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Your top 10 free games of 2009

Most of the visitors to thriftmac have one thing on their minds — games, games, games. Or at least that’s what the stats suggest.

Over the past year, the articles about individual freeware apps with the most pageviews were all games, according to Google Analytics. You have to go pretty far down the list before you come to some graphics programs like ArtRage and DrawBerry.

If you happen to be one of the masses looking for free Mac games, be sure to pay a visit to macgameshuffle while you’re at it. We have nice screenshots of all the games, plus you can click on the shuffle button and see what comes up.

Without further ado, for your enjoyment and edification, here they are — the most visited free games at thriftmac:

1. Bomberman: Work your way through the levels with strategic placement of bombs that kill enemies and destroy obstacles. (A perennial favourite that might just be the most popular app ever at thriftmac.)

2. Angband: Take the role of an adventurer, exploring a deep dungeon, fighting monsters, and acquiring the best weaponry you can, in preparation for a final battle with Morgoth, the Lord of Darkness.

3. Alien Abduction: Save crash survivors from abduction by evil aliens.

4. Freecell: A Mac OS X version of the classic solitaire game. (Interesting that this appears to be more popular than Klondike.)

5. GNU Backgammon: Think you’re good at backgammon? Try your luck against GNU Backgammon, currently boasting world class capabilities.

6. Boggle: Make as many words as you can in three minutes. (Not the greatest Boggle game, but it’s the best free one we can find.)

7. Lin City-NG: A city simulation game with nice graphics. Start with a small village and build your way up to a bustling metropolis.

8. AssaultCube: First-person-shooter set in a realistic looking environment. It’s all about team oriented multiplayer fun.

9. Ivory: A solitaire tile matching game based on the single player game known most often as Mahjongg, and also called Shanghai or Taipei. Beautiful graphics.

10. Aquatomic: Slide atoms through the maze-like structures of Aquatomic to create molecules. (Nice to see this classic hanging in there.) Update: Broken link. Aquatomic can be downloaded from this Russian site.

Posted Friday, December 18, 2009 in

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  1. Freecell link is busted
    Please fix !!!

    Huspomike

  2. Sorry about that. It looks like Freecell may no longer be available from the original source. It can still be downloaded directly from MacUpdate. In any case, the link above has been fixed. You can also try Solitaire Greatest Hits, which includes a version of freecell.

    Mark

  3. Always good to see more games on the Mac. Thanks for the links :)

    Jay Willingham





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