Best Free PC Games 2013 [1]
Finally it's time to reveal the best gems in the freeware gaming world that came out in 2013. All right hold your breath as we're revealing the Top 10 Freeware Games of 2013. Starting from No. 10, we'll be picking one game per day till we climb up the ladder to the numero uno spot. The countdown begins today...
10. Boson X
Developer: Ian McLarty
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A fast paced action game about a physicist searching for the elusive Boson X using his own body to create high-energy collisions inside a massive particle accelerator. You'll have to use precise timing and fast reflexes to navigate a subatomic world where floors and ceilings don't exist. The question that remains is whether you'll be fast enough to find the elusive Boson X? Get your name etched on the leaderboards for every stage according to your scores.
The game is available across multiple platforms from Windows, Linux to Mac O.S.
Website: http://www.boson-x.com/ [6]
Genre: Arcade, Platformer
9. Hymn of the Sands
Developer: Dustinxdavis
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An isometric action game/ dungeon crawler with light RPG and puzzle elements. As Egyptian god Osiris awoken from the dead, you battle your way through your tomb on a quest to regain immortality. You can regain your lost powers, upgrade abilities, and shift between the realms of the living and the dead.
Hymn of the Sands is a project by fourteen graduate students at the Guildhall at SMU.
Website: http://hymnofthesands.weebly.com/ [9]
Download: IndieDB [10]
Genre: Isometric Action/Dungeon Crawler
8. SCP - Containment Breach
Developer: Joonas Rikkonen
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SCP - Containment Breach is a free survival horror game written in Blitz3D. The game has a blinking mechanic that forces the character to blink regularly. Also we've procedurally generated map - no playthrough is the same, and you can never know for sure what is going to happen next.
The events of the game take place in a containment site of The SCP Foundation. The facility undergoes a massive containment breach, leaving you alone in the darkness with the escaped entities roaming around the facility. Your goal is to make it out alive. You can also search the facility for documents and other clues to figure out what led to the breach, and even attempt to do your part in fixing the situation.
The game crossed through the alpha and beta stages to provide a stable release last year, but is still being continously developed.
Website: http://www.scpcbgame.com/ [13]
Download: http://games.softpedia.com/get/Freeware-Games/SCP-Containment-Breach.shtml [14]
Genre: Survival Horror
7. The Very Organized Thief
Developer: The Arcane Artist
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You are a thief. A very organized thief. This thief is so organized and accurate that he makes a list of items to be stolen every time he breaks into a house. Find all the items on your checklist and then escape the house. The game is designed to be neither easy or hard, and slightly different everytime you play.
This time isn't an exception to the rule. Help the thief stole everything he needs and escape as quickly as he can! The physics and environmental interaction in-game is outstanding. The developer promises that the game will be expanded later on to provide a fully fleshed out version.
Download: http://gamejolt.com/games/puzzle/the-very-organized-thief/18991/ [17]
Genre: Stealth, Puzzle
6. Save the Date
Developer: Chris Cornell
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It’s a perfectly normal evening, and you have a quiet dinner planned with one of your friends. Save the Date is a game about a lot of things. Friendship. Stories. Hope. Destiny. And above all else, dinner.
The game was made using Ren'Py and is a visual novel, but unlike most visual novels it doesn't have long stretches of simply text over graphics, but has plenty of interactivity, a lot of choices to make, and hence giving you many different possible endings. You get the full experience of the game by continous playthroughs, and each one provides you literally with various pieces of an interesting puzzle set. You might fail a lot, trying to get the best possible ending, but each playthrough is weird and funny.
The game is available across Windows, Mac and LInux.
Website: http://paperdino.com/save-the-date/ [20]
Genre: Visual Novel
5. No More Room in Hell
Developer: NMRiH Dev Team
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No More Room in Hell is a co-operative realistic first person survival horror modification for the Source Engine. The game is set during a time in which the world is on the verge of collapsing into chaos from a disease in which its origins are unknown. Whoever perishes from the disease gets up and kills, and the people they killed get up and kill.
