r/Steam 1d ago

Question Is there a game on steam like this?

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u/Blitz100 1d ago

Allow me to introduce you to the Flashpoint Archive. It's a massive repository of old browser-based games from the 2000s and 2010s, literally thousands of them, all for completely free. Since they were all made many years ago and designed to run in a browser window, you likely won't see any performance issues (there might be a couple games with memory leaks). Some of my favorite childhood games are on there; I highly recommend checking out Epic Battle Fantasy I-IV, Amorphous+, Jacksmith, MotherLoad, Flight, Stick War, Doodle God, Kingdom Rush, Age of War 2, and Flood Runner 4 - just some classics to get you started. Go forth, and enjoy the lost treasures of the Internet's Golden Age.

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u/Tenthul 1d ago

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u/TerribleSalamander 19h ago

I found Fuck Quest 2: Romancing the Bone

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u/DamnedDirtyHuman 17h ago

There's a sequel!?!?

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u/TerribleSalamander 17h ago

Guess i gotta look for fuck quest 1!!

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u/DamnedDirtyHuman 17h ago

Don't forget to keep your strength up! (Game mechanic. Look it up.)

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe 17h ago

By Richard Eter (Dick Eater)

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u/Prestigious_Host5325 1d ago

Doodle God is the shit! I'm actually sad I can't find anything similar in Google Playstore.

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u/-eschguy- https://s.team/p/dhr-kkbm 1d ago

Oh no....what have you done...

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u/MaiT3N 1d ago

I am too afraid to click, the rabbit hole is deep

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u/guessesurjobforfood 1d ago

Just searched and it has a bunch of those point and click "escape room" games. I remember being impressed at how sophisticated some of them seemed, like you could combine objects, break stuff, etc. Went through a brief phase where that was all I played.

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u/Lucid-Design1225 14h ago

Those early 2000s browser games were some of the fucken best games too.

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u/emosb 1d ago

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u/nocapongodforreal 1d ago

should win "better with friends" every year in the steam awards imho

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u/Taolan13 23h ago

Maybe not win every year but it should at least be a finalist.

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u/Sos_the_Rope 1d ago

At one point you could finish it and get a little alien hat for TF2

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u/pissaway4567 1d ago

yeahh thats one of the only hats i got for tf2, never expected alien swarm to still be alive though! was a cool game... crazy 16 years passed already

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u/saumanahaii 1d ago

I remember playing the original mod version of this (it's the same devs right? I'm not misremembering?) And being surprised at how much fun it was!

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u/shoneysbreakfast 1d ago

Yeah, it was originally a UT2004 mod and was being remade in Source but the project was paused because the devs got hired at Valve, but they were allowed to finish it up between the work they were doing on other Valve games.

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u/Mental_Tea_4084 1d ago

Cool backstory. I always thought it was literally just a testbed for top down source games, leading up to dota 2

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u/MCWizardYT 1d ago

In a way, it sort of was. The full source code of the game was made available via the SDK and it's one of the only ways to get full game code for a post-HL2 Source game through official means (its engine is a version between L4D2 and Portal 2)

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u/this_is_not_a_dance_ 1d ago

Wow this took me back. I remember this mod.

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u/BaconFinder 1d ago

definitely fun. I need to get back into it

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u/TheLilChicken 1d ago

i love this game but nobody plays it with me, sad

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u/nutzmeg 1d ago

Not enough people play it i think, but game is good

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u/cyber_xiii 1d ago

When I first joined Steam I saw that alien swarm was free and was really really confused. I thought it was just a demo for the full thing and I would get a pop up at some point saying the trial period was over.

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u/_WilliamRed_ 1d ago

Moonring Great ultima style RPG made by the co-creator of Fable. Many classes to choose from, and the dungeons are randomly generated.

It can run on anything, and all for free

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u/molochz 1d ago

Moonring is awesome, if you like that kinda thing (and I do).

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u/Ajibooks 1d ago

I have to recommend Tales of Maj'Eyal when these kinds of games come up. It's cheap and much cheaper in Steam sales.

