Free Games Thread

XL-R8R · Dec 13, 2023

3 free games to add to the list:

Leaf Blower Revolution: Idle Game
-> https://store.steampowered.com/app/1468260/Leaf_Blower_Revolution__Idle_Game/

No More Room In Hell
-> https://store.steampowered.com/app/224260/No_More_Room_in_Hell/

THE FINALS
-> https://store.steampowered.com/app/2073850/THE_FINALS/

neatfeatguy · Dec 14, 2023

Link's Awakening DX HD (fan made). Spent about 20 minutes running around, so far it seems spot on from what I can remember from the game from my childhood.

This brilliant, fan-made PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is free to play (until Nintendo...

Officially titled The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX HD, the game is a meticulously crafted PC version of the Game Boy Color release from 1998 –...

www.techspot.com

Lew Zealand · Dec 14, 2023

neatfeatguy said:
Link's Awakening DX HD (fan made). Spent about 20 minutes running around, so far it seems spot on from what I can remember from the game from my childhood.

View attachment 325365

This brilliant, fan-made PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is free to play (until Nintendo...

Officially titled The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX HD, the game is a meticulously crafted PC version of the Game Boy Color release from 1998 –...

www.techspot.com

Everyone grab this before Nintendo Legal blasts it from existence.

OK you'll just need to look a bit harder but make it easy on yourself and get it now!

lexluthermiester · Dec 14, 2023

neatfeatguy said:
Link's Awakening DX HD (fan made). Spent about 20 minutes running around, so far it seems spot on from what I can remember from the game from my childhood.

View attachment 325365

This brilliant, fan-made PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is free to play (until Nintendo...

Officially titled The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX HD, the game is a meticulously crafted PC version of the Game Boy Color release from 1998 –...

www.techspot.com

Grab it while you can. Nintendo will likely shut this down soon.

Lew Zealand said:
Everyone grab this before Nintendo Legal blasts it from existence.

OK you'll just need to look a bit harder but make it easy on yourself and get it now!

Ninja'd...

jormungand · Dec 14, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
Grab it while you can. Nintendo will likely shut this down soon.

Ninja'd...

done, i bet my son will appreciate this. New generation of gamers

but raised in the old ways. He beat LoZ BoTW with only 7.Trying to get him into Monster Hunter ... no luck yet :roll:

FoulOnWhite · Dec 14, 2023

What .net is this missing, i can't find out, tried a lot but still not working.

jormungand · Dec 14, 2023

FoulOnWhite said:
What .net is this missing, i can't find out, tried a lot but still not working.
View attachment 325378

same here

FoulOnWhite · Dec 14, 2023

jormungand said:
same here

The download page does not mention a requirement for whatever version either

This is what it needs-
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../runtime-desktop-6.0.25-windows-x64-installer

Found out with some digging

Make sure it is desktop runtime, x64

lexluthermiester · Dec 14, 2023

FoulOnWhite said:
What .net is this missing, i can't find out, tried a lot but still not working.
View attachment 325378

That is likely DotNet3.5. If you grab the redistro's ;

Download Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 3.5 - MajorGeeks

Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 3.5 installs the classic .NET Framework runtime and associated files required to run applications developed with the .NET Framework. The Microsoft .NET Framework includes everything you need to run .NET Framework applications, including the Common...

www.majorgeeks.com

Just in case the 4.0 is needed for whatever reason;

Download Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 4.0 - MajorGeeks

Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 4.0 installs the classic .NET Framework runtime and associated files required to run applications developed with the .NET Framework. The Microsoft .NET Framework includes everything you need to run .NET Framework applications, including the Common...

www.majorgeeks.com

You can grab them from microsoft, but the pages change so frequently that I've given up referring to them. Plus, I love MajorGeeks! They rock!

