Recommend good free games

[Kovlak]

With all the bad news in gaming coming out, what's some good free games for us to indulge in?

I'll start

Butano Fighter
Cave Story
Beat Beast

 

[Aldia Aldia]

The first two chapters of Deltarune are a must try for anyone looking for free games.

 

[Gabrinius]

the open-source super tux kart and hedgewars.

 

[KamakoKamako's icon]

* I Wanna be The Guy: The Movie: The Game
A classic rage platformer.

* Gwent
Standalone game based on the titular card game from The Witcher.

* Ib and Space Funeral
Two excellent RPG Maker games with unique atmospheres and short runtime. Ib is very spooky and makes good use of silence, whilst Space Funeral has a wicked acid rock soundtrack.

 

[Majora Fi]

You'll have to include "No Pay-to-Win" in that question

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

The ones that we can find on the repository

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

BAR

Warzone 2100.

A Free And Open Source Real-Time Strategy Game

wz2100.net

 

[polter99]

Every game is a free game if you sail the seven seas

Meme aside, you have...
Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising Free Edition I know you're going to ask why's that, but there's a mod that can turn your GBVSR into pseudo-full version while still retaining the online functionality, like Ranked and Lobby. But this one might stretch the "free" a little too much. I guess Dead Or Alive 5: Last Round and Dead Or Alive 6 (non-LR version) can also be included here.

Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, Metaphor ReFantazio, and Digimon Time Stranger if we count "demo bypass" as free.

Half Sword Tech Demo is still pretty good if you just wanna mess with the physics on the pit.

Starward is perfect for Gundam homies that still waiting for Bandai Namco to release Extreme Versus 2 to the PC/console. Relatively tame gacha from watching my brother playing it.

And at last, River City 2 is currently free of charge on Epic Games Store :))

 

[ShinnAsukaYESTaylorSwiftNO]

IKEMEN GO and OpenBOR

 

[JellyjamLu]

Fishing Planet
Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel

 

[lordcyrus]

It depends what you are looking for, but itch.io has a lot of free games. I found myself there for some dark fantasy games that would never get featured on the Marsh youtube show. I need to beat Eternal Twilight someday. A lot of those boss battles, I mean c'mon. I don't want to just over level the content and mash buttons and I knew it all, but you telling me on Hard (Is normal) I knew I had no chance because my game limited healing items ran out and now this gal has a blood shield into the thousands.

 

[iamthemilkman]

All on Xbox:
Phantom Dust, Crackdown 1 and 2, Too Human, Hexic HD

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Uno on PSX

 

[CraigJinx]

Just look on The Repo, they are all free.

 

[beefbowl]

Beetle Ninja, it is free on Steam, great replay value. A fun little rpg.

Beetle Ninja on Steam

Saving the world sure gets stressful sometimes!

store.steampowered.com

 

[Mahopon]

open source games are also often free

if you're up for traditional roguelikes most of them are free; dcss (dungeon crawl stone soup) is pretty popular and still updated to this day, The Ground Gives Way for a shorter roguelike with simple control and pretty nice visual, (shattered) pixel dungeon also a solid roguelike on mobile.
You can go to https://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Main_Page for more roguelikes.

There is also Elona a bizarre life sim sandbox rpg.

endless sky a 2d space trucking/trading/combat game.

mindustry a combat oriented factorio-lite .

openttd open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
unciv open-source remake of civ 5.

 

[Jdan-S]

Locomalito's games: Maldita Castilla, Hydorah, l'Abbaye des Morts, etc.
SuperTuxKart
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
Cube Escape Collection (free on mobile)
HyperRogue

RPG Maker/WolfRPG:
Yume Nikki
Junko
Trick & Treat
Fausts Alptraum
Ib
The Witch's House
Mad Father
Misao
Other games translated by VGperson

SHMUPs:
By ABA Games: rRootage, Titanion, Torus Trooper, Parsec47, etc.
By XXGameroom: Eden's Aegis, Blue Wish Resurrection Plus, etc.
Warning Forever
Cho Ren Sha 68k
Jigoku Kisetsukan
Terra Feminarium