Exploration sandbox game

Tiggit is an open source game launcher and installer.

Our mission: to help you find all the awesome indie games that exist 'hidden' around the internet.

Tiggit is a desktop app that installs and launches games with one click. It is sort of like an open source Steam clone, but much simpler and currently with only freeware games and demos.

Beautiful atmospheric stroll. Not quite a game yet

8BitMMO is an 8bit-style 2D massively multiplayer game! It's a giant construction sandbox -- you can build a home or a castle in a persistent streaming world. Found and manage your own city. Fight evil Lawyercats and engage in player vs player battle.

WHAT IS FLASH DUEL?

Flash Duel is a simple, fast card game for 1 to 5 players that simulates sparring matches amongst Fantasy Strike characters practicing for an upcoming tournament.
 

You only need to score one hit to win a round, so it's all about jockeying for position on the 18-space board to land that hit.

Huge round up of indie and fan Zeldalikes

Neverdaunt is a dream like world of floating Islands and falling stars where nearly anything can happen. 8Bit refers to the era of computers with eight bit processors. N8* parodies the graphics style these computers were capable of and 8Bit also refers to N8* being a kind of Neverdaunt lite.
N8* is an online massively multiplayer virtual sandbox, A place to play, make friends, be creative and competitive.

The whole thing also happens to be the work of one guy (that's me, hello). Which isn't something that normally happens with an MMO, so I thought I would point that out. The reason I can make something like this by myself is the very nature and design of N8*... every player helps build the world and create gameplay!

My name in game is Aion, so if you see me, say hello.

Lucky Space is a tastefully and intelligently designed space colony builder on Facebook.

There are three things that are noteworthy about the game. First is the economy, which is nicely conceived, well-balanced, and remarkably complex but still messaged to the players in a way that, I think, does not exclude the more casual. Second is the manner in which the game treats FB wall-posts, which is original and encourages these (and the virality they spawn) in a far friendlier and more useful fashion than other FB games. And third is the music.

As HTML games begin to gradually increase in popularity, vendors are starting to introduce some exciting new APIs to make gaming that little bit sweeter for both us developers and our end players. One of these is the GamepadAPI, which allows you to connect your good old console gamepad into your computer and use it for browser based games, plug and play style. Let’s dive in!

Flesh Snatcher is a Java FPS game with a survival/horror ambiance.

Randomly generated platformer

8bit killer is a first person shooter styled to resemble a NES game in look and feel

AD 2488. A long war has put human race on the edge of self-extinction. Four years ago, a space creature known as Master Brain arrived with the promise of a new dawn. Now, a huge army launched an attack to the few cities that are still on, following the plan of the creature. A small group of soldiers have formed an alliance to defend those cities and kill the master brain. This games tells the story of their final mission.

32x32 pixel textures, 64 color nes palette and 1bit sounds make this game look like an early 90s game. The soundtrack has been created by the genius RushJet1. The story, characters and scenes are inspired by films like Mad Max or 2013: Rescue in LA and by games like Contra, Megaman, Bionic Commando, Metroid, Catacomb 3D or the sequel Wolfenstein 3D, and many others...

Dust is the culmination of a year long endeavour to create traditional side scrolling game, and put a new twist on it. You play a moth. Not just any moth, a magical moth. Trapped in an old, dusty, and web infested attic; it is your goal to break free and find the ultimate source of light, the moon. Using its powers of resurrection, it is your task to wake its dead brethren and build a small army (or Marmy) forceful enough to break open the giant glass window. However, the moth draws its magic from light, and should it venture too long in the dark, it will be consumed. Its only hope is to light the entire attic, and collect every dead moth. Only then will it be free.

In The Snowfield you are a lone soldier wandering the aftermath of a great battle. It is the dead of winter and you won't last long in the cold. But you are not alone.

Balloon Diaspora is a 3D point-and-click adventure game with music by Oliver Blank. Explore a foreign culture, make new friends and ride through the clouds in a hot air balloon. The music is also available for download under a Creative Commons license.

Jaws is a 2D game lib powered by HTML5. It started out only doing canvas but is now also supporting ordinary DOM based sprites through the same API.

Vlambeer's SUPER CRATE BOX is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list. Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it's time to fight endless hordes of enemies and collect every weapon crate you can. Prepare for an arcade delight with tight controls, refreshing game mechanics, cracking retro art and a terribly hip chiptune soundtrack.

alien-breed alike

As the excellent history provided with the game tells, Team17 (who made the Worms games) once made a creepy, atmospheric and quite difficult game called Alien Breed. The game was based on the film Aliens and this is an updated, but still authentic remake of that game.