FoulOnWhite said:
The download page does not mention a requirement for whatever version either

I think the devs presume that everyone has the DotNet libraries installed.

jormungand · Dec 14, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
That is likely DotNet3.5. If you grab the redistro's ;

Download Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 3.5 - MajorGeeks

Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 3.5 installs the classic .NET Framework runtime and associated files required to run applications developed with the .NET Framework. The Microsoft .NET Framework includes everything you need to run .NET Framework applications, including the Common...

www.majorgeeks.com

Just in case the 4.0 is needed for whatever reason;

Download Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 4.0 - MajorGeeks

Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 4.0 installs the classic .NET Framework runtime and associated files required to run applications developed with the .NET Framework. The Microsoft .NET Framework includes everything you need to run .NET Framework applications, including the Common...

www.majorgeeks.com

You can grab them from microsoft, but the pages change so frequently that I've given up referring to them. Plus, I love MajorGeeks! They rock!

I think the devs presume that everyone has the DotNet libraries installed.

i put it to work, i was just hyped to get this working to give it to my son tomorrow. Done, thanks

Shihab · Dec 14, 2023

FoulOnWhite said:
What .net is this missing, i can't find out, tried a lot but still not working.
View attachment 325378

jormungand said:
same here

Funny enough, running it on Linux via Wine displayed a more detailed error message.

Clicking yes opens a direct download link from MS' servers.
Link in case it wasn't working for y'all (or need to view URL before clicking):

Download .NET 6.0 Desktop Runtime (v6.0.25) - Windows x64 Installer

dotnet.microsoft.com

FoulOnWhite · Dec 14, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
That is likely DotNet3.5. If you grab the redistro's ;

Download Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 3.5 - MajorGeeks

Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 3.5 installs the classic .NET Framework runtime and associated files required to run applications developed with the .NET Framework. The Microsoft .NET Framework includes everything you need to run .NET Framework applications, including the Common...

www.majorgeeks.com

Just in case the 4.0 is needed for whatever reason;

Download Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 4.0 - MajorGeeks

Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable 4.0 installs the classic .NET Framework runtime and associated files required to run applications developed with the .NET Framework. The Microsoft .NET Framework includes everything you need to run .NET Framework applications, including the Common...

www.majorgeeks.com

You can grab them from microsoft, but the pages change so frequently that I've given up referring to them. Plus, I love MajorGeeks! They rock!

I think the devs presume that everyone has the DotNet libraries installed.

For some reason it was 6.0.25

lexluthermiester · Dec 14, 2023

FoulOnWhite said:
For some reason it was 6.0.25

Yeah, weird! I guess it was about time for that to start happening..

neatfeatguy · Dec 14, 2023

FoulOnWhite said:
What .net is this missing, i can't find out, tried a lot but still not working.
View attachment 325378

The itch.io link you download the game from, there are a handful of questions and comments about the game on the page. Clicking through a couple of spots, someone posted this:

NeitherMeNorYou15 hours ago(+1)
When you start the game it should offer you to download the correct version from Microsoft directly.
Beyond that you should be able to manually download .net Desktop Runtime 6.0.25 x64 yourself from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0

I see others have already posted about finding more info from trying to launch on Linux, but I just wanted to confirm. I didn't have any issues running the game, I just extracted all the files from the .zip into a folder and just clicked on the "Links Awakening XD HD" and it opened right up.

I didn't see any info about controls, but here is what I've discovered:
Arrow keys do the movement
Space opens your inventory screen. From there you have the Y/X/A/B keys listed.
S = A
D = B
A = X
W = Y
While inside the inventory screen, press "Enter" to interact with the map.

The "S" key appears to be the main action key. When you try to fish in the starting town you press S to cast and then press S rapidly to reel the fish in.

Saving, the game appears to auto save when you enter and/or exit a room in a building. You'll see the little disc icon appear in the lower right corner.

1d10t · Dec 14, 2023

neatfeatguy said:
Link's Awakening DX HD (fan made). Spent about 20 minutes running around, so far it seems spot on from what I can remember from the game from my childhood.

