Free games to play while waiting on .25

[r4pt0r]

Guys I'm so hypeeeeeeddd and I'm burnt out on KSP and don't have anything else to play until the new update! Help me avoid this crisis!!11!! What should I do?!@?!

STOP PLAYING NOW. DO NOTHING KSP RELATED UNTIL .25 ARRIVES.

At the mention of QA i get all my guys home and stop playing till the update drops. Hit it fresh that way.

Edit: If you have no games, I can suggest Happy wheels, Toribash, No more room in hell, All of which are very fun, completely free to play, and not at all pay to win. otherwise get an old copy of elder scrolls: oblivion for cheap, so good.

Suggest free to play games here.

[ZedNova]

Citizen Burger disorder

[RogueMason]

Space Engine: You will be amazed.

Team Fortress 2: Hat Simulator of the century. Also fun times with guns and stuff, too. Thoroughly recommended.

Star Trek Online: MMO with good space combat and 'meh' ground combat, obviously set in the lovely Trek universe.

Hawken: A multiplayer mech combat game that's better than MWO could ever hope to be now, despite being less in-depth and faster-paced. It doesn't quite fill the MechWarrior-shaped gap, though (I may have to try installing MW4 again...).

Those are the all the F2P games I can think of for now, but check the section on Steam that is dedicated to F2P games. There are quite a few available there.

[Dispatcher]

Try some early Bungie games: the Marathon Trilogy.

Edit: an example; for Windows, Mac & Linux--

Edited September 20, 2014 by Dispatcher

[Vaporo]

Do flash games count?

Epic Battle Fantasy 1, 2, 3, and 4.

(You can skip one and two if you want. They're essentially just endless waves of enemies.)

Edited September 19, 2014 by Vaporo

[TheFlyingPigs]

How about...

KSP MODSYAY!

I'm ashamed of you guys for not really thinking the Kerbal way...

[Las-pen]

How about KSP 0.24?

Try SimpleRockets for smartphones, it's not free, but it's very cheap (and well worth the money). It's basically KSP 2D.

Bad Piggies is free on android.

Free for PC? Legally?

Space Engine

UFO: Alien Invasion*

Oolite*

Most free games are really old. Or *Open Source rip offs.

Edited September 20, 2014 by Las-pen
added Oolite

[Shuttle]

DCS World

http://store.steampowered.com/app/223750/

Feel the excitement of flying the Su-25T "Frogfoot" attack jet and the TF-51D "Mustang" in the free-to-play Digital Combat Simulator World! DCS World is a vehicle combat simulation game created by an inspired development team. DCS World uses a powerful engine that delivers realistic gameplay.

[cantab]

Pandemic II's always good for a bit. You will wish Madagascar wiped from the face of the Earth.

[Fendleton]

Personally I'm a long-time Transcendence player. It's a space roguelike game from before such things were fashionable, and still actively developed 11 years after its first public release. Core game is free (and highly moddable), but there's an entirely optional paid expansion that partially supports the developer. Has a small but very enthusiastic community making mods and extensions for it. Windows-only, but works perfectly on Wine once you configure it properly (or so I'm told).

Other ones...let's see. Oolite is nice if you're waiting for Braben to finish up Elite Dangerous and want to get into the spirit of things. Especially since you can edit your savefile to give yourself more money if you want to speed things up a little. I think the original BBC-micro version of Elite is out there as well if you feel like grabbing an emulator and revisiting (or visiting) the 1980's. Personally I think Oolite is more fun though.

Dwarf Fortress is currently in the middle of a spree of small updates patching bugs out of the 0.4 major release.It is a free donationware game. It menaces with spikes of !!Fun!!. It took me 11 months and 4 attempts at playing it before I could navigate some of the menus, and 3-4 years later I'm still learning stuff (just made my first powerplant, currently working on first super-weapon. Expect to be working on first "undrain the fort" device shortly after latter project is completed). If you don't mind an interface that's like trying to play a church organ from inside a bag tied to a weight at the bottom of a lake while being peppersprayed, a crippling difficulty curve, extreme micromanagement requirements (unless you use external utility programs), and graphics that require extreme imagination.......it's still the best simulation game in existence.

In terms of flash games, I've always been a fan of the MARDEK RPG series. The second game is probably the best one, especially the 2010 remake.

[megatiger78]

spiral knights. very hardcore.

[Capt.Joseph Kerbertson]

Continue to play KSP.

Don't jump on the new version until they release a .25.2 or something. Happens everytime. There will be hotfixes. Just hold your horses, bide your time and wait for things to settle down before you jump on the newest version.

[gooddog15]

there's a IOS game called planet simulation.

[rpayne88]

DCS World

http://store.steampowered.com/app/223750/

Just make sure you have a damn good computer. I tried flying an A-10C and got 10 fps in a shallow dive. I have an i7-3630QM quad core, GTX650M, and 8GB RAM.

[Nuke]

ive been playing fronteir: first encounters, poorly. this game was designed by masochists. its impossible to dig yourself out of poverty. pirates always blow up your ship and steal your cargo. the 2 second battles are getting really annoying.