Free Software for Manifesto Games

Some games, like Myst, feel like art because of the nature of their audio and visuals. Kalime is of this type. The visuals are simple, but nicely textured 3D, and inspired by the surrealist painting of Salvador Dali; the music is excellent and peaceful...

H-Craft Championship is science fiction race game, in that the racing vehicles are hovercraft that tool along great superhighways in the sky. Also apparently, in the future, road safety is not a major concern of the authorities--so that failure in...

Making History: The Calm & the Storm is a turn-based strategy game where players apply their strategic skills to set policy and determine the fate of their nation in a time of looming crisis. Each of the over 80 playable nations presents unique challenges...

Gun Metal is a level-based third-person shooter in which you control a mech--a giant battle bot--that can also transform into a jet aircraft. In a series of levels, you battle enemy tanks, hovertanks, aircraft, and artillery. Spurred on by countless...

Like everyone else, no doubt you've doodled little things on lined papers during boring classes. Maybe you doodled hearts and ponies, but more likely spaceships or airplanes. Matt Lucas apparently doodled soldiers and guns, at least by the evidence of...

Arrgh! Die!Here's another genre they don't make any more--2D third-person platform shooters, like Duke Nuke'm back before the Duke went 3D. Developed pretty much by one guy (Dusan Stevanovic), it's a darn impressive effort for a one-man shop. If hopping...

What happens if you are computer science student at Stony Brook, you're a serious fan of old NES and Genesis sidescrollers, you have a somewhat twisted sense of humor, and you have way too much time on your hands? Well, what happens is something like...

From the Schlaepfer brothers comes another entry into the burgeoning phenomenon of new school "old school" adventures, this one featuring a jazz-playing superhero living in a world dominated by gangsta rap gangsters. Like The Shivah, its graphics are a...

Spacetanks is a cannon game, something like the Worms series. There's a twist though; you control a tank on one planet, and try to destroy an opposing tank on another planet. Your planet, and his, and others scattered about the screen, have gravity, which...

Twenty years ago Kyle Reed lost his parents to an unexplained event that also claimed the lives of over two hundred hotel guests. Now Kyle's brother plans to reopen the family hotel. But only a few months after renovations begin, Kyle receives a desperate...