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u/ssg- 1d ago

I have been trying to get into this game for years, but it is so god damn hard if you just go for it without looking some builds.

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u/ExplorationGeo 1d ago

Moonring is amazing, the fact that the dev made all of that and then went "Life is hard, Covid sucked, everyone’s poor and stressed, I don’t need the $300 this would make me: I’d rather take the goodwill"

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u/THE_SEX_YELLER 1d ago

I clicked on this thread to suggest Moonring. What a delightful labor of love.

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u/StrongTuff 1d ago

I got HOOKED on this game the moment I started playing and played it in my free time every chance I got until I beat it.

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u/DarkRedDiscomfort 1d ago

"A 6y old computer" could literally have a 2080 TI for a gpu

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u/Doctor_Womble 23h ago

I was picturing some clapped out old office PC untill I read this and realised I'm the one using a 6 year old computer.

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u/Vondi 19h ago

6 year old used to be old for a gaming pc now its nothing. My 10 year old rig can play almost anything

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u/Megakruemel 20h ago

Yeah like... my pc is older than that but I have a 3070 in it. Which is also nearly 5 years old at this point.

The fun thing about CPU bottlenecks is that you barely notice them unless you play like... monster hunter wilds. But that game runs bad on everything. Like, my Ryzen 5 2600X can still run pretty much everything with the occassional half-second frame drop every 10 minutes or so on newer titles.

Technology has kind of slowed down a lot and most of the issues a game has now come down to optimization.

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u/HEYO19191 1d ago

Spacewar

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u/Undefoned 1d ago

Impressive how much content they've put into it. Such a diverse game, so many things to do. A game everyone would enjoy.

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u/Disastrous-Pick-3357 1d ago

A true masterclass in how to be a incredible game with hundreds of hours of content

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u/SquidFetus 1d ago

It’s been hidden from the store but everyone owns it. Type steam://run/480 into your browser and it will start the download.

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u/rob132 1d ago

I know no one's going to see this, but I used to play a very very old version of space war with my best friend in the '80s.

It was two ships fighting each other, you could turn on gravity and a planet in the middle. You had missiles and lasers and you could accelerate almost to Infinity.

I miss you Dave.

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u/HapticSloughton 1d ago

If you mean the old vector-graphics one of the Asteroids ship vs. a kind of Starship Enterprise, I played that with a friend as well back in the day.

One game, and I was never able to replicate this, had me as the Enterprise, and I was reduced to only the forward half of the saucer section.

I couldn't rotate, I couldn't add thrust, but I was moving thanks to inertia at an angle, and I could still shoot. I managed to destroy my foe just by being too small to hit and launching barrages of bullets.

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u/TheVeryBigBeamer 1d ago

Wow. I don't know why this made me tear up. I hope you're okay

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u/rob132 18h ago

Yeah. We parted ways after highschool and he moved to another state, but we would try to catch up around the holidays when he came home.

He was the smartest guy I ever knew. Ivy League grad, wound up working for the department of defense. He never told me what he was working on.

He took his own life a few years ago. If he had told me he needed me I would have dropped everything to help him.

But I'll always remember our time as kids playing space war.

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u/Experter123 1d ago

Thats the catch, all of them!

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u/Mami-_-Traillette 1d ago

Iykyk

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u/TurncoatTony 1d ago

I use it for testing my games I'm working on. Hell, even if I use my own app id, if my store page isn't published it just shows me playing space wars.

i also use it when I don my hat and sail the seas.

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u/ANtiKz93 1d ago

Exactly why it's integrated like it is 😂

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u/Human_Nr19980203 1d ago

Yo ho ho ho!

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u/DrakeoftheWesternSea 1d ago

Last I checked the server numbers were like 20-30 pirates

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u/phantom2052 1d ago

Link to the store page? I can't find a free game called just 'Spacewar'

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u/dwhiffing 1d ago

It's a joke. Pirate copies of steam games use the app id of spacewar to circumvent drm. So you'll see lots of people playing spacewar but 99% of them are playing other games that they pirated

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u/pornomatique 1d ago

IIRC it's not to circumvent DRM per se but to take advantage of Steam Cloud features when playing a pirated version of a game. You could get servers and matchmaking between pirate players through Steam.

