactly merit much of a second look, I'm shocked by how smoothly it runs and just generally how well-implemented the engine is. Especially with the incredible diversity of the different factions, it sort of feels like a more relaxed but still tactical WarCraft 3-like RTS. You have gold, wood, stone, and a food quota to manage, but some factions function so differently; one sort of copies StarCraft's Zerg or Protoss in the way that it has existing units irreversibly upgrade and specialize in specific forms, and another summons some units on the fly instead of at a base building.

I also see that it's extremely moddable and some people tried to make sci-fi total conversions, but I unfortunately see none that have had any recent work (sci-fi's really my jam).

Full discussion here

A bit of a non-standard post as I don't think you can actually play them for free yet (I can't see any binaries available and there's a disclaimer that you need to already own the games, presumably for assets/art), but a pleasant surprise and hopefully something to keep an eye on!

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/490628

NEW RELEASE - Welcome Home

Where home feels wrong, and you're anything but welcome

Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.

Plenty of discussion on Lemmy too

Educational software for toddlers and kids.

Released under the AGPL. Multi-platform.

Great for kids 2-12.

Grapples Galore is a fast-paced online multiplayer arena shooter with physics-based grappling hook movement, active ragdolls, and thrilling gunplay.

cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/2109620

you're just imagining it - A Chronic Illness Game

I saw this posted a month or so ago:

The game runs surprisingly well. You can download the DRM-free version of the game from BioMedia Project. The files are hosted with the permission of the LEGO Group. The only fix I did was enabling widescreen support with modern screen resolutions. The instructions for that are here.

I never played any of the Bionicle games but I have very fond memories of the Lego! As well as a (what I assume to be Windows) ISO, you can also play it on Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Wii, DS, GameBoy Advance, and even "Java (Phone)".

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/30613715

The freegames community has been going for a year and a half now, probably time I updated the info.

What to post

This is a place to post limited-time giveaways of full video games that are then yours to keep forever at no cost. Please use the search to check what you're posting hasn't already been posted, and start your posts with [Source] or [Store via Source] so that people can ignore giveaways they're not interested in. For example, if Fanatical were giving away a Steam key for Pong, I'd title the post [Steam via Fanatical] Pong.

I post deals as I find them (sometimes spread out over a few days or bundled together so it doesn't get too noisy) but feel free to post them if you find them first.

If you have keys that you'd like to give away then !randomactsofgaming@lemm.ee and !giftofgaming@lemmy.world are the best places to post.

Forever-Free Friday

The main exception to the limited-time giveaways only rule is for the occasional posting of games which are always fre