The game is to be played in co-operative mode with upto 8 players (single-player is too challenging). The maps are dynamic-no playthrough is the same. Two game-modes are available currently - Survival mode and Objective mode. The best part of the game comes when you are infected. Unlike other games, when you get bitten by a zombie, you have the chance of becoming infected and then you only have a certain amount of time before you die and come back as a faster, stronger zombie than the rest. You can use this time to tell your friends to get ready… or you can keep quiet and hope to find a cure…
The game went standalone last year and needs to be downloaded through Steam (game distribution platform from Valve). No More Room in Hell was adjudged as the Best Multiplayer Mod of 2011 at ModDB [23].
Website: http://www.nomoreroominhell.com/ [24]
Download: http://store.steampowered.com/app/224260 [25] (Click Play Game)
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/about/ [26]
Genre: Co-Op FPS, Survival Horror
4. Tales of Maj'Eyal
Developer: Nicolas Casalini
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Tales of Maj’Eyal (ToME) is a free, open source roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. You are an adventurer, seeking your fortune in the open world, investigating ruins and mysteries in search of riches and powers.
Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers. With a modern graphical and customisable interface, streamlined mechanics and deep, challenging combat, ToME offers engaging roguelike gameplay.
The game has been awarded ASCII Dreams Roguelike of the Year for 2010, 2011 and 2012 and went stable last year. The game is available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
Website: http://te4.org/ [29]
Download: http://te4.org/download [30]
Addons: http://te4.org/addons/tome [31]
Tilesets: http://www.reinerstilesets.de/ [32]
Genre: Roguelike RPG
3. Lumen
Developer: Thousand Cranes Studio
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Lumen is a platform-puzzle video game where the player assumes control of a girl trapped in a world of nightmare as she tries to make her escape. With the sole help of her camera, she will have to dodge traps, run away from her enemies and use her photographs to change the world that surrounds her.
The game was developed by a team of students at Thousand Cranes Studio for their Masters Degree project. The graphics are amazing and gameplay is really innovative. The little girl who is given a camera uses it to move through her environment. You use this camera to alter the levels. From using the flash to show “hidden” objects, to developing photos and moving the shots around or shaking them to move obstacles.
This little gorgeous game is painfully short, look more like a tech-demo, but is worth the time you play. After all, it's a students project, looks extremely gorgeous with interesting game mechanics and exceptionally well done.
Website: http://www.lumengame.com/ [35]
Download: http://www.lumengame.com/download/ [36]
Genre: 3D Puzzle Platform
2. Cry of Fear
Developer: Team Psykskallar
Cry of Fear is a single-player, psychological surivival horror game that brings you all the horrors you have always been afraid of. The game is set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
The game uses an advanced and realistic inventory system and even allowing you to dual-weild items at a time, so that you could use a torchlight to light up dark areas and still shoot with your gun. Your cell phone acts as the flashlight to illuminate the dark areas and you've access to 24 different unique weapons to choose from. Adding to that various items can be combined to make a new effective weapon. Morphone syrignes can be used to recover lost health.
Cry of Fear was initially released as a Half-Life mod but was later released as standalone through Steam last year. The game has plenty of replayability value, multiple endings, lots of unlockables and a full co-op game for upto 4 players.
Website: http://www.cry-of-fear.com/ [38]
Download: http://store.steampowered.com/app/223710/ [39] (Click Play Game)
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/about/ [26]
Genre: Surivival Horror
1. The Dark Mod
Developer: Broken Glass Studios
And the winner of Best Free PC Game of 2013 goes to The Dark Mod. :D
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The Dark Mod is a tribute to the classic Thief Games by Looking Glass Studios. The game takes place in a gothic steampunk environment, where you take control of a thief. You'll have to avoid the guards, traps and different kinds of creatures using your equipments, analysing and taking control over the environment.
Since this is basicaly a stealth game, you should be cautious in your approach, leave no dead bodies and make as little sounds as possible whether you're opening a door or walking around. Lockpicking is extremely fun and feels like a real challenge. There are hand-drawn maps, lantern, spyglass and compass as various weapons to find your way through. You also have blackjack, water arrows, holy water, flashbombs, mines and more weapons.
You can also download, share and even build your own custom missions with more than 70 fan-made missions at present available for download.
The Dark Mod was initially a modification for Doom 3, and last year with v2.0 it has gone standalone and completely free. The game has also received various mod of the year awards for consecutive years.
Website: http://www.thedarkmod.com/main/ [41]
Download: http://www.thedarkmod.com/downloads/ [42]
Genre: Stealth