Summer is all about free time (at least when you haven’t joined the rat race just yet), and what better way to fill free time than with free games? We’ve already brought you the best 50 free games, the 9 best free MMOs, and the 10 best free shooters so why not throw in the kitchen sink? Below you’ll find a free game for every day of the year, let alone the summer. Unlike our earlier features, we can’t guarantee the quality of every game here, but there are certainly a ton of gems. For convenience we’ve divided them into categories. Now then, let’s get to overloading our hard drives!

ABA Games (aka, created by indie developer Kenta Cho)

Titanion
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This is a gorgeous vertical shooter that plays off vector-graphics design with some excellent explosions.

Mu-cade
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We cannot improve on the website’s description: “The Physics Centipede
Invasion. Smashup waggly shmup, ‘Mu-cade’.”

Below: See the waggly shmup in motion

Gunroar
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GUNROAR! A sort of Asteroids meets Space Invaders, but more importantly, it’s called GUNROAR!

Below: Like most of Kenta Cho’s games, Gunroar works great with a 360 controller. See the game in action and download a copy for yourself

Torus Trooper
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Time-limited Tempest clone where you need to maintain your clock via the magic of high scores. Very pretty.

TUMIKI Fighters
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A sort of Katamari meets side-scrolling shooter where your ship gathers the broken pieces of enemies.

Below: See TUMIKI Fighters’ Katamari-like angle in motion

rRootage
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Deal with ludicrous barrages of bullets as you fight vast battleships in space.

Noiz2sa
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As the spelling gets sillier, the games get weirder. This abstract shooter looks like it was designed on a calculator.

Above: Try your hand at the Endless Insane mode and see if you can handle Kenta Cho’s bullet hell 

Massashikun Hi!
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Stick-figure Olympics! Play shot put, high diving, high jump, sprinting, and tug-of-war in a peculiar black and white world.

King of Pain

Rose and Camellia
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“This is the elegant art of feminine conflict,” according to the site. In other words, it’s a third-person Victorian slap-fighting game made in Japan.

Epic Saga: Extreme Fighter
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A fighting game from Doublefine, purveyors of the fine PC game Psychonauts.

Dad ‘n Me
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The makers of Alien Hominid brings you this beat ‘em up that lets you bully kids in a playground.

Karoshi
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A platformer in which your character commits suicide in order to proceed. Deaths involve crates, bullets, and electrocution.

Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself)
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The drudgery of office life has left you with no choice but to kill yourself. Abuse office supplies and coworkers to bring your health down to zero before time runs out.

Adventure of Cat
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Propel a cat through levels via an extendable pole-vault pole. Yes, really.

Punishment 1
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Quoth the site: “An unfairly difficult platform game that is painful and nauseating to play.”

Punishment 2
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Given the write-up above, you can probably guess.

Grid16
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It’s you against a grid of games, where the challenge is to figure out how to play before the game’s over.

Hip to be Square

Toblo
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Online physics-based shooter. Grab building blocks from the landscape and toss them at your enemies.

Kumoon
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Control a cute little bird with a gun and shoot down all the boxes.

Rumble Box
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Escape by destroying your opponents and using their parts to climb out of the box.

Shapes on a Plane
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Arcade shooter where enemies attack across the six faces of a cube. Rotate the cube to direct your fire.

Animal Behavior

The Crossing
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Using a platform, prevent the deer from falling into an abyss.

Bugs
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Bounce high in the air to scare the ladybirds away.

Penguin Panic
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Fire your ice ray at panicking penguins to freeze them solid.

What Comes Around
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Of all the territorial raccoon sims we’ve encountered, this one’s especially sweet.

Hydrophobia
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A frog drowning sim. Oh, OK: you’re meant to keep him out of the water.

Polychromatic

Funk Monkey
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Guide the titular simian through a world of multi-colored moveable blocks.

Arctic Blue
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A game of hot potato - with a boat on a whale.

Rock Your Body

Stepmania
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A dance game with free tracks you can play via keyboard or dance mat.

Frets on Fire
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Guitar Hero clone with user-made tracks and the keyboard as your guitar. Strum with the Enter key.

Super Crazy Guitar Maniac Deluxe 2
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A rhythm-action web game that works like, yup, a simplified Guitar Hero.

MiniDrumPro
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Flash-based rhythm game that uses the keyboard as your drum kit.

Ragdoll Comedy

Stair Dismount
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Push your little rag doll down stairs, adjusting where and how much force to use. His pain = points.

Truck Dismount
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More rag doll abuse: this time, you place him in front of a truck.

Toribash
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Turn-based online fighting game. Tweak your character’s joints and muscles to make slow motion attacks.

Sumotori Dreams
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 “Drunken” rag dolls duke it out. Watch them flop and fly all over the place.

Nekofight!
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Imagine Darwinians getting drunk and attempting capoeira. Amazing, acrobatic results.

Ragdoll Matrix: Reloaded
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Control an Agent Smith ragdoll and dodge the never-ending stream of slow-motion bullets.

Ragdoll Masters
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An Ang Lee–inspired fighting game. You control your character’s momentum, but not his wildly flailing limbs.