Old page of Little Fighter with the original game download intact (Wayback Machine):
http://home.netfront.net/~marti/lf2/lf1.html

Monika's Tic Tac Toe

Back in 2005, when i was just 14, i made this game:
Mission Possible: Killers Base
https://webzone.ee/mispos/

The game itself is in Estonian, but it's an easy game that should be well playable to everybody even without any instructions.
Though, check the instructions for keys. It plays almost identically to Counter Strike 2D, that was somewhat popular during that time as well... The sounds are even taken from it. 😁

Invader Alien -- a nice faux 3D perspective shoot 'em up created with DIV Games Studio.

RevoTron, a freeware 3D Tron clone from 2003/2004. Played the hell out of this back in the day.

The website is still up and also hosts the source code for Visual C++6.0:
https://revotron.tripod.com/download.htm

I've just been notified of an obscure Finnish game called The Great Mystery of Cheops which has been liberated by its author:
https://kasettilamerit.fi/kheops-suuri-mysteeri-pc-dos/

Apparently, the author first developer it in English, but then switched to Finnish to target the domestic market (the game was sold commercially). The English version remained unreleased back then, but for the freeware release, it was updated with the extra content found in the Finnish version.

A selection of modern DOS games made for a competition:
https://www.high-voltage.cz/2017/soutez-tvorb … os-2017-anketa/

A few more modern DOS titles at itch.io (part of DOS Game Jam):
https://itch.io/c/443894/modern-dos-games

UPD: A couple more small DOS games:
https://wej.k.vu/games/dos-games/

The Legend of Talibah -- a top-down RPG with some very nice art, apparently never completed.

Haven't checked them out yet but these racing games seem nice (found at Reloaded.org):
Victory Road
Road Fighter Remake

A few more findings, these are for DOS:
Jumpball
Final Soccer Challenge
WackyBrit Pong
Top Hat Willy
Raymond Fait Du Kart

Rock 'n' Spin -- a Boulder Dash inspired game of sorts.

Columns -- a nice Columns variant for DOS, simple but fun and addictive. Was originally sold as shareware, freeware/donationware from 2000.

KENTAURI -- several quality QBasic games.

MrFlibble wrote on 2022-11-20, 16:01:

KENTAURI -- several quality QBasic games.

Website is still up at a slightly different address >> http://kentauri.digitalblackie.com/

Games that are archived @ Archive.org/Wayback Machine, but not on the current site:

1.) LONG
2.) Run 'Em Over
3.) Ritual Combat

liqmat wrote on 2022-11-20, 19:38:

Website is still up at a slightly different address >> http://kentauri.digitalblackie.com/

Nice, thanks for the update!

i always wonder if the original site owners and programmers of these old games see the archive remnants too

for many of them, especially those old qbasic etc sites, this period of the 90's and early 2000's represents those enthusiastic days of youth where belonging to webrings, having a forum on your site and creating cool, buggy and quirky games - before everything became overly corporate and 'social' media in the website arena, and big engine (unity etc) on the game creation front

Those people are likely to be in their late 30's or older now

I've just updated the first post with a rather big list of free games, categorized by genre, including stuff from here and some older findings from elsewhere.

Former shareware solitaire games by Randy Rasa:

• Solitaire Suite
• Simple Pleasures Solitaire
• Pyramid Deluxe Solitaire

The author provides the latest shareware versions of these games plus registration codes.

A few more sites with free games for DOS:
Abnormal Software
Cheesy Software
Digicraft Software
Digital Nightmares
InterAction Studios

You're the gift that keeps on giving. Thanks for all these. I love all these old, unburied treasures, and hopefully this thread is keeping some of them alive before they disappear into the oblivion due to neglect and improper guardianship / curating / preservation.

Found this yesterday at IndieDB, haven't tried out yet:
Galaxies and Empires

This is a space sci-fi RTS, the files section contains what is called the full version from 2014 with skirmish mode only. It appears that development continues, as a newer demo is available from the itch.io page.