Five for free

Posted by Ward Rubrecht at 6:27 AM Apr 01, 2008

I've always liked free shit. When I leave restaurants it's invariably with a double-fist of mints and toothpicks; at Target I'll grab a whole stack of AOL CDs to use as frisbees later. But the one bad thing about free shit is that it's usually true to both parts of its name.

In the PC gaming world, however, that ain't necessarily so. Sure, Defend Your Castle gets old after five minutes, and 99% of Flash games are rip-offs of superior arcade games. But there's quality to be found as well. So for my first post, I'm gonna run down five of my favorites from the freeware world, games that you might, in another universe, actually be inclined to pay money for. Hardly any unknowns here, I'll grant you; but if you've never played even one of these, it'll be worth your while to get acquainted.