The idea is that there are aliens attacking. You need to scour the corridors for items, such as keys and ammo, in order to make it to an elevator located on each level. The aliens will continue to breed off screen and come to attack you, so time is of the essence while also conserving your limited ammunition.

The graphics in this offering are very high quality and will remind any seasoned player of the early '90's graphics style, such as Alien Carnage (the original from Apogee) albeit in a slightly darker tone.

To put it simply, this is a great title you should not miss out on. Alien Breed Obliteration comes very highly recommended.

HTML game framework with mobile and touch

Tools Anyone Can Use
Make flash games without writing a single line of code.
Stage editor, animation tools, physics engine --all in one place.
Make Games Together
Invite anyone to help out on your game or gather a team and start a project.*
Several users can work on a project simultaneously*

Roguelike platformer

HTML5 game development library

The story begins when you, the commander of a two man recon team, are sent hurtling into space during maintenance on an interplanetary probe. After a sudden attack from an alien black substance, you awake on a mysterious planet.

Where are you? How did you get there? And why is your partner screaming for help down the intercom…

Towns brings a fresh new take on the citybuilding/management genre by introducing many RPG features.
 
Drawing inspiration from games such as Diablo, Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress, the game has you managing a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
 
Both the RPG and strategic aspects will be fleshed out over a series of sprawling dungeons.
 
Craft unique weapons, obtain randomized loot and build a settlement capable of holding back the forces that come up from the depths!

Stranded is a 3D survival game. You are playing the role of a castaway and your general aim is "just" to survive on the assumed lonely island at whose sandy beach you have been carried by the sweep of fate.

You have crash-landed on planet Notrium. Your food supplies are running low, a pack of predatory aliens have got your scent. There are no more bullets for your pistol, your only weapon a handful of rocks. The night is coming, and you are desperately looking for wood to make a fire. Notrium is a game of survival. Originally released in 2003.

Schiffbruch ("Shipwreck") is a mix of building, strategy, and adventure, played from an isometric perspective. The game deals with a shipwreck. You are stranded on a lonely island and have to survive. To do this, you’ll have to explore the island, search for food, build housing, and try to attract attention so that you’ll be found.

Survival game in a pixel-art style

Site of Knytt creator. Includes full games and game jams

In an unexplored sector of space humanity is trying to establish a permanent presence. Megacorporations employ freelance prospectors to find exploitable resources and map unknown planets for them. The player commands one of those scoutships, trying to become filthy rich as a prospector.

Transcendence is a game of space combat and adventure. As you travel from the peaceful environs of Starton Eridani to the dangers of the Galactic Core, you will encounter the full diversity of life in the Galaxy. Learn more about the Transcendence universe by reading the entries below.

Ascii Sector is a free space combat/exploration/trading game for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. You start with a simple spaceship and can then accept missions or trade goods to earn enough money to upgrade your ship or buy a new one.

You can engage in deadly fights both in space, on the ground and on board spaceships, and using the Ascii Sector scripting language, you can create your own quests for the game or have fun with other players' quests.

If you're ready to step into the Ascii Sector universe, go ahead and download the free game. Or visit the discussion forums for tips and tricks and development updates from the game's single developer.

The good stuff in the Pirate Kart

The Free Game Alliance (FGA) is a great collection of Open Source games, one per genre, which will keep you busy for years to come. What do you need more than a good FPS, a good turn-based strategy game, a good real time strategy game, a good mmorpg and a good car racing game? Probably nothing if the content is updated regularly enough!! That's why the FGA wants to support these projects and make them become known and famous, so more developers and contributors can join them to make this the perfect set of constantly evolving games!

Play, explore, collaborate, and learn! The selected games are in active and open development, so there is plenty for you to explore and contribute if you want to, at the same time they are already playable on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOSX) bringing you a lot of fun.

The projects part of FGA support each other to reach a wider audience and higher quality/playability standards.

The FGA website brings you all the news about each game regularly, so you can follow their development and improvements.

Proteus is a game of pure exploration and discovery, developed by Ed Key with a reactive ambient soundtrack by David Kanaga.

The first iteration is due to be released in 2011 as an "EP" with an "LP" to follow. There is an old playable version here but we hope to release an updated demo soon.

For press preview builds and enquiries, please use the address below. Watch this space for a full site update in the coming weeks!

Experimental game environment for relaxation

The System Reference Document is a comprehensive toolbox consisting of rules, races, classes, feats, skills, various systems, spells, magic items, and monsters compatible with the d20 System version of Dungeons & Dragons and various other roleplaying games from Wizards of the Coast. You may consider this material Open Game Content under the Open Game License, and may use, modify, and distribute it.