This brilliant, fan-made PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is free to play (until Nintendo...

Officially titled The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX HD, the game is a meticulously crafted PC version of the Game Boy Color release from 1998 –...

www.techspot.com

What a great findings mate, thanks for sharing :toast:

Frick · Dec 14, 2023

neatfeatguy said:
Link's Awakening DX HD (fan made). Spent about 20 minutes running around, so far it seems spot on from what I can remember from the game from my childhood.

This brilliant, fan-made PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is free to play (until Nintendo...

Officially titled The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX HD, the game is a meticulously crafted PC version of the Game Boy Color release from 1998 –...

www.techspot.com

Direct link:

Link's Awakening DX HD by linksawakeningdxhd

PC Version of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX

linksawakeningdxhd.itch.io

neatfeatguy said:
I didn't see any info about controls, but here is what I've discovered:
Arrow keys do the movement
Space opens your inventory screen. From there you have the Y/X/A/B keys listed.
S = A
D = B
A = X
W = Y
While inside the inventory screen, press "Enter" to interact with the map.

You can change the controls in game.

Also, I'm pretty sure this is straight up piracy.

1d10t · Dec 14, 2023

Frick said:
Also, I'm pretty sure this is straight up piracy.

This game was released in 1928, so I think any modding is allowed by public domain.

/s

XL-R8R · Dec 14, 2023

Another free Steam game:

EMERGENCY

-> https://store.steampowered.com/app/850170/EMERGENCY/

AusWolf · Dec 14, 2023

XL-R8R said:
Another free Steam game:

EMERGENCY

-> https://store.steampowered.com/app/850170/EMERGENCY/

First thoughts: Hell yeah! I used to play the heck out of this game 20-ish years ago.

Second thoughts: Hang on a minute... this isn't that game, but some new, seemingly upgraded version. Even better, I guess.

MarsM4N · Dec 14, 2023

lexluthermiester said:
Grab it while you can. Nintendo will likely shut this down soon.

Negative. Not enough space on my drive /s. :laugh:

Good old times where you could have tons of fun with a 24MB game.

lexluthermiester said:
You can grab them from microsoft, but the pages change so frequently that I've given up referring to them. Plus, I love MajorGeeks! They rock!

Microsoft also has a page with all .NET installers listed.

Quite handy. Esp. when each game requires a certain version and doesn't run with a newer one, I believe.

.NET Downloads (Linux, macOS, and Windows)

Official .NET downloads for Linux, macOS, and Windows. .NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform for building many different types of applications.

dotnet.microsoft.com

Eskimonster said:
Holy crap on a cracker, NFS Unbound is cheap atm, but thx @thesmokingman i wanted to get that game.

Indeed, banger deal. Historical low. But there's no way I am getting it on EPIC (only if it's free).

pigulici · Dec 18, 2023

Lost Ruins free on gog.com

GOG.com

Download the best classic and new games on Windows, Mac & Linux. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies and 30-day money-back guarantee.

www.gog.com

Julius8 · Dec 18, 2023

Free on Fanatical:

Ultimate Zombie Defense

ne6togadno · Dec 19, 2023

100 Asian Cats on Steam

100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. ️‍♂️❌ Can you find them all? ️‍♂️✅

store.steampowered.com

100 Christmas Cats on Steam

⛄️ Can you find 100 adorable cats hidden in Christmas streets? Test your attention in this cozy charming hand-drawn hidden object game. 100 Christmas Cats are waiting for you in the BEST hidden objects game! ️‍♂️❌ Can you find them all? ️‍♂️✅

store.steampowered.com

njoyyoursalad · Dec 19, 2023

Epic Games Store freebie unlocks in about 16 hours
Any ideas what it will be based the gift wrap teaser?

Shrek · Dec 19, 2023

It could make for fine entertainment to try and decode each wrapper.

Any takers? (for this we might need to open a new thread).

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