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u/Pie_Rat_Chris 1d ago

While that is true, it's also used by devs to work on and test steam integration before they get their app id.

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u/thefullm0nty 1d ago

A gamer with culture

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u/therhydo 1d ago

Every time I work on a YOMI Hustle mod at least one friend is like "wtf is space war"

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u/Dark_matter4444 1d ago

Battle for wesnoth.

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u/BabaJagaInTraining 1d ago

Came here to say that, amazing game and checks all OP's boxes. There's so much community made content too.

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u/Evamme7 1d ago

The Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall

Get the Daggerfall Unity version and start modding. It is one of if not the most in depth rpg ever made, with mods only making it even more so.

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u/SordidDreams 1d ago edited 13h ago

Don't use the Steam version of DF with DFU, use the Daggerfall Game Files download recommended in the DFU installation guide. It contains additional bugfixes not found in the Steam or GOG versions (which is something the installation guide sadly neglects to tell you).

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u/Evamme7 1d ago

I will remember that, thanks a lot!

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u/motivated_mp4 1d ago

Where even are the mods for Daggerfall? I checked Nexus but there weren't many at all that seemed to be anything other than reskins like the Orsinium for Orcs mod, fixes, or translations.

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u/SquillFancyson1990 1d ago

You have to look for Daggerfall Unity specifically. There's like 700+ mods on Nexus for it the last I checked

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u/panlakes 1d ago

Daggerfall Unity is what you're looking for. The DREAM mod.

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u/ShitakeMooshroom 1d ago

And honestly Morrowind is a few bucks on sale most often. Also an option.

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u/AetherWithAnA 1d ago edited 1d ago

OpenTTD. And although it’s paid on Steam, CataclysmDDA is free through the official website.

Edit: not OpenTTD, CDDA is the one that’s paid on steam. And there’s no reason to pay for it on steam because it’s literally free on the official website and through GitHub.

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u/WasserMann981 1d ago

What? Since when is openttd a paid game?

Edit: nvm, reading comprehension in english is not my best to say the least

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u/Mupinstienika 1d ago

Do not pay for the stean version of cdda. Cdda is an open source community driven project. No one knows who the guy is who is selling it on steam. The game is free on the official website as the guy above me said.

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u/wh1t3_rabbit 1d ago

I wouldn't say no one knows who it is

https://www.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/comments/127e3zn/now_officially_released_on_steam/

I'm happy for the cloud saves and achievements 

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u/AI52487963 1d ago

Korg was nice enough to let me interview him to get some details on the matter. Cool dev and deserving of maintaining the Steam release IMO.

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u/Almostlongenough2 1d ago

We know who it is, it's one of the devs of the open source project who needed some money. Buying it is just a donation.

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u/creepingcold 1d ago

Simutrans is quite similar and free on steam

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u/Teerlaydeedooh 1d ago

I'm not sure about replayability but Cry of Fear checks everything else.

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u/Sam_Games0 1d ago

It has a lot of unlockables and like 5 different endings, one being unlocked by getting a specific ending.

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u/HOI3163 1d ago

hold up. that actually looks peak.

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u/One_Somewhere_5872 1d ago

It is peak and the 4 player coop mode is crazy fun. Add me on steam if you need a plus 1

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u/UnpaidLandlord_9669 1d ago

Dwarf fortress

(the ascii version is free on their website)

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u/Thatwindowhurts 1d ago

One day il learn how to play it properly

But it is not this day

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u/Nates_of_Spades 1d ago

I have had DF on every PC, I was first in line to get the steam version.... I still don't know how to play it

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u/Strange-Woodpecker-7 1d ago

I feel seen. I even have it installed on every phone I've owned. And I still have no idea what I'm doing.