Populous-alike

Welcome to Happy Fun Coding!
... a site to learn to program games in Javascript.
No software to install.
Lots of video tutorals.
Community programming -- easy to learn from and help others.
Embed your creations on your own web pages.

Opera's HTML5 game

EA's F2P portal

melonJS is the result of our enthusiasm and past experiments with Javascript, and came from the feeling that no simple, free and standalone library was available to develop games. And although still a big work in progress (and not yet bug free), melonJS already allows to easily create some nice games (see the Gallery page)
melonJS integrates the popular Tiled map format, allowing to easily design levels using the Tiled map editor, and to focus on the game features itself.

Godhead is a Free / Open Source Software project to build an engine for Role-Playing Games (RPG) that are non-linear with large scale environments. Our goals emphasize procedural generation, modern 3D graphics, and dynamic, interesting worlds and characters. Currently, we are focusing on one such world.

Using a programme called Unity 3D and a framework developed by Abertay University called Games Unpacked, you can create your very own game.<br />
Once you have built a game you can upload it to our games gallery.<br />
This section of the website contains all the materials you will need to build your own game in Unity 3D.

PlusOneMe (+1 me) helps you acknowledge people's strengths. It's gold stars for grownups. When you want to acknowledge somebody for a strength they have, you can +1 them for that attribute

Recruit a party of adventurers from your household or office, and whenever one of you completes a chore, you can log it and claim XP.

As a planet, we spend 3 billion hours a week playing computer and videogames. That’s a LOT of time — enough to change our lives, and probably save the world (the real world) while we’re at it.That’s why we’ve created a secret HQ for people who are making games that are making us:- happier- smarter- stronger- healthier- more collaborative- more creative- better connected to our friends and family- and better at WHATEVER we love to do when we’re not playing games

Wazzal is a freeware single player space privateering game. Capture a ship to become an interplanetary pirate! Fly your ships in our solar system and accomplish missions while gathering a fleet of ships to fight bigger foes.<br />
Requires Windows XP or newer, DirectX 8 or newer.

16x18 art

SpaceEngine - is a free space simulation software that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, starting from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by human astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets!

Red Locomotive is a JavaScript game engine for complex 2d and/or isometric games. It give developers the tractive effort they need by abstracting complex systems like game loops, pixel/cursor based events, frame rate management, sprite rendering, animation, and much more.

This table contains primarily HTML5 based game engines and frameworks.

Welcome to CantYouSeeImBusy.com - the only site where you can play games without your boss noticing. Let’s face it; we all want to relax every now and then, but still want to appear professional or busy! That’s why all the games at CantYouSeeImBusy.com are designed in a way that nobody can see that you’re gaming. In fact, your boss and colleagues will think that you’re working harder than ever before.

Bitfighter is a free multi-player 2-D space combat game with Robotron-like controls. It's a team-based strategy game featuring retro vector graphics and customizable ships. It's fast, fun, and frenetic.

Black Market, Goblin War Machine

Pax Britannica is a one-button real-time strategy game by No Fun Games. Up to four players battle it out underwater, struggling to be the last one standing!

Impact is a JavaScript Game Engine that allows you to develop HTML5 Games in no time. Games created with Impact require no browser plugins or any software installations – just a modern browser that supports the Canvas tag.

The Xenophis, a Vulcan exploratory vessel, has incidentally found the mythical sector of Firia where the planets, only reachable through warp tunnels, are told to be made of staggering ice and liquid fire. As a precautionary act, the Xenophis crew are attempting to launch interstellar probes, significantly altered to exist within the Firia atmosphere, in order to learn more of this magnificent piece of the galaxy.<br />
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However, evidence shows that the former inhabitants do not like outsiders.<br />
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You are the probe, and your mission is to maneuver your way to the other end of the warp tunnel. You are equipped with two shields, one to protect you from icy drones, and another from fiery ones. However, only one shield can be active at a time.

This is a science-fiction scenario written for Celestia. It is in some ways a story, in some ways a huge, 3-dimensional virtual world to explore. It is not a game, although it has some game-like properties. Basically, it is a worldbuilding project with a deep back story you can explore, together with a few mysteries to solve if you are observant and persistent. <br />
To get any joy out of it, you need some basic knowledge about how to navigate in Celestia. If the program is new to you, visit the documentation section on the Motherlode and download one of the tutorials found there. Otherwise, just download the scenario and have fun! 

A dreamable space simulationwritten by Fottifoh between 1996 and 2001manual: Ryan J. Bury, background: Shmerm

RTS game for ATARI!!!