Freeware Alternative for: Geometry Wars

echoes from Binary Zoo Studios is an Asteroids (oldskool) or Geometry Wars clone. The main aim of the game can be summed up nicely like this “Shoot everything, avoid everything, score some points”.

The game consists of 10 levels with a new enemy introduced on each new level.  They have different strengths, weaknesses and require different strategies to deal with effectively.

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Freeware Alternative for: Spore (Cell Stage)

Flow involves the player guiding a tiny, aquatic worm-like microorganism through various depths of the ocean to consume other organisms and to evolve their organism as the player advances.

Both Flow’s play structure and aesthetic design are simple and intuitive. The player begins the game as a small, white, worm-like micro-organism on a bright, two-dimensional plane.

Using the mouse, the player can guide the worm. Clicking and holding down on the left mouse button accelerates the speed of the worm. The objective of the game is to guide the worm to eat other micro-organisms and evolve.

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Ultrastar Deluxe is a free and open source karaoke game inspired by the Singstar™ game available on the Playstation®. It allows up to six players to sing along with music using microphones in order to score points, depending on the pitch of the voice and the rhythm of singing.

UltraStar Deluxe allows to create and use your own songs, and does offer an easy way to manage your collection of songs.

You can customize its look & feel through themes and extend it with more game modes via plug ins.

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Retro Galaxy is a 3D remake of the classic 1979 shoot-em-up Galaxian. If you remember the original then it should give you nostalgic and novelty value at best. Retro Galaxy is merely an in-between-tasks desktop time filler. If you’re in the mood to zone out for a few minutes and mindlessly shoot stuff, then by all means give it a go.

The object of the game is simple. Move the ship from side to side, dodge the aliens and their bombs while trying to shoot as many of them as possible. Points awarded for destroying aliens are based on color and flight status.

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Hurrican is a freeware jump and shoot game created by Poke53280 that is based on the Turrican game series. Blast your way through nine action-packed levels filled with different enemies and powerups.

Hurrican is also completely customisable. Players can create and replace their own in-game content - graphics, sounds and languages. Players can also create their own levels via the downloadable level editor.

Review by Joystiq: “Hurrican is packed with vast, non-linear levels filled with weapons to find and swarms of enemies to use them on. The control scheme is a bit complex with several button combinations to memorize, but us old-school gamers are used to putting in effort to squeeze more fun out of our games.”

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Grand Theft Auto 2 (GTA2) expanded on the top-down, open-ended crime world gameplay formula with a host of new features including the advent of multiple rival gangs – seven, to be exact, including the Yakuza, Scientists, Looneys, Rednecks, Zaibatsu, the Russian Mob and Hare Krishnas.

Earn your respect with each gang. Reap the benefits with all manner of shady work-for-hire gigs contracted your way. And climb your way to the top of the criminal pile.

Now, longtime Grand Theft Auto fans can revisit this classic entry in the series - and new jacks who missed out on this early franchise title can further discover Grand Theft Auto’s roots - absolutely free (registration required).

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