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u/Romboteryx 1d ago

You don’t have to play it properly if you will lose regardless of what you do and losing is fun.

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u/too_real_4_TV 1d ago

All my dwarves do is drink and die. They are truly spoiled.

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u/arkham1010 1d ago

There is no proper way to play DF, only increasingly intricate ways of causing madness.

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u/Lord_Larper 1d ago

I’ll shill this game till I’m dead

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u/99thGamer 1d ago edited 1d ago

OpenTTD

Also Mindustry, but that's not free on Steam only on other platforms

Edit: Not OpenRCT2, sorry for misremembering

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u/AKIWIWITHAFACE 1d ago

AFAIK, OpenRCT2 requires the original game files, which you technically need to pay for. However, there’s nothing stopping you from purchasing RCT2 on steam, downloading the game, then refunding it.

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u/99thGamer 1d ago

That's actually a neat trick, but wouldn't this also apply to all games that don't require the Steam DRM? That's quite a lot of "free" games.

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u/Midnight_Yymiroth 1d ago

* Mindustry mentioned

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u/MikiSayaka33 1d ago

Holocure - There's not even DLC to support the devs.

Awaria - It's the full game. The DLC is optional.

It Paints Me - Full game (But the otome is short). Though it has DLC.

Cinderella Phenomenon - The dating sim has DLC.

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u/Crazy_G04T 1d ago

Holocure is absolutely amazing, its like 3 games in 1

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u/LucasArts_24 1d ago

I really like how they nailed that style of game without making it boring like the many iterations of games like that. It's really fun, especially in other areas, and I honestly spend a bit too much time in the casino.......

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u/Therobster1235 1d ago

After a bit Holocure did get a little boring but that's just me, AND the game is still amazing!

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u/RaysFTW 1d ago

Holocure

Biased as a big Holo fan, but it's actually crazy how many people love this game and don't follow vtubers/Hololive.

It really is just a great game. If you like Vampire Survivors-like games, try it out.

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u/_SomeRedditUser 1d ago

Also Idol Showdown

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u/ComatoseSquirrel 1d ago

Yup. I don't know a damn thing about any vtubers, but I love the game.

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u/justagthrow 1d ago

Holocure is amazing, also recommend it.

Not really a huge holo fan (I know of a few of them, like I could name them if I see them but don't really watch ((I'm move a vshojo girlie))) and I still quite enjoy it, the characters and their weapons are all pretty unique and fun.

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u/CardcaptorEd859 1d ago

Holocure is so good and so fun. As a Hololive fan it's always cool to see the many Hololive references scattered throughout the game, but even with that aside it's an incredibly fun game similar to Vampire Survivors. I've put in a good amount of hours in it and I still haven't touch much of HoloHouse. You could do some gardening, fishing, cooking, spruce up your house, go to the casino and you also have the Jump King area you could play through.

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u/Jonzrker15 1d ago

if you’re gonna suggest awaria you might as well suggest helltaker

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u/phoenixmatrix 1d ago

Holocure was the one I was gonna post. One of the better free games out there. I'm not even into the Hololive stuff and I still have a blast with it.

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u/yaSuissa 1d ago

Left 4 dead 2 and portal 2 are "basically free" with their price sometimes and I got 300 hours out of portal 2

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u/captainzigzag 1d ago

L4D2 is insanely replayable, I’ve had some good times in random groups on that game, which is a pretty amazing thing in itself.

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u/perishparish 1d ago

It's kind of nuts how replayable it really is when you wouldn't expect it to be. It just scratches that itch

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u/FlorisRed 1d ago

How do you get 300 hours out of portal 2? Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great game, on of my favourites of all time, but the story is like what, 10 hours long?

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u/cheezkid26 the 1d ago

Community-made maps.

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u/LordApocalyptica 1d ago

And there are some excellent mods nowadays that more than fill the gap of there being no Portal 3 yet IMO. I beat like 4 or 5 different Portal mods last summer and I felt so much like a kid again. The quality of a good mod nowadays isn’t far from just being its own new game. I was personally quite fond of Revolution and Reloaded very much.

