Hand-picked groupings from the PlayBound catalog. Short lists, because a list of ninety games answers nothing.
Command, conquer, and never pay a cent. The finest real-time strategy the free world has to offer, from thousand-unit slugfests to classic base-building.
Includes: OpenRA, Beyond All Reason, 0 A.D., Zero-K, Warzone 2100
Dust off the ethernet switch. These games were born for a room full of friends, pizza boxes, and trash talk.
Includes: Xonotic, SuperTuxKart, OpenRA, Hedgewars, OpenTTD
Big fun, small footprint. Every game here downloads in minutes on any connection and fits on the oldest laptop in the house.
Includes: Mindustry, OpenTTD, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Hedgewars, Luanti
One screen, many controllers, guaranteed arguments. The best free games for playing side by side.
Includes: SuperTuxKart, Hedgewars, SuperTux
Criminally underplayed. Each of these deserves ten times its player count — get in before everyone else does.
Includes: Endless Sky, Zero-K, Naev, Warzone 2100, Unvanquished
Missing the villager hum? These free RTS games scratch the civilization-building, army-massing itch.
Includes: 0 A.D., OpenRA, Warzone 2100
Loot, levels, and the endless descent. Free games for when you need numbers to go up and monsters to go down.
Includes: Veloren, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, The Battle for Wesnoth
The games you grew up with — open-sourced, modernized, and better than you remember.
Includes: OpenRA, Warzone 2100, OpenTTD, Hedgewars