The games are free, that doesn’t mean they’re worth your time. Some of these games are literally 10 minutes long, and some of them are so boring that you’ll beg to pay money for a different game.

But some of them are awesome! That’s what this list is meant to filter out and discover. When I play more of them I’ll update the list and add marks to each one.

✅ - play it
❌ - don’t play it
🟡 - maybe

In order to be marked ✅ it needs to do 3 things:

1. It needs to be at least 1 hour long.
2. It needs to have some game mechanics or interaction (walking around and looking at things or just reading walls of text are not mechanics, they’re boring).
3. It can’t have any microtransactions (If it’s an MMO with a free option and doesn’t have microtransactions, that’s acceptable).

Games marked 🟡 meet this criteria, but based on what I played, they’re either clunky or they’re really difficult to play.

you played the dragon sword game ??

I pierced the dragon, if you will.

why????
just because it was there doesn't mean you had to play it

What’s wrong with it?

It meets the criteria for the list.

yeah it's free that doesn't mean you have to play it
if I'm hungry I could eat some goldfish or I could eat my clothes
Just because it's an option doesn't mean it has to be done

fair ig

OpenTTD is probably going to be a maybe

It's a good management open source game, but it's kinda difficult to understand many of its mechanics. But since it's open source, there are no microtransactions and tons of mods and maps to play with.

I’ve been getting into open source Steam games.

I have 25 hours in Alien Swarm Reactive Drop

Super Tux is fine even if it’s a far inferior version of Mario.

I also need to try Red Eclipse and Battle for Wesnoth

I tried Open TTD and yeah it’s strange. Even with a mouse and keyboard.

OpenTTD is interesting but far too complex