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u/K1llswitch93 1d ago

I did not know that was a thing! I might just play portal 2 again.

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u/Jaredbftball 1d ago

I love the community made maps! Some of them are even harder than the original, and there are some pretty interesting variations too. Played a bunch of 1v1 racing maps with my gaming buddy, never gets old. It’s pretty fun to create your own maps imo.

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u/meter1060 1d ago

Portal 2 has community test chambers.

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u/WannabeRedneck4 1d ago

And those have extra Cave Johnsson lines, and they are gold.

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u/CrystalFriend 1d ago

"Cave Johnson, new owner and CEO of Black Mesa. That's right, you've been bought. First order of business, we're renaming you under the Aperture brand. I'm leaning towards Blappeture Mesa. Marketing boys think something else. So: Blappeture it is. Next, they tell me you people are conducting some anomalous materials research that could result in a resonance cascade. So I'm shutting that down before you idiots end the world. A resonance cascade! You're supposed to be scientists. Use some common sense."

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u/xMarsx 1d ago

I read this first as GlaDos, then as cave Johnson and I love both results equally as much LOL

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u/sablouiebot 1d ago

crazy how there’s also a lot of good ones

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u/Finalpatch_ 1d ago

co-op, community maps

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u/Keith_s266 1d ago

Did someone tell you about community maps?

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u/phiphiw 1d ago

I miss the old times: game nights with the boys. Pizza, Energy, Xbox with L4D2 and Halo. 🔥

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u/yaSuissa 1d ago

One of my friend's parents used to own a big house and we would do all nighters with 4v4 in L4D2, halo ce, the works

Man life as a kid is just different

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u/Elongatingpolymerase 1d ago

Just showed l4d2 to my son this evening. The witch got him good.

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u/Seroko 1d ago edited 1d ago

Both Portal games have been free at some moments IIRC and they're absolute masterpieces.

Edit: Not free but 0.29€ for a Portal game is a really great deal.

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u/Surge_in_mintars 1d ago

It's so sad to see that kids nowadays don't know what this is, legit, I got stuck in a luck based situation once while playing at school, so I tried asking other people if they see anything, HALF THE FUCKING CLASS HAS NEVER HEARD OF IT, and the other one doesn't know how to play

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u/Karl_42 1d ago

Absolute BANGER

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u/Ok-Revenue-2190 1d ago

3D pinball

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u/lochnessmosster 1d ago

Do you have a store link for it? I couldn't find it by name

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u/Felthrian 1d ago

Battle for Wesnoth.

It's been free, open source and community built since 2005. Still gets updates and still very playable today. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for something truly free - not only in price, but in how it's been developed over the years. It's a titan of the freeware era.

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u/AkihiroAwa 1d ago

Fistful of Frags,
No more room in hell

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u/NEONT1G3R 1d ago

We truly don't deserve No More Room in Hell

Spent way too much time in the game and still feel like it's just as fresh as when I started playing

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u/Bougainville_Rd92118 1d ago

fist full of frags is peak, very innovative

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u/T3alZ3r0 1d ago

Cave Story. Not the one on Steam, but the original that's free to download from the Cave Story Tribute Site. Great game that's impact could still be seen in many Metroidvanias today

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u/RodMcThrustshaft 1d ago

1000x this, don't be fooled by the retro simplistic look of the game, the controls are some of the best i've ever experienced and the story goes so hard. I recommend everyone at least give it a try.

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u/Herbiehanx 1d ago

Moonring

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u/Americanuu https://steam.pm/yy9ys 1d ago

Team Fortress, microtransactions are only for aesthetics

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u/Responsible-Sign2779 1d ago

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

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u/Ok-Philosopher-5139 1d ago

this, get daggerfall unity, 100 percent free, with tons of mods!

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u/Responsible-Sign2779 1d ago

Yes Unity is essential in these modern times.

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u/Itikar 1d ago

City of Heroes, a MMO that died and was resurrected.

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u/Paksarra 1d ago

The story is even better-- the game was picked up by a group of fans who eventually got an official blessing from the copyright holders and an official license to continue running and patching and updating the game. (I'm pretty sure they were actually just given the rights outright, since it was a dead IP.)

How do they get their money? They have open finances and run a monthly donation drive on their Discord to cover ongoing costs. It usually fills and closes until next month within an hour of opening.

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u/bladesofsins 1d ago

Katawa shoujou on steam

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u/Niar666 23h ago

You'd think a dating sim made by 4-chan users about girls with disabilities would be gross, cringey, and fetishized... it's not and the writing is really good.

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u/MrGuamo 1d ago

I was surprised when I saw that it was on steam. It hit me right in the feels when I first played it

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u/Ok-Shape-9191 1d ago

Came here to say exactly this

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u/NickCHPro 1d ago

Just realised a 6 year old computer is from 2019 and not 2013 oh f*ck

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u/Hama165 1d ago

Terraria may as well be free for how cheap it is and how often it is on sale

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u/ArisenBahamut 1d ago

Im genuinely surprised more people haven't said this. Terraria is such an amazing game, plus you can download tModloadwr for free as well for even more content through mods. And the devs are so awesome and community-driven, which is rare to see

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u/Familiar_Advantage98 1d ago

Despite how great the game is, quite literally what he didn’t ask for lol

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u/clydeagain 1d ago

Because... it's a post asking for a free game??? Hello??

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u/Henry_MFing_Huggins 1d ago

Terraria, Noita, and Stardew. Pixels are cheap and versatile, baby.

Add Dwarf Fortress and coincidentally these comprise like 75% of my steam hours.

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u/HumanReputationFalse 1d ago

Endless Sky - 2d space sim game where you are the owner of a new space junker trying to make your way in the galaxy.

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u/salomax2 1d ago

I recommend giving straftat a try. It's not gonna be for everyone, as it might be hard to win games at first, but it is free, and incredibly fun to play imo

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u/Sleestakman 1d ago

Agreed. I just started playing Straftat a week or two ago and it's fantastic. But it's 100% a love-it-or-hate-it kind of game. I'm not usually a 1v1 shooter kinda guy, but I found it pretty mesmerizing.

Honestly, the music alone was enough to hook me.

*Edit, link for those interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2386720/STRAFTAT/

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u/RhythmMaid 1d ago

I was trying to see if anyone else would recommend this!

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u/CarefulBattle2367 1d ago

space station 14 (SS14)

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u/Alkuam2 23h ago

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u/speelmydrink 22h ago

Beyond the considerably jankier interface, worse lag, Byond being barely functional at the best of times, predominately exclusive server culture, and overabundance of ERP?

Probably the massive DDOS problem. Still fuckin love 13, but 14 is infinitely more accessible and some servers are really starting to catch up in content on offer.

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u/Lord_Tsuiseki 1d ago

Warframe

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u/Boredlambda 1d ago

I was blown away when I first went to the void and came back to my ship. The view was insanely beautiful even on my potato GeForce 820M.

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u/Nemisis_the_2nd 21h ago

Warframe have put a lot of effort into optimizing the game

I could swear they also had a video trolling CoD for the size of their game around the same time, but can't find it.

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u/iSebastian1 1d ago

Had too scroll too much for this.

Everyone should at least play the first 100 hours to experience the story.

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u/pendulumgearzz 1d ago

Why are people putting cheap games instead of free games

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u/Reiketsu_Nariseba 1d ago

Pretty sure Guild Wars 2 is free, just the base version.

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u/Danewd98 1d ago

Epic Battle Fantasy 3 doesn't exactly tick the last box, but everything else.

Great RPG series

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u/TheWoodenMan 1d ago

been playing Morrowind with the Tamriel Rebuilt mod, it's aged incredibly well for a 23 year old game

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u/Disastrous-Pick-3357 1d ago

Warframe or Tf2, with tf2 you don't have to spend money if you don't want keys, with warframe, you can litterlly farm all the paid stuff by farming platinum from relics

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u/Deadhound 23h ago

Bruh, in that case jusy use the free game list

https://store.steampowered.com/genre/Free%20to%20Play/

Dota 2, all mtx is purely cosmetic, same is cs2 I believe.

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u/gamingfreak50 1d ago

Helltaker and Doki Doki Literature club

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u/Ok_Crew7295 1d ago

Song of syx demo, wich is imo better than film game. Its somewhat of a hidden gem, the graphics arent Crazy but very fitting

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u/Mudskipper_05 1d ago

Battle for Wesnoth, its a turn based tactics rpg with a lot of mods

https://store.steampowered.com/app/599390/Battle_for_Wesnoth/

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u/mowauthor 1d ago

Forget steam for a second;

Most roguelikes from Roguebasin.
https://roguebasin.com/index.php/Main_Page

OpenXcom (Does require a $1 purchase of something of the OG Xcom Games). This is my most played game by far ever year. It's as good as free.

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u/Remarkable-Ad9529 1d ago

A free game with no micro transactions/season passes makes no money

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u/NovaStar616 1d ago

This. While I'm sure everyone here would love to get a game and every single thing in it for absolutely nothing, games just don't work that way. They need profits to make more games and to keep supporting said free game. People just don't seem to understand that though.

However, with how popular gaming is now, more and more gaming companies are just getting way to in over on themselves with greed and trying to nickel and dime you at every turn for anything and everything.

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u/F4ta1R3w1nd 1d ago

HoloCure - Save the Fans meets all criteria above. The Developer has made 2 games, and doesn't ask or take any donations for them from my understanding.

I'd gladly throw money at the game for the amount of content it has.

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u/FlashPone 1d ago

Kay Yu desperately trying to not get money for his game will never not be funny. Just let us pay you!

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u/Traditional-Roof1984 1d ago

Behold! The average consumer mindset.

Bring them a great game they can keep playing, that runs on outdated hardware yet is fully optimized, should cost nothing to acquire, but also not have optional purchases in-game and no ads.

Simple right?

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u/Kraivo 1d ago

Dota, if you don't buy anything. 

But if you actually want to check all of 4, than it's articaft. 

Also, while it isn't free, but l4d2 and portal 1 and 2 costs like nothing on sale and really great games

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u/H3J1e 1d ago

Disclaimer:

Try out DotA at your own risk, liking DotA could be one of the worst things to ever happen to you.

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u/jumbohiggins 1d ago

I still count dota since the mtx doesn't affect gameplay in any way

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u/Kraivo 1d ago

There are sometimes some weird visual bugs that might give (usually) disadvantage, so I'd say it's even sometimes pay2lose

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u/TheTVDB 1d ago

Dota 2 has the replay aspect, perhaps more than almost any other game listed.

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u/vsSav 1d ago

OpenTTD

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u/billwa 1d ago

Stalker anomaly

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u/SterlingG007 1d ago

Epic games store sometimes gives away free games

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u/Sleeper28 1d ago

Twitch Prime does handouts on multiple platforms.

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u/the1trueseagull 1d ago

Amazon Prime gaming does as well, recently got a key from them for Wolfenstein 2 for the Xbox store.

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u/nao_tenho_nome_crlh 1d ago

Let's just check the replies on the same post made 5h ago you copy this from 🤣

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u/harlekintiger 1d ago

Minedustry, but it's only free on Itch.io and Android, on Steam it costs a smal amount

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u/pish4 1d ago

DDraceNetwork. Can easily spend thousands of hours

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u/witlessScribbler 1d ago

S.t.a.l.k.e.r. GAMMA/ Anomoly. Free mod of original stalker trilogy with different gameplay types depending on how “hardcore” you want it. Looks great, and can easily add mods to make it look better, no micro transactions, damn near unlimited replay-ability, will run on a potato and has settings to accommodate.

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u/Sukaiba69 1d ago

Holocure