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50 best free PC games according to PC Gamer
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http://www.pcgamer.com/the-50-best-free-pc-games/1/

50. Anchorhead
49. Rhythm Doctor
48. Ultra Business Tycoon III
47. Reprisal
46. Skrillex Quest
45. Warsow
44. Wonderputt
43. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
42. Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story
41. OpenTTD
40. Alien Swarm
39. One Chance
38. Toribash
37. No-one Has To Die
36. Coloratura
35. QWOP
34. Digital: A Love Story
33. Westerado
32. Nitronic Rush
31. Icarus Proudbottom's World of Typing Weekly
30. Data Jack
29. Fistful of Frags
28. Bernband
27. International Jetpack Conference
26. Sonic Dreams Collection
25. Diaspora: Shattered Armistice
24. Candy Box 2
23. Red Rogue
22. Super Crate Box
21. Battle For Wesnoth
20. Canabalt
19. Double Action: Boogaloo
18. The Expendabros
17. Zineth
16. Gravity Bone
15. Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
14. Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and the Terrible Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
13. FreeCiv
12. Tribes: Vengeance
11. VVVVVV: Make and Play Edition
10. Frog Fractions
09. Brogue
08. Cave Story
07. N V2.0
06. MASQ
05. The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
04. Spelunky
03. Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
02. The Dark Mod
01. Dwarf Fortress

Thoughts?

I'm assuming games like TF2 and Warframe aren't up there due to microtransactions
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>no elona
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>I'm assuming games like TF2 and Warframe aren't up there due to microtransactions

Nah they're just shit
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>>339167334
They're freemium, not freeware
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>QWOP

Shit list confirmed. I mean, the game is funny but it's not good.
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>no liquid war
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>>339166896
Ah yes. OpenSTD was and is the shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XIR29_gk7Y
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>>339166896
>TF2

it seems to be just singleplayer games.
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>>339168793
Toribash and Fistful of Frags arms single player games.
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>Frog Fractions
>VVVVVV
shit list
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what about madness interactive or liero
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>>339166994
im mad
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>no Underhell
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>>339166896
>No Iji
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>>339170215
they fucked up
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daggerfall is free?
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>no space station 13

No matter how you look at it this list can't possibly show all great free games the PC has

>Focus
>Karoshi suicide salaryman
>Alien arena
>Neverball
>Liero
>Soldat
>Double jump (vanished from the face of the internet but still)
>Too many flash games
>Early 2000s golden era of freewares

Post your personal favorites
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>>339166896
>include OpenTTD and FreeCiv
>but not OpenRCT2

why though
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>>339170672
This. Dorf Fort but no Spessmen? They go hand in hand
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>>339170752
Pretty sure ORCT2 needs the original to run, or at least to check if you bought the game
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Cave Story should be 1st
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Where's tux kart?
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fuck pc gamer
fuck gaming journalism
fuck lazy list clickbait
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>>339171635
cave story aged poorly
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Barkley should be no1
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>>339171997
That's like saying yoshi's island aged poorly simply because it used sprites
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>>339170672
>MOTHER FUCKING N
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>>339171997
And dagger fall or dwarf fortress didn't?
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>Brogue
>not nethack, not adom, not ivan, but brogue
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>>339172490
>dwarf fortress
>aged
dwarf fortress is in active development you shit
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>>339172585
"Aged poorly" hasn't nothing to do with not being updated.
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>>339166896
Spelunky is free? Since when? I paid 3 fucking dollars on my Vita copy and I regret nothing since I get a lot more value out of a portable version anyway
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>>339172585
That doesn't exactly make ascii any less jarring to look at, but I get your point
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>>339172665
That's exactly what it means.
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>>339172671
HI kiddo. The original is a free game
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Where's Depression Quest?
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>>339166896
>No Unteralterban.
This list sucks.
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>>339167739
Is funny not a good quality?

>>339172671
That's a remake, there's a freeware version.
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>>339166896
>Mentioning barkley
It's ok
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>>339173108
>Still no space station 13

What casual made this
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>>339166896
>No OSU
>No N+

Silly PC gamer
Every PC game is free :^)
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>>339173447
>Katawa Shoujo
Make a wild guess.
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>ctrl+f elona
>1 found
>it's not in the list
>no nethack
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>>339166896
>01. meme fortress
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This is why review sites are such shit. Or top anything.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory should have been placed in there.
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>>339166896
>46. Skrillex Quest
That's quite enough of that list thanks.
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>pc games
>indieshit and pixelshit
You guys don't even try to deny your shit taste
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>>339170672
>>339170787
Because nobody cares about shitty RP-heavy game played by 50 lonely autists
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>>339173954
Fucking this. I spent few fun years playing game on my shit PC. I loved that game.
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>>339174148
>Spelunky
>Cave Story
>Bad

I'll fucking fight you in real life man.
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>Tiberian Sun is listed when Red Alert is better
>Cave Story is anywhere that isn't 1st place
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>No NetHack
Shit list famalam
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>spelunky
>free

how

when

where
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>>339174752
The original is free. The one you can buy is a remake.
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>>339174202
>RP heavy

Lol
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>>339173954
Shame that every online FPS since was a step back
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>>339174414
Cave Story is good, but Dorf Fort is a testament to the work of a man and his autism.

Did anyone ever find Frog Fractions 2?
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>>339174414
>Cave Story is anywhere that isn't 1st place
this is the true crime here
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>>339170672
>Focus
nice
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>>339175352
>FF2
my guess is it's not out yet
or will never be
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>>339166896

>No NetHack
>No Tales of Maj'eyal
>No Fistful of Frags
>No You Have to Win the Game

Fuck off.
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how do I get good at spelunky?

how do I carry a golden key all the way from the mines to the end of ice world?
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none of these are free though wtf
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>>339170215
This.
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>>339170215
yeah what the hell
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>>339175757
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGrPeu5NWk0

Observe the master.
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>>339175757
Play the game, learn how to not get hit, then you can learn how to kill shopkeepers
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>>339173108
Iji is twice
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>>339170664
yea
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>>339166896
A few good stuff surrounded by indie meme shit

Also, Anchorhead over Make It Good?

Fuck off.
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>>339166896
> No Iji
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>>339174202

>Soldat
>Rp

Hi newfriend
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>no assault cube
>No soldat
>No sauerbraten
>No nexuiz

It's shit
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>>339175692
fistful of frags is on there you dingus, and brogue is better than nethack or tome tbqfh

now if you said angband or sil I would have agreed
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>>339170672
>>339179901
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YJL6OcX1ms
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>>339166896
Warframe isn't up there because it's utter shit and it's devs are incompetent hacks.
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>>339166896
>Anchorhead
someone has good taste
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>zineth
People know about this game? I thought I was special.
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>>339173108
>photopia
>the fucking walking simulator of IF
>not Make It Good
>not Blue Lacuna
>not Insight
jesus, could a nigga have worse taste in IF
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WHERE THE FUCK IS LIERO
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>>339180438
desu Make It Good is the better modern IF imo
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