While graphic games seem to have taken over the commercial online multi-player gaming market, free-to-play text-based MUDs and their later incarnations (MUSHes, MUCKs, MOOs, etc) — collectively referred to as MU*s — still live on, both for roleplaying and for social chatting. I’ve been an occasional user of social MU*s since I created a character [...]
HeroQuest is a turn based computer game in a fantasy setting. It was inspired on MB’s and Games Workshop’s boardgame ‘HeroQuest’ and is a modern remake of the old DOS version of the boardgame published in the early 1990s, only for Windows and with better graphics. The game focuses on four different heroes working through [...]
Urban Terror 4 is a “total conversion” for Quake 3 Arena. Unlike most First Person Shooter mods, Urban Terror does not require that you own a copy of the original Quake 3 Arena game to play. If you do not own a copy of of the commercial game, you can download ioUrbanTerror — created from [...]
This looks like a very professional job for a freeware game. It can be played by one player or by multiple players via the Net.
From the Shadow Armada web site:
Shadow Armada is a turn-based action game where your objective is to destroy all enemy ships. You have a large arsenal of missiles, and many different [...]
You’ve probably heard of Nethack (wikipedia entry). It is a rogue-like adventure game that has been under continuous, if slow, development since the late 1980s. It has great gameplay and more functions and surprises than most commercial “hack and slash” RPGs. Unfortunately, it has extremely primitive “graphics” — letters, numbers, and other characters [...]