Best FREE game you've ever received?

[Brighton_Game_Trader]

I have been subscribed to Playstation Plus for about 6 months now, and in that time they have dished out a hell of a lot of "free" games - stuff like:

- Sly Raccoon 1 HD
- Plants vs. Zombies
- Tomb Raider Underworld
- Trine 2
- Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3 [PS ONE]
- Final Fantasy V [PS ONE]
- Crash Bandicoot 1, 2, 3 and Crash Team Racing [PS ONE]

AND MANY MANY MORE. I know these aren't totally free but I paid about £30 for the year and have gotten about 30 games so far!

Also, after PSN went offline last year, they gave 2 free games as a petty compensation (I got Wipeout HD and Dead Nation. The DSi shop offered Legend of Zelda - 4 Swords for a while too - and that was great as a freebie!

So this got me thinking - what is the best game you have ever received for FREE?

And what exactly was it that made receiving this game for free so good?

That includes when you spend a small amount to get plenty of games available to download free from then on. Or perhaps when a friend got bored of a game and so passed it on to you?

 

[ChupathingyX]

Uhhh, the only one I can think of is Katawa Shoujo.

But I don't know if that counts because it is free.

The only other one I can think of is inFamous after PSN went offline.

 

[LookingGlass]

Games I've gotten for free, huh? Well, the only ones I can think of (that aren't permanently free) are:

- Dawn of War 2 (got it as a prize during the Steam holiday sale)
- Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty (PSN downtime reward... I only redeemed one of the two free games)
- Empire Earth (GOG.com had it for free for a few days)
- Slipstream 5000 (came with a joystick I bought ~15 years ago)
- FIFA 08 (a friend gave it to me after deciding he was unlikely to ever play it again)

I haven't played Dawn of War 2 or Empire Earth yet (I'll get to them eventually). Quest for Booty was OK but far inferior to the other two R&C games I've got on the PS3 (I didn't get All 4 One). I think I've played FIFA 08 twice since it was passed on to me.

Slipstream 5000 however, I used to play that all the time with my cousin. Split-screen gaming on PC... wonderful. I got dozens of hours of entertainment from that game, so I'd say it wins at this point.

 

[Zeema]

my Boyfriend gave me Super meat boy, Binding of issac and Killing floor

i love those games

but i suck at them ^_^

 

[Scarim Coral]

The DS game Infinite Space. My brother gave it to me (don't ask me where he got it) but he had little time to play it since he had other games to played first. Since he know I was lacking some new games, he gave it to me instead of selling it and I love that games to bits.

 

[Imre Csete]

Morrowind came with a video card as a freebie extra.

Lost the discs since.

 

[Zantos]

Empire Earth was free over Christmas on GoG.com, that's a really good game. Shame I suck at any RTS more complex than 1) Build Space Marines, 2) Kill everything.

 

[RandallJohn]

For me, it's TF2, hands-down. It's fun as hell, and pretty hilarious too.

 

[Ddgafd]

GTA: San Andreas. It just was in my PS2 after our school had this party thing years ago. Sadly the disk is scratched as hell and the game crashes after about 20 minutes of playing. I did get kinda far in it though. Great game.

 

[Latenz1134]

I received Mount and Blade: Warband as a gift on Steam, very fun game, if not frustrating at times during multiplayer...and the singleplayer is fun as well.

 

[Guffe]

If we count bday and xmas presents then most likely Skyward Sword.
For Free to Play I'm going for League of Legends, playing the shit out of that nowadays.

 

[Rumpsteak]

I suppose that would be Gary's mod. I won it during the steam Christmas event and granted I haven't played it yet I don't get a whole lot of free games.

 

[iseko]

morrowind. It was a freebie for a video card. Weird since I also got vietcong which sucked ballz

 

[Lord S. Binkleheimer]

Killing Floor.
Love that little zombie shooter.
And the voice acting.

 

[teqrevisited]

Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I spent just shy of 200 hours on there. It was a gift from a friend who keeps buying me games.

 

[Rheinmetall]

The PSN games that you mentioned are not for free, you already said it yourself at the end of your post. Also something that has an expiration date, well if it's not mine to keep it for ever, I don't consider it as free game.
That goes for pc games too that are sold with magazines. Or offers at stores: buy one item and get another game for free, which is usually crap.

Anyway, the one and only 100% free game that I have played, and still play, and it was not utter garbage, was Angry Birds for Android. In fact it was one of the top games that I played in 2011.

 

[Podunk]

I got Killing Floor as a steam gift from someone I stopped talking to ages ago... That was a pretty odd freebie. It's not a terrible game, but I don't play it very much as opposed to TF2 or even L4D.

 

[Hafnium]

I've been borrowing LittleBigPlanet 2 almost permanently from my older sister, so I guess that counts. It's been really fun to